Daniel Alves

[BerkeleyBernie]

Yeah. He made a good point. He's basically doing diagonals forward. What he should do is get nearer the touch line and then hit it across or backwards across goal.

*Especially* with Barça. Little point in floating balls "in the danger area" where they are easily defended by tall defenders. However, cutback passes, whether high or low, are where Barça players can do some damage, or, if cleared, more likely to drop centrally where Barça can continue to attack through a disrupted defense.

 

[Darko]

+1

 

[Luftstalag14]

Yeah be happy...The mighty Douglas and Montoya are coming

Exactly. Say all you want about Dani, but his replacements are much worse than him. I just don't get the club's logic of letting him go (and possibly Montoya go) without a back-up plan. And Douglas is not a back-up plan.

 

[Devils]

Neither Montoya or Douglas have played enough to judged as worse than Dani. And being better than Dani is barely a challenge nowadays.

Barca plays possessive and attacking football. Dani attacking or crossing, 90% of the surrenders possession and nullify the play going forward.

It's absolutely atrocious to watch. Re-watch the PSG game again, it will drive you fucking nuts just watching Alves play.

He's just that bad and it was too evident at the end of last season that he should have left.

 

[barcanuck]

Neither Montoya or Douglas have played enough to judged as worse than Dani. And being better than Dani is barely a challenge nowadays.

Barca plays possessive and attacking football. Dani attacking or crossing, 90% of the surrenders possession and nullify the play going forward.

It's absolutely atrocious to watch. Re-watch the PSG game again, it will drive you fucking nuts just watching Alves play.

He's just that bad and it was too evident at the end of last season that he should have left.

Alba and Busi drive me nuts at times with similar lazy decisions as Dani. I think all 3 need to stop being so comfortable with their position being theirs and get rotated more and more especially for the big games.

 

[anguy]

Exactly. Say all you want about Dani, but his replacements are much worse than him.

I wonder how would Adriano on RB work out, of course he has injury problems now...

 

[serghei]

Neither Montoya or Douglas have played enough to judged as worse than Dani. And being better than Dani is barely a challenge nowadays.

It's cause and effect. They haven't played enough because they were poor so far. It's either they are worse than Dani, or Lucho is senile. It's probably the first.

 

[messi2140]

F*cking useless. That throw in was the icing on the cake.

 

[Dan1983]

Wish he stop with stupid crosses.

 

[Alarcón]

Thank God he doesn't usually take free kicks

 

[Kohe321]

Yeah, his crosses are extremely frustrating. Did any of them lead to anything other than a loss of possession tonight? All I remember is crosses going out way wide to no one, or missing the target and being cleared by defenders over and over. His defensive work was also poor. In fact, he just looks careless and half-assed all the time now a days. To think it's Montoya and Douglas are the ones behind him at our RB position...

 

[Dan1983]

Rakitic should have taken the free kicks.

 

[dakt]

All I can say is that every time he got the ball I was on the edge of my nerves. He can cost us badly this season.

 

[linetty]

Why did he take free kicks instead of Raki? Frustrating to say the least.

 

[Devils]

Toxic player.