Rafael Márquez
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House of Flies
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yeh when we see the body positioning of marquez and compare it to what should be done as a defender...
shows everything what marquez is doing wrong.
shows everything what marquez is doing wrong.
Co0ter
Senior Member
In previous seasons Marquez has made plenty of stupid tackles around the 18 and cost us a few PKs. He is not that great of a defender- I don't think he was ever intended to be. He WAS a decent defender who had good long range passing skills.
Argue all you want, he got turned inside out by a scrub way too easily. Think about it also, it's not like he's been playing the entire games either so he's not even tired. He has come in for 20-30 minutes and still can't even get the job done- actually the opposite.
I like to defend players usually when fans get on them too easily for things. But I never really liked Marquez and after this season so far I really wont mind seeing him go at all. Chyn needs to step it up as well.
Argue all you want, he got turned inside out by a scrub way too easily. Think about it also, it's not like he's been playing the entire games either so he's not even tired. He has come in for 20-30 minutes and still can't even get the job done- actually the opposite.
I like to defend players usually when fans get on them too easily for things. But I never really liked Marquez and after this season so far I really wont mind seeing him go at all. Chyn needs to step it up as well.
La Furia
Legion of Doooom
Well it wasn't just his passing, Rafa when focused is a great game reader and our overall defensive positioning has a habit of improving when he's on form. I don't believe it's a coincidence that Puyol, Pique and even Milito for a short period of time before an injury returned horrible-Rafa, played some of their best football when partnered with in form Rafa.
The thing is he's always been a below average man to man defender. He's pretty good in the air but he's slow and clumsy. Even at his best he could be beaten and had a habit of over or under tackling, and has always been a card gathering machine. When he is really having a good game, his positioning is so good that it makes up for it, such as in the 2006 CL vs Chelsea, but when he fails to properly read the game, it leads to well..stuff like this. Every single time he comes back from a notable injury he has at least one game where he's off tune and has his hand in at least one goal, unfortunately at this point it's been more than one game like this.
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Tabz321
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Hello loyal Barca supporters I have something to get off my chest....Does anyone agree with me that Marquez is not really that good??? In the match against Zaragoza when he came on as a subsitute we managed to conceed a goal beacuse of him.
Against Osasuna he yet again failed to defend properly & we conceeded a goal. He is not on form at all & does not look very strong.
Hello loyal Barca supporters I have something to get off my chest....Does anyone agree with me that Marquez is not really that good??? In the match against Zaragoza when he came on as a subsitute we managed to conceed a goal beacuse of him.
Against Osasuna he yet again failed to defend properly & we conceeded a goal. He is not on form at all & does not look very strong.
Hey Tabz!
Most of us agree that Marquez has been a liability ever since he came back from his injury. Although I think it´s fair to say that against Zaragoza it wasn´t his fault that Xavi lost possession which made Rafa forced to deal with 2 Zaragoza players. Vs. Osasuna he could have done better to close the right flank but then again, Chyg also looked very bad before he got subbed and I think we were all content with pep´s choice to sub him for Marquez.
House of Flies
all your bases belong to us
he knows that the world will end. sneaky bastard.
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19blaugrana10
New member
Dont like marquez ! In my mind he has not the skill to play for Barca
La Furia
Legion of Doooom
:icon_confused:Rafa lacks skill? Funny, I thought that's the one thing you can't question him on!
Metaphysical
Bomb Dropper
maybe he gets his info from the same place sky presenters and commentators do.
a couple of recently heard utterances: "abidal's playing in the middle for france, and he's not the quickest." and "without ronaldo real madrid lack pace, I mean kaka's not quick, granero, raul, higuain."
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