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I love his attitude. He’s a warrior. I don’t personally think he should be a first choice MF for us, but he’s definitely a good player and option for the squad. But I don’t think he was the problem today. Valverde, Suarez, Rakitic are my three prime candidates to leave. Busquets should be...

QFT.

I don’t even want to see him next year. Get rid. Get Ten Haag in. Give him time and a bit of patience and he’ll actually develop a coherent and balanced system of ATTACKING football where players are integrated and developed. The squad needs a slight freshening up, but despite incorrect...

That’s a key point, but EV has done little in terms of moving the squad forward. Players like Alena, Malcom, Todibo play well, but are then not seen again for two months. Arthur is someone who has benefited from fairer treatment, but push comes to shove EV again opted for the “tried and...

Now we absolutely need to score, he takes off a forward and replaces him with a defender? Coutinho has been useless as he always is in that position, but why not bring on Malcom and Semedo, move Roberto forward and take off Rakitic? He makes the same subs regardless of circumstances.

This is horrendous to watch. I absolutely detest his style of football. He’s set up not to get beat, so naturally we’re getting beat.

This is my problem with him. He never steps up. He’s always so lethargic and one paced. When does he ever do anything decisive?

Dembele is supremely talented and almost entirely unique. He’s genuinely two footed, skilful, dynamic, has excellent vision and is absolutely rapid. How many other 21 year old wingers in the game have those sort of characteristics? People talk about Sane, well he’s incredibly one footed and...

BBZ is the biggest moron going. Either that, or the biggest WUM. Writes so much rubbish.

He just needs to be played back into form. He’s a 21 year old winger, of course he’s going to have ups and downs.

Even when he “rests” the starters, they come on anyway - like Alba last game. He brought Messi on when we were 2-0 up? Why? He has no game management, and I swear all his subs are pre-determined regardless of the situation.

I’m sorry but Valverde is an absolute moron. Suarez looks like he can’t run half the time, but he never gets rested? Rakitic often looks lethargic too, and Pique + Alba who will have his hands full with Salah should have been rested too. If Liverpool are all over us like a rash midweek and our...

Looks a good team for today. Nice mixture of regulars and non-regulars. Definitely agree that Suarez, Alba + Pique should be getting a full rest.

And what will you say on Wed when Messi is walking around and Suarez, Rakitic etc look gassed? How many games has Suarez even sat out this season? Literally none. If you can’t rest players for a CL semi final when the league is all but wrapped up, when do you?

Maybe I’m being a little harsh, but I feel he should be a squad player. He’s a reliable enough, intelligent player, but I just find him SO one paced. The midfield in general lacks dynamism. Busquets is smart but slow, Rakitic quite smart but always ambles around, Arthur is “busy” and press...

I agree. He’s probably the best 1v1 defender at the club. He did have a rough time against Vinicius, but so what? Are we supposed to forget that he usually neutralises the wingers he comes up against because of that one game? He’ll learn from it, Ashley Cole was an excellent one on one...

The players will have to be on their toes from the first minute, particularly at Anfield. Liverpool will be hot out the blocks there no doubt. Semedo will need to play both games. Mane is simply too fast for Roberto, and their front three in general are pacey. Dembouz will need to play on the...

———————-Mats Semedo——-Pique——Lenglet——Alba ———————Todibo ————-Arthur——Coutinho Malcom———-Messi———-Dembouz Rest: Busquets, Rakitic, Suarez Sub Arthur, Alba (if winning), Dembouz after 60 minutes. Don’t think we’ll see that line up though

I really want him to succeed here, but if truth be told, goal aside I thought it was a pretty average performance. The problem is that he doesn’t stretch defences, and he offers little threat in behind. Valverde plays him in exactly the same way each match, but seems to expect different...

Like the personnel, but I don’t like Malcom as a LWB when he has done well in his favoured position of RWF. Why not just play Umtiti as LB, and as a result the rest of the team in their natural positions?