Barcelona has returned to the approach of its former coach Pep Guardiola with possession and high pressure and to record incredible numbers in controlling the ball and depriving the opponent of it, after the team regained its true personality after contracting with the new coach Kiki Citin who replaced an article by Ernesto Valverde.

Citin showed the well-known version of Barcelona during its first match and emerged victorious over Granada with a goal in return for the conclusion of the 20th round of the Spanish League to raise Barca to 43 points in the lead, beating two goals over his traditional rivals Real Madrid, equal with him in the same balance.

The Barcelona and Granada match numbers revealed surprising tactical and technical observations demonstrating the return of the Catalan team to the Tiki Taka School, as the Opta Network for Statistics and Statistics reported that Barcelona executed 1005 passes with an accuracy of 92%, achieving the third best acquisition rate in the "League" since The 2005-2006 season, when he dominated the ball by 82.6%.

It is considered the best figure for the former coach Guardiola, as he achieved in 2011 the best possession during the Racing Santander match with an acquisition rate of 84%, and in another match against Levante, the Catalan coach reached an acquisition rate of 83.9%.

Since the Pep Guardiola era, Barcelona has not succeeded in completing 1005 assists in one match, but it did so against Granada with the new coach, Cettin, who clearly touched the team's tactics.

The most beneficiaries

The player, Sergio Busquets, was the most beneficiary of the Citin philosophy, because all the balls passed through him in the middle, as he passed the ball 146 times, setting a record in the Spanish League during the current season, and Busquets is more than regaining the ball by 14 times, beating his teammate in Team Jordi Alba finished second and regained the ball eight times.

Top scorers

Argentine legend Lionel Messi tops the Spanish league's scorer list, after scoring the goal of winning against Granada to raise his score to 14 goals ahead of French Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema (12 goals), and his colleague in Barca Luis Suarez (11 goals).

Messi recorded his name in a different historical angle, as he became the first to register during the era of the last three coaches successively to train Barca Luis Enrique, Valverde and finally Kiki Citin, while before him the Cameroonian Samuel Eto'o had scored the first goal in the era of Guardiola, and the Spanish Puyol with Villanova, and the Chilean Alexis Sanchez With Tata Martino.

Players evaluation

Mark Andre Terre Steigen: 6.4 out of 10

Samuel Umtiti: 7.5

Gerard Pique: 7.1

Jordi Alba: 7.1

Sergey Roberto: 7.3

Sergio Busquets: 7.9

Ivan Rakitic: 6.5

Arturo Vidal: 7.7

Antoine Griezmann: 7.2

Anso Fati: 6.6

Lionel Messi: 8

Carles Perez: 6.1

Artur Melo: 6.2

Ricard Puig: 6.3

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Passes by Barcelona players in the game of Granada.

92%

Pass-through accuracy in first appearance with Citin.

He took a picture with him ... and now he is accompanying him on the field

In 2012 Ricard Puig took a photo with his legend Leo Messi, and today he celebrates with him after scoring the first goal with Granada.