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    Ernesto Valverde

    It was a terribly built team and was pretty crap. But Valverde's victories and scorelines almost always flattered the actual play. The Lyon and Man U ties were much tougher for Barca than the scorelines showed. Even the 5-1 El Clasico scoreline flattered Barca as well. Valverde deserves...
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    Ernesto Valverde

    Valverde's victories in Champions League weren't exactly dominating wins. Even in 18/19, the team didn't have a convincing win over Man Utd or Lyon. He got results, but it was slow, ugly, and unconvincing football.
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    La Liga Round 9: Real Madrid - FC Barcelona 3-1

    The Drake collab is good. Need to appeal to modern, urban, younger fans. Barca has been coming across as a club living off the glories of its past. Laporta and the board are making some progress, atleast off the field, in revitalizing the image of the club.
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    Gerard Piqué

    Xavi was a bit unlucky that the defenders he has available to him are all slowpokes (other than Balde but he is too weak and definitely would've been bullied around by Dzeko). Kounde and Araujo are modern defenders who can aggressively retrieve the ball and have the physicality to take more...
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    Sergio Busquets

    If you win the ball back and then retain possession, you're not out of position. Lowest number of passes and worst pass % mean nothing. Fails to measure the difficulty of passes, if it was under pressure, and which parts of the buildup and play the passes were completed in. Trotting out...
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    Xavi Hernández

    Dropping to Europa League is going to be devastating for finances and probably effect the budget for next summer. I think Xavi was a bit unlucky with the Araujo and Kounde injuries. Both are good, physical, and athletic CBs that are good at dispossessing players and averting danger, which would...
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    Sergio Busquets

    The 2nd half wasn't good from him. But the 1st half is more of prime Busquets. Xavi is taking risks that Busquets deliver performances similar to the 1st half for full games. There is some risk with his lack of physicality but pros have to be weighed against cons.
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    1 - Marc-Andre ter Ansplant

    Good game overall but agree on the 1st goal. Don't know why he was dropping to his knees on that one at that angle.
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    Sergio Busquets

    No doubt about his inability to cover ground and lack of footspeed. But for a DM, his passing and distribution were great in the 1st half. Quick to release the ball when there was a passing lane, skillfully avoided defenders who were pressing, and kept the ball circulating. Also always been good...
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    CL Round 4: FC Barcelona - Inter 3-3

    So, likely need to beat Bayern and Plzen. And need Inter to lose to Bayern and drop points to Plzen. Europa League for a 2nd consecutive year. smh
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    CL Round 4: FC Barcelona - Inter 3-3

    He probably left because he didn't like the new board and their sporting direction ie. possibly refusing to move out some veterans for young blood.
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    Sergio Busquets

    Good 1st half. Nice ball retrievals, good 1-touch passing, and some nifty moves to evade pressing Inter players. Had some screwups in the 2nd half. Needs to be replaced as soon as possible.
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    CL Round 4: FC Barcelona - Inter 3-3

    Wow Xavi's strategy of having the winger, in this case Raphinha, stay on the touchline pulled the defender, created same behind him for Roberto who could cross to Dembele. Dzeko is still a menace for Barca defenders. Ref was letting Skriniar have his way with Lewandowski.
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    Kylian Muppet

    Curious to see if PSG will continue to spend big or cut down a bit after the Qatar World Cup. They gave Mbappe a huge signing bonus to keep him in a PSG shirt for the WC, but maybe they'd be willing to let him go in the summer.
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    CL Round 4: FC Barcelona - Inter 3-3

    Seems odd that Balde is not getting any CL starts, unlike the league where he has gotten plenty of minutes.
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    Ice Hockey

    Still not quite a playoff team. Flames, Knights, Kings, Oilers should be above them in the division. Though that could change depending on how their top draft picks like Beniers and Wright perform. Elite centreman can change an entire team.
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    1 - Marc-Andre ter Ansplant

    Exactly. People would rather direct all the blame towards the keeper rather than acknowledge that their favorite players or manager is also to blame. The GK should not have so many expectations put on them that they be a band-aid for all the other problems in the team.
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    1 - Marc-Andre ter Ansplant

    The first 2 Liverpool goals were from close range shots. The defense(mostly Alba) messed up and let Henderson get a shot from 10 ft out. It was obviously going to create a rebound. Not Ter Stegen's fault. The 2nd one was a powerful close range shot. Even if it is at the keeper, it was a...
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    Kylian Muppet

    Haaland is in incredible form and deservingly getting a lot of attention for it. That must eat away at Mbappe.
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    1 - Marc-Andre ter Ansplant

    No. Only the 4th goal was and in that the rest of the team was asleep too. The rest were clear shot on goal for the Liverpool players.

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