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The reality is during our great run of form almost all our goals were scored from crosses. Nothing wrong with using crossing as a tool but it seems it is his only gameplan and when teams twig onto it you must adjust and have some options to play through the middle of the field. You could see...

Luck runs out. You can't keep winning games with 90th minute winners, wondergoals, spamming crosses and hoping one lands. Recently it is down to Xavi. Teams are reacting to our setup and they know our tactics now but we are not adjusting for it.

Will he ever see the bench after poor performances? 90' every single game...

The conflict of interest is shocking. How can Barca's captain be paid a commission to set up a Super Cup which he himself is playing in lol. I'd be fuming if that was someone from Madrid. RFEF and LaLiga too are corrupt to the core.

This Pique stuff is scandalous.

You saw how strong Real are without Benzema and Mendy. Their squad isn't that strong, they just have some star players that carry their games. Mbappe would fit with that theme I guess. I don't think Pogba would improve their midfield much. Maybe he finds another level but based on his last year...

They also had a penalty not given and a regular goal disallowed. Ref was poor for both sides.

Is it? Full strength our squads are of very similar strength,if we aren't better. The only problem is we started without signings and many injuries. They only have a clear advantage at ST with Benzema and perhaps FB with Mendy?

At the post game Lotepegui will say : RM is one of the best teams in the world, we only lost by one goal and were competitive yada yada

2 losses and we are 3 points off 5th. CL isn't a certainty for us yet so it would be nice if the other teams in contention for top4 weren't doing well.

Ferran is not a watercarrier or a support player. He's supposed to be one of the key and most prominent players of the team. He plays 90 almost every game, takes FKs, takes pens, cost 55m in this time of financial crisis etc. He has to be a leader.

How many G+A do you think most wingers have? Outside of the top top wingers wingers don't score 30 goals a season. Nobody said he is as good as Mane or Salah.

Ronaldo is a scapegoat.

I think Steffen plays most of the cup games. Played a few FA/EFL cup games and started against Leipzig once. Yea he does seem really slow, probably low on confidence after that blunder. Taking a long time to kick out whenever he gets passed to as well * He's had 8 starts this season, 6 of them...

That was an amazing hit, that's very difficult to save.

I guess the key takeaway here is that we are significantly outperforming our xG in almost every game. And xG usually regresses to the mean. Particular attention to the Levante game where we lost on xG 1-3 but somehow won 3-2. 4-2 vs Atletico, they actually had higher xG than us... 4-2 vs...

Dembele has done as well as you can ask of anyone in the role he has. He averages an assist almost every 80 minutes or so iirc. Without his assists you don't win all these games. He scored double digits in his first pro season when he was like 18 with Rennes, it's not that he can't cut in and...

He has 5npg since he came, equating to about 300min/goal. Its okay. And he has some assists as well. But you feel he can give more in general.

Espanyol, Levante, Galatasaray 2 legs, Elche,Frankfurt 2 legs... all of these are games we could have lost but salvaged from individual brilliance or luck. And I said this before we lost a couple days ago. We have put in many poor performances recently but have been lucky with late goals and...

Against Frankfurt, there were many tactical adaptations they made, but by far the most obvious one was the front 3. Since he came Xavi has had a clear idea of how he wants his front 3 to move and play. It's clear that of the two wingers, Xavi likes his right winger to hug the touchline and spam...