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Barcelona clinch LaLiga title with Clasico win – Is Hansi Flick one of their greatest managers?
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Real Madrid faced one of the most humiliating weeks in their recent memory this week. Fresh off the back of a internal clash between two of their players, Los Blancos also headed to Camp Nou knowing they would be forced to watch Barcelona’s LaLiga title celebrations unfold right in front of them. That turned out to be little more than a formality 18 minutes in when Barca took a 2-0 lead through Marcus Rashford and Ferran Torres, going on to seal a 2-0 win to crown Hansi Flick’s men champions for a second consecutive season, this time with a 14-point gap and four games to spare.
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H. Flick
Age: 61
FC Barcelona
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It must be considered another impressive league campaign for the club under their German tactician. Now that Barcelona have won the title, it means that Flick has not only won two out of two leagues with the Spanish giants, but will also hold the enviable record of having a 100% success rate in league football, having won both of his league titles as Bayern Munich manager. Few could doubt that Flick is doing an admirable job as Barcelona manager. But how does he compare to his predecessors in the role?
When we tally up the points-per-game averages of Barcelona’s last 10 managers and plot them alongside one another, we get a graph like the one above. And, immediately, we can see that Flick has undoubtedly returned Barcelona to their ideal spot at the top of Spanish football. Before their win over Osasuna, Flick boasted an average of 2.37 points per game a 15% increase on his immediate predecessor’s, with Xavi averaging just 2.07 points per game, but he also enjoys a 21% improvement on Ronald Koeman’s average of 1.96 points per game.
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Luis Enrique
Age: 56
FC Barcelona
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In fact, as we can see from the table, only two former Barcelona managers can lay claim to a better record than Flick. The most recent was the fantastic Luis Enrique, who averaged 2.41 points per game during his three-year tenure at Barcelona, when he won two league titles, three Spanish Cups and the all-important Champions League. In contrast to that incredible record, Flick still has some work to do. The other manager who still sits above Flick is the late Tito Vilanova, who averaged 2.49 points per game during his 44 games in charge.
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P. Guardiola
Age: 55
FC Barcelona
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Curiously, Flick’s current form has him just 0.01 points per game above Pep Guardiola, who many consider to be Barcelona’s greatest ever manager. However, Guardiola coached in over twice as many games as Flick’s current tally of 112 games and, crucially, won three league titles and two Champions Leagues. And while Flick can’t be faulted for his success in LaLiga to date, he still has some way to go before he can rival Guardiola or indeed Enrique in Europe.
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