16 - Fermín López

[CatalinR10]

GOAT.

 

[Barcaman]

Fermin the Ruthless

 

[GloryHunter 007]

played like a BOAT candidate.

 

[FCBfan22]

The most amazing stat is:

First Spanish player with a hattrick in CL... EVER.

 

[Maradona37]

Not that surprising. There haven't been many prolific Spanish strikers in the CL era, other than Raul, Torres and Villa.

 

[khaled_a_d]

The most amazing stat is:

First Spanish player with a hattrick in CL... EVER.

Raul had it, Pichi Alonso scored one with us in the 80's (under different name)

 

[GloryHunter 007]

Raul had it, Pichi Alonso scored one with us in the 80's (under different name)

I will check it, but I think Morientes had one too

yeah, Raul actually got it against Ferencvaros in 95.

 

[GloryHunter 007]

tonnes of Spanish player scored a hattrick in UCL. Negredo, Lopez, Llorente, Soldado, Ayoze Perez, Morientes , Cazorla.

 

[CatalinR10]

 

[MonteCuler]

Raphinha - Rashford - Yamal
Fermin

Starting front 4. For now. Rashford clearly not perfect in this position but he can score and offers some dynamism that both Ferran and Lewa desperately lack. If Rashford form drops bench him and start Ferran.

 

[Barcaman]

To be fair, isn't this the first time he's done anything good for ages? Thread is a bit knee jerk, lol.

Should wait and see if he can have a good season, rather than rate players on one-off games.

He's been good for us for 3rd season now. Beyond those goals there's his immense pressing and running aspect that is essential to Flick's system.

 

[behindbrowneyes]

Not surprising tbh. Was just unlucky against Girona, but you could already see that his shooting is sharp.

Most dangerous player apart from attackers.

 

[Maradona37]

He's been good for us for 3rd season now. Beyond those goals there's his immense pressing and running aspect that is essential to Flick's system.

Ok fair enough.

I still maintain a premium level team doesn't have Fermin Lopez as a starter. Maybe I just have high standards. But I guess we will find out more in the next decade.

 

[GloryHunter 007]

actually to come back to this : he's the first Spanish player to score a hattrick for Barcelona in CL.

 

[Porque]

Might be the starting of winning the AMC battle.

Been a bit stop/start for the pair so far, but has hit the ground running since returning from injury, and that performance in the game where he got injured, looked a turning point for me. Was great at pivot, even if he really didn't need to go going so intense leading to injury.