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His performance for a player that hadn't played much was good, but not as impressive as some of Puigs performances after not having played much. He misplaced some passes terribly, and he failed to give the final pass too, he was visibly very tired at the end. He did look a bit better in his...

I have to say, I might have misjudged this manager and former players character. He looks to be almost like a pussy! I am thinking about him bringing Depay on once more! Letting Demb?l? play the entire 120 despite fucking up everything time after time after time. And also about his treatment...

There is a lot of talk about football intelligence from you. Let us see what happens tonight when Luuk very deservedly starts and Depay very deservedly does not start. Maybe this time Luuks bicycle kick will find the net instead of the bar, or he'll manage to score one of these "scorpion...

Araujo defends close to the sideline in any case, I don't know how many times he was out there to steal the ball only to be overplayed, before Alves was there. Finally there is a RB of some class. I believe many will be "disappointed" by Alves holding his own very well. Vinicius is quicker...

^ nice post from a user in touch with reality! Enlightening! Luuk de Jong scored 1,72 times the non penalty goals Depay scored per minute this season by the way. Interesting. Depay scored 3/4 penalties.

The rumoured 11 is acceptable. Dembele has been very terrible and not really deserving of his spot, but other than that it looks OK. First sub should be Puig, early in 2nd half no matter the score pretty much, but I have no illusions about that... Gavi had a very terrible last game, but could...

Doesn't really matter though. A manager could be excused for being fooled by training performance after a week or two, but Xavi has been there long enough already. He is 100% responsible for switching Luuk for Depay last game and the decline in quality that resulted.

I wonder how he'd justify choosing Depay over Luuk this game, when he spoke so nicely about meritocracy and so on just the other day. Depay played 30 minutes, tried 10 passes and failed 4 of them, gaining 0 meters from the passes. Before his injury he had been terrible too of course. Luuk...

You are right. I will be silent for a while now and just read what all you club owners write with your perfect judgement! You know that a transfer of Riqui Puig would destroy any club! In fact he is the main reason FC Barcelona are struggling lately.

If I owned a club, Puig would probably be the first transfer in. - He'd probably be very cheap - He evidently is very loyal and doesn't moan - He has the highest passing accuracy not only for Barcelona, but for the entire league (players who played more than 30 minutes) - He succeeds with more...

Mascherano was very humble and realized he couldn't compete with Busquets whom he was bought to replace or rotate with, and he realized he had to change his playing style as well as his position and did so very smoothly and impressively. He was a pretty perfect defender for Barcelona. Maybe he...

I am not retarded, and I even put a reservation about the risk numbers I quoted in the previous post. xT is, as I very thoroughly explained to you previously, a retarded stat though. And you are retarded if you think it is desirable to fail for an attacker. It is desirable to be threatening...

It was his third game, and even if I was mildly disappointed (from my high expectations) about his 2nd game, it is possible to argue that he has been Barcelonas best player in all three games. He will probably be on a downwards slope from here, but I don't think it will be very steep. He is...

There is some truth to Porques analysis, but I think the control should come first, and then the threat. There should of course always be a threat in the controlled passes too, but these fail rates can't really be overseen, they should be fixed first, and when the team is confident in not having...

I think these numbers might be a bit incorrect, and there are some more analysis to be made than just these simple numbers of course. But the numbers are still striking, and the most striking thing to me is: Nico: 61 touches, lost it 1/4 them. Gavi: 50 touches, lost it almost 1/5 of them. Sanz...

I found the four situations I praised him for. I am honest and fair in my assessments, I wonder what you find in that video that makes you not critique Gavi, and I wonder what you would've said if that game was Puigs.

5 weeks, something like that, regular time for a torn hamstring. Pedri was back the game after one year ago lol, but it seems they are a bit more cautious now... Agree he was good yesterday, I have been a bit dissatisfied some of the last games otherwise, but I am still very much believing in...

It seems we agree regarding Depay too. Maybe I worded it in a confusing way - Depay could've succeeded in being even worse than Dembele if he had been able to reach the ball a bit more.

A lot has been said about Puyols good influence over the sometimes lazy Pique, and how he needs another partner who can make him do the more "silent" work and keep up his concentration. I wonder if Alves influence hasn't been overseen - they both arrived at the same time, and even if Alves isn't...

Here is his game yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI3q5J_N2qA One great cross (where he had earlier taken the ball from Jutgla in an offside position), one nice attempt at a dribble, one nice lob pass where he lost the ball later and another one-two too where he also lost the ball...