Xavi Hernández

[serghei]

Rest players in the league vs Cadiz and have a go at them. They have major weaknesses too.

 

[malvolio]

Balde particularly changed the game when he came on.

Hope that he doesn't decide to 'rotate' for the second leg.

He did nothing mate. Came fresh at the tail end and looked lively. But didn't change anything

 

[Luftstalag14]

Still clueless.

 

[Behrox]

Dropped the ball big time with that atrocious defensive setup.

Kounde starting at CB after playing RB almost all season, vice versa for Araujo. Fucking Alonso instead of Christensen and Alba starting instead of in form Balde.

Fully fucked BACK

 

[ajnotkeith]

WE were fucking screweeed by the refs and idiots

Fucking garbage Goals to concede

They conceded from a corner and an accidental cross/shot goal.

 

[vegitot]

No away goal rule so this isn't a bad result. Still how the team makes Fred look like a beast truly worry me.

 

[wisconsincule]

SMH. I am so extremely annoyed that he started Alonso-Alba

When he noticed that Rashford wasn’t playing wide he should have flipped Araujo/Kounde too.

 

[jamrock]

I bit wobbly for a stretch, but decent result overall, should never have started Alonso.

 

[serghei]

Not that crazy he rotated a bit because we played a very physical game vs Villareal on Sunday.

To carry on 3 fronts you need a deep squad, and ours is super light.

Rotate vs Cadiz and have a go at them in the return leg. Although our midfield with no Pedri, no Gavi and no Busi is gonna be 2nd rate.

 

[JamDav1982]

Nah it was ridiculous to change that defence.

Balde been rotated plenty already and CB is about least taxing position.

Those players were not 'rested'.

 

[KingLeo10]

Xavi could shoot a man in broad daylight and Serghei would blame the man shot for going out during the day instead of night.

Come on man, he fucked up a stable defense. As soon as we had the usual back 4, we were the superior team with more chances created.

 

[serghei]

We need to be smart about this. We are in the Copa semis too.

 

[te amo barca]

has to play the usual back 4 in the return leg. Rotate vs Cadiz if you want to. I have no idea what our midfield is going to be assuming Pedri is out. De Jong - Kessie - Roberto? Scary stuff.

 

[JamDav1982]

We need to be smart about this. We are in the Copa semis too.

Smart about what?

Usual Serghie nonsense.

 

[DonAK]

Sorry, but it made no fucking sense to rotate in this game. You play your best XI and rotate vs. Cadiz who we should beat easily. We played four days ago. Not like it was 48 hours ago.

Just very stupid.