Xavi has hardly been convincing so far. It's true the team is in a bad spot but results like these are inexcusable. If you line up both teams man for man, Osasuna are in no way better than us in terms of quality. If we can't win games like these and ones like Betis at home we will certainly...
The seniors always try to slow the game down to a tempo that they are comfortable with. They struggle when the pace of the game is too much for them to handle.
Even with the mess we're in atm, I don't see why we shouldn't be winning these type of games. The teams around us in the table right now, Rayo, Valencia, Espanyol, Bilbao, Osasuna etc. how much better are they than us as a team? They're not superior to us quality wise. Winnable game.
imo i've never seen Italy as necessarily a 'big' team, but they have always been very solid defensively, organized, compact, difficult to break down like traditional Italian teams. Very strong in set pieces, penalties, strong mentally etc.
It would be nice of you to enlighten us on what a chimera is. The Bayern game has taught us alot of useful lessons that we should use to improve our game. The worse thing that can happen now is to slide back into this bubble of thinking where our nice triangles and movements and a nice technique...
Just to be clear, Nico should be winning that duel when contact was made. Getting toppled face down regardless of speed you were going at is poor excuse. If i was the physio, i don't wan't to see any of my guys getting floored like that and worse from a winger. Even if you have to body check...
Lol.
He was bodied off the ball more than once, which is what I mentioned earlier and even at a much slower speed, almost standing still speed. Clear his upper body strength is lacking. Will try to find that clip.