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tacticvarium

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[tw]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Official: Ruiz de Galarreta suffered a thigh injury during Saturday's game against Gimnàstic Tarragona, he will be out for 3-4 weeks <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/fcbblive?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#fcbblive</a> [fcb]</p>— barcabstuff (@barcabstuff) <a href="https://twitter.com/barcabstuff/status/968172088438730752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> [/tw]

Maybe more B team minutes for Riqui Puig?
 

tacticvarium

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[tw]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Valverde: "We also had Oriol Busquets, and we usually call up B players to help us. Apart from Semedo, every first team player is healthy, but we always count on youth players." <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/fcbblive?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#fcbblive</a></p>— barcabstuff (@barcabstuff) <a href="https://twitter.com/barcabstuff/status/968858183660863488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> [/tw]

It is apparent that Aleñá and Oriol are his most preferred youth players.
 

Joan

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Lineup: Nahuel, Cardona, Perez; Alena, Hongla, Rivera; Cucurella, Cuenca, Costas, Palencia; Ortola
 

xXKonan

Senior Member
I don't even consider Rivera a DM.

He doesn't possess anything that points to that. He's just a CM in the vein of Gumbau and that's it.
 

tacticvarium

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I miss Oriol Busi.
We are basically playing without midfielders.
5 defenders + Gumbau 2.0 + 3 useless forwards who aren't doing anything + Aleñá too lazy without ball
 

Joan

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Rivera is terrible, his offensive game is nonexisting, giving away too many passes... don't understand what he's doing on the pitch

Hongla is a useful player, though one can tell he's a defender
Alenya's been awufl
 
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Messi983

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Alena's decision making has been suspectful lately and his finishing is also pretty poor. People will probably blame Gerard but he needs to improve a lot if he wants to have regular first team minutes next season.

I think Rivera was good. Hongla struggled at first but once he adapted was solid as well. I also like Costas-Cuenca CB partnership.
 

tacticvarium

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Palencia had a disappointing performance again imo.
Both Cucu and Miranda don't seem to have top footballing intelligence as well.
I have been watching them for years now and they often don't seem to know which player they have to mark during the counter-attack and set-piece. Up till now, all three have been compensating these problems by being a hardworker on the field but it won't obviously work as they go to the upper level. Must improve a lot to survive here but unfortunately they will have to wait until they are promoted since López is completely incapable of improving his players defensively.
 
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