Alex Song

[Barcilliant]

Busquets at cb is a nightmare. Hell no.

Agreed! Busi is no CB. He can barely jump a few cms of the ground and has no speed-watch how Pato waltzed by him for that Milan goal last season. Song and Batra are better options-even Adriano.

 

[Boris]

Beast.

 

[jiopi]

I like Song.

 

[abual3bed1]

Solid display.

 

[dostoevskij]

He was very good again today. Has arrived at Barca. I really like his style, wins a lot of balls, makes clever passes and with his pysical presence he can keep defend the ball in dangerous situations against pressing opponents. perfect for our game!!!

 

[abual3bed1]

Hopefully he gets some minutes against PSG. Might need his physicality late into the game.

 

[jiopi]

116 passes from 123 completed.

 

[te amo barca]

Excellent box-to-box

 

[SwiftGuyver]

he was really good again tonight. i think he's played consistently well since he arrived to be honest.

+ + = the strongest DM squad depth in the world.

 

[barcanuck]

Hopefully he gets some minutes against PSG. Might need his physicality late into the game.

Sadly he hasn't played against any big teams lately, so he won't play barring a miracle.

 

[Antimadridista1]

Love him. He deserves to play important matches ; want to see him against Paris, a few minutes.

 

[tiki-taka]

How about a double pivot with Busi and Song?

VV
Dani-Pique-Bartra-Alba
Song-Busquets
Xavi-Cesc/Messi-Iniesta
Villa

Allow Dani to bomb forward and basically utilize him as a winger while you have Song and Busi cover any space left open by Dani. Alba can do his overlapping runs down the left so that Iniesta isn't stuck on the wing.

That won't happen unless Messi does the defending work as well because once Dani and Alba are way out of position and Song and Busquets are covering up their positions, you will still have a huge gap in the midfield. Özil in the current deep lying 4-2-3-1 system utilized by Mourinho is also expected to defend and as Messi is at the moment not 100% conditional fit, Tito won't risk him in the one on one physical challenge. I think the only option Barca should try is using a 3-5-2 system with Messi and Villa as strikers and Song along with Bartra and Pique as center backs while Jordi Alba and Dani Alves operates as LM&RM who roll back to their old position when the situation is urgent and push forward on the wings when they see the opportunity and Sergio as CDM and Iniesta & Xavi as LCM and RCM and the focus must be dominating on ball possession and safe play rather playing the risky way.

 

[Barcilliant]

The guy is an excellent passer, strong and decent in the air. He is no CB though. He should play in the more physical games imo. Sometimes Busquets gets outmuscled and overwhelmed. Song would probably be a better option in those g

 

[Qonny]

He looked like a hybrid of Busquets and Xavi yesterday. Very pleasant to watch!

 

[Arachnid]

Song is not particularly physical, though. Well, he tried to be sometimes at Arsenal, and then he got carded because you have to know what you are doing when using your body for that.