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The only reason we are top of the league and on form best GK in world right now.

Funny that we criticise Madrid for stealing games and playing bad football. That's literally us.

Remember when they said Koeman didn't trust young players?

Laporta said that he and the directors did in fact have to advance a 10m bank guarantee to register Kounde. So all the stuff about LaLiga 'reviewing the documentation wrong' at the time was false, as per usual, when it comes to any piece of information from the Catalan media.

And Catalan media had us thinking he wanted to play for free. 😂😂

Only played 200 minutes so far. Should probably change his team in January, maybe a high Segunda team or lower LaLiga one.

Just seems like they are going to wheel out the Koeman dead horse every time Xavi comes under criticism.

He couldn't find any chances because Bastoni and Skriniar kept very close tabs on him. Indeed a few times a good ball was played into him but he would just lose out to one of those two.

Pep doesn't put his players in a situation where they have to constantly try and beat double and triple teams because the 10 other players on the field have no idea what to do.

Was good and made more happen in 10 minutes than any of the other midfielders in the whole game. As someone mentioned above, he knows Italy and Milan and probably spent a lot of time playing against back 5s over there. So on a tactical basis he could have got the nod yesterday. Needs to play...

His commitment is appreciated, but it would be nice to see more initiative and confidence against good opponents. He doesn't show for the ball much or really take any risks in these games, and it's not because he doesn't have quality because he does. Can show more than that with his talent.

It's like 90% of our attacks follow exact script : CBs pass to Busquets Busquets pass to Gavi or Pedri Gavi or Pedri pass to Dembele Dembele dribbles or crosses And on repeat the entire game whenever we face good organised defenses. You can not find any top team with such a rigid attack like...

The truth is Inter are not a very good team either, they offer little to nothing going forward and they had no pace in their team yesterday to counter with. You could see that they are 9th in Serie A for a reason. They've also conceded 13 goals there and it's only the start of October. But we...

Calhanoglu : Andre (Onana) advised me to shoot to the right of Ter Stegen, which is a bit of a weak point for him.

Further xG analysis : Benfica 1.06 - 1.4 Barca Frankfurt 1.32 - 0.6 Barca Frankfurt 1.67 - 2.82 Barca Mallorca 1.46 - 1.20 Barca Getafe 0.45 - 0.20 Barca Mallorca 1.08 - 0.7 Barca Inter 0.16 - 0.52 Barca In these 7 games against 5 ATB, we created 7.44 xG and conceded 7.2 xG, leaving a marginal...

Instances where Xavi's Barca played against a back 5, or a variant with a 3 (Using sofascore data for this) 1. Benfica 0-0 (3-4-2-1) 2. Frankfurt 1-1 (3-5-2) 3. Frankfurt 2-3 (3-5-2) 4. Mallorca 2-1 (3-4-1-2) 5. Getafe 0-0 (5-3-2) 6. Mallorca 1-0 (5-4-1) 7. Inter 0-1 (3-5-2) That is 2W, 3D and...

Major error by Xavi to start Alonso, lacking match fitness, instead of Balde in great form and who actually has a pair of working legs.

They had their 2 best players out, injuries aren't an excuse. We don't have time as a club to keep making these excuses and throwing year after year down the drain, we need to get back to the summit soon before we sink. Xavi must progress from this group or we should find a replacement.

Guys, we are not a Europa League club. With players like Lewandowski, Pedri, Dembele, Frenkie, Raphinha, Ansu Fati, Araujo, Kounde, we think it's fine if we play in the Europa League (for a 2nd successive season?) It's not acceptable if that happens again and will be a really sad mark of decline.

What is lucky for us, is Brozovic and Lukaku 99% won't be fit for the return. With those two playing they are much better going forward.