With Suarez walking for 90 minutes and not being able to make a simple pass, with bad performance from Coutinho once again, with Vidal playing like a drunk man and Roberto like a clown on the right side you again find Rakitic as our main problem? Unbelievable stuff.
He was bad I agree but tell me who was good against Bilbao except Mats? I get you hate him but try to be less biased FFS.
I wrote it in my message: he was the worst player in the most crucial part of the match which was the last 20 mins against Bilbao. He probably was worst player of second half alongside Suarez. That same second half where Barca was getting better and better, looked like the team would end up by finding a way to score. Rakitic fucked it all up in the last quarter. The obvious thing to do was to sub him off because he was useless in that second half. Go rewatch it.
Coutinho and Roberto had better overall games than Rakitic. And IMO Roberto and Coutinho can GTFO from this club, just like Rakitic, I have zero preference between these 3. Because Coutinho went out, and given that team needed to score, Rakitic had to take more responsibilities up front, that's when he got completely exposed. If anything, Rakitic could hide on the pitch thanks to Coutinho's presence.
Dude the other day you told me Rakitic had a great performance against Espanyol when in reality he was just avergage or slightly above average in that game. I rewatched that game and describe Ivan's display to you, you never answered the call. I came on this forum and wrote that he had a good game against Sevilla when he really had a good game for once in 2019. Who's the biased one ? Even when you admit that Rakitic is bad, you'll automatically go and say "But Busquets (or Suarez or Vidal or another one) was worse". You're the biased one here.
Who was good against Bilbao ? Busquets, the other undisputed starter was 10 times better than Rakitic and Busquets actually had to cover spaces for useless Rakitic who on top of being useless had also dumb plays that were main reasons for Bilbao's best chances that MATS somehow stopped.
But this kind of reasoning aka 'he was bad but who was good' is what will bring Barca down. Defense was good and Busquets did good in midfield. Midfield is the most important side of a team, midfielders dictate the flow of the match. That's why young kid from a Brazil Arthur hardly ever had a bad game even when all his teammates were shit.
You and Scott Arizona also seem to ignore the fact that this guy's status isn't comparable to guys like Vidal or Alena. Vidal isn't even a starter, he's older than Rakitc and he hasn't even been here for 1 year. This old and rusty Vidal will never be good enough for Barca, so you comparing Rakitic to that guy is actually very telling in your disfavour. Alena played 5 matches at best for Barca. Rakitic is undisputed starter since 2014 FFS.
The standards aren't and shouldn't be the same for a long term starter and for bench warmers.
