Search results

Trap game. Attacking opponent who uses the 4-4-2 WM/FB double mark winger idea, similar to 5atb schemes, and have some technical fast players. Probably one of our tactically most difficult games this season.

This Valverde right wing setup is getting really stale. Becoming too easy to predict their attacking patterns, that flank never generates anything whilst Vinicius gets man marked every game. Midfield are lacking avenues to open game up. Wouldn't be surprised if Valverde came off for Rodrygo soon.

United are making great progress but at the end of the day they are still far from being a top team. They lost to Sociedad in EL this season and are nowhere close to challenging Arsenal for the title. They probably finish top4 this season but I think we should be beating them and as time has...

A permanently fit Dembele with this motivation and form can be worth as much as 20m a year. At the end of the day, if you don't sign that new contract, you are going to have to go out and get a new winger of similar or better ability which will probably cost far more than whatever his renewal...

Should go read this thread back during the renewal saga... Pretty sure there was like only 3 or 4 of us who still backed him and said he should play whilst whole forum wanted him out. Good from Xavi to ignore the idiocy of fans and Alemany however and refused to put him in the stands, since...

Pedri isn't great physically, but he's not awful either. He's just average and you will find plenty of players like that in football, in all the top teams too. Especially in midfield where having a good tank and technique is more important than anything. He is on the slow side but has a good...

IniestaGOAT is right. By far biggest factor in improvement this season has been Ter Stegen. Recently we are barely managing to score more than 1 goal a game, the real reason we keep winning is the heroics of Stegen. Last season most shots on target were goals against him and this season he is...

CL level player? Are you kidding? You mean CL winning level player? Perhaps not, but even there I disagree. Most CL winning teams of the last years have had worse starting wingers. He isn't among the very very best in the world but a sure thing is that there isn't many better wingers in the...

Goretzka is clear case of steroid use based on the timeframe and amount of gains he made. For the others it's hard to say but his transformation was certainly enhanced somehow.

Got absolutely zip to do with intensity or speed if I'm honest, the key for us to winning is whether or not the opponent doubles Dembele. All the offensive production practically flows through him at this point and in this 4 midfielder setup the other flank is dead. He is both our key to...

That's a good point. Players will probably pump everything they have into it and then drop some PTS in league.

It's gonna sound dumb but somehow I feel like Madrid might be the better draw than Osasuna. That's not to say we can't lose against Madrid but I feel that our tactical setups match so well that most times out of 10 we are beating them, add to that the big motivation the team seems to get in...

Getting Atletico will be very dicey. Really hope we don't draw them. They struck onto something in the 2nd half we played them and no doubt it is going to be fresh in their memory if we draw them, they are going to full pitch press us throughout the whole game. Madrid is probably the better...

To be honest I quite like him and feel like he has been misprofiled. He's big framed and kind of fast so he can ride a challenge and carry the ball when needed but he's not really this destroyer that he was pitched as. He makes a lot of smart runs and likes to get in the box/in advanced...

Their striker also should have scored at least once, he missed like 3 sitters and one of them was an open net from 5 yards out. Considering they played with 10 men for more than half the game it wasn't that good of a performance.

It's getting to a point where it is suicide not to double team him as an opposing coach.

When Sociedad received the red card they started playing much better than they had the entire first half, which makes no sense. But... It was because they switched to a 5 back. It is such a counter to this system that even though they were a man down switching to it instantly improved them from...

Even withstanding all those circumstances Barca still managed to finish 2nd despite horrible performance in Europe, and playing an awful lineup for first dozen games or so. Then if we win the league now whilst having his big wage off the books it's hard to argue against that having been the...

Of course Barca losing Messi was a big shock, as we have built our teams around him for decades. The season after we lost him was always going to be the most difficult and yes we got worse (temporarily), but we still managed to finish 2nd. Not saying he isn't a great player but neither would he...

The fact the difference is only 6 points when not only did we lose him, we lost multiple other players, and started the season in chaos, doesn't make the point you think it makes. That shows that he pretty much didn't have an impact at all on team's results and difference without him is minimal...