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LUIS ENRIQUE HAS SURPRISED SEVERAL BARÇA PLAYERS

'Dart' or match strategy? Luis Enrique claims to have more Barça DNA than Xavi as a coach

Published:9/04/2024 - 15:19h

Updated:9/04/2024 - 15:45h

Luis Enrique spoke to the press on Tuesday ahead of the PSG-Barça quarter-final first leg and surprised many with his comments regarding his style of play based on the club's philosophy, one he considers much higher than that of his opponents on Wednesday

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Luis Enrique is very remembered and recognised by his statements in press conference. It does not be necessary to encourage too much for rememorar that "the leader am I" that the Asturian soltó in his arrival to the bench of the FC Barcelona does a decade, still with players like Leo Messi, Andrés Iniesta or Xavi Hernández in that team. Precisely the last of this list of examples has been 'protagonist' of another statement of the ex míster Barcelona, the one who this Tuesday did not doubt in autoproclamarse like better representative of the style Barça that the egarense.

When being asked directly thus in the previous press conference to the PSG-Barça of this Wednesday, Luis Enrique has gone direct to the grain. "Look the statistics, in possession, in high pressure, in data, in titles. Without any doubt, I", ensured. "Our aim is to be better that the Barça in the offensive concepts. It has happened me in 99% of the parties that have played. They are data. It is not opinable", explained.

And it is that in some measure the Asturian can have reason, ensuring that the statistics are there, although it also seems to sin to be just when comparing with a trainer with 10 years less than career in the benches or to having arrived to a Barça very distinct to the that he arrived around the middle of the past decade. The míster Spanish the same has been still in his analysis of the eliminatory that will contest in front of the Barça, in which 'raisin' to see favourite or no.

Luis Enrique, without win to give a favourite before beginning the series

"When it begin to film the balloon, will see who is favourite. Almost I prefer that you put me the role of victim. We are in the best moment of the season, in a big disposal and mental moment, physicist and futbolístico", analysed Struggle. Besides, it commented that "I expect that the ambition surpass to the pressure and have a lot of illusion for being in the following phase", puntualizó.

"In the phase of groups saw an excess of responsibility and now see a lot of illusion and an immoderate ambition to play in front of a big Barça with win to surpass the eliminatory. It does not be necessary to put a too high pressure to a team that has not won the Champions. Desconocemos This trophy like club. This does not want to say that we can not win the Champions", valued Luis Enrique on the options of his team to be in a European final again.