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  1. BusiTheKing

    Ansu Fati (loaned to Monaco)

    yeah agree, small steps towards more natural movement
  2. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    I have no clue why people are pointing to our defense as the significant issue either. If you leave the game open into the final 30 minutes, then you're going to invite attacks against you and we'd need to defend like prime Simeone Atleti to avert conceding dangerous chances, which we will never...
  3. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    my feeling is that any top winger would struggle in our current setup. and that most of them wouldn't go near our team if they knew how they'd be played.
  4. BusiTheKing

    7 - Ferran Torres

    that wasn't going in
  5. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    Look at both Ferran and Raphinha in this sequence: https://streamin.me/v/dea0e9b6 It's criminal that they not blazing forward on each side of Lewa. Look at this useless boring wide position they take instead. It's obvious it has to do with their instructions.
  6. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    Worrying that he doesn't do anything to change up this attacking style. Every single time Celta went forward, they looked more dangerous than us. Amazing what it does having actual attackers who can move freely and combine with eachother.
  7. BusiTheKing

    Frenkie de Jong

    a few positive actions when he got on the ball but looked a bit lazy
  8. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    needs to ask himself what it says that none of our wingers are able to perform in this system. 1) Get rid of the nonsense role that Pedri played today or Gavi against Inter. Nothing has ever come from it. Centralise the midfield and have them take surprise deep runs from there like Gavi's run...
  9. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    That's definitely true. What Odegaard does in Arsenal's first goal against Liverpool for example: https://dubz.co/v/jpnad7 We don't have a player who reliably takes that role. It's simple stuff but what makes the goal is having a guy with an appetite for those kinds of situations. Pedri is...
  10. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    I don't think our tactics are terrible. We have pretty good intensity too. What we need are more and better coordinated moves in the final third. If we executed our crosses like City do, with the understanding, the timing and the runs, we could have won that game 4-1 easily. We don't produce...
  11. BusiTheKing

    11 - Raphinha

    Switched him to the right and he immediately creates the best opportunity of the game--Dembele's shot on the post. Xavi: "Hmmm"
  12. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    Pedri can interact but he's not an instigator. He doesn't have that temperament. When we had Messi as an instigator, Pedri did really well in the supporting role. There are things our wide attackers lack in order to become great instigators (Fati: balance, acceleration, Raphinha: patience...
  13. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Hernández

    Agree. As seen from the Bayern game and just yesterday with Mallorca as well, we make it pretty easy for the oppo to isolate the winger with double or triple marking. With our pool of offensive talent, we really aren't yielding the combination play we should be. Need to let the wingers drift...
  14. BusiTheKing

    Ousmane Dembélé

    in these situations where he can't dribble, he's way too slow to release the ball.
  15. BusiTheKing

    Franck Kessie

    thought he was awful. always a step behind the game.
  16. BusiTheKing

    Ansu Fati (loaned to Monaco)

    not worried by number of sprints per game. it's the looking stiff, lack of balance, unnatural movement that worries me.
  17. BusiTheKing

    Frenkie de Jong

    I think what will eventually dawn on us if we get someone like Zubimendi -- for all the hypothesized positional reliability of a type like him -- is that he generally just isn't nearly as good a footballer as De Jong. Buying any of the available DMs of this type might bring some kind of...
  18. BusiTheKing

    Frenkie de Jong

    you mean the four years he spent not playing as a pivot?
  19. BusiTheKing

    Frenkie de Jong

    feel like this roaming issue is viewed in a reductionist way too. the context of ten haags words, for example, were an evaluation of how to get the most out of Frenkie. it wasn't his point that Frenkie can't play as a six because for some reason, you can't tell him not to roam around. it's his...
  20. BusiTheKing

    Frenkie de Jong

    sorry but that article sounds biased as hell and waaay too liberal with the conclusions that can be drawn from the data. i'm also skeptical with wild absolute conclusions like claiming that he simply can't position himself correctly. his positioning isn't as refined as busi in the sense of...

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