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  1. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    Because control is useless without scoring goals. The control we enjoyed was only meaningful by virtue of us defending a lead. And our two goals, as I pointed out, came about through aberrations from the strategy of control, from decisions you would normally not make if you were seeking to...
  2. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    Attacking wise, surely no-one would deny that the point of slower, safer build-ups is to open a sustained window of opportunity for combinations around the box. That is the only attacking style that benefits particularly from that style of moderation. If we were scoring most of our goals this...
  3. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    Our friend there mentioned the Newcastle game as an endorsement of a this season's more "controlling" style of football, compared to last season's "ballistic" style of attacking. I'm saying that it was exactly our "ballistic" strain of attacking that scored us two goals in that game, while our...
  4. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    Newcastle, the game where we scored on a cross and a long shot, two high risk/high reward actions? And then also conceded a goal while "controlling" the game.
  5. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    Be interesting to see if we can hit them on the counter. With Pedri/De Jong as conductors, we've been shying away from quick transitions. Feeling a bit bloated on pirouettes and pausa this season. Would like to see that we can switch it up, play more directly. Give it to Yamal early and let...
  6. BusiTheKing

    FC Barcelona: Win of the youth system

    Was watching Juvenil B and one who stands out is midfielder Adam Argemi. Appears to play with the same casual fluidity as Pedri.
  7. BusiTheKing

    17 - Marc Casadó

    His primary merit was always offering relief and control through movement off the ball and ability to play with few touches. People forget how we used to struggle playing it out of our own half, let alone dominate possesion for entire games. Casado was a welcome sight at that point, offering...
  8. BusiTheKing

    Hans-Dieter Flick

    Last season we struggled more without Yamal. Improvement there. Defense has been much better since winding down the high line. Overall La Liga seems poor this season tho. Might end up dueling it out into the 90+ points.
  9. BusiTheKing

    17 - Marc Casadó

    Mate, he's a squad player. Of course he's going to be taken off when we need a goal and have Frenkie on the bench. That doesn't mean it's his fault we were down. We were down because Joan Garcia made a big mistake and our creatives failed to do much. This thing about "it's indirectly Casado's...
  10. BusiTheKing

    6 - Gavi

    I've said it before but there is something uniquely reckless about the way he conducts his body on a football pitch. Not that he goes hard into challenges, but the way he sort of lurches around like a drunk man without really seeming in control of his footing. It's like his footing is an...
  11. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Espart

    for my money he's got the biggest chance of a first team career, out of all the current candidates.
  12. BusiTheKing

    FC Barcelona: Win of the youth system

    Seems we have two decent DMs in Pedro Villar and Dani Avila. Thomas Marques too ofc.
  13. BusiTheKing

    FC Barcelona: Win of the youth system

    I presume it's just a way to acquainting him with the level of U19 football (quite a jump from u15) without giving him too central a role.
  14. BusiTheKing

    14 - Marcus Rashford

    Need to cultivate a bit of megalomanic personality in him so he'll take those shots more often. If he weren't so levelheaded he could bag a dusin of those screamers per season.
  15. BusiTheKing

    Hans-Dieter Flick

    Noticed this against Valencia too. I like it.
  16. BusiTheKing

    FC Barcelona: Win of the youth system

    Bagged a nice one in the prior game too
  17. BusiTheKing

    FC Barcelona: Win of the youth system

    17 is Goren? Like the look of him
  18. BusiTheKing

    FC Barcelona: Win of the youth system

    Made the same mistake lol
  19. BusiTheKing

    FC Barcelona: Win of the youth system

    8 is Pedro Villar, 10 is Pedro Rodriguez, 6 is Espart?
  20. BusiTheKing

    FC Barcelona: Win of the youth system

    am however enjoying the murmur of geordie accents rising and falling against the shitty pastiche pop and ceaseless rolling northern wind

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