Luis Enrique's millennials: Who are the coach's favourite picks?

Millennials is a term used to describe people born between 1981 and 1995 in sociology, but it’s another thing entirely when it comes to Barcelona. Here is means the players who have hit 1000 minutes in the first stage of the season, showing who Luis Enrique has his confidence in as we hit the winter break. 14 players come into this privileged group. It would be 15 if Andre Iniesta’s injury hadn’t kept him out of the team for six weeks. 

There’s only one player who hasn’t played a single minute of any official game this season, third choice keeper Jordi Masip. The rest have played, although three much less than others—Aleix Vidal, Jasper Cillessen and Jeremy Mathieu, each under 400 minutes. 

Then there is Paco Alcacer (683), finding it hard to break up the trident. Rafinha has 796, 70 more than Iniesta.

From there, Lucho’s millennials begin, starting with Denis Suarez, who has 972, but if we count the Spanish Super Cup it would be over a thousand. They stretch until Marc-Andre ter Stegen, who leads the way with 1,710.

Of the new signings, Umtiti has played the most with 1,146. Check the picture for the rest of the data…