If we had to stand out to a player in particular that shined above the rest in the Athletic-FC Barcelona, that went definitely Ivan Rakitic. In a day in which Leo Messi and Luis Suárez were not too fine of face to goal, the Croatian midfield player was the "light saviour" of the group culé to decant the final scales of the party to the edict culé.
In the minute 21 of the first-half, a big centre to the area of Burn Turan was finished in career by Rakitic, a specialist in the arrivals to the attack from second line, that drilled the goal of Iraizoz with a prodigious and powerful head butt.
However, no only it was the goal what contributed Rakitic to the Barça, but a big consistency in the centre of the field, turning into a "all-essential" terrain so much to attack as to defend. In addition to ordering to the team, distribute game and oxigenar the zone of attack, the Croat presionó the exit of balloon of the rival, contributing defensivamente when the team more needed it.
Rakitic Was the total midfield player of the FC Barcelona, a different player that can act so much of compass as and canalizador of game as of Busquets, cutting played rival and distorting the game of the contrary. At the end, his good performance served so that the Barça carried his second victory in the two first days of League 2016-17.