JamDav1982
Senior Member
Hasnt been about that. More Deulofeu choosing right option on ball.
Barca pre-season 2017/2018
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Hasnt been about that. More Deulofeu choosing right option on ball.
George_Costanza
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Iniesta looks 53, not 33. Why is he aging badly?
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Suarez has been awful since last season. Still so frustrating. He better start playing well. It's not just unfinished chances, he is killing the attacks with dumb passes/bad touches. Just so clumsy.
serghei
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Absolutely. Under Pep we also got toast on the counter at important times. It's how we managed to lose vs Inter and Chelsea in CL. But I'd rather let us choose how to go down than to be reactive and play the opponent's game.
The good thing about this type of football is that we can control the game until we face a team which is better in those tight spaces than us. But the good part is no team plays in tight spaces better than us. This is why we are able to dominate Madrid most of the time.
We have one big thing we need to take care of in terms of tactics. We need to move well enough to difuse high press attempts from the other teams. We will see teams that will try to do the last thing which proved succesfull, and that is press hard and block us before we start the actual buildup. If Valverde takes care of that and punishes 2-3 good teams which try that, we will get back to controlling almost all games.
How incisive we will be in positional I don't know. That is down to whatever transfers we can make next and/or how great of a manager Valverde is. And also how motivated our dribblers are. If Messi is the fully motivated self, teams should fear us.
Getting the control back is the first step. Posing real danger and turning possession into chances is the hardest part. For that we need great attackers.
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He had some bad matches that tournament. It happens. He looked pretty good for Milan.
God Serena
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Deulofeu has fed Messi at least three great key passes himself, with one being an assist. Although anyone who really followed him knew he had that in him, with the way he was often able to link up with Lukaku even when being seen as a general failure.
Albo
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I think it's more about Messi knowing what to do with Deulofeu than Deulofeu knowing to do with Messi.
Albo
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Only people who didn't watch him play last season thought he could be a RW, for some of us in here it was always clear he was going to be our LW sub.
I hope Valverde doesn't have some kind of inexplicable hard-on for Vidal. Semedo is better overall.
God Serena
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I love Deu and am over the moon seeing him drop his selfishness in favor of linking up with the team, but I've gotta say, you're really jumping the gun here.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
Messi hasnt fed him tonight he has played well in his own right.
Not everything that happens is due to Messi.
I'm usually very pessimistic, but things look much improved. Yes it is just a friendly against a shit team, but there are a lot of goods signs.
What I've noticed:
-Midfield closer together
-Much better off ball movement
-Wingers wide on the break, tuck in when trying penetrate the opposition's box
-Quick, fluid passing
-Drawing defenders with triangle passing then playing ball over the top into space
Very good signs, but it is still early, let's see if we can build on this.
What I've noticed:
-Midfield closer together
-Much better off ball movement
-Wingers wide on the break, tuck in when trying penetrate the opposition's box
-Quick, fluid passing
-Drawing defenders with triangle passing then playing ball over the top into space
Very good signs, but it is still early, let's see if we can build on this.
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