A detailed, player-by-player breakdown of Barcelona's convincing La Liga victory over Levante.
| Claudio Bravo | 7.2 |
Minutes played: 90 Touches: 24 Passes: 19 Pass Accuracy: 79 % Shots Faced: 1 Saves Made: 1 Clearances: 0 Bostjan says: 7.5 Claudio Bravo is making this goalkeeper thing look easy as he recorded his sixth clean sheet in his sixth appearance. He only had to make a single save, though once again he was also bailed out by the frame of the goal, this time the crossbar. Bravo had to be alert throughout the game, though, as he on several occasions left his line to collect balls that were sent into the penalty area. | |
| Dani Alves | 7.9 |
Minutes played: 90 Touches: 114 Passes: 76 Pass Accuracy: 84 % Key Passes: 2 Shots/Shots on Target: 0/0 Tackles: 5 Fouls Won: 1 Clearances: 0 Fouls: 3 Interceptions: 0 Bostjan says: 7.5 Against Granada Alves played arguably his best game of the young season. He was constantly on the prowl to set up one of his teammates with a perfect assist. Three times one of his crosses directly led to a scoring chance, though, only one of them was converted. Alves combined excellently with Messi throughout the game, one such occurrence led to Rakitić scoring his second of the season. However, the Brazilian’s passing was at times a bit wayward as he misplaced a few too many passes for my liking. Defensively he still left much to be desired as he rarely tracked back into Barcelona’s third, often leaving Munir in an ungrateful position. | |
| Javier Mascherano | 7.7 |
Minutes played: 90 Touches: 99 Passes: 84 Pass Accuracy: 89 % Tackles: 5 Interceptions: 2 Clearances: 2 Aerial Duels Won: 0 Bostjan says: 7.5 Mascherano might not be the most popular choice when it comes to forming a center-back pairing, but right now he’s getting the job done. There were a couple scrappy plays that could’ve gone the other way, but they didn’t. El Jefecito made several good looking tackles and was mostly positionally very sound. Mascherano’s strong performance continued even after he moved from the center-back position to play as defensive midfielder, for what seems to be the first time in forever. Even from the few minutes he got in midfield it was clear that he hasn’t forgotten how to play as a midfield destroyer. | |
| Jeremy Mathieu | 8.4 |
Minutes played: 90 Touches: 75 Passes: 57 Pass Accuracy: 93% Tackles: 7 Interceptions: 4 Clearances: 4 Aerial Duels Won: 0 Fouls: 0 Bostjan says: 8.5 Simply put, Mathieu is a tackling beast, especially when he has to make sliding tackles while covering a counter attack. Isaac Success will be having nightmares about the Frenchman. Also, it’s remarkable how fast Mathieu is, I’m pretty sure he can keep up with any player in the league. Again, he muffed a couple of what should’ve been easy clearances, but I’m really nitpicking at this point. Mathieu even tried to make it happen in attack, doing brilliantly to get on the receiving end of an Alves cross, sending a one-touch the pass to Munir, but the youngster was unable to secure Mathieu his first Barcelona assist. | |
| Adriano Correia | 6.8 |
Minutes played: 90 Touches: 99 Passes: 81 Pass Accuracy: 93% Shots/Shots on Target: 2/1 Tackles: 3 Interceptions: 1 Clearances: 1 Fouls: 3 Key passes: 3 Bostjan says: 6.5 This was only Adriano’s second appearance of the season, but once again he failed to leave a mark on the game. He was active in the attacking phase of the game, but didn’t have much of an impact, though, it would be a mistake not to remember his great cross to Messi that resulted in a disallowed goal because the Argentine was offside. Defensively he tracked back often, much more than his compatriot on the right side of the defensive line, however, despite making a couple good plays Adriano often looked soft in defense, allowing some traffic to get by him. | |
| Sergio Busquets | 7.2 |
Minutes played: 64 Touches: 73 Passes: 59 Pass Accuracy: 93% Tackles: 4 Interceptions: 3 Shots/Shots on Target: 0/0 Clearances: 2 Aerial Duels Won: 0 Turnovers: 1 Key passes: 0 Arron says: 7 .5 All in all, it was a rather quiet day at the office for Sergio Busquets. Liberated from defensive duties by Granada's almost complete lack of offense, and excused from offensive duties courtesy of Xavi, Rakitic and Messi's red-hot form, Busquets could nonchalantly stroll around the pitch before making way around the hour mark to rest his legs ahead of the clash with Paris Saint-Germain. If only every match were this easy... | |
| Xavi | 8.2 |
Minutes played: 90 Touches: 104 Passes: 93 Pass Accuracy: 9 2% Shots/Shots on Target: 3/3 Turnovers: 1 Key Passes: 1 Successful Dribbles: 1 Tackles: 3 Arron says: 9 .0 You could bring out all the cliches for this performance: "Xavi is like a vintage wine", "a classic car"; yet in reality, it's probably best to just acknowledge that Xavi is a footballing machine. To all those who doubted him, firstly, you were wrong to begin with, but secondly, look at just how wrong you were. When he is on form and at peak fitness, Xavi remains one of the very best to ever grace the game and as such, will forever be an integral part of this squad. | |
| Ivan Rakitić | 8.1 |
Minutes played: 58 Touches: 50 Passes: 39 Pass Accuracy: 95% Shots/Shots on Target: 1/1 Aerial Duels Won: 1 Tackles: 2 Turnovers: 1 Key Passes: 0 Interceptions: 1 Arron says: 8 .5 Rakitic may have been the first Blaugrana player to make way on this comfortable night at the Camp Nou, but he made an impact nonetheless, contributing his second goal in Barca colours with a fine close-range header. With Xavi back in the team, this wasn't Rakitic at his most influential, or his most dominant, but it's alarming when you consider just how seamlessly he dropped into a supporting role, and just how decisive he was, even if he wasn't acting as the team's fulcrum. | |
