Lewandowski, Dembele & Raphinha: Barcelona’s new attack is starting to form

Photo by Fran Santiago/Getty ImagesIn many ways, this is not your classic Barcelona team.

With Xavi sending vacas sagradas Gerard Pique and Jordi Alba to the bench, and with Sergio Busquets in the last year of his contract, it’s starting to look like the club is entering a new era.

The fact that Xavi is the one to do it as manager, given that he was the very personification of the tiki taka era as a player, makes what’s going on now even more intriguing.

To understand Xavi’s vision, you have to start by looking at the front three, because that’s what makes this team so different from the ones that came before it.

From day one, Ousmane Dembele was the manager’s main man. Xavi knew that having…