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    Sergio Busquets

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    Seydou Keita

    Happy Birthday, Keita! Barça Legend. :worthy:
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    5 - Carles Puyol

    we won because we dominated the midfield zone. we dominated the midfield zone because we had 5 men in there against Milan's 4. we had 5 men in there because we played a 3 man defence. we also won because Cesc and Xavi were free to run forward from midfield. Cesc and Xavi were free to run...
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    5 - Carles Puyol

    I'm sick of seeing you relying on the arguments of others. and I'm not gonna troll through ZM's archives just to highlight instances when he's wrong. 1. it wasn't a soft penalty. 2. 2 goals conceded, 1 was down to poor play from Puyol and Thiago on the break... the other was a wondergoal on...
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    14 - Javier Mascherano

    apart from completely failing to play the offside trap, he was excellent.
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    5 - Carles Puyol

    I'm not debating the worthiness of ZM, they're right and wrong like most anyone, but the frequency with which you lean on the "such and such says so and so" is quite telling.
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    5 - Carles Puyol

    do you actually have an opinion of your own or do you just take other peoples? zonal marking is frequently wrong. other than that, yes, let's disagree.
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    Xavi Hernández

    hopefully he won't be gone for a LONG time! alsomsn.
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    5 - Carles Puyol

    the 3 man defence is the reason our Camp Nou goal difference this season is something absurd like 60-6, and we've won all but 2 games. the dropped points in San Sebastian weren't because of the system (we played 433). we played 433 in Betis (in the Copa) last year and got pummeled 3-1. should...
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    Wayne Rooney

    he's not bad, he's good, but he's not great which is what I was talking about. like Nolan says, he shits it on the big stage: Euros (or was it the World Cup? one of those losses to Portugal anyway), FA Cup Final, and hell even his effort in the CL Final was shit and should have been saved by VDS.
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    5 - Carles Puyol

    no. it was Mascherano, Puyol and Abidal as a back three and none of them looked good. today we had Puyol, Mascherano and Abidal as a back three and only Puyol looked bad.
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    Wayne Rooney

    I dunno. I think it's a technique and mentality issue. the only really great English penalty taker I've seen in the last decade has been a Canadian/German, which says it all.
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    Vincent Kompany

    did you really come back here just to compare Ben Arfa and Kompany's bizarre foreheads? tho we can't have this discussion without mentioning: and
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    Wayne Rooney

    he doesn't get the height right. he finds the sides of the net well enough, but they're always at mid-height, so if the keeper guesses right he can save it easily. he needs to practice getting it low (or high, but he's not Brazilian or German so I wouldn't recommend that) so that they become...
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    5 - Carles Puyol

    injury permitting, he should never play in the same XI as Mascherano. it just doesn't work.
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    Neymar - v2

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    Sergio Busquets

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    Sergio Busquets

    :busquets:
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    Jordi Alba

    I think he is. if you look at how he beats his man, and when he's at his best, it's all very wingback-ish. I mean how else did a success of right-backs lacking the pace & power he has (Phil Neville, Rafael, Steinsson, etc.) keep him quiet? if you deny him the space to start running, he has...
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    Real Madrid (old thread)

    exactly. he doesn't score 1 goal every game. he's scores 4 in one game, then none for 5 games, then 3 in one and 4 in the next, then none for 7, etc. etc.

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