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Messi983

Messi983

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Lucho knows how to dominate the midfield, that's the main difference between him and Flick imo. And that doesn't have much to do with physicality or ability to sign players. He would dominate here with our current midfielders.
 
Raketa10

Raketa10

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Messi983 said:
Lucho knows how to dominate the midfield, that's the main difference between him and Flick imo. And that doesn't have much to do with physicality or ability to sign players. He would dominate here with our current midfielders.
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PSG midfield din't win the game. Their fullbacks did.
 
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BJJ

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Messi983 said:
Lucho knows how to dominate the midfield, that's the main difference between him and Flick imo. And that doesn't have much to do with physicality or ability to sign players. He would dominate here with our current midfielders.
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Uhhh,no he won't. I'd like to see him back but you're dreaming if you think he's going to transform Barca with this current set of players.
 
jamrock

jamrock

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If mister was here, he would drop olmo for a fit gavi instantly and play yamal or most likely raphinha at CF and we would cool with interchanges and positional rotations in that 433


I've been saying raphinha should play at 9 for a while now, but flick doesn't see it for whatever reason, rather try him at 10 which is a waste.
 
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Porque

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jamrock said:
If mister was here, he would drop olmo for a fit gavi instantly and play yamal or most likely raphinha at CF and we would cool with interchanges and positional rotations in that 433


I've been saying raphinha should play at 9 for a while now, but flick doesn't see it for whatever reason, rather try him at 10 which is a waste.
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We need to get back to 1:1 and get to work signing a world class rightback.

Balde is almost there on the left. We need that on the right now.

That was the big gap last night. Fast, fit, technical midfield 7 beats a fit extremely technical midfield 5 everytime.

Depth aside, that's the issue in the first 11.

Centreback wouldn't be bad too. But Christensen was on the bench and he's up there or better than Zabarnyi, and Araujo was on the bench and he is better than Pacho both on and off the ball- for perspective.
 
jamrock

jamrock

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Porque said:
We need to get back to 1:1 and get to work signing a world class rightback.

Balde is almost there on the left. We need that on the right now.
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I don't think RB is the issue.
Give Enrique our FBs we would be talking about them today.

It's not about the knife it's how it's being untilized.

After PSG, our team is in the mix as having the best FB starting situation in Europe, the 2nd at worse 3rd best.

But we do need to get back to 1:1 so can sign a top level striker, a offense RB back up for kounde who we can play in these type of games if needed and a better back up for Balde, assuming jofre isn't ready yet.

A CB as well
 
Messi983

Messi983

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Raketa10 said:
PSG midfield din't win the game. Their fullbacks did.
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Yeah, because midfielders got tired chasing the ball in 2nd half.

My point is that LE doesn't need Hakimi and/or Mendes to win the midfield battle. But it clearly doesn't hurt having these type of players who can run up and down for 90 minutes and help in all phases of the game (especially Mendes who is a beast both defensively and offensively while Hakimi's defense is not as good and we should have exploited that more imo).

He's also adaptable and has evolved as a manager over the last decade. When he was here with MSN lot of people complained he doesn't care about midfield. But he was just playing to his side strength (best attacking trio in history) like any smart coach would do and used midfield as a support. Now at PSG when he has dominant midfield he can play a strikerless/false 9 system.

I think he can walk into any elite team and improve it without too much personell changes needed. And that's just from a tactical standpoint. Lucho's biggest strength is imo his mentality. Not surprising he was the one who turned PSG from European pretenders to winners. Although tbf he did have support from Luis Campos and Nasser and general change of transfer philosophy. They've finally realised importance of the team over individuals under his guidance.
 
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jamrock

jamrock

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Messi is right, the Fullbacks just look eye catching with now physical they are, always running for 90 minutes and genuinely WC, but they aren't what makes the Midfield look good.
 
malvolio

malvolio

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delancey said:
That’s another key attribute of Flick. The system and philosophy make the players shine… not the other way around. He uses the players he has and delivers the best football in Europe. Hands down.

He hasn’t complained once about needing new players because Martin/Casado/Fermin, et cetera aren’t good enough. That alone is admirable.

Dude is a spectacular manager. One of the very best.
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Best football in Europe? Are we still going with that story?
 
delancey

delancey

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malvolio said:
Best football in Europe? Are we still going with that story?
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Yeah… a narrow loss against a team which has spent an absolute fortune on luring in the very best players VERSUS a manager whose club has barely spent a penny on new players during his tenure, much less a penny on players the manager himself wanted, yet won LL and reached the CL semifinal last season while player highly attractive champagne worthy football.

Flick was born to manage Barca. 😁
 
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