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ajnotkeith

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Barcaman said:
Had full week of rest while Bilbao played just 3 days ago. And still we looked ill prepared.
Also, these injuries can't be coincidence.
Something is very off with training.

Can't even comment on level of football as there wasn't any. Complete waste of time.
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One of the problems is he makes the team run so much. We are actually playing incredibly intense every game, we always press very high and the wingers and midfielders have to cover absurd amounts of distance, whilst he expects someone to close down the enemy ballcarrier every single play.

It results in players not having much quality in the final third as so tired from running whilst players keep dropping with muscular injuries.

A good team shouldn't be running so much because they are already positioned in the right places.
 
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, he's a Setien level manager, if not even worse.

Take a look at a guy like Ten Hag for example, the laughing stock of England managers these days. Yet even the likes of Ten Hag managed to school Xavi.

Xavi should be managing wherever the hell the likes of Lampard, Gerrard, Pirlo etc are managing these days, but Barca's leadership is too cowardly to sack him.

Genuinely can't wait to see that fat toad Laporta voted out at the next election.
 
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Porque said:
Yeah. We may never have won having subbed in either of those as we weren't creating anything and were only hoping on a piece of individuality from Lamine or Cancelo.

But damn, atleast offer some offensive risk by adding offensive movement.

The first Bilbao game was as stale, and Xavi won it precisely because he done that by bringing Guiu on.
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Yes, I know we were handicapped having to made early subs but I would be much more happy if Xavi would show some offensive intentions over the last 20 minutes when Bilbao were clearly getting tired and brought one or both of Guiu and Roque on even if it would backfire in the end. Instead he made two defensive subs who brought nothing (as also said in another thread I think bringing on Roberto instead of Romeu would also make more sense) and replaced one useless forward for another.

Although thinking about this more calmly today and as mentioned in the machday thread I think rather than going all in for La Liga title (which would still be very far away even with a win tbf) finishing in top 4 and keeping a relatively safe distance of 8 points above Bilbao rather than let them get within 5 points with our tough upcoming away schedule and more injury concerns was also somewhere in Xavi's mind.

Ofc it's sad we're even in a position to have to think like this but it's at least somewhat understandable to me.
 
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Porque

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Messi983 said:
Yes, I know we were handicapped having to made early subs but I would be much more happy if Xavi would show some offensive intentions over the last 20 minutes when Bilbao were clearly getting tired and brought one or both of Guiu and Roque on even if it would backfire in the end. Instead he made two defensive subs who brought nothing (as also said in another thread I think bringing on Roberto instead of Romeu would also make more sense) and replaced one useless forward for another.

Although thinking about this more calmly today and as mentioned in the machday thread I think rather than going all in for La Liga title (which would still be very far away even with a win tbf) finishing in top 4 and keeping a relatively safe distance of 8 points above Bilbao rather than let them get within 5 points with our tough upcoming away schedule and more injury concerns was also somewhere in Xavi's mind.

Ofc it's sad we're even in a position to have to think like this but it's at least somewhat understandable to me.
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There was a discussion with Serghei in another thread (f*ck maybe it was this one?) which I bailed on after he mentioned qualifying out of our bogus CL group this year as some sort of win.

But it's precisely games like the Bilbao game where we have to ask "if we had XYZ managing this game, what would they have done to try and win it or change course?"

And when there are arguements of Xavi limitations and why we would need a different manager, yesterday game is a complete microcosm of it.
 
serghei

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Don't worry guys :lol:.

In 6 months the Champagne football is gonna flow, titles are gonna be won each season, Pedri is gonna become strong again with the help of cutting edge training methods, and all that bliss. You're almost there.
 
serghei

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Fati_Future_BallonDor said:
I didnt understand the substitutes, why Romeu? Better loosing than not getting 3 points. The offence needed power, he had to sub in Vitor / Guiu
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:lol:

The club competes for securing the 2nd place. Madrid is much better. Club is nearly missing half the starting 11.

It is a smart move. Draw at Bilbao is good for current situation. I can see us finishing 2nd, which would be ok.
 
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ajnotkeith

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serghei said:
Don't worry guys :lol:.

In 6 months the Champagne football is gonna flow, titles are gonna be won each season, Pedri is gonna become strong again with the help of cutting edge training methods, and all that bliss. You're almost there.
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You fail to understand Xavis management has harmed those chances.
 
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