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I'm not sure if that's really relevant. If it is that we have tried to bribe refs, it doesn't matter if we were successful or not - the fact is we had the intention to do it and tried to do it.. Despite it being under Laporta"s administration in large part he doesn't seem to want to explain it...

Xavi is a pure defensive coach at this point. There is more than enough evidence to see it. Cruyff said 'I'd rather win 5-4 than 1-0'. Xavi's mindset seems to be the complete opposite.

The thing is it makes the rest even worse. The distance of other teams from Barca and Madrid, despite Barca and Madrid being.the worst for a long time historically themselves, is becoming bigger than it's ever been. The entire level of the league is reducing.

Might be important to note that according to Archivo VAR (account which reviews the refereeing performances of every Liga Santander and smartbank game) Valencia is the team who has lost the most points out of anyone due to refereeing errors. We saw it yesterday potentially as well. Could just...

They once were. But now seeing possession ball/JDP coaches in Prem is very common. Arteta, Pep, ETH all there that follow that school of football and coaching the top teams.

Problem with Benzema today is he kept hovering outside the box instead of getting in there and being a receiver. Wants to one two with people all the way into the net but it doesn't always work like that against compact defenses.

They were actually pretty good. Controlled the game mostly and created a lot of chances but their attackers just aren't performing like last season.

People won't wanna hear it but Raphinha been more productive than Vini recently.

We have a perfect phrase in Spanish : Que los arboles no te impidan ver el bosque (Don't let the trees block your view of the forest). Meaning, don't let small details block your view of the bigger picture. This 7-0 is embarrassing but as long as the objectives are achieved in terms of both...

It was an awful showing, no denying it, but 7-0 is maybe a bit too much for what we saw today (Liverpool has 2.7 xG). It is a terrible result, but in a league with that much attacking talent, it can happen. The important thing is what happens at the end of the season, if he ends with top4 and a...

Mentioned this at the time. Seems like he always looks to big up the opponent in Europe and talk about how good they are. I want to be charitable and say it's him being humble or maybe trying to prevent complacency but I actually think he just does it because he expects to lose and wants to...

United also beat City and Arsenal this season too. Don't think he is 'out of his depth in those games' but agree to disagree. Xavi has benefit of managing in a league where almost no team has the quality to compete against Barca or Madrid, even a shitty Barca like this that grinds out results...

You're literally the one who presented them like that!!! Lol. The rest of us were telling you they're not as good as claimed and easily beatable, despite having a good manager.

It does make your statement about how hard a task it was to beat them a bit laughable, yeah. United are good and have a great manager in ETH but as repeatedly mentioned their squad is not good. They are playing guys like AWB, Weghorst, Fred, McTominay who are mid table level players yet you...

5-0. And we created almost nothing over 2 legs. Lol..

Yeah. Kind of puts into perspective how hilarious it is that you claimed this team is some unbeatable super squad that we did well to even compete with.

Anyway, we really need to win this league. I have a feeling that a season like this is probably not coming around again. Almost everything is going right and we've won so many of these games where could have easily dropped points. The general play has to improve for the future or it is only...

Soft pen in our favour + clear pen not given against us. It genuinely baffles me how there continue to be people who proclaim the refs are all against Barca and trying to rig the league for Madrid.

Valencia have gone with a double right back...? Both Foulquier and Correia are playing. Apparently they tested this idea in training as well. I think it might be to go for broke on our left side because Balde gets very high up the pitch, but it could be less effective now we're playing 433...

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