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I think Gavi will play alright but Nico will be bad.

Noo that's not how it goes. Basically if Koeman doesn't play youth the media will write about how he doesn't bet on young people every single day then when the youth with no experience play shit people say he has bad tactics But seriously, Twitter La masia experts actually thought Demir was...

By the time this game is over we'll wish roberto played

Remember Bilbao? Araujo got subbed on at 30 after being benched inexplicably. Koeman just seems to prefer Garcia who has been shocking so far.

Roberto is out with gastric issues, so the Twitter experts got what they wanted with Nico starting, according to them even though he's still a kid he's 100x better than Roberto so let's see

Nico-Busi double pivot is very defensive. Makes no sense. And then Eric-Pique which has proven to be a terrible pairing.

Starts today. Let's see if he can prove he's ready

Our lineup is... really bad. We might lose.

In important progressive pass metrics (Smart, key, progressive) he barely beat or didn't beat the Segunda B median for his position. I've heard many times Nico is really good at scanning etc etc but his forward pass seems to be non existent, barely anything is progressive and I don't think that...

Abde had last minute adductor issue but so far, he looks to have pretty good potential. Pacy 1v1 winger who gives the team a lot of width and can get crosses and shots into the box. Barjuan hasn't given him much minutes so I can't evaluate his game fully but I think his weakness is associative...

Agree with this a lot. There are plenty of wingers that lack pace that get by fine because they are intelligent, know how to get a step on their man and receive the ball into a good position, eg Markel Suseata, Joaquin, Fekir etc are guys who succeeded in LaLiga without having blistering pace on...

Other than Jandro, Guillem Jaime, Rodado and Ferran Jutgla (the 'B' reinforcements) played well and were the biggest reasons we won the game but from the younger players, Alvaro Sanz really impressed me again. A quiet and reliable player who doesn't stand out but is really intelligent and...

What a game of Jandro so far today for Barca B

I mean realistically where are the players who are making the case to start ahead of the amigos? Koeman asked for a midfielder and didn't get it, he also asked for a good striker and didn't get it, etc. I don't think Garcia is better than Pique and we are very short of proper options in midfield...

Hoeman will probably last till at least January. Koeman has been rumoured out for like 4 months now, if it was going to happen it would happen at the start of the season, not mid-season.

Nico hasn't developed his game enough to be a reliable sub or rotation option for the first team. Very good at making the safe pass but many youth players are. Currently, another one of the youths who you put with the main-team and they kind of fade into the background doing nothing because they...

To sum it up quickly, I think he isn't at the level for the first-team yet but he is making it up by playing his ass off and running as much as he can. When you watch him in these games you can see he is being thrown in the deep end. Playing in Barca it is easy to fade into the background and...

Twitter really sold people a fantasy regarding our youth. Nico and Demir were made out by the young cules cult as ready to start now and wonderkids when in reality they are being pocketed by teams like Cadiz. It's not that they are bad but not every youth prospect is an Ansu Fati, think of it...

Umtiti/Demir/Puig/Mingueza/Pique/Busquets/Luuk De Jong etc, players who wouldn't get into West Ham's starting 11. Think about it like that then we can understand why we are doing so bad.

It is no wonder he is playing badly. As well as not being up to the level for Barca he is being asked to do something he has absolutely no idea how to do. A 4-3-3 '9' is ideally a technical player with good movement that can get in behind and who can involve themselves in buildup. Luuk De Jong...