Sergio Busquets

[Truthist]

Mascherano is the best holding midfielder in the world. Busquets skills are more suited a little further forward except he has so many of the necessary skills redundant to succeed there.

 

[Gasgas]

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A DM is madee up of D and M. Busquets is veery good with the "M" but poor with "D"
If you take his average score and compare it with other DMs i think there are quite a few who have surpased him, masche inclusive.
But for barca he is the best since he has a high score with the "M"

 

[Hamzah]

Busquets defending is more subtle, but still just as effective especially if we are playing high pressure. while mascherano is more noticeable and spectacular. While we have possesion sergio is better with the ball by some distance. He gets the ball and moves it on quickly and knows what pass to make, often first time passes aswell. Mascherano slows our play down and can't play aswell in tight areas as busquets, a disadvantage when the other team presses high.

Where does this myth come from that busquets can't defend? have you watched barca these past 6 years?

 

[DrPepper]

Where does this myth come from that busquets can't defend? have you watched barca these past 6 years?

Well, you already explained it quite well: Busquets defending is more subtle while mascherano is more noticeable and spectacular.

People see Mascherano doing crunching sliding tackles and physically dominating opponents while Busquets keeps everything low profile so it's kinda obvious who is the people's favorite.

 

[Heisenberg is cooking]

Masch is a fantastic player who always gives everything for the team. Never gets credit for anything. Wish Him the best today. Come on!

 

[DrPepper]

Masch is a fantastic player who always gives everything for the team. Never gets credit for anything. Wish Him the best today. Come on!

What? He even gets praised when he has a bad match.

 

[Heisenberg is cooking]

That is not my impression. He always gets sour comments because he isnt a world class cb, people torget that he actually play as a dm - where he is world class. I have seen many disrespectfull comments about masch though the years.

 

[Mido]

Truth be told, The position in which Busquets plays at Barcelona is not really what I would describe as a defensive midfielder.

 

[Heisenberg is cooking]

Can you elaborate mido? And do you think busquets would do just as good in other clubs?

 

[mark1nhu]

He is actually more like a CM.

But we all know standard definitions does not apply to Barca.

We are just different and special.

 

[KingMessi]

A DM for us is basically a deep lying central midfielder.

 

[Jombi]

Busquets defending is more subtle, but still just as effective especially if we are playing high pressure. while mascherano is more noticeable and spectacular. While we have possesion sergio is better with the ball by some distance. He gets the ball and moves it on quickly and knows what pass to make, often first time passes aswell. Mascherano slows our play down and can't play aswell in tight areas as busquets, a disadvantage when the other team presses high.

Where does this myth come from that busquets can't defend? have you watched barca these past 6 years?

I wholeheartedly agree with this. Mascherano is more of the classic "English style" player that many people prefer in the DM role, as this is what English based commentaries are used to, no disrespect to Mascherano, he is our biggest leader in the team by some distance, but he aint no Busquets. We simply lose so much midfield dominance without Busquets. Mascherano "dominates" in the sense that he makes these spectacular tackles, but we dont dominate the midfield by relying on those skills.

 

[Gasgas]

I wholeheartedly agree with this. Mascherano is more of the classic "English style" player that many people prefer in the DM role, as this is what English based commentaries are used to, no disrespect to Mascherano, he is our biggest leader in the team by some distance, but he aint no Busquets. We simply lose so much midfield dominance without Busquets. Mascherano "dominates" in the sense that he makes these spectacular tackles, but we dont dominate the midfield by relying on those skills.

If we don't dominate possession we can dominate tackles in midfield

 

[Truthist]

Busquets defending is more subtle, but still just as effective especially if we are playing high pressure. while mascherano is more noticeable and spectacular. While we have possesion sergio is better with the ball by some distance. He gets the ball and moves it on quickly and knows what pass to make, often first time passes aswell. Mascherano slows our play down and can't play aswell in tight areas as busquets, a disadvantage when the other team presses high.

Where does this myth come from that busquets can't defend? have you watched barca these past 6 years?

Busquets being better in tight areas can be an achilles heels of his. How many times does he hog the ball in silly areas hoping the ref comes to his rescue.

Busquets is much better in short 1 touch passing and his reading of the game is very good.

Anything else Mascherano trumps all over him. Against top teams who have fast players I feel more confident with Mascherano than Busquets.

 

[Truthist]

That is not my impression. He always gets sour comments because he isnt a world class cb, people torget that he actually play as a dm - where he is world class. I have seen many disrespectfull comments about masch though the years.

Well you make an interesting comment. The flawed tactic of playing Mascherano at CB was the consequence of Busquets being hopeless there.

Pep tried him for a couple of games and he just could not cope so Mascherano was unfairly moved there.