Xavi Hernández

[Birdy]

Lol, La Liga is priority no1, what is so hard to understand? Rotate vs Betis and Sevilla, Villareal .

Just repeating the same nonsense. The squad lacks depth, so the players are likely to develop muscle injuries with such a hectic schedule. United away, Bilbao away, Madrid away soon in the next 3 weeks or so. Very tough.

Injuries are starting to pile up again. The 8 point lead we have can get cut down to 3-4 points very easily if you lose focus.

LaLiga is such a priority that he cannot fucking rest Dembele against the likes of might Girona?
GTFO dude

The truth is that he is insecure AF to play his 2nd-choice players, and then suddenly at one of the most important games of the season he has an epiphany "oh I need to do rotations, my starters are all on the verge of an injury"
LOL
Amateurish stuff

 

[serghei]

Are you really saying that a top-level game should have no goal chances and finish 0-0?

Many chances were created as a result of individual fuckups.

 

[Porque]

No need to rotate this game. Have to play your most athletic 11 against a top PL side. Not to mention a top coach who will in game adjust.

Cadiz is where you have room to flit, if need be.

Let's see how Xavi approaches the second league. I sense he undervalues this tournament for whatever reason.

 

[serghei]

LaLiga is such a priority that he cannot fucking rest Dembele against the likes of might Girona?
GTFO dude

The truth is that he is insecure AF to play his 2nd-choice players, and then suddenly at one of the most important games of the season he has an epiphany "oh I need to do rotations, my starters are all on the verge of an injury"
LOL
Amateurish stuff

You have to know your priorities. La Liga comes first, and if United had a chance for the league title they would do the same, prioritize the league.

Things would be different if the phase would be more advanced, like an EL semifinal.

 

[Birdy]

There is no way you see this and Xavi is right. Either he had to rotate beforehand (as I said), OR he should have persisted with his strongest 11 and taken any risk as he had been doing the last month

No middle way about it. It's either one or the other

Only Xavi apologists like Serghei, who is always on an apologetic mission, will deny that...

 

[KingLeo10]

value of shots is unrelated to whether they are on or off target

Imagine making statements like these and expecting to ever hold an actual job

 

[serghei]

He did take some risks and Pedri got a muscular injury. Would have been better if he rested Pedri too.

He sent out a good team, but some players like Kounde failed him big time.

 

[malvolio]

If hypothetically he would turn into the worst version of himself you're probably ready to throw something like "well, he has put in his weight already the whole first half of the season, time for others to step up now. He is off the hook."

If he is bad, he's bad. But I'm not playing that game as I'm past the Stegen subject.

 

[KingLeo10]

In Birdy's world, there is no difference in value between off and on target shots

The state of this lad

 

[serghei]

He could not rotate before the United game because we had a must win tough game vs Villareal.

 

[malvolio]

He could not rotate before the United game because we had a must win tough game vs Villareal.

Here I'm in agreement with you. Xavi and club are desperate for a LL win after money spent, levers and CL fiasco. And tbf would be first real trophy this team wins. A crap LL but still.

 

[Barcilliant]

LaLiga is such a priority that he cannot fucking rest Dembele against the likes of might Girona?
GTFO dude

The truth is that he is insecure AF to play his 2nd-choice players, and then suddenly at one of the most important games of the season he has an epiphany "oh I need to do rotations, my starters are all on the verge of an injury"
LOL
Amateurish stuff

Exactly.

Xavi apologists and fan boys come up with the most stupid excuses.

Even with Al Saad Xavi was a flop in the Asian Champs league. Before the Utd tie he was moaning about getting difficult opposition. Total tool. Too bad Laporta will waste another three seasons on this bum.

 

[Birdy]

He did take some risks and Pedri got a muscular injury. Would have been better if he rested Pedri too.

He sent out a good team, but some players like Kounde failed him big time.

True, he should have fielded Juvenil A team because his priority is LaLiga

Dude, either you are the biggest troll ever existed, or you have serious problems developing an argument without becoming ridiculous

In Birdy's world, there is no difference in value between off and on target shots

The state of this lad

SHOT VALUE 101 for Dummies:
the value of a shot has nothing to do with how the shot ended. You can skyrocket a shot Infront of an empty net, or you bullet one in the top corner from the halfway line. The first is a big chance, the second is not...

I assume you have a rudimentary IQ to get this and you are simply playing contrarian just to annoy me,
but maybe you don't.... Sure you won't get any job in your life if you can't understand that simple thing

 

[delancey]

He could not rotate before the United game because we had a must win tough game vs Villareal.

I agree but he could rotate against Cadiