Kul_z
Senior Member
This is valverde's fault, not rakitic. Rakitic is very usable player, i say that theres no team in europe that have player like rakitic. Get a grip, he played out of his position. Coutinho was terrible, like alarm terrible. And i'm not blaming him for that actually. Lessons from this game: 1. coutinho is not a winger, we could see that coutinho needs to play behind winger or in number 10 role behind two strikers. In this squad under this idiot of manager- mission impossible. His game would benefit the most and would be iniesta-like if: his positioning improves dramatically, his decision making slightly improves in final third, but in the other 2/3 seriously. I think his position would be best if he plays behind three players, creating and fast transitioning. But not under ev. For example, suarez is out, so you put dembele messi malcom infront of coutinho, with busi and rakitic slightly in a more defensive role. Counter attacks deadly, parked buses would have to deal with coutinho and messi at small area close to each other which is super deadly, one right footed, other left, both have amazing shots, and both have cheeky passes and are no strangers to that. Problem is coutinho if messi or suarez are not upfront to combine, he goes selfish route and complicate too much, and thats the case all over the pitch where he's present. Like he doesnt trust or doesnt have that much respect for them. Kinda neymar-ish. 2. Valverde is trully a idiot, and heartless bastard. Dembele was having a proper game, and when malcom came in i thought he would stay until the end. Ofcourse not, Valverde made malcom coutinho sub, then after 5 minutes dembele denis suarez. Even when you look at the names it looks stupid. He only fucked malcom with that because he had to change his position in 10 minutes, and he had to show more on his defensive qualities then attacking which is efin tragedy. Dembele deserved to play full 90 minutes, he had couple of show offs, but i liked what i saw. Valverde, you fucking coward.
