Luis Enrique won't make the same mistakes again after Alaves

Luis Enrique won't make the same mistakes again after Alaves

Luis Enrique committed a serious error against Alaves. An error that he also committed in previous seasons. He went too far with the rotations. Which is to say he changed more than half the team, leaving half the regulars on the bench. It will not happen again. In fact on Tuesday night in the Champions League game against Celtic the Asturian coach will play his best players. Even Ter Stegen, who seems to have “miraculously” recovered from his injury. Luis Enrique knows he made a mistake on Saturday and will rectify it. From now on, the rotations will be ‘normal’. I.e, made prudently. No more than one player per positional line. The manager must take advantage of his new ‘wardrobe’ which the board board him. But in moderation. You can’t wear all your new clothes on the same day. Because they don’t match. The new players need a period of acclimatisation to be able to play in a team that doesn’t play like any other team. At Barça it’s different. The mechanisms are different. And new signings can feel like fish out of water at first. In a football habitat they are not accustomed to. For that reason they need to be protected and surrounded by the best team-mates possible. Sending them to the slaughter on Saturday was only bad for them. And the team.