Xavi Hernández

[Birdy]

More images and tactics:

There is no one better than Pep in the world in breaking buses.

Here is how Pep breaks down both 5-4-1 and 5-3-2 we struggle with so much.

1) 5-4-1:

That's how we should have approached Mallorca game

2) 5-3-2:

That's how we should go against Inter this week
This is a 3-diamond-3, which is close to the 3-box-3 that Xavi used.
But with significant difference: the 'shuttlers' of the diamond are either side of Inter's interior, hence they can drag them out wide messing up the compactness of their md

 

[Iniesta Ultra]

never forget Xavi's words last year "when the midfield is closed"

 

[evilhita666]

Looks like history is repeating itself.
Last year Koeman was done by October and it looks like Xavi will be done too.
Last year I told people we would be in EL and that's what happened. Looks like this is going to happen this year too. Inzaghi will play eight at the back if he has to.
Time to bring in a proper coach of we go out of CL. Hire Tuchel in a temporary basis and see 8f he's a good fit. If not recoup in the summer and look for a proper coach. Also we need to upgrade our so called DNA or style. You are not going to win anything with this putty patty bullshit football. Look how Pep has evolved over the years. Xavi is stuck 8n time. No way Pep is coming back here even if Laporta begs him.
Like to hear opinions on who would replace Xavi.

This was Tuchel's plan all along it seems... Now we know why all of Chelsea's targets signed for us, hahaha...

 

[Jadentheman]

Tucheliban and Barca's style do not mix. SO don't even utter his name

 

[malvolio]

Birdy giving us a lesson in tactics with City smashing some farmers at home as reference. Jesus fucking Christ

 

[Nazario1985]

That's how we should go against Inter this week
This is a 3-diamond-3, which is close to the 3-box-3 that Xavi used.
But with significant difference: the 'shuttlers' of the diamond are either side of Inter's interior, hence they can drag them out wide messing up the compactness of their md

Yes, sure because all it takes is looking at some images from a completely different team playing against less than competent opponents ...

Wonder why he didn't broke Inter or Chelsea Bus that easy in CL

And inter wasn't even parking as per say! they are just a defensive team who conceded 13 goals in 8 games in the Italian league ... so what bus are we talking about?

FCB just created shit, so we got shit to score

 

[Birdy]

Birdy giving us a lesson in tactics with City smashing some farmers at home as reference. Jesus fucking Christ

Dudy, you have to understand some football, because you lack seriously in that department
Tactics are tactics, sit down and read
Educate yourself

Yes, sure because all it takes is looking at some images from a completely different team playing against less than competent opponents ...

Wonder why he didn't broke Inter or Chelsea Bus that easy in CL

And inter wasn't even parking as per say! they are just a defensive team who conceded 13 goals in 8 games in the Italian league ... so what bus are we talking about?

FCB just created shit, so we got shit to score

Inter in Italy play possession based football and concedes a lot on the counter.
Nothing to do with them parking the bus against Barca

 

[malvolio]

Dudy, you have to understand some football, because you lack seriously in that department
Tactics are tactics, sit down and read
Educate yourself



Inter in Italy play possession based football and concedes a lot on the counter.
Nothing to do with them parking the bus against Barca

What next? You gonna show us a porn movie and teach us how to fuck like pornstars?

 

[Andresito]

What next? You gonna show us a porn movie and teach us how to fuck like pornstars?

Think [MENTION=20218]Horatio[/MENTION] and [MENTION=23192]Messigician[/MENTION] would be interested in this.

 

[Temptation]

Think [MENTION=20218]Horatio[/MENTION] and [MENTION=23192]Messigician[/MENTION] would be interested in this.

Horatio only for the Latina categories probably........ XD

 

[Jaguar]

This is why I hate Koeman so much. Even though Xavi has been in charge for nearly a year. Koeman damaged players mentally by quite a long lasting effect for sure and even though Xavi has changed it a lot positively there is still definitely some damage from a manager teaching the players zero. All they could learn from was matches and its lucky Pedri was that young the matches were enough to learn.

 

[malvolio]

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This is why I hate Koeman so much. Even though Xavi has been in charge for nearly a year. Koeman damaged players mentally by quite a long lasting effect for sure and even though Xavi has changed it a lot positively there is still definitely some damage from a manager teaching the players zero. All they could learn from was matches and its lucky Pedri was that young the matches were enough to learn.

Man, I swear I've seen articles praising Koeman on how hard we trained and how they went an hour early before training etc. And the forum clapping like excited seals on how good we have it.

I bet if Xavi is sacked tomorrow, likes of FDJ or Alba will say they weren't doing shit in training with Xavi.

This is why I've never believed this shite about players not training enough at this club.

Koeman was a bum, but he didn't damage some lazy washed up Bosnian, who wasn't Barca level even in his prime.

 

[Barcilliant]

Man, I swear I've seen articles praising Koeman on how hard we trained and how they went an hour early before training etc. And the forum clapping like excited seals on how good we have it.

I bet if Xavi is sacked tomorrow, likes of FDJ or Alba will say they weren't doing shit in training with Xavi.

This is why I've never believed this shite about players not training enough at this club.

Koeman was a bum, but he didn't damage some lazy washed up Bosnian, who wasn't Barca level even in his prime.

Exactly. Any player who falls out with the manager will inevitably bad mouth him.

 

[BusiTheKing]

I don't think our tactics are terrible. We have pretty good intensity too.

What we need are more and better coordinated moves in the final third. If we executed our crosses like City do, with the understanding, the timing and the runs, we could have won that game 4-1 easily. We don't produce enough chances, but we have loads of almost chances. The road from here to actual chances isn't as long as it might seem.

More coordination, more "dumb" belief, a bit more aggression and then it's chemistry from there.

 

[malvolio]

I don't think our tactics are terrible. We have pretty good intensity too.

What we need are more and better coordinated moves in the final third. If we executed our crosses like City do, with the understanding, the timing and the runs, we could have won that game 4-1 easily. We don't produce enough chances, but we have loads of almost chances. The road from here to actual chances isn't as long as it might seem.

More coordination, more "dumb" belief, a bit more aggression and then it's chemistry from there.

Dembele's Barca career has been riddled with "almost chances". We'll be sitting here waiting for him another 5 years, to finally produce something worthwhile.

There is a also the good point made about chemistry. I don't see what Lewa, Dembele and Raphinha have in common. Apart from the language barrier, there is also the fact they come from different cultural backgrounds. For all the talk about amigos over the past 15 years, we actually had good chemistry between players, especially attacking players. And that was mainly because said players were also friends/buddies outside the pitch or where coming from similar backgrounds(South Americans, Spaniards etc)