Ivan Rakitić

[El_e8]

 

[Andrew M]

Nice stats

 

[Alik]

From what season are those stats?

 

[Andrew M]

Last season I presume

 

[Alarcón]

Yeah those are Rakitic Sevilla vs Fabregas Barça so not really meaningful

 

[aondoe]

disagree

Yeah those are Rakitic Sevilla vs Fabregas Barça so not really meaningful

i disagree. These stats reflect barcelona are misutilizing a very talented player. He either needs time to adjust or his role in the system needs to be altered.

 

[te amo barca]

Great vision for that pass and that wicked shot...If only it went it.

 

[Flavia]

Yes, great assist, and shame he hit the post. It'd been a golazo.

 

[Behrox]

CM Rakitic >>>>>> RB Rakitic

 

[Ghostmaster]

Great assist to Pedro, but why can't he make more like these and why not to try more long shots?

 

[SeloBarca]

He had an assist and the shot, but that was pretty much it.
Messi was forced down, once again. Midfield was pretty much Iniesta and Messi big parts of the game.

 

[AlexT]

I remember there was a stat sheet showing that Rakitic overall had more through balls than Fabregas in La Liga

This is false. He didn't have more through balls than Fabregas in La Liga. Last season no one had more through balls than Fabregas not only in La Liga but also in Top 5 leagues of Europe.

 

[Goku]

We bought him for nothing thanks to Xavi

 

[AlexT]

Why don't we compare their stats from this season, when Fabregas actually plays as a midfielder all the time and is trusted by his coach?

STAT
Tackles won Fabregas - 36. Rakitic - 12. Fabregas can't defend, yep.
Aerial duels won Fabregas 12 Rakitic 12
Interceptions Fabregas 11 Rakitic 17
Clearances Fabregas 17 Rakitic 6
Blocks Fabregas 2 Rakitic 2
Total passes Fabregas 1323 Rakitic 941
Chanced created Fabregas 53 Rakitic 17
Assists Fabregas 12 Rakitic 2
Goals Fabregas 2 Rakitic 3
Shot accuracy Fabregas 67% Rakitic 43%.

If he were used correctly and was trusted to be the main CM, he could have done the job for us. His talent hasn't gone anywhere, and that talent is clearly much superior to Rakitic's. It's annoying that even Mour knows how to use him, but we couldn't. I've seen several interviews of Fabregas after he went to Chelsea and every time he said that he feels happy at Chelsea, he feels important. The lack of trust can make a world-class player seem average.

 

[linetty]

You didn't have to bring up stats here. Fabregas is probably the best midfielder in the world, especially if he keeps up this form throughout the entire season. With us his numbers were also fairly impressive; 14 assists and 9 goals last season. The problem was though that he couldn't keep up his form along the whole season, he faded away for the more important part of the season, when we needed him most.

He claimed to never be allowed to play at his best position at Barca but that doesn't excuse the fact that he always 'tamped' his stats in the first part of the season and then in the second part of the season he scored maybe 2 or 3 and assisted 3 or 4 and he still featured in the same position as before. Mental weakness?