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  1. Arachnid

    Who will win El CLasico?

    Not the way we've been playing, conceding goals and going for desperate last minute hail Marys. Madrid only needs to start one of their unbeaten runs, when they win like 20 games straight, and watch Barcelona lose plenty points eventually.
  2. Arachnid

    Defender for next season?

    Apparently he's pretty much a Milan player... Montpelier's owner just got butthurt about him wanting to leave so he won't send him to Italy until January.
  3. Arachnid

    Defender for next season?

    Indeed, but while Mascherano was a purely defensive midfielder, Song became a relevant player only because of his passing and forward movement. That's a fact. It's not even about Song, we are Barcelona, we defend and attack with 11 midfielders. Without at least a true CB, we are severely...
  4. Arachnid

    Defender for next season?

    He's not good enough in a purely defensive role, not just for a big side, for most first division sides. As a MF he's great, but he'll be a disaster in the Clasico. Nothing against him, really, but for all he adds to our attack, our defense is ridiculously weak, and that's been proven over and...
  5. Arachnid

    Defender for next season?

    I've never believed in football stats, frankly. The lack of context makes them meaningless, whether they support a point I'm making or not. Now, Song is not a defender. We've played several matches lately having to pull a last minute comeback because we are not defending. And all the stats in...
  6. Arachnid

    Defender for next season?

    Yes, that's what's called "exaggeration". You see, we humans are not actually literal the whole time.
  7. Arachnid

    Defender for next season?

    You can't just type and paste a simple youtube address? I mean, not even using the link button, but you can't even copy and paste? That's odd. And fine, I'm sure he's done a decent tackle or two, but you kinda picked the wrong video: 0:27, foul, 1:10, going with both feet, he got lucky there...
  8. Arachnid

    Defender for next season?

    And yet i haven't seen a single one. Nobody in here can give me a single instance. I can point out all the tackles he didn't do and costed us, like in the Spartak game. Can anybody give me a single instance of Song tackling? Pretty please?
  9. Arachnid

    Defender for next season?

    His first action as a Barcelona CB. And it's not really my loss, believe me. I wish he could tackle at all. It would be great if he could. Sadly, things are what they are.
  10. Arachnid

    Defender for next season?

    Which I haven't seen. I've seen plenty instances of him not tackling, getting a yellow for trying or not even being there to tackle anything.
  11. Arachnid

    Defender for next season?

    I don't know what whoscored counts as tackles, I can only tell you that Song was a terrible tackler at Arsenal and he's still a terrible tackler in Barcelona. But what do I know, I only watch the matches instead of reading stats about them.
  12. Arachnid

    Alex Song

    It's the same in the sense that, while quite good when playing in their places, they wouldn't make sense as CB. Cameroonian or not.
  13. Arachnid

    Defender for next season?

    Look, everywhere else, in every other team, the last defender doesn't just allow the attacking player to score. That's why you have people who can do clean tackles in that spot. Song is not a clean tackler. Quite the opposite. That's my point.
  14. Arachnid

    Alex Song

    To me this is even worse, because Chygro was at least playing as a CB before coming. Song was not even a particularly defensive midfielder at Arsenal. It's like using Iniesta as CB.
  15. Arachnid

    Defender for next season?

    Well, I CAN be arsed. Here, Song making Negredo look like the new Van Basten. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lg6z1VYCqY
  16. Arachnid

    Defender for next season?

    Song? Tackles? I don't even mean great ones, I mean, tackling? At all? Using his height to intercept a ball, sure, but tackling? He's only noteworthy about his tackling because he never does that, or gets carded when he tries.
  17. Arachnid

    Who will win El CLasico?

    I would consider losing by less than a 3 goal difference a success.
  18. Arachnid

    Marc Bartra

    If after the Clasico Tito is still unable to see what a terrible blunder he's made, I give up.
  19. Arachnid

    Alex Song

    Not Song. He fouls a lot.
  20. Arachnid

    Arsenal

    Yeah. And even that makes it more competitive right now than the EPL. Imagina that.

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