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First you don't need to go back to September to find a good game from Semedo, the last game he played was against Girona and he had a fantastic performance. But there is a "he only had a couple of good games in Septemer" narrative going on here. And how many poor performances did Roberto have? A...

What are the bigger problems then? Roberto at RB is the weakest link in the team (if Paulinho isn't playing). Him at RMF with Semedo behind him at RB would solve a lot of the team's problems.

Semedo had some very good games attacking wise for Barca, the understanding between him and his team mates needs to be better but I think this can come with time. It's remarkable how bad performances by Roberto, who has a lot of experience playing with the team get overlooked and forgotten...

"He has as many goals as all our other midfielders together combined" You said it: MIDFIELDERS, they play in the MIDFIELD and go forward when on some occasions to support the attack, Paulinho plays more like a CF than a midfielder and so he isn't scoring enough and the only really important...

No he isn't. Can't cross well, hasn't got the speed and the dribbling to beat defenders and if offered a chance unlikely to score from it. Only one thing that makes him look better than Semedo in that aspect is his understanding with the players he has been playing with for years. Roberto been...

Alba went forward much more than Roberto and still both games came from Roberto's side. We already discussed why he does get dribbled by less and stats as we know can be misleading. Your stats say he does get dribbled past less than Alba does that mean he is a better defender than Alba?

It's not in just Sevilla's first goal, Roberto is a very bad defender overall. Positioning, tackling, marking he just isn't a defender and hasn't got what is needed for this position. Going forward he isn't great either, against Sevilla on several occasions he had so much time and space to bring...

It's not only in that situation Roberto did this. Everytime he is in 1v1 he stays too far away giving the player too much time, space and options and just keeps backing off and backing off.

As I said Roberto because of his previous experiences in 1 v 1 situations avoids going close to the attackers and instead keeps backing off with his hand's behind his back until he reaches the goal line. He didn't get dribbled past, because he simply runs away from the players and waits for...

It's normal that Alba who goes forward a lot to be caught up field in counter attacks. Roberto didn't go forward and still his side was the weaker defensive side and it looked so easy for Sevilla to come through and create chances from his side. What was Roberto doing in the first Sevilla goal...

Well, there is a manager that should have told him to track back more and I doubt he did that and Dembele just ignored him.

Alba was caught up field a few times because he is much more involved in the attack this season but he has the speed to recover when caught out of position, Roberto on the other side doesn't need to be caught out of position because he get's beaten in 1 v 1 by any average player. That's why...

He played different roles in those games. Against Sevilla he had more attacking tasks because Messi wasn't on the field and Chelsea plays with a different formation with the wingbacks which required more defensive work from Dembele. Also it's not Dembele's fault that Roberto can't defend and...

Neither of the 3 mentioned can really defend. It's Rakitic who made Roberto look better at RB than he really is. Yesterday Rakitic was basically playing alone in the midfield so he couldn't look after Roberto as well like he usually does when Busquets is playing. Rakitic played in Busquets' role...

Isn't he overrated? Or is he still "the best CB in the world"? The weak midfield in today's game exposed the real individual level of the defense.

So his team was 0-2 down and he thinks "playing very offensively towards the end of the game" was "dangerous" lol Tells you so much about this guy.

Add to that he slows the play down by needing too long and too much space to control the ball and a longer time to make a decision on what to do with it.

How dare you say that? He is fantastic "going forward" according to some people here.

Ok it seems like people finally agree that he can't defend. But where was his mythical "going forward" today?

He is so bad that even Denis Suarez looked like a huge improvement when he came on for him.