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  1. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    I don't care if you call it a 4-2-3-1 or a 4-4-1-1 or whatever. We need more creative action in the middle. IMO Fati is our best option. The interiors simply aren't the right type of player to make anything happen. When Pedri/Gavi get the ball, their disposition is to move the ball around, to...
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    Frenkie de Jong

    Noticed he's almost as bad as Pedri with hiding. Used to be our most active guy off the ball but often looks like he can't be arsed.
  3. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    I believe we're approaching the end of Xavi's window for establishing a succesful team. It's not really about being fired. It's about the natural mental fatigue that sets in when things just aren't working. What has kept us going so far has been our mentality. Despite not really gelling, we've...
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    8 - Pedri

    Amazed that we our passing game was so slow. Look, we even have two on-pitch managers, directing the passes! https://imgur.com/a/GH6KxIZ
  5. BusiTheKing

    Frenkie de Jong

    The bias is obvious. His actions simply added positivity, momentum, problem solving at a much higher rate than Gavi's, whose actions on the ball were just mostly plain and neutral, not putting us closer to anything. Just the little things. That sombrero at the beginning fx, don't come and...
  6. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    I think there are pretty clear improvements in some areas of our game, namely intensity, mentality and control of the game. The way we matched Bayern for control of the ball would have been inconceivable the last few seasons, even when Messi was here. I think people our forgetting how we used...
  7. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    I see no interesting runs, no overlaps, no through balls, no quick combinations. I see a lot of indecision, hestitation and settling into the mindset that the best we can do is a cross from outside the area into a static target. Which we also suck at.
  8. BusiTheKing

    Frenkie de Jong

    transition from defence to attack is A LOT quicker with him in the middle
  9. BusiTheKing

    8 - Pedri

    some nice bits and pieces here and there but it's not really gonna cut it. nearly cost a goal with that giveaway aswell...
  10. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    I think we'll do them tonight because there's something 'extra' at stake. I think we'll be pumped, sharper and more aggressive than usual. Actually excited for the Clasico as well. But I am worried about our performances when the occasion isn't there to give us an edge. We haven't got the...
  11. BusiTheKing

    CL Round 4: FC Barcelona - Inter 3-3

    probably need to score at least two for the sake of aggregate goal difference. might come down to the tie-breakers in the end.
  12. BusiTheKing

    Ansu Fati (loaned to Monaco)

    yeah agree, small steps towards more natural movement
  13. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    I have no clue why people are pointing to our defense as the significant issue either. If you leave the game open into the final 30 minutes, then you're going to invite attacks against you and we'd need to defend like prime Simeone Atleti to avert conceding dangerous chances, which we will never...
  14. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    my feeling is that any top winger would struggle in our current setup. and that most of them wouldn't go near our team if they knew how they'd be played.
  15. BusiTheKing

    7 - Ferran Torres

    that wasn't going in
  16. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    Look at both Ferran and Raphinha in this sequence: https://streamin.me/v/dea0e9b6 It's criminal that they not blazing forward on each side of Lewa. Look at this useless boring wide position they take instead. It's obvious it has to do with their instructions.
  17. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    Worrying that he doesn't do anything to change up this attacking style. Every single time Celta went forward, they looked more dangerous than us. Amazing what it does having actual attackers who can move freely and combine with eachother.
  18. BusiTheKing

    Frenkie de Jong

    a few positive actions when he got on the ball but looked a bit lazy
  19. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    needs to ask himself what it says that none of our wingers are able to perform in this system. 1) Get rid of the nonsense role that Pedri played today or Gavi against Inter. Nothing has ever come from it. Centralise the midfield and have them take surprise deep runs from there like Gavi's run...
  20. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    That's definitely true. What Odegaard does in Arsenal's first goal against Liverpool for example: https://dubz.co/v/jpnad7 We don't have a player who reliably takes that role. It's simple stuff but what makes the goal is having a guy with an appetite for those kinds of situations. Pedri is...

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