Thiago is more gifted technically, with more confidence and risk taking. They might be close on accuracy and vision but Thiago edges it with his runs forward driving the team ahead. Koke is an excellent player and any team would be lucky to have him. It's just that Thiago has some better...
Hazard might be a waste playing CAM, he needs the spaces and Mertens is having one hell of a season at CAM. He played there most of the time when Hamsik was injured a couple of months ago and he was great.
It was against Gijon, without Messi and Pique was sent off early in the 2nd half. The 90 minutes part, IIRC, was because Alexis played full 90 minutes with Chile days before this game while he had a discomfort so Pep had a go at him for that.
It looks like he gives everything in the 1st half of the season then runs out of gas to finish the season well. Strange thing from an EPL player where they play non-stop.
He almost cost us the game, 1st with that slap on Lopez's face in the 1st half and then that moment near the end. Must sit down reassert himself and I know he will.