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Because control is useless without scoring goals. The control we enjoyed was only meaningful by virtue of us defending a lead. And our two goals, as I pointed out, came about through aberrations from the strategy of control, from decisions you would normally not make if you were seeking to...

Attacking wise, surely no-one would deny that the point of slower, safer build-ups is to open a sustained window of opportunity for combinations around the box. That is the only attacking style that benefits particularly from that style of moderation. If we were scoring most of our goals this...

Our friend there mentioned the Newcastle game as an endorsement of a this season's more "controlling" style of football, compared to last season's "ballistic" style of attacking. I'm saying that it was exactly our "ballistic" strain of attacking that scored us two goals in that game, while our...

Newcastle, the game where we scored on a cross and a long shot, two high risk/high reward actions? And then also conceded a goal while "controlling" the game.

Be interesting to see if we can hit them on the counter. With Pedri/De Jong as conductors, we've been shying away from quick transitions. Feeling a bit bloated on pirouettes and pausa this season. Would like to see that we can switch it up, play more directly. Give it to Yamal early and let...

Was watching Juvenil B and one who stands out is midfielder Adam Argemi. Appears to play with the same casual fluidity as Pedri.

His primary merit was always offering relief and control through movement off the ball and ability to play with few touches. People forget how we used to struggle playing it out of our own half, let alone dominate possesion for entire games. Casado was a welcome sight at that point, offering...

Last season we struggled more without Yamal. Improvement there. Defense has been much better since winding down the high line. Overall La Liga seems poor this season tho. Might end up dueling it out into the 90+ points.

Mate, he's a squad player. Of course he's going to be taken off when we need a goal and have Frenkie on the bench. That doesn't mean it's his fault we were down. We were down because Joan Garcia made a big mistake and our creatives failed to do much. This thing about "it's indirectly Casado's...

I've said it before but there is something uniquely reckless about the way he conducts his body on a football pitch. Not that he goes hard into challenges, but the way he sort of lurches around like a drunk man without really seeming in control of his footing. It's like his footing is an...

for my money he's got the biggest chance of a first team career, out of all the current candidates.

Seems we have two decent DMs in Pedro Villar and Dani Avila. Thomas Marques too ofc.

I presume it's just a way to acquainting him with the level of U19 football (quite a jump from u15) without giving him too central a role.

Need to cultivate a bit of megalomanic personality in him so he'll take those shots more often. If he weren't so levelheaded he could bag a dusin of those screamers per season.

Noticed this against Valencia too. I like it.

Bagged a nice one in the prior game too

17 is Goren? Like the look of him

Made the same mistake lol

8 is Pedro Villar, 10 is Pedro Rodriguez, 6 is Espart?

am however enjoying the murmur of geordie accents rising and falling against the shitty pastiche pop and ceaseless rolling northern wind