Ivan Rakitić

Jallo

Member
He was brillant yet again

Lol seriously. Average at best, his passing is so bad. Constantly puts the players he’s passing to in bad position with his misplaced passes. He was back to his old tunnel vision self and what happened to his shooting.
 

Andrew M

New member
Yeah he's just steady and generally delivers a 7/10 performance. But given the alternatives right now he deserves his place.
 

BBZ8800

Senior Member
4 balls won
Highest kilometers covered in the first half
Barca's player with the highest number of passes until he went off

5 wins in a row for Barca since Rakitic returned.
People hoped that EV will lose majority of matches in December and that he will get sacked.

Yet, we have a chance to end a year with 7 out of 7 wins.
 

BBZ8800

Senior Member
Yeah he's just steady and generally delivers a 7/10 performance. But given the alternatives right now he deserves his place.

That's Rakitic, yeah.
Nothing spectacular or fancy, but he will usually (when rested and not playing 130 matches in 2 years like in 2017/18 and 2018/19) always deliver okish games.
And he will rarely dissapoint.
Except, of course, at Anfield.

Current alternatives, Vidal and Arthur are less safe and less consistent.
Vidal either plays for 10/10 or for 3/10.
While Arthur plays like a Goat for 2 Months and then you can't rely on him in the next 3 Months for 100s of random off field reasons.
 

Havesaks

Senior Member
He is good in organzong the team, which also has been a huge problem in the first stages of the season. It isn't like Rakitic has been bad for 2 year, he had real good performances - a lot better than this one, he was okaish most time and had some real horrible performance, often in the spring. But that was also because he was massively overused, maybe and hopefully he can this season play his best football in spring due to the rest he got till now.
 

devo901

New member
Distance covered first half for Barca:
1. Rakitic 6,06 km
2. Vidal 5,78
3. Griezmann 5,68
Then Alena and Wague.

Grandpa Raki covering the most.

wow - I did not expect that ....
1.where do you have these numbers from?
2.Do they also show "avg. speed"?
 

BBZ8800

Senior Member
wow - I did not expect that ....
1.where do you have these numbers from?
2.Do they also show "avg. speed"?

During a half time, on my stream they hadn't played commercials, instead they left a screen tuned on the stadium for a few minutes.
Then there were stats from Uefa.
When I have seen them live, I posted them right away.
 

Total-Football

Senior Member
Uefa's official stats on a live match stream during a halftime.
Their website used to provide individual distance at full time. They don't anymore for some reason. They only give the collective distance, or the distance run by a player on the course of the whole competition (hilariously useless if u ask me this one)
 

evilhita666

Barçapocalypse NOW!
Hopefully Valverde can manage his minutes because he's been playing well lately... Keep him fresh for the right moment, we don't need jelly legs by the end of the season...
 

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