19 - Lamine Yamal

[serghei]

The problem was not that he didn't defend much vs Leganes, it was more that he was very superficial and wasteful up front. Players of his on the ball class don't waste their energy defending fecking Leganes.

At the end he did try to defend more I think.

 

[M3ls]

He lost balls more often than anyone else, but was the worst on defense. I need another player on the team with a huge salary, who in a year or two will walk 5-6 km per match. One such player left a few years ago.

 

[serghei]

Yes, he was bad today. Vs Dortmund he was very good though. It happens. We'll see how it goes in the next league games. It's not bad that we pace ourselves for the bigger CL matches.

 

[M3ls]

His defensive stats are good. 1.3 tackles per game and 0.5 interceptions

That's too dry a statistic. You have to look at them in context. I look at the number of sprints, pressing actions, how the player overlaps the pass lines, etc.

 

[MonteCuler]

I can see how shitty his defense is even at the start of the match.

Flick instructs him to stay up on counters

 

[MonteCuler]

Stop talking about his age. He's about to turn 18. I can already see his ego inflating.
If we don't want problems in the future, we need to change his attitude towards work. If the club won't do it, then his father won't help, because his father is a clown, a 10 year old kid in a 40 year old man's body.

You don't get to be a starter at Barca at 17 with no attitude for work lol

 

[wiseman]

Bad game

 

[MonteCuler]

Overreactions after every bad game he has are pretty insane

By far our most important player this season, arguable only for those too blind to see Flick doesn't really demand from neither him or Raphinha to constantly run their ass off to defense

Not to speak of the fact rest of the team was also equally shit and the first one they target is a 17 year old (then they will say don't mention age as if you can compare a fucking child to grown men)

 

[Iniesta Ultra]

Not his fault he has no one to combine with.

 

[M3ls]

Flick instructs him to stay up on counters

Absolute nonsense knowing Flick's game principles. Absolute nonsense.

 

[MonteCuler]

Absolute nonsense knowing Flick's game principles. Absolute nonsense.

Ok

Absolute sense is for 17 year old to run his ass off to defense every game and expect him to stay fit without any fatigue

I bet Flick thinks like that

 

[Barcaman]

He was pretty fresh when he made all those mistakes in first half. Bad decisions with taking on opposition, failing to make a simple pass, expending energy on nothing. All that is beyond obvious lack of effort defending.

 

[serghei]

Yeah, shows his age at times.

 

[te amo barca]

He was pretty fresh when he made all those mistakes in first half. Bad decisions with taking on opposition, failing to make a simple pass, expending energy on nothing. All that is beyond obvious lack of effort defending.

He looked leggy from the start to me. There was heaviness to his movement but that's also because of the pitch.

 

[Temptation]

@M3ls you might be onto something about his ego but bench him? He has been one of Barca's best players. Everybody has bad games. This was a terrible away fixture in general where everybody was average. You can't be serious!