Ivan Rakitić

[BBZ8800]

Hi clown, it's been a while.

Please be aware that "soft boy Arthur who can't defend to save his life" had something like 10 ball recoveries in a Clasico.

But he still can't defend to save his life, right ?

Now what should we do with these 7 ball recoveries Rakitic had then ? Two-faced clown you are.

Not ball recoveries.
Tackles, interceptions, clearances, blocks.

Rakitic made 7 of those tonight.
Arthur made 14 of those in total in 655 minutes in La liga this season (9 matches).

Rakitic made 20 of those in last 4 matches.

** Source: Whoscored

Now, take your meds, drink some water and try a different reply.
Which will make at least some sense.

 

[wisconsincule]

Hopefully this is his last season here.

 

[JohnN]

Hopefully this is his last season here.

Hopefully it's his last month

 

[messi2140]

Barca should package him with some Barca merchandise. Like : Buy these Barca slippers and get Raktic for free (free shipping included)

 

[CatalinR10]

Hopefully it's his last month

Hopefully his last day.

 

[vegitot]

defensive,rakitic plays well today but he completely lack of offensive play.
de jong is only midfielder with actual offensive play.

 

[KingLeo10]

Be respectful, first and last warning

Amoebas grow up so fast these days.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Not ball recoveries.
Tackles, interceptions, clearances, blocks.

Rakitic made 7 of those tonight.
Arthur made 14 of those in total in 655 minutes in La liga this season (9 matches).

Rakitic made 20 of those in last 4 matches.

** Source: Whoscored

Now, take your meds, drink some water and try a different reply.
Which will make at least some sense.

With Arthur we have more of the ball so it's tough to get good defensive contributions.

 

[KingLeo10]

Hopefully his last day.

Rakitic with EV the moment the gunmen bust through that door.

 

[BBZ8800]

With Arthur we have more of the ball so it's tough to get good defensive contributions.

We'll see.
If we will start losing, you will say it's EV, not Arthur or other players who can't defend.

Also, I can't see how one player will change a team.
Even if you put Arthur instead of Raki:
Roberto was useless.
Semedo one big zero.
Alba, I have no words for how horrible he is.
Vidal, running around. Not too much use and logic behind his passes though.
Suarez, ruined like 200 passes and first touches tonight.
Griezmann, turned on his "invisibilty cloak" tonight. Worked perfectly.

I mean, who was good at all tonight?
Mats, Frenkie and maybe Messi and Pique.
8 other players were either horrible or invisible.

 

[DonAK]

When Rakitic plays a bad game = Everyone else were bad too, don't just blame him

When Arthur has a bad game = Let's point a million stats about how bad Arthur is and run with this fake news about him having STDs or other shit

 

[khaled_a_d]

Actually, I don't think he had a bad game. 3rd midfielder was the worst today, whether it is Vidal or Roberto.
His job was to protect the defense and he did that well. RM chances was mostly long shots, wasn't even in front of penalty area.

He kept it simple when we had the ball, but midfield was outnumbered by far.
RM pressed with 8 players on our midfield. It was almost 5 on 3 for our midfielders. Messi & Suarez walking put a pressure on them and midfield suffered from it. On contrary Bale/Isco/Benzema all tracked back and pressed. Midfielders were doomed before the game start.

 

[DonAndres]

Dude camped like a sweeper between Pique and Lenglet and just kept passing it sideways back and forth between them with no urgency, even in the 93rd minute. He plays every full match as if it were a warmup training session. Even his defensive recoveries are just help defense for the most part, shoring up a sloppy touch from the opponent after another player does most of the pressing.

It's because of him hiding and being absent in midfield when we were pinned in our half that led to us succumbing to RM's pressure. Rakitic disappears and it makes it that much more difficult for every other player to get on the ball or make effective plays with it when we're trying to build out. We completely lost the midfield battle and it was largely due to him.

Fucking Casemiro of all people was constantly beating him left and right with trick passes and plays. It was ridiculous. Those who saw him having a good defensive game are delusional and really didn't pay attention to anything other than the stats. RM absolutely had their way with our midfield.

 

[Gnidrologist]

^This is what you actually see, when watching the game and understanding what's going on instead of checking whoscored. Good summary.

 

[vegitot]

you guys must be all delusional if you believe any coach in history could have dominated in-form Madrid's 4 man midfield with Dejong,Rakitic,Vidal,Sergi.