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    Xavi Hernández

    I think he needs to continue in the next season at least, just because he did win the league and a big project/investment has been made on his urging, so, he deserves the third season to see the culmination of his project and if he can build on the league win. Nagelsmann by looks of it will be...
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    Xavi Hernández

    Exactly. They are not that good. They just look good when we play them because our only strength is pressing right now. Played exactly the game they want when have the players to play them off the park.
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    Xavi Hernández

    Its just concerning that Xavi doesn't seem to understand his very own team that he created and instructed to play this way. Our greatest strength is the press and intensity. Yesterday we played a team that is very fit and very press resistant and got played off the park. That is what there is...
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    Xavi Hernández

    Madrid's 'super mentality' has been pathetic in the league, so despite all the points we are dropping, they still won't catch us. They could have cut the gap completely in only the last 6 games or so but bottled against likes of Villareal/Girona.
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    La Liga Round 31: Rayo Vallecano - FC Barcelona 2-1

    The concerning thing is we are a team that seems wholly to be based on intensity. If the opponent can match our intensity we are nothing special in the rest of our play. No patterns, no tactics, just press. Rayo aren't amazing and have conceded plenty goals but we can barely create a chance.
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    La Liga Round 31: Rayo Vallecano - FC Barcelona 2-1

    Nobody been that good but Lewa is finding more space than he usually does in behind. Could score.
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    La Liga Round 31: Rayo Vallecano - FC Barcelona 2-1

    We haven't scored a goal against Rayo under Xavi yet. Its just the matchup. Our whole game is based on intensity and they are one of the most intense pressing teams in the league, it cancels out our strength, we don't have much more to our game to take them apart as our offense is bad.
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    La Liga Round 31: Rayo Vallecano - FC Barcelona 2-1

    Gavi just running around kicking people as per usual.
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    Referees

    They relegate the best refs and leave the worst ones, because they are subordinate to them and don't make a fuss. Any ref who defies their commandments on what is a card and what isn't or any ref who has a personality gets demoted and removed. They want to get rid of Ortiz Arias also who is one...
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    La Liga 2022/23

    Girona xG 1.8 - Madrid xG 1.2
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    La Liga 2022/23

    No Courtois + Benzema and this is what Madrid are. Carried by those two last season and this season when there. Rest of their players like Valverde/Rodrygo etc excessively over hyped as world class when not that good.
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    La Liga 2022/23

    Should be obvious Madrid is half the strength without Benzema by now. Whenever he misses a game, which is often, they play poorly.
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    La Liga 2022/23

    Against Mats it might still be a clean sheet.
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    The Negreira case

    Not yet disclosed, but they have his phone, and are looking through all of his conversations with Grau/Contreras/Barto as part of the investigation. I would assume that it is not incriminating because from everything I've read it seems that Negreira Jr had no idea what was going on and was not...
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    The Negreira case

    According to the economic values that Negreira himself put on the reports individually, the services should have cost no more than 13,000 euros or so. Instead they costed 7.3 million. Laporta also presented with 43 CDs of reports allegedly made by Javier Negreira, however, in his own statement...
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    The Negreira case

    Negreira Jr : I would say on average, the value of the refereeing reports individually was around 20 euros each. "My reports were almost all text-based, maybe there was two or three videos in total." (Laporta claimed dozens of videos purchased from Negreira exist).
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    Xavi Hernández

    Lewandowski was a consensus Ballon Dor winner before he came here. Not convinced it is about the quality of players in attack. To have such a good defense, sacrifices have to be made in the system, which is what's happened.
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    The Negreira case

    Negreira's son would have apparently claimed that he met with Bartomeu in his company offices more than once and that he has WhatsApp conversations with him. A secretary of Negreira also claimed that she overheard them discussing football in the company offices. To be honest, this doesn't make...
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    Xavi Hernández

    Maybe some data points help to break it down : Barca's overperformance of xGA is +14.46, meaning that roughly we should have been expected to concede 14 more goals than we have at this stage in the season. It is a huge number in isolation and likely extremely pivotal to how many points we have...
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    Xavi Hernández

    I agree with you that it's hard to explain and it annoys me a little thinking about it because I can't work it out, I imagine it is the same for @Birdy, it just doesn't make sense how these chances keep being missed but there must be a reason other than luck because it is a constant. Not just...

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