Bobo32
Senior Member
Not true, he did go towards the carrier a bit too much for my taste (something that Pedri and Frenkie does A LOT more too much) but mostly only when they had no real alternative and was beginning to contemplate the hoof. He never lost the ball in these cases.BRAINLESS Birdy "OPINION"1:
He is attracted to the ball like a magnet. No matter where he is, he drives himself close to the ball.
AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE, without realizing not only that this is not always the best option
(like for instance: where are his teammates? Is dropping deep to collect the responsibility of another player, like the no6? Is that move needed by the play? etc)
but even worse, by getting so close he OBSTRUCTS the pass to any other teammate.
Frenkie played no.6 and was out of position A LOT.
Here are some statistics from the game: https://fbref.com/en/matches/800b362a/Mallorca-Barcelona-January-2-2022-La-Liga
He completed 7 out of 7 "long" passes, only Pique, Garcia and ter Stegen completed more. Frenkie completed 6/10 and Nico 1/4
He completed 27 out of 29 "medium" passes, only Frenkie completed more (28 out of 29). Nico completed 21 of 22.
He completed 28 out of 29 "short" passes, Frenkie completed 32/35 and Nico 23/25
Puig made 2 key passes (only Mingueza made more, 3), 7 passes into the final third and 4 progressive passes (only Pique made more). Nico had 0,7,1 and Frenkie 1,4,2 in these three stats.
Total distance of passes for Puig was 1164 yards, only Pique and Garcia had a higher distance, and Frenkie had a shorter distance despite playing 7 more passes overall. Nico had a shorter avg distance of passes than Puig, too.
He has these great last second bent, sharp, line breaking passes (Busquets specialty, don't know how to describe them) that he makes now and then. He also keeps an eye on the left hand side all the time and finds the overlapping LB or the winger a lot. He sees a lot more than you think.BRAINLESS Birdy "OPINION" 3:
Whenever he receives at his left interior position, or anywhere in the left half-space,
he has his body always half-turned to the right, and he 9 OUT OF 10 TIMES picks an easy pass to his RIGHT: a teammate free on that direction.
Sometimes that can be useful. But ONLY SOMETIMES.
The problem is he does this ALMOST ALL THE TIMES, WITHOUT any consideration WHETHER that's the right pass to progress play.
Like a brainless automaton, he will always pick the free man on his right, who in many cases can be behind him, or even next to him.
The result is killing plays that had progressed well until him.
(I amazed that Bobo your bias in his favor makes you think that the 'Iniesta-like' (sic) pass at 2.28' was a good pass.
Ilias is already driving, he passed the ball to him with the hope to play an one two, and Mavericky kills the idea and the play by passing it backwards to a free teammate)
That "Busquets" sequence is exactly that, one touch pass behind the press because he scanned before and was positioned correctly. He does that a lot.BRAINLESS Birdy "OPINION" 4:
Second variation of the same problem.
He can't orient himself in space like Xavi once did, or like Busi still does (Having scanned the space beforehand) in order to play an one-touch pass between the lines.
On the contrary, he very often takes 2 or 3 touches to do his thing (pick the free man on his right), and that means that he takes AWEFUL LOT time on the ball, and HENCE he SLOWS DOWN PLAY through another way
It's astonishing that some are tricked by his 'electric' kind of stepping or running to believe that he does things in 'electric' speed as well.
No, it's stylistics, and the actual time he takes on the ball is awful lot.
Xavi or Busi never had an 'electric' style, but they were passing the damn ball fast without redundant touches!
lol that happened a lot? The free kick last game was very wrongly given by Lahoz it looked to me, that was perfectly done by Puig.
Yeah shouldn't even argue here, just let this stand on its own.PS: BRAINLESS Birdy AUTOMATON Highlight:
People talking about Dembele's IQ, and didn't see this?
Look at an exemplar brainless automaton move at 0.24' by Mavericky that shows his football IQ:
Jutgla drives with the ball into dangerous position just outside the box, with Araujo and Luuk close to him.
A shot from there would be a decent option, or a good pass can put either of them into 1 v 1 with the keeper.
But NO! Jutgla is not allowed to any of the options above, as Mavericky pops up in front of him, and sweetly steals the ball from his teammate's feet to kick it back into a pass that kills the play entirely.
LOLWHAT A FUCKING MOVE!
