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Pep Guardiola
Pep would destroy Mou in the CL, Conte too. Klopp has the right players and the right system to counter Guardiola's (as he did at Dortmund too) but Mourinho's football will simply not work in the CL against a truly dominant offensive side. Klopp actually plays brave transition football which is...- DonAndres
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- Forum: Barca History
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Argentina
They would, but the flipside is that if they actually somehow beat Spain to get to the SF's then I'm pretty confident that they have a good shot against any other team they'd face after that. Brazil would be a really tough battle though. It all starts with Sampaoli. If he's not making any...- DonAndres
- Post #2,183
- Forum: International football
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Antoine Griezmann
What is this take....... It feels like football fans are more uptight than any other sport in the world. You do realize that sports are about entertainment right??? At least sports in America revolve around the entertainment aspect of it. The trash-talking (both overt and subliminal), the...- DonAndres
- Post #2,642
- Forum: Other Players
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Antoine Griezmann
Only an uncultured swine would hate on the L dance :coffee: /s In all seriousness it was hilarious when he first did it against Real Madrid, got old pretty quick after that. I'll still say that no other athlete has done it as well as him tho. If Griezmann manages to learn Orange Justice that...- DonAndres
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- Forum: Other Players
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10 - Lionel Messi - v5
Y'all need to stop pretending teams put the same effort in La Liga as they do in CL. Not only is it visibly clear most teams play harder in the CL (and RM more than ANYONE has this disparity in effort), literally any research you do on distance travelled stats shows that players on average run... -
Antoine Griezmann
You're seriously citing a video from 2011 to reference how Messi plays nowdays? Set pieces and corners? What a great 3 extra header goals per season we'll have! Wonderful! Griezmann is a much more mobile player than Kane, much better at associative play, a much more clinical finisher (probably...- DonAndres
- Post #2,578
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11 - Ousmane Dembélé - V1
The fact that this was ever an issue (still might be) is ridiculous. How are you going to POSSIBLY justify selling a 21 year old winger who was injured half of his 1st season and STILL averaged over 1 G+A/game. I simply can't fathom that. Even loaning him would be one of the stupidest things... -
Antoine Griezmann
They've literally knocked us out of the UCL with Griezmann as the main striker scoring 2 goals next to Carrasco. And he was then, as he is now, pretty much still an out and out striker next to Torres whenever they played together. Simeone just prefers to have 2 strikers instead of one. Or would...- DonAndres
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- Forum: Other Players
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Antoine Griezmann
Dude, Suarez used to play behind Andy Carroll. Then he led the offensive line on his own at Liverpool. Griezmann as well was leading it ON HIS OWN before Costa got there, and is capable of playing lone striker for both Atletico and France. It seems like you really can't think of this construct...- DonAndres
- Post #2,534
- Forum: Other Players
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Arthur
By defense breaking you mean a final through ball past the defensive line, correct? Frankly, that doesn't really matter much at all. He doesn't need to be quite at that Xavi level, making through balls that go past 5 or 6 guys to create a chance in the final third. We have Coutinho, Messi, and...- DonAndres
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Antoine Griezmann
Crazy how people actually didn't/don't want him. Can't bench Suarez soon enough. I've always felt that Messi would be looking A LOT better the past 2 years but for Ney's ballhogging and Suarez's donkey syndrome on the ball. Griez is a class player. Smooth in every aspect of his game and intense...- DonAndres
- Post #2,520
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Nelson Semedo
Yeah, no. You are just wrong top to bottom here. With 4-4-2 we have 10 players who understand how to play in possession but 4-3-3 we have 8???? Dembele can't do anything except counters??? You were saying our 4-4-2 midfield with Paulinho-Iniesta out wide is the best we have 'results' wise so...- DonAndres
- Post #3,147
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Nelson Semedo
It's almost like people forget that Roberto was so uniquely bad at defense, and we as a team collapsed and were demolished ENTIRELY because of him, that Lucho had to change us to 3 at the back last season. The 4-0 loss to PSG and ensuing shift in our team was literally because of Roberto...- DonAndres
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Nelson Semedo
Roberto is literally one of the worst 1v1 defenders I've seen in my life, not far off from Vidal in this respect. If he'd played vs Levante we would've lost 7-4 or 8-4 It wasn't just Roberto's red vs RM, he was literally targeted and abused time and time again by doubling up on his wing. He...- DonAndres
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10 - Lionel Messi - v5
Great show? Tonight? Maybe by Coutinho. Everyone else was pathetic -
Luis Suárez
You're crazy if you think we're gonna win CL playing Madrid style crossing for 90 minutes. We'd have to literally revamp the entire starting lineup to make something like that viable. Barca has never won being reliant on crosses and long deliveries into the box for headers. It's much better and...- DonAndres
- Post #3,900
- Forum: Barca History
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Ernesto Valverde - V1
Based on every tendency EV has shown this season, I have a feeling that if we get Griezmann next season our lineup will be this: --------Suarez-Messi Griezmann-----------Coutinho ---------Busi---Rakitic Alba---Umtiti-------Pique--Semedo And yes, with Coutinho on the right. EV has some... -
Luis Suárez
Why would you take Kane over Griezmann? The ability to score headers is so fucking overrated. Even at his very best Suarez was hardly a consistent threat in aerial duels. What you want in a striker (outside of being a good scorer) is mobility and associative play, both of which Griezmann...- DonAndres
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- Forum: Barca History
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Arthur
IMO when assessing Arthur it's not so much about the quality of teams pressing him. You can see even in that comp that he gets challenged and pressed up on multiple times a game. The part that's much more significant is HOW he reacts when he's pressed, or when he has to play through pressure...- DonAndres
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Ernesto Valverde - V1
I would be thrilled with Sarri as well, but sadly I see 0 chance of that happening. Doesn't have the ties to the club which are an 'unspoken requirement' for coaching here. Wouldn't be surprised if the name "Sarri" has never once crossed the mind of Segura or Bartomeu.
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