Defenestration

The team is white-hot right now.

After a somewhat slow start-up in 2010, the Blaugrana has scored nine goals in the last two games. Today's victims: Sevilla.

The first half was a fireworks show for Barça: Henry scored early (his low number of goals not discounting the impact he has had on the team), followed by Sergio Bojan and then two more by Messi--his 100th and 101st for the team in his career. As the half clocked down, they were up 4-nil, and once the game had ended the 4-0 win was sealed. Sevilla had been defenestrated by Barça.



For a little while, it seemed that there were ego conflicts on the team. This looked apparent to me between Henry and Ibrahimovic as the superstar strikers would angle for the spotlight. But that tension has receded somewhat as the rest of the team have stepped up on the scoreboards.

And that pressure to score seemed like it was getting to Thierry. In what is probably among the weirder seasons of his career, Henry has gone from being one of la liga's highest scorers last year to almost vanishing from the board entirely while becoming an international pariah for his handball against Ireland in World Cup qualifiers.

He struggled with the team upon his arrival at the squad, and it looked like they had passed the awkward stage last year. But this season with the arrival of Ibra, the fit for Henry got cramped. Just how many gunslingers did this town have room for?

So while the egos collided, the other boys stayed on track and kept the game on the field. Which brings us to Messi's 14th goal in 15 games. He has stayed warm while the streakier players have flashed and cooled. And though this is almost certainly the last season that Henry will be at Barça (while there is chatter of him going to play in New York for the MLS next year a'la Beckham), the team has clearly marked it's future with their commitment to Leo.

The wave of the future, strong enough to blast Sevilla through a window.