Xavi Hernández
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Most of them did..
Temptation
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Does Roque's girlfriend count? I mean she knows how to handle a ball or two.....
Birdy
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| Xavi's entourage is surprised by Joan Laporta's words that the team needs to improve their physical aspect & the coach's entourage says, "We'll see in January" in response to if Flick will improve it. They believe that the work of physical trainer, Ivan Torres is 10/10 and that the team cannot be improved physically more than it is now. [@fansjavimiguel]
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Bookmark this, because we 'will see in January' indeed and it's gonna be so much laughter
| Xavi's entourage is surprised by Joan Laporta's words that the team needs to improve their physical aspect & the coach's entourage says, "We'll see in January" in response to if Flick will improve it. They believe that the work of physical trainer, Ivan Torres is 10/10 and that the team cannot be improved physically more than it is now. [@fansjavimiguel]
LMAOL
Bookmark this, because we 'will see in January' indeed and it's gonna be so much laughter
Messigician
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@KingLeo10 will also remember this date@ManagingBarca
| Xavi's entourage is surprised by Joan Laporta's words that the team needs to improve their physical aspect & the coach's entourage says, "We'll see in January" in response to if Flick will improve it. They believe that the work of physical trainer, Ivan Torres is 10/10 and that the team cannot be improved physically more than it is now. [@fansjavimiguel]
LMAOL
Bookmark this, because we 'will see in January' indeed and it's gonna be so much laughter
Messi983
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There is also this.
Joan Laporta, in 'Barça One', insisted that the team would improve its physical preparation with Hansi Flick on the bench. One of the arguments he gave, however, does not pass the cotton test. He stated that “this year we have seen how in the 60th minute the performance dropped in many games and we did not finish the way we wanted.” And he was so excited about the information that the sports commission had given him. Well, it is a perception far removed from reality. Xavi's Barça scored 42 of their 79 goals in the League, starting from that 60th minute. Or, what is the same, in the last third of the game was when Barça made the difference. So much so that 36 of the 85 points were achieved thanks to that final half hour.
Furthermore, the team's highest scoring quarter of an hour was, precisely, the last. From the 80th minute until injury time, Xavi's men scored a whopping 23 goals. Many of them, signifying victory. Well, just as Barça scored more than half of the goals in the last half hour, they only conceded a third of the total goals in the League against them. Specifically, 15 out of 44.
What's happening? That the two debacles against Girona, the two defeats against Real and the chaos against Villarreal came in the last breath. Those 10 painful goals in those five specific games give the sensation of the physical disaster of the last minutes. As much as we now want to justify Xavi's dismissal due to his physical preparation, that was not a problem. Yes it could be, as the coach said in his day, “the basic physical condition.” That is to say, here we do not have Haaland, Tchouámeni and many other players from the European elite who, just by looking at the card, you already become muscularly self-conscious.
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Joan Laporta, in 'Barça One', insisted that the team would improve its physical preparation with Hansi Flick on the bench. One of the arguments he gave, however, does not pass the cotton test. He stated that “this year we have seen how in the 60th minute the performance dropped in many games and we did not finish the way we wanted.” And he was so excited about the information that the sports commission had given him. Well, it is a perception far removed from reality. Xavi's Barça scored 42 of their 79 goals in the League, starting from that 60th minute. Or, what is the same, in the last third of the game was when Barça made the difference. So much so that 36 of the 85 points were achieved thanks to that final half hour.
Furthermore, the team's highest scoring quarter of an hour was, precisely, the last. From the 80th minute until injury time, Xavi's men scored a whopping 23 goals. Many of them, signifying victory. Well, just as Barça scored more than half of the goals in the last half hour, they only conceded a third of the total goals in the League against them. Specifically, 15 out of 44.
What's happening? That the two debacles against Girona, the two defeats against Real and the chaos against Villarreal came in the last breath. Those 10 painful goals in those five specific games give the sensation of the physical disaster of the last minutes. As much as we now want to justify Xavi's dismissal due to his physical preparation, that was not a problem. Yes it could be, as the coach said in his day, “the basic physical condition.” That is to say, here we do not have Haaland, Tchouámeni and many other players from the European elite who, just by looking at the card, you already become muscularly self-conscious.
La falacia del rendimiento a partir del minuto 60
Joan Laporta, en ‘Barça One’, insistió que el equipo mejoraría en la preparación física con Hansi Flick en el banquillo. Uno de los argumentos que dio, sin
www.mundodeportivo.com
Gnidrologist
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Their problem with physicality is not that they lack stamina, but lose most of the duels. Cast the soyboy out.
