The grateful and delighted Fran Rijkaard is taking more and more to Bojan Krkic as the young lad outperforms all newcomers.


Though Bojan Krkic was expected to play well in his first season at FC Barcelona, the goal machine is rapidly beginning to exceed expectations as he has kept scoring with the slightest opportunity given to him. Barca's opponents are now aware that aside from Thierry Henry and Samuel Eto'o, Bojan Krkic has played himself into becoming a third major threat in the Blaugrana attack in the absence of injured Lionel Messi. Bojan has never disappointed from his first match against Al-Ahly of Egypt in which he scored a classical goal,and the seniors have seen the goal scorer repeat such performance over and again in official matches. An impressed coach Rijkaard said after Bojan scored against Real Murcia on the 12th of January, 2008:

Barca played onight and the players were brilliant. They left a good impression. It is always important to open up the game when you play a side that keeps it tight at the back. In that sense, we should congratulate Bojan because he played intelligently on the right and contributed to the win in that role.

Bojan will anchor the Barcelona attack when the Catalan giants file out in Camp Nou on Tuesday against Sevilla in the second leg tie of the Copa Del Rey. The first leg ended 1-1 in Seville.