| Munir El Haddadi | 6.2 |
Minutes played: 71 Touches: 30 Passes: 16 Pass Accuracy: 88% Shots/Shots on Target: 3/0 Turnovers: 1 Successful Dribbles: 0 Key Passes: 0 Tackles: 2 Fouls Won: 1 Inder says: 7.0 The youngster's game might not be as exciting as a few weeks ago when he was scoring more often, but Munir seems to be perfecting the basics. His speed is unbelievable and he works extremely hard in defense. The composure on the ball will improve with time but for those in doubt, watch his game again and notice how well coordinated his off the ball movement is with respect to the other forwards. | |
| Lionel Messi | 9.2 |
Minutes played: 90 Touches: 79 Passes: 60 Pass Accuracy: 88% Shots/Shots on Target: 3/3 Fouls Won: 2 Successful Dribbles: 4 Key Passes: 5 Turnovers: 1 Tackles: 1 Inder says: 10.0 Unplayable. It's as simple as that. When Messi is fit and in this form, opponents might as well give up. Assists, goals, pressure from the front. La Pulga was going to get that 400th and it was just a matter of time. After assisting Rakitic and Neymar, Messi has now given the highest number of assists in the top 5 leagues, overtaking Cesc Fabregas. 91 goals you say? How about 91 assists? Scored 2 goals to take his tally to 401. The first was Barca at it's fluid best. Xavi finds Alves sneaking up on the right with a pinpoint pass who crosses it on the volley to finds Messi at the far post, scoring with a header. The second, especially, is a reflection of the sort of mood Messi is in this season. In the 80th minute, leading by 5 goals, he does well to pressure a defender, steal the ball high up the pitch and beat the keeper with a right footed chip. | |
| Neymar | 9.1 |
Minutes played: 90 Touches: 62 Passes: 38 Pass Accuracy: 63 % Shots/Shots on Target: 7/4 Fouls Won: 4 Key Passes: 0 Successful Dribbles: 1 Turnovers: 0 Inder says: 10.0 Neymar drastically improved his game against Granada. 3 goals, movement off the ball, tracking back (when necessary). As Cules we are finally beginning to see a Neymar that is more consistent and one who gives the midfielders behind him more options with his movement. His first was a rather lucky deflection but he does well to get to a wayward pass first, dribbles and tries to slot the ball between the opponent's legs,which takes a deflection and goes over Roberto. The second was Neymar being diligent by doing what is expected off him, it was a Messi pass to Munir (who couldn't quite make it to the ball but neither did Roberto). Neymar does well to follow up and curl it into the far post. While the third was interesting in that Neymar receives a pass from Messi on the right, waits a second for the keeper to make a move (in this case towards the far post), before slotting into the near post. If there is a complaint, it's that Neymar still slows down the ball every once in a while, but who cares after his 2nd hat-rick in blaugrana! | |
| Sergi Roberto | 6.8 |
Minutes played: 32 Touches: 36 Passes: 30 Pass Accuracy: 100 % Key Passes : 1 Tackles : 1 Arron says: 7.0 An improvement from Roberto, and I'm not sure whether to attribute this to the caliber of opposition, the general tempo of the game at his introduction or indeed talent on Roberto's part. He was energetic, hard-working and dangerous at times as well. Not a bad cameo at all. | |
| Marc Bartra | 6.9 |
Minutes played: 26 Touches: 19 Passes: 14 Pass Accuracy: 86% Aerial Duels Won : 2 Arron says: N/A Controversial perhaps, but I'm not going to give Bartra a rating, purely because he barely saw a minute of "real" action and could coast through this substitute performance without breaking so much as a sweat. | |
| Sandro Ramirez | 6.3 |
Minutes played: 19 Touches: 17 Passes: 12 Pass Accuracy: 78 % Arron says: N/A Another who entered the action with nothing left to play for; these minutes will count as extra experience for young Sandro, but we didn't get a chance to learn anything new about the talented forward either. | |
| The Team | 8.8 |
Passes: 710 Pass Accuracy: 89 % Shots/Shots on Target: 19 /12 Tackles: 36 Aerial Battles Won: 46 % Fouls Won/Committed: 11 /11 Arron says: 9.5 Dominant. Decisive. Deadly. FC Barcelona were many things on Saturday evening -- all of them positive, as they absolutely routed Granada at the Camp Nou, just a few days before a crucial UEFA Champions League group stage match against Paris Saint-Germain. They identified the weaknesses of Caparros' admittedly flawed system, and ruthlessly exploited them again, and again, and again. We could play better, but for this match, we were everything we needed to be. | |
| Luis Enrique | 8.6 |
Arron says: 10 Perfect, from start to finish, and that's pretty much all there is to it. | |
| MOTM - Lionel Messi | 65% |
Bostjan says: Messi By most accounts this was a two horse race between Messi and Neymar, but in the end it's hard to argue with the result. Messi ran away with it, but it's hard to beat a man that scores two goals, adds two assist and a pass that directly led to a goal, but wasn't officially an assist, even if you score a hat-trick. Neymar finished second with 19%, while Mathieu also finished on the podium, garnering 7% of the votes. | |
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