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    Xavi Hernández

    What team has ever pumped billions in investment in years in the history of LaLiga?
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    Xavi Hernández

    In total agreement if it was showing the signs of a great rebuild. But it isn't. For the most part, we play resultadisimo football. Feels more like this will be the last title than the first if performances like this continue. Busquets, Lewandowski and Messi is apparently going to be next...
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    Xavi Hernández

    Best chances? We created almost nothing. Unless you mean first half, which we were decent in but they still ended up with the best chance. All goals can be chalked down to 'players fault' if you are that way inclined, if the players always played perfectly the opponents wouldn't score...
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    Franck Kessie

    Kessie was fine and even impressive in the first half. Only seeing praise for him on socials too. Roberto not so much at all, but still, It was Gavi who was the worst on the pitch out of the midfielders.
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    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    Just got to be worried about what level he will show next season. The 2nd half of the season for him has been absolutely catastrophic. Aware that our more defensive shape and the higher pressing demands that Xavi switched to don't help him but he looks physically done. Really slow off the mark...
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    Xavi Hernández

    Yeah. It was quite obvious that we severely declined after the second goal, like directly afterwards. I don't think we crumbled or that 'the replacements folded' but simply, it is a repetition of what we saw against United, once we have to come out and play and be proactive in looking for goals...
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    Xavi Hernández

    They're not great, but there is no excuse for losing like that. It could have been more than 4-0.
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    6 - Gavi

    A few of us have been saying it since last year, he is far too obsessed with acting a big guy instead of playing football. Napoleon syndrome type behaviour. Runs around diving into tackles and throwing himself at people, randomly starting fights for no reason and squaring up to people but when...
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    Xavi Hernández

    What happened is they found a couple goals and then we had to start playing instead of this super conservative approach we always start with. It works vast majority of the time in Spain but a lot harder when facing the quality that Madrid have. He fucked up today even if there was injuries but...
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    11 - Raphinha

    Madrid played off him hugely this game and gave him acres of space against Camavinga knowing he wouldn't be able to do much with it. His technique is a bit poor. Not great first touch and not very crisp dribbling.
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    Copa: FC Barcelona - Real Madrid 1-4

    Yes... but why? Its like as soon as it moves to a cup format the defense become cones.
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    Copa: FC Barcelona - Real Madrid 1-4

    Stop it... we got destroyed. That's never acceptable even if missing those key players. And we have proven we can beat them with this same 11 only a couple weeks ago. You're right though, shouldn't overreact to it.
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    Copa: FC Barcelona - Real Madrid 1-4

    That Kroos Modric midfield has been pressed off the pitch 3 times in a row now and he keeps going with it. When Tchouameni was crucial in their win against us this season and Kroos's legs are gone vs a much more intense team. Carvajal there again after his shockers. One positive is Camavinga...
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    Copa: FC Barcelona - Real Madrid 1-4

    If we did, and it works, who cares. That's on Madrid to solve it and they will be out of the cup whilst we basically have a free trophy vs Osasuna.
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    Copa: FC Barcelona - Real Madrid 1-4

    Ancelotti clearly has no clue how to break down our setup, spanning all the way back to 4-0 last season, so it's clear that we match him and Madrid very favourably. Even though we are missing a lot of players because of that I'm still expecting us to go through. If we can steal an early goal...
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    Lionel "The Greatest of All Time" Messi V2

    With dribbling attackers, especially ones like Messi where his athletic and physical level earlier in his career was absolutely astounding, the physical regression with age is going to hit them hard. With attackers the physical level is one of the most important things, the agility, the...
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    Lionel "The Greatest of All Time" Messi V2

    If Chelsea recently won a CL title, Madrid won one last year, Tottenham made a CL final a few years ago, how can it be impossible that we compete too? It's a cup, anything can happen. This year one of Napoli/Milan/Inter/Benfica are making the final and none of them were on anyone's lips...
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    Premier League 2022/2023

    Resting Balde at that time makes no sense. He was one of the least at risk being a young player who hadn't played that many minutes in the season. If resting was the idea why not rest actual overused players like Pedri/Lewa/De Jong.
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    La Liga 2022/23

    How bad are some of these relegation teams in LL. Jeez. Madrid 4-0 up after 30 minutes vs Valladolid.
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    Frenkie de Jong

    Ancelotti should be sacked on the spot if he loses to us when we're missing Dembele, Pedri, De Jong, Christensen...

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