Xavi Hernández

[CatalinR10]

Maestro

 

[CatalinR10]

 

[Theconomist]

confirming what we've been saying for a while, there are a handfull of forward passes at best and they're outside the box. Most are sideways or to the back.

 

[Hamzah]

passing forwards when the team is parking the bus will give the ball away... xavi des the right thing by stretching them and surprising them by suddenly changing the tempo once in a while which creates a chance, (pass to fabregas for example)

xavi ain't as good as he used to be but people are massively underestimating how important he is. we have no tempo to our game when he isn't playing.

 

[The Observer]

confirming what we've been saying for a while, there are a handfull of forward passes at best and they're outside the box. Most are sideways or to the back.

Nice armchair analysis as usual but when he has essentially 3 other attacking midfielders in the form of Iniesta, Cesc and Messi infront of him, logic dictates that Xavi must have a different role and can't occupy the same spaces and make the same passes. Needless to say that the pass of the game that created a legit goal came from Xavi. Not Iniesta, not Cesc, not Messi.

 

[barcanuck]

Nice armchair analysis as usual but when he has essentially 3 other attacking midfielders in the form of Iniesta, Cesc and Messi infront of him, logic dictates that Xavi must have a different role and can't occupy the same spaces and make the same passes. Needless to say that the pass of the game that created a legit goal came from Xavi. Not Iniesta, not Cesc, not Messi.

That legit pass would of been made by Cesc or Iniesta had they been playing in that position all game. The demise of Barca and Spain are both due to Xavi's offensive decline. That's clear as mud to me watching Bayern, Real romp our midfield late last season and Brazil overrun Spain in Confed Cup final. I just hope this is the last year we have Xavi starting every single big game over Cesc and Iniesta in that position.

 

[BerkeleyBernie]

Nice armchair analysis as usual but when he has essentially 3 other attacking midfielders in the form of Iniesta, Cesc and Messi in front of him, logic dictates that Xavi must have a different role and can't occupy the same spaces and make the same passes. Needless to say that the pass of the game that created a legit goal came from Xavi. Not Iniesta, not Cesc, not Messi.

+1 Exactement, mon frère, exactement.
(The hipsterism is strong in this one.)

 

[The Observer]

That legit pass would of been made by Cesc or Iniesta had they been playing in that position all game. The demise of Barca and Spain are both due to Xavi's offensive decline. That's clear as mud to me watching Bayern, Real romp our midfield late last season and Brazil overrun Spain in Confed Cup final. I just hope this is the last year we have Xavi starting every single big game over Cesc and Iniesta in that position.

It is "clear as mud" that Barca conceded 7 goals to Bayern because of Xavi's offensive decline? Okay.

 

[CatalinR10]

Xavi was the Barcelona player who ran most in the game against Man City: 11,6 km. Cesc, who played 85 min, ran 11,3 km [via @vida_blaugrana]

Forever young

 

[Djab]

And then people say Xavi is very old to play. And Cesc is lazy.

 

[abual3bed1]

This is what happens when he plays once a week.

 

[Sasuke85]

We should let Xavi play less to make the best use of his ability. Nowadays Xavi should play only 50% of the number of games he used to play in his prime. Only in difficult games we needs him. And he should use his free time to pass his skills and experience to younger players, like Sergi Roberto. I would like to see Xavi becoming our coach in the near future. He is awesome

 

[Hamzah]

Xavi as coach is bad imo. Good leader and he would have great trash talk in press conferences but he is too stuck to la masia prnciples and not tactically flexible

 

[barcanuck]

Xavi as coach is bad imo. Good leader and he would have great trash talk in press conferences but he is too stuck to la masia prnciples and not tactically flexible

Um so was Pep, I fully belive Xavi is going to be a great coach one day.

 

[Hamzah]

Pep is one of the most tactically flexible coaches ever. Never afraid to try new things or change. Xavi would be Tito with better leadership IMO, we could do better. He would just play 433 with the same players and play predictable tiki Taka.

Although Xavi does have that bArca pedigree like pep that you can't get with a normal manager