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McTominay may be a better striker than Hojlund.

He's nothing special really. Just another one of these physical project strikers with no football skills, where if you can teach them some things they might become pretty good and if not they stay as football donkeys. He has the athleticism but other than that has very few standout attributes...

I watched a lot of Hojlund at Atalanta. I dont think he is very good. He is mostly a player who just relies on his pace and size but has little to nothing in his locker. His on the ball play just consists of switching the flank or passing to the first open player he sees, and his only scoring...

I wonder how Xavi and the players would react if he told them in person the types of things he says here about the chances of the team and how much worse we are than Madrid.

You think topping a group of Porto, Shakhtar and Antwerp 'corrected' being grouped 2 years in a row? That didn't 'correct' anything it is the bare minimum expectation. Barca should never be finishing less than 1st in that group under any circumstances.

He is more of an assist man than a goal scorer. He lacks the force and the drive to get into attacking areas and tussle with defenders. He is better when he can use his skills and dribbling to free a pass for his teammate.

Most of those are 6 yard box finishes. Does this guy who made the video think that GKs save every single shot even from 5 yards out? Some people think that their goalkeeper should be Superman. Truth is every GK in the world makes mistakes and most of the time shots on target in the 6 yard box...

It's not that Xavi doesn't demand intensity in general, he does, but Xavi is not very big on self criticism, if the team loses, usually some excuse is found, like the referees, injuries, we weren't clinical enough etc without acknowledging the mistakes made and places that they could have done...

The stat of Romeu being on the field for like 2 wins out of 10 continues.

He was good, but seems as usual, a different standard is applied to his performances. Anything good he does is insanely overplayed and anything bad he does is mostly ignored. Good game defensively but again for a midfielder strikingly few key actions on the ball. It seems more and more he is...

The 2nd is partially caused by a failure of Romeu to mark Bellingham if you rewatch the tape. He follows him from midfield then for some reason stops once he gets in position for a cross.

His game wasn't terrible overall, but failing to save that shot probably changed this game from a win to a loss.

Youre right... Bellingham isn't all that eh? Is that what you mean?

If you chalk that goal down as a fluke then ours in the same way is also a fluke. What does that leave? It may have been lucky, but it also doesnt happen if we weren't getting pinned back like that for the last 30 minutes. That's why playing a 90 minute game is important, we should have stayed...

So their goal was a fluke, but our goal which was Gundogan chasing a missed pass then getting Alaba's slide tackle deflecting the ball to his feet is what? A legit goal? Thats the problem with discarding these goals as 'flukes', these type of goals happen when your team is very under pressure...

He should never play again. Get rid in January.

Great first half. Lewa and Romeu killed the game.

Romeu and Lewa killed our game.

We did the same thing in the Clasicos we won last year, started bus parking after 1-0, bit us this time.

His setup is good but its not just him. The players have been performing very well in Clasico for a while. Give up the gimmick. We can have a good manager and a good squad.