In the world of football, winning the treble is an accomplishment that only a few clubs have been able to do as it’s something which is not easy to accomplish.

The Spanish side Barcelona has already achieved this feat on 2 occasions. The first time that Barcelona reached this feat was way back during the 2008-09 season but they repeated this accomplishment in the previous season in the 2014-15 season.

Even though this was a huge achievement, Luis Enrique is aiming to surpass what he did during his first year in charge of Barcelona.

During the first season that Luis Enrique was in charge of the Spanish club, he won the treble but he wants to do even more in the next few years.

In a press conference, Luis Enrique announced some of the things that he wants to reach with Barcelona as he told reporters: “The treble is now in the past, now we are interested in six trophies. Barcelona won La Liga, Copa Del Rey and the Champions League last season. It was the club’s second ever treble trophy-winning season.”

“Second seasons are usually better. There is the base work and I am convinced that the team can improve in several aspects. The motivation is there to be better than our opponents via continual development, if you stand still you get burned.”

The attacking partnership which is formed by Neymar, Luis Suarez and Messi is considered to be one of the best offensive combinations in Europe – you can almost guarantee that Barca will be favourites on the StanJames live bets index to be the next team to score – no matter what the score is or who they are playing?!

Not many changes are going to be made in the team of Luis Enrique as he already has a star studded squad with some of the best players in the world in each position and Enrique isn’t in need of splashing out a lot of cash in the summer transfer window, even if Enrique did sign a player in the summer that new acquisition can’t play in an official match for Barcelona due to the transfer ban of the club which extends until January of 2016.

In the latest pre-season matches of Real Madrid, they have lost matches against Bayern Munich and against Valerenga but Rafael Benitez believes that these recent defeats are not a reason to start getting worried about his team and about their chances of competing with Barcelona in the upcoming La Liga season.

“We’re talking about pre-season, friendlies and the team created enough to score. Our precision let us down. We’re not a hundred percent satisfied, but I’ll take away the positives, I’m pleased with how we pressured, the way we won the ball back and created chances. We’re missing players. Our top-scorers aren’t here. If you gave them 20 chances then these players would have scored, but the important thing is to create openings, that the team is solid and press in the opposition area as we did.” Real Madrid’s Rafael Benitez said after his team could only muster a goal-less draw when playing against Valerenga on August 9.

Cristiano Ronaldo was not featured in this match as he had picked up a minor injury and Benitez decided to leave the Portuguese player off of the pitch. There also were a number of other important players which did not perform in this friendly encounter including: Pepe, Benzema, Toni Kroos and Sergio Ramos.

The match finalized with a final scoreboard of 0-0 as neither side was able to score a single goal even though Real Madrid dominated the game and launched a total of 34 shots.

Prior to this underwhelming result, Real Madrid had played against Bayern Munich and lost against the German club as Bayern Munich came out on top with a 1-0 triumph and lifted the Audi Cup at the Allianz- Arena.

These aren’t the kind of results that Rafael Benitez and the supporters of the Spanish club want to see especially now that the Spanish League is edging closer and closer. Barcelona is going through a much more impressive pre-season as they have already sealed yet another silverware after defeating Sevilla and won the UEFA Super Cup.

Barcelona are the main rivals of Real Madrid and even though Rafael Benitez said that he is calm about his players despite their latest results, it’s something that should start to concern Benitez as he has a tough road ahead of him in his first season as the coach of Real Madrid who are not only expected to compete against Barcelona in the Spanish League but also make a genuine charge in the Champions League.