21 - Frenkie de Jong

[Sensei]

Is this the Frenkie we were promised long ago?

 

[Total-Football]

So frustrating .. he glides past defenders like they are not even there with grace. And once in the final third he almost never delivers the through pass.

 

[Barcelonista10]

So frustrating .. he glides past defenders like they are not even there with grace. And once in the final third he almost never delivers the through pass.

Right? Also pains me to say he's quite soft in duels, gets eaten alive in games like these.

 

[JamDav1982]

Right? Also pains me to say he's quite soft in duels, gets eaten alive in games like these.

What were you even watching?

He was one of few Barca players that won duels and was best player on park that 2nd half.

'Eaten alive'?

Not a clue.

 

[vuji_31]

So frustrating .. he glides past defenders like they are not even there with grace. And once in the final third he almost never delivers the through pass.

He is just blind.

 

[Total-Football]

What were you even watching?

He was one of few Barca players that won duels and was best player on park that 2nd half.

'Eaten alive'?

Not a clue.

He definitely won duals yes.

 

[JamDav1982]

He definitely won duals yes.

And was the best player on the park on the ball that half.

He was about the one and Inigo who had anything about them physically and getting stuck in.

 

[Fati_Future_BallonDor]

 

[Gazzznigga]

So frustrating .. he glides past defenders like they are not even there with grace. And once in the final third he almost never delivers the through pass.

You are correct. 100%

While many still look at him with the eye of a natural CDM/CM, FDJ is a libero type of a player.

A libero builds from the CD positions and carries/delivers the ball to the frontiers for others to do the final bit. Picture a Matthias Sammer of Germany or a 'De Kaiser' in his days. Those are players FDJ was moulded from.

i have watched him from his Ajax days. You will hardly get those through final passes except for a few floaiters now and then. Control and organisation, he will give you 1000%. He was deployed as a CD many times while at Ajax by both ETH and De Bosz

 

[vuji_31]

Now we can say, extend his contract.

Him and Pedri can control game betrer then any other duo in the world.

 

[Barcaman]

Very good performance. Raphinha was best obviously.

 

[JamDav1982]

Best player in 2nd half on the park but across 90 mins Raphinha probably shades it.

Just about every other player looked off pace.

Raphinha was starting to be too tired/lazy to track back in that 2nd half on the left and was leaving Gerard exposed far too much before Flick changed it.

Leganes immediately targetted Gerards side and he was defending 2v1 too often for first part of 2nd half.

Not that Gavi added anything to the game at all when on but can see the idea of putting him on LW to help with more legs but added basolutely nothing on the ball.