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If you had taken 5 seconds to read the article and another 5 seconds to think about the article you would maybe not post the article. Yes it is very obvious that football will be more and more physical - as it will be more and more technical and more and more psychological. It improves...

I am certainly not celebrating his injury, I thought he should've been rested A LOT more last season, and a bit more this season too, and then he would probably avoid these muscle tears, as well as some of his more uninspired performances. I have praised him very much for a couple of his games...

It's not about a low or high block, as it isn't about age or physique. It is about being well organized and setup, and being decently tight. The talk about football turning more physical lately is a chimera.

Meanwhile only the other day the extremely physique oriented 7th placed Spanish team Villarreal, playing young physical MONSTERS as Dani Parejo and Raul Albiol, beat German leaders Bayern Munich who in turn turned away from physique lately for more talent and IQ... Or?

Muscle tears are almost non existent in well run teams. With the right periodization you can get rid of them almost completely. Anyway, Pedri didn't look as fatigued to the eye lately as he did one year ago, but he played about as uninspired as ever in some of the games. Today he attempted only...

Don't get lost in semantics there. Busquets has won it all playing like this, he once revolutionized the game, and he has shown in the last year (if not before) that he is still great at the highest level as well. He needs the structure around him as I have written, now as before. A lot of...

Based on this thread, you would think that every time Barcelona lose it is because a team has pressed high, and other games the opponents don't try to press high. Frankfurt is not one of the better teams Barcelona has faced lately. It is not about tempo, speed, or quality. Busquets press high...

He does not need runners, he already had Vidal and Rakitic who are good runners and it was much worse than now. What he needs is for the entire team to be decently predictable and structured, so that the ball isn't lost in bad spots. With midfielders who crave for the ball, and who does not...

Yes Barcelona can compress and control, they have done so in the majority of games in which they didn't lose for the last months. Today the entire team looked a bit out of it strangely. The right hand side with Araujo-Mingueza-Dembele was complete shit and very easy to press for the opponent...

If Busi is so slow, then why is he ever one man pressing? He is, and always was, a great player at collective pressing and covering, he needs to defend a small door and he is the GOAT at predicting the area to be to snuff out the potential counter, he should never be defending large space.

lol a nice way of doing exactly what he blames Pep for :cheers:

I put four bubble gums on Pedri scoring from the bench, and was greatly rewarded. Now I can buy at least 36 bubble gums. Will be over one month without playing any games now for Riqui, after that pretty sensational goal he scored, very reminiscent of the most memorable goal Maradona scored for...

You are beginning to annoy me a bit with your attempts of preaching to the unintelligent choir here. Here is a comparison between the two players this season you can check the next hours, since you don't seem to really watch the games...

It is fine but undeserved. He started games against both Galatasaray and Napoli, but was mostly subbed in with around 20 minutes left, never leaving an impression other than being a bit slow and not managing to influence either offensively or defensively. Only lately he was given three subs with...

His position is not about scoring goals. Until recently, he had featured in EVERY game this season. It is only lately that he doesn't automatically get to play some, but it is very long since he actually looked fit for it. He does a flashy turn and dribble here and there, but most of the time he...

Yeah me too, it could be good. Nico+Frenkie is even more "conservative" than Frenkie+Pedri I think, but it could of course work. A weak opponent too, I guess. Gavi is on the bench I found out, interesting to see if he'll be the one to enter or if Pedri will be "needed"

Very undeserved start for Nico just based on the games, but it is probably good to give Pedri a little bit of a rest, and it is good to keep Nico match fit. Is Gavi fit and available? He was pretty shit besides a few dribble attempts last game just as Pedri, but I'd probably rather see him than...

Overrated are often players that either play in a great system (under Klopp or Pep currently for the easiest examples) or players who play "without" a system and can shine because they look less bad than their team mates in the chaos, but who cannot play in more ordered systems...

Two minutes after a post is made he is here with another shitty post talking about Puig, something he is the only one doing here. Other people are taking their time to bring stats, original analysis, and even pictures here showing why Pedri is lacking or needs improving, analysing HIM as a...

I wonder the same, these reddit-spaced three liners consisting of the same three adjectives over and over, that don't hold together, and don't really have anything to do with the discussion, gets pretty tiresome after a while. This scotsman is probably 40 this year, yet he is here tirelessly...