Xavi Hernández

[FCBfan22]

Has 0 in-game managment skills. No changes when we started to fall apart.

Against a piss poor Napoli that was there for the taking. With a decent manager, this is 0-2 at least.

 

[Loki]

Letting Felix and Raphina warm up around minute 50, bring them minute 81 and 86. When Lewy scored, something in his head must have short circuited to keep playing with exhausted players. The result was, only Napoli played since minute 65. Seriously, just fuck off Xavi.

 

[Horatio]

We might do fairly well if napoli decides not to sit back.

[Miguel] Xavi and his entourage have been desperately looking for a 'rat' in the dressing room that has been leaking secrets to the press. At some point, they went through everyone's Whatsapp messages to check if they have been talking to certain journalists.


Finally some entertainment from Barcelona. It's like The Departed(copied from Infernal Affairs). Who's the mole? 🍿 🍹

You followed up on my infernal affairs recommendation. One of my fav movies.

 

[Givenchy]

Is this guy aware he's allowed to make substitutions? His ingame management is the worst I've ever seen from a manager at this level

 

[FCMessi]

insisting on Christensen as the holding midfield

 

[ajnotkeith]

So it turns out at the end they actually had higher xG than us and the only big chance of the game. We finished with 0.72 xG (basically actually created almost nothing).
Xavi will definitely say we deserved to win and we created more chances as an excuse but it isn't even true. Their 30 minute burst at the end was apparently more than we did all game.

 

[ajnotkeith]

Xavi: "We dominated and we deserved to win. They scored from the only chance they had all game, it's a real shame. This is the Champions League."

Lol.

 

[Horatio]

insisting on Christensen as the holding midfield

He fell apart after 20 min

 

[Horatio]

So it turns out at the end they actually had higher xG than us and the only big chance of the game. We finished with 0.72 xG (basically actually created almost nothing).
Xavi will definitely say we deserved to win and we created more chances as an excuse but it isn't even true. Their 30 minute burst at the end was apparently more than we did all game.

Isn’t the 0.72 inflated because of the osimhen goal? He was one on one with ter stegen who still had to come out. Like a penalty almost.

 

[delancey]

@Loki which also begs the question, are certain players unfit for 90 minutes, and if so, why is Xavi allowing it? We were running on fumes after 60 min! Napoli was allowed back into the game, and the subs came much much later. Very frustrating to watch.

 

[Joan]

Isn’t the 0.72 basically only the osimhen goal? He was one on one with ter stegen who still had to come out. Like a penalty almost.

Osimhen goal is 0.45
Simeone had a blocked shot worth 0.12
Anguissa also had one worth 0.14

Those are the major shots.

 

[ajnotkeith]

Isn’t the 0.72 inflated because of the osimhen goal? He was one on one with ter stegen who still had to come out. Like a penalty almost.

They had 0.92 xG. The Osimhen chance is probably worth .5 or .6 (which still counts btw, they created it from open play).

 

[FCMessi]

installing Christensen as the holding midfield

He fell apart after 20 min

Not Christensen's fault Xavi keep hallucinating prime Busquet out of Christensen's ass.

 

[Horatio]

Osimhen goal is 0.45
Simeone had a blocked shot worth 0.12
Anguissa also had one worth 0.14

Those are the major shots.

So we did have way more chances

 

[ajnotkeith]

Osimhen goal is 0.45
Simeone had a blocked shot worth 0.12
Anguissa also had one worth 0.14

Those are the major shots.

Essentially they actually created more than we did despite our supposed domination.

Clown manager.