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One suave touch and I swear you people swoon like Jane Austen characters. If you examine what he actually did on the field, it's another story. Also gave away a counter unprovoked and misplaced every one of his through balls.

Looked much more tidy and balanced today. Quite impressive stamina as well actually.

Pedri and Busquets both pointing to the other player while standing still instead of moving into an open position themselves.

Oozes brilliance. Plays quite badly.

Highly doubt Nico. Sort of doubt Gavi as well. Pedri maybe.

I'm a bit worried that he's too heavy on his feet but could be exciting.

Midfielder, 2004. He's been on the radar of the spotters for some time but just had his B team debut yesterday and looked good + got himself a goal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDBWbzDKDuA I've had a better eye for both of his midfield partners at U-19, Casado and Alba, so impressed that...

It's like when we lost to Liverpool and people thought it was because we made nervous mistakes on the ball. Liverpool made mistakes as well. The difference is that they were playing to win and we were playing to avoid making mistakes.

What Dani brings is pretty obvious to me. He was the one player on the field yesterday who seemed like he had his eyes on winning. He saw what we needed to do and took the responsibility of trying to work our game towards that. You can have 11 players on the field who all "play well" and still...

Once again, the big picture is that he has about 15% of the movement that you would require for a DM in order to play dominant possession based football. He just simply doesn't move for the ball and everybody just seems content with it. He'd play 10 minutes for a serious coach and be thrown out...

The choice is between Puig playing the right game wrongly or Gavi/Nico playing the wrong game rightly.

Age is hardly the real issue. Nico and Gavi both way too passive all game as well. Everyone sort of just perform their duties when their turn comes, then go back to idling. Generally just a complete void of responsibility and courage. It's still an entrenched issue. One player can't make a...

He was fine. Made the deep run that drew their centre backs' concentration away from Luuk when he scored. The sort of small things that can make the difference in the end. Things we don't show an awful lot of interest in doing.

sort of true, can't say I would been able to take much pleasure in a victory tonight anyway.

Can't say we deserved to lose cuz they were terrible as well but we certainly didn't deserve to win. Absolutely no desire to do anything but the bare minimum in this team. Several silver platter opportunities to close the game when it was 1-0 and absolutely no enthusiasm in how we took them any...

this passivity gets at what lies benath our mentality issues tho. our energy comes mostly form fear of losing, not from desire to win. if a team doesn't press us, we're not terribly eager to change the status quo. we don't have the confidence to impose our own tempo.

Way too much standing still all over the place. Top teams will have 4 or 5 players moving around for the ball in general play. We have 1 maybe 2. In result, midfield non-existent. It's like we're afraid of being on top of the game, being proactive. Our players literally only run for the...

I'd keep him. He's a clever player. He'll soon find his feet again. He had great chemistry with Ansu so his return might help some.

Like, when I began my post with stating that he's "clearly not good enough"? There's a pretty simple proof that his running off the ball, while pretty erratic and not always effective, still helps out teammates. It's that he gets the ball often. Now, he might not always get the ball in a very...

you make 5 posts everytime he misplaces a pass mate, I wasn't exactly curious as to where you'd land on the issue.