Luis Enrique’s final days at the Camp Nou are dark ones and they could get even darker yet. That is how he sees it, at least – a dystopian vision of his immediate future, a gory goodbye as his time at Barcelona comes to a grisly end. After their superb 3-0 victory over Sevilla on 5 April, hope briefly emerging after an impressive run, the Barcelona coach said that he’d had a great time but insisted that if and when they lost “a cannibal holocaust” would be released.
Three days later, Barcelona were defeated 2-0 at Málaga; three days after that they were beaten 3-0 by Juventus in Turin and eight days after that they were knocked out of the Champions League. Four days on, they visit the Bernabéu, another title perhaps slipping from them. They may not be cannibals but there will be plenty coming for him. Lose and the consequences will be dire. Defeat in Málaga, declared unforgiveable by the local media, meant the league was no longer in their own hands; defeat at Real Madrid would make it virtually impossible.
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