4 - Ronald Araújo

serghei

Senior Member
Just have to be smarter on the ball as most teams are going to cut off passing lanes to Cubarsi and our CDM and make him play that pass.
Just keep it simple. He's just not that guy even if he'll play a great pass here and there.

That's a far better approach than hoping he will become very good on the ball. He won't. One thing he needs to do is stop using his hands to push and grap opponents in an obvious way. Should be fairly simple.
 

serghei

Senior Member
No other option now than to be in the quarters again. How is he gonna prove he learned to play under pressure if you don't get near a CL semis în the next 3 years?
 

serghei

Senior Member
If your status of a world class player changes after each match, then it doesn't mean much at all.
It doesn't. He didn't reach it yet. He's one of those promising players that get overrated inside a fanbase before actually proving himself at the top. Every fanbase has 3-4 of those.

Araujo, Pedri, these are some of ours.
 

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
If your status of a world class player changes after each match, then it doesn't mean much at all.

Might be controversial, but in our squad right now we don't have any World Class players IMO. Maybe Gundogan, but he's up there in age.

Not because the talent isn't there, but because they haven't proven themselves at the big stage yet.
 

Devils

Senior Member
Araujo is one of the those players that could fall into the world class category but he's just so poor on the ball that one could make a case for him not being world class based off of that deficiency alone.
 

jamrock

Senior Member
What about Christensen then. Won two CL semi finals as starter and then played over 50 minutes in the final.

Yea serg logic is too easy to poke holes in.

He was saying de jong is world class until Wednesday,it can't change that quickly and I'm not even arguing Araujo is world class.

But you can't decide that on 1 game.
 

serghei

Senior Member
So I guess no Arsenal player can be world class then.

Or that Jamie Gittens > Saka and Lamine.
The same old logical fallacy. All tigers are felines, but not all felines are tigers.

To be top class you need to do great in big games. But if you do great in a big game that doesn't automatocally make you a world class player. If that was true, Eder would have become world class the moment he scored in the Euro final.

Barca are fine, but as I said, the squad can't be compared to that of a top 6 team. What Araujo did just proves that one more time.
 

JohnN

Senior Member
So, you have a good defender that is known to be below average at playing from the back, compared to his teammates. And the other team presses in a way that leads to him always taking the responsibility for playing from the back. And what did our manager do about that? Did he give any instructions? did he even identify LE's tactic?
Again, we can rightfully criticize Araujo for the whole sequence.
Just don't crucify him yet
 

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