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woobie
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This time Genoa actually need a defender (rather than them buying someone to pass along to another club, which they've been known to do). Ranocchia's just gone to Inter.
Gabriel Milito
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gingerless
Active member
messi survived ronaldinho and eto leaving, he'll be fine. i feel sorry for milito though
barcetia
Mikrofonkåt
problem that I have with abidal is his utter failure to lead the offside line.
example:
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he's an inevitable character of the squad though
gingerless
Active member
eh, don't take the france NT seriously in that WC
FCBarca
Mike the Knife
Same...Abidal is almost an entirely different player for Barca
Trequartista
The good
Dude,dont judge players from the domenech era,abidal has been superb in the cb position this season and he can be one of the best to play the offsidd trap plus he has something all of our defenders dont have which is pace so that will always help him to find his man even when exposed,he can even allow us to push the backline even more to play higher(remmember when mourinho signed lucio,he said he did it to help him to push his backline a bitproblem that I have with abidal is his utter failure to lead the offside line.
example:
[YOUTUBE]iDyQ-3CyMU8[/YOUTUBE]
he's an inevitable character of the squad though
Xavi_78
New member
Problem is that when Gaby leaves and either one of Puyi/Pique is injured Abidal will play as CB and so Maxwell will play as LB which is okay in 9 out of 10 times but against teams who counterattack fast on the wings I feel more secure with Abi playing as LB, good example would be first leg against Arsenal or against Inter. I am quite sure that with Abi we would not have conceded three goals in that game
La Furia
Legion of Doooom
He's improved this year but Abidal still has terrible positional sense in the middle, and while he's on a hot streak he's been caught out too many times in the past for me to feel completely comfortable. He's playing his most stable, collected football in years right now so I trust him against most opponents but I'd hate to see him in the middle against Madrid or a tactically advanced side in Europe.
Trequartista
The good
YES,It Matters,dome was awful manager and will always be,xavi,iniesta,pique,puyol will all look horrible with him,it was indeed his fault but it was mainly the fault of the whole offside trap so i guess so dome still takes the responsibilty for this,as for the sevilla game,it was his first game there with pepand he improves since then a lot,still his positioning is not the best which is normal for a lb but he has all the qualities to be sperb there,but the problem is,like nolan said,can we trust him against chelsea,madrid,inter and can our options in the lb position(adri,max) do abidals job on the left?i doubt,i still think we should buy a new defender,hopefully one from dortmunds ones but that doesnt mean that i dont trust bilaldoes it matter whether it's domenech or mourinho? problem is that abidal made an INDIVIDUAL mistake during that goal. it was nothing to do with domenechs tactics.
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who's marker is that on the third goal
Cal-FCB
Wurzeltron
Totally agree Nolan. He's certainly shown he does have the ability to play well at CB and not be a total liability like he previously was. But we really don't want him as our first back up CB IMO, what if Maxwell and a CB are injured?
barcetia
Mikrofonkåt
No it does not matter. That'd say like the reason why a striker misses sitters is because of his manager being bad. Makes no sense!
No, the offside trap was fine, if Abidal wouldn't have taken three steps back all of a sudden, Hernandez would have been offside. You can't blame Domenech for everything even though he's a monkey.
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