It is not very often that you can look at a team a think, amazing, they are even better than last season and look what they won then. For Barcelona this can be presently said with ease and a satisfaction that they are truly one of the best footballing teams of our time.
The fact that Manager Pep Guardiola has kept them as a team and not a group of individuals pay testament to his skills as a young football coach. Their style of play and ability to keep the ball for a very long time makes them not only a hard team to beat but even place any pressure on them. Manchester United managed to heap pressure on them for about ten minutes in last seasons Champions League final and it is difficult to remember any other team doing it for longer than that.
With success does come great pressure and they will realise this. They face Stuttgart of the German Budesliga in the second leg at home and will probably go through them like a knife through butter, after that, depending on the draw and any major injuries to some of their more fancied players it could become a little darker as summer draws on the Barcelona arena.
A little may depend on what they really want to win this season, the treble is no longer on and there remains a close knit battle at the top of La Liga between themselves and Real Madrid. They won both and more last season and the team remains the same, why not win both again.
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