Barcelona summarizes: Flick creates miracles and creates perfection

Sports Weekly All-Media Reporter Liang Hongye reported that after defeating his city derby opponent Espanyol away, Barcelona won the 28th La Liga championship in his history. In addition, he had previously defeated Real Madrid to win the Copa del Rey championship, German Flick won the double championship in his first year of coaching at Barcelona. This is not an ordinary champion in a long river of history, nor a champion won by luck or chance. Looking back on the performance of most players throughout the season and the performance of most of the team, Barcelona is recognized as the best team in La Liga, and its superiority at the football level has finally produced fruitful results.

From all aspects, Barcelona has played high-level football

A year ago, it was hard to imagine that Barcelona could play nearly perfect offensive football in the 2024-25 season, from Yamal's artistic atmosphere and explosive dribbling breakthrough, to Rafinia's fatal blow or decisive pass, and finally to Lewandowski's goal locking goal in front of the goal, from Pedri's master-like midfield dispatch to De Jong's calm dispatch, from KuBazi's single defense to Inigo Martinez's command of the defense line to the consistency of offside, this Barcelona team not only played the highest level in the post-Messi era, but almost reached the highest level when Guardiola and Enrique coached Barcelona.

As of the 36th round of the league championship, Barcelona led second place Real Madrid 7 points in points, which is a big gap. However, Barcelona's 61 goals were almost twice that of Real Madrid's 36 goals, which further reflects Barcelona's strength. Even though Barcelona is playing an adventurous offensive football, its conceded fewer goals than second-ranked Real Madrid (36-38), and its conceded fewer goals than Bilbao and Atletico Madrid, ranking third in La Liga. Barcelona scored 97 goals, 23 more than Real Madrid, ranked second. Such a goal difference is even more obvious than the 7-point difference in the standings.

From the overall perspective of the team, Barcelona has almost no shortcomings. According to technical statistics, Barcelona is the team with the most targeted goals per game in La Liga, reaching 15.5 times, and the second place is Real Madrid's 14.03 targeted goals per game. Although Barcelona is a team that is very up-and-down in the back line and takes a lot of risks, Barcelona is still the team with the least number of shots per game, with 6.46, surpassing second Bilbao's average of 7.51 shots per game and third Getafe's average of 8.09 shots per game. Although Barcelona failed in the Champions League semi-finals due to its adventurous offensive system, Barcelona is not only the best offensive team, but also one of the best defensive teams in the league.

Flick's Barcelona is not famous for passing control. Almost no one mentions that Barcelona is a tikitaka, but its ability to control the ball and midfield has always been indispensable for a strong team. Barcelona still ranks first in La Liga with 558 passes per game, higher than the second-ranked Real Madrid 527 times. Similarly, Barcelona ranks first in La Liga with a ball possession rate of 67.2%, higher than the second-ranked Real Madrid 59.4% and the third-ranked Girona 57.9%. Barcelona's passes are not just boring passes for the sake of passing. In the offensive half, Barcelona averaged 66.67 times per game, still ranked first in La Liga, far exceeding the second-place Real Madrid's 59.18 times. Similarly, Barcelona's average in-depth attacks is 13.09, far exceeding Real Madrid's 10.06 times, which proves that Barcelona can not only control the ball, but also play in-depth attacks. In the statistics of the number of deep passes per game, Barcelona ranked first in La Liga with 8.87 times, also significantly surpassing the second-place Real Madrid's 6.36 times. In the continuous progressive pass statistics that can reflect the team's propulsion ability, Barcelona still ranks first in La Liga with 70.34 times, surpassing second Celta's 69.03 times and third Villarreal's 68.06 times. In this technical statistics, Real Madrid ranked 11th in La Liga with only 60.38 times, which fully demonstrates that Real Madrid is in a dilemma of lacking a high-level organizing midfielder in one season. This series of offenses is comfortable in line with everyone's impression, that is, Barcelona is not only the one who loves to attack the most in La Liga, but also the one who is the best in offense. This is not a team like Setien's era that can only control the ball and not play a truly threatening attack.

In the extraordinary data that reflects personal abilities, Barcelona still tops Real Madrid, which has super personal abilities players Vinicius and Mbappe, ranked first. Barcelona ranked first in La Liga with 28.59 passes per game, and Real Madrid ranked second with 27.19. The third place is Bilbao, with 25.53 personal breakthroughs per game. It is obvious that players like Yamal and Nico Williams who have super personal breakthrough skills have improved the statistics of both teams. In terms of the number of touches per game in the opponent's penalty area, Barcelona still ranked first with 25.4 times, higher than the second Real Madrid 22.58 times.

Flick is famous for his tight pressing in the past. He still has not changed his tradition when he comes to Barcelona. Barcelona is the team with the most tight pressing and the most compact pressing team in the European arena this season. It is not surprising that the average number of passes per game allowed to the opponent in the backcourt. Barcelona ranks first in La Liga by making the opponent an average of 6.64 passes per game, and Real Sociedad is 7.85 times in the second. Real Madrid, which has been criticized by the public for not being able to play tight pressing, is indeed not ranked high in this statistics. Real Madrid ranked eighth, and averaged 10.71 passes per game, which is behind Barcelona, ​​Real Sociedad, Vallecano, Getafe, Betis, Alaves and Bilbao.

Barcelona's outstanding performance in all aspects is first of all thanks to the arrival of Flick. After the German coach came to Barcelona, ​​he improved his overall level in all aspects and improved the individual level of the players. Therefore, Barcelona won the double championship in the league and the King's Cup this season, which is considered a victory for the coach. La Liga was named by the coach in a season..

Last season, Barcelona chairman Laporta first promised Xavi to coach for another year, and then regretted letting Xavi get out of class to introduce Flick. An important reason is that Xavi believes that when Real Madrid introduces Mbappe and Barcelona cannot introduce big-name players due to financial difficulties, Barcelona will not be able to compete with Real Madrid. At that time, there were not many people criticizing Xavi. Xavi's opinions were just a matter of facts. Almost all commentators agreed with Xavi's opinions, and everyone just regarded Laporta's belief that Barcelona already had a team that could win all the championships as a chairman's unscrupulous arrogance.

However, the answer given by Flick this season has subverted everyone's perception. Building a great team does not require investing more than 100 million yuan a year. All positions need to introduce high-priced players who can rank among the top three in the world. Flick is a team that was once considered a "remnant defeat", and some outstanding youth training players in Lamacia can also create a great team under good training guidance. Let's take a look at what everyone knows about this Barcelona before the start of this season. Lewandowski is an elderly ball player and can no longer adapt to the tight-kick in the frontcourt. Rafinia is a Brazilian winger who does not break through one-on-one. Barcelona never needs this. Just a winger who is responsible for defense. Pedri is a glass man. He can't play 1/3 games in a season. It's time to sell. De Jong is a big bastard who insists on staying in the team just for the top contract signed by the Bartomeu era. Conde is a restless Frenchman who only wants to play central defender but has been playing right back most of his career. He can also be sold. As for Inigo Martinez? The only reason why Barcelona signed him seems to be because he is a sign-free player and has few opportunities to play, and it seems that he is just here to get the bench. Only Yamal and KuBazi are the real hope of Barcelona.

However, after a season, Flick was like a magical tinker who can repair everything. Lewandowski had been at the top of the La Liga scorer list before missing the last two games due to injury. Rafina once became the hottest player of the Golden Ball Awards. Pedri has become one of the best midfielders in the world, becoming a midfielder master, and playing at the peak of his career. De Jong has returned to the level of the world's best control midfielder in the past three months. Conde has become the well-deserved best right back in La Liga and even the entire Europe, and he is particularly at a right back. Inigo Martinez, who is suspected of coming to Barcelona to retire, has even become the leader of the defense and was re-enlisted by the Spanish team, although Inigo refused on the grounds of injury. The development of Yamal and KuBazi continues to meet everyone's expectations, even exceeding expectations, and now everyone is talking about whether Yamal is the best player at the moment. Bernard, Casado, who played well at the beginning of the season, and Herad Martin and Eric Garcia, who replaced the injured main players at the end of the season, have all been recognized by everyone.

After these huge changes, we see teams planned and evaluated by Barcelona and Flick with pure football rules and perspectives, rather than players and teams evaluated by euros or pounds. How can football and gold coins not matter? After all, football is the largest sports industry, and even one of the most important entertainment industries, but on this 100m x 70m turf, the relationship between football and gold coins has been minimized to the greatest extent. In this area, every run, every body turning, every passing quality of the ball, every decision the players have to make. There is no doubt that 99% of what happened between Flick and his players are irrelevant to the gold coins, whether in the training ground or in the stadium.