Messi983
Senior Member
But Laporta talked about team physically drop off after 60 minutes so I consider that a stamina problem.
We were never the most physical team and never will be but I think Xavi has improved us in that aspect and don't think it was as big problem as made out by his haters. But ofc Flick will improve us here when he doesn't even know yet who his physical coach will be and it's most likely he'll be choosen by the club. So yeah, we'll see.
During those 38 games in which Xavi's men finished champions, his team, according to 'Media Coach', ended up leading the statistics on distance traveled and no one covered more kilometers than Barça (114.2). Atlético, Girona, Real Sociedad, Athletic, Valencia and Celta followed in the classification. Real Madrid was last with an average of 106.9 kilometers per game.
This is one of the two great values that the different coaching staffs measure to analyze their physical preparation during the games. The second is the distance traveled at a speed greater than 21 km/h. Last season, Athletic traveled the most meters (7,419), followed by Barça, with 7,235. Both teams finished in the same positions in terms of sprints (441 m at +21km/h for Athletic compared to 423 for Barça). It seems evident that the physical preparation during the season in which the League was won was in line with the needs of the team to finish champion, so, in that aspect, there was no problem.
The same system that analyzed these metrics a year before ensures after finishing the current campaign that Barça has been second, although with practically identical numbers in terms of average distance traveled (114). Having 65% possession, higher than the previous year, is key to understanding this slight decrease. Yes, the descent is more important in terms of distance traveled at more than 21 km/h. Barça goes from 7,235 to 6,787.
This, they explain, is due to different factors, although the absence for too many months of footballers like Gavi, Balde or De Jong stands out, whose physical potential is beyond doubt and who stand out, among other things, in intense efforts. Despite everything, it is enough to see how Real Madrid, in this figure, is still below despite having won the League while no one doubts the work done by its physical trainer, the Italian Pintus.
We were never the most physical team and never will be but I think Xavi has improved us in that aspect and don't think it was as big problem as made out by his haters. But ofc Flick will improve us here when he doesn't even know yet who his physical coach will be and it's most likely he'll be choosen by the club. So yeah, we'll see.
During those 38 games in which Xavi's men finished champions, his team, according to 'Media Coach', ended up leading the statistics on distance traveled and no one covered more kilometers than Barça (114.2). Atlético, Girona, Real Sociedad, Athletic, Valencia and Celta followed in the classification. Real Madrid was last with an average of 106.9 kilometers per game.
This is one of the two great values that the different coaching staffs measure to analyze their physical preparation during the games. The second is the distance traveled at a speed greater than 21 km/h. Last season, Athletic traveled the most meters (7,419), followed by Barça, with 7,235. Both teams finished in the same positions in terms of sprints (441 m at +21km/h for Athletic compared to 423 for Barça). It seems evident that the physical preparation during the season in which the League was won was in line with the needs of the team to finish champion, so, in that aspect, there was no problem.
The same system that analyzed these metrics a year before ensures after finishing the current campaign that Barça has been second, although with practically identical numbers in terms of average distance traveled (114). Having 65% possession, higher than the previous year, is key to understanding this slight decrease. Yes, the descent is more important in terms of distance traveled at more than 21 km/h. Barça goes from 7,235 to 6,787.
This, they explain, is due to different factors, although the absence for too many months of footballers like Gavi, Balde or De Jong stands out, whose physical potential is beyond doubt and who stand out, among other things, in intense efforts. Despite everything, it is enough to see how Real Madrid, in this figure, is still below despite having won the League while no one doubts the work done by its physical trainer, the Italian Pintus.
malvolio
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But I thought many in here wanted us to be ruthless, like Madrid...
Fati_Future_BallonDor
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Not so ruthless 🦄
Messi983
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There is a difference between being ruthless and respectful to club legends.
You have to make business decisions that are the best for club's longterm future when it's time to make them. As a big amigo fan you will disagree but I think most people would say that Pique, Busi and Alba have overstayed at the club for a few years. Not only that, they were given big fat contracts that we are still paying now. And what it's worse we did nothing to even consider bringing competition and longterm replacements for them when they got up to age and decline was starting to become obvious.
As much shite as previous board gets I think most if not all legends under Rosell and Bartomeu have left the club as they deserved. But now in Laporta's second stint we have three of the biggest legends in three years leaving through back doors. It's not a question whether Xavi deserved to be sacked or not, it's how Laporta handled the whole situation. And he made Koeman and Messi even more dirty.
Messigician
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Looks happy again
Temptation
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Looks great. Management is so stressful.
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