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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.

that wasn't going in

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.

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

the team is still built around Busquets. someone who fits "barca" just means someone in who can fill the role of Busquets. if that's out requirements, we might look 30 years and not find our guy. i'd forget about this monolothic idea of a "barca," and see what kind of team we could actually...

That progressive carries xG thing is one of the most dubious uses of statistic i've ever seen. The on-off is not a bogus statistic in itself, like the other one seems, but one where correlation is pretty obviously removed from causation. Also, sort of weird to include this stat and not mention...