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  1. BusiTheKing

    11 - Ousmane Dembélé - V1

    Nothing new here. Maybe slight improvements in general play, but again that bar was pretty low going into the game. Another thing I keep wondering about is his running form. I still think he needs a physio to advise him on how to reset his instincts after that injury in order to stop sparing...
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    CL | Round 4: Inter - Barca 1-1

    Malcom will probably get decent minutes coming on for Dembele who's hardly impressed many with his stamina
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    CL | Round 4: Inter - Barca 1-1

    The main problem vs Rayo was a lack of playmaking and support for Suarez. Dembele helps on those issues, but without Messi, the midfield still needs to step up the offensive responsibilities and engage themselves in advancing the play towards creating chances instead of just distributing and...
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    Mavericky Puig

    Loaning seems like the logical option but it's just so rare that that strategy has worked out for us. I guess I would rather sell with a very advantageous buy-back if Valverde stays on.
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    Munir El Haddadi

    They're obviously useless on reddit. With their idea of expectations for a manager, anyone who'll occasionally figure out how to fit the best 11 players on the pitch is a good coach. Nevermind any type of discernible gameplan from week to week or individual player management and development...
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    7 - Philippe Coutinho - V1

    Yeah, in isolated incidents like 3 or 4 times a game. We need someone who's a threat constantly. Someone who's there the second Messi goes past a man and finds a bit of space centrally or our CM's combine themselves to an advantageous position. There's a reason why our best team had Villa and...
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    7 - Philippe Coutinho - V1

    Neymar worked in that position because he was fast as shit and ran behind defensive lines. When Messi ran with the ball, he was always there for the pass that would put him 1v1 with the RB or RCB. That's the type of player we need on the wing. In other words, we need an attacker.
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    Lliga | Round 11: Rayo Vallecano - FC Barcelona 2-3

    Rafinha is such a boring player and not very good either. What are even his qualities that justifies him being played on the wing in a 4-3-3? He can't run, he can't dribble, he can't finish. Well, that point sorta proves that it's in fact not a 4-3-3 but a 4-5-1.
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    Malcom

    Didn't catch the game but judging from his individual performance video he didn't look too bad.
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    Arthur

    We would have strolled right through that Roma away game with this guy on the field. Can't wait to see how he develops in the coming years.
  11. BusiTheKing

    11 - Ousmane Dembélé - V1

    Hope we will see him drifting more inwards and playmaking in Messi's absence and that the sense of responsibility will pick up his confidence.
  12. BusiTheKing

    11 - Ousmane Dembélé - V1

    Around the 74th minute, Semedo had rushed from box to box and given Suarez a nice ball which he almost scored on. Quickly afterwards, their keeper re-starts play with good chance of a counter. Dembele is much further back than Semedo at this point not having taken part in our attack. What does...
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    Arthur

    I haven't watched him enough at Paris to say, but Neymar was never ball hogging to a significant fault at Barca. If you say he was, you could easily make the argument that Messi is doing the same. It's negative aspects of players trying to utilize their talents. Same as Cristiano being...
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    Malcom

    If he can learn to run deep, then he should play. We all know that Messi thrives with wingers that make cutting runs and that all of our best sides have featured them.
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    Arthur

    His long passes with (I don't know what it's called in english but) the laces part of the shoe are something he should be working on. He's imprecise and as a likely result seems reluctant to pick them. Otherwise fine. I'm still not worried about this lack of forward passes. Watching him with...
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    Arthur

    Passes to Coutinho, Messi and Suarez vs Valencia: Arthur: 47 Rakitic: 24 source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/9mde8o/fc_barcelona_passing_structure_of_players/
  17. BusiTheKing

    7 - Philippe Coutinho - V1

    Most of what he does at LW, Dembele can do as well plus being pacey as fuck. I like him better at CM.
  18. BusiTheKing

    10 - Lionel Messi - V6

    strayed left way too much. the point of possession in attack is to overload one area and switch it quickly and attack where the defense is spread thin. we repeatedly overload one area then just try and penetrate where it's the most crowded. leo is amazing linking up with Coutinho, but it...
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    Arthur

    To say that he didn't have a influence offensively is really dumb and I seriously have to wonder if you have ever played serious football to assert that. Playing against someone like Arthur makes it so much harder to keep a defensive line intact and unbreachable. Against a stationary midfield...
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    Ernesto Valverde - V1

    I don't think I've ever been so positive about a performance that was still severely flawed. Huge improvements regarding intensity and workrate, but take out Messi and we could have lost tonight to a less-than-ideal Tottenham side, to say it mildly. The spark was there, though, which has been...

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