This year Levante manager Jose Luis Mendilibar believes that the current year Barcelona, under the hands of Luis Enrique in his first season as coach at Nou Camp, is playing a similar game employed by his fellow friend Pep Guardiola.
Luis Enrique, taking over the previous head coach Gerardo Martino in May, has had a great and immediate effect on the Barcelona, and Medilibar was very praiseful to the new Barça ahead of their match at Estadi Ciutat de Valencia.
The Levante coach sees a lot of similarities between the most successful team in Barça history lead by Guardiola and the game that the current Barça team is playing.
“Barcelona is much more aggressive, with quick recovers of the ball after loosing it and not letting the other team have any chance to score, just like first Guardiola season”, said Medilibar to the press.
He also noted that “Luis Enrique is not picking players by the names of his favorites.
He also is not afraid of using youngster from the FC Barcelona training camp, La Masia, and not does not care what the press is suggesting to play.
With Barcelona sitting currently at the top of the La Liga table and with three victories in his first three matches without conceding a goal, have had a perfect start during this season also beating Apoel Nicosia 1-0 on Wednesday.
On the other hand, Levante has just one point in his first three La Liga matches, point scored in the first match and with no goals scored.
But Mendilibar told his players that the should play without fear against their next rival on Sunday.
Last season, the first encounter in Nou Camp left a 7-0 score for Barcelona and had a draw in Levante’s Ciutat de Valencia with a final 1-1. Also,
Barcelona, since 1965 have not lost any match when visiting Levante, wining his 2005 and 2011 titles in the same field.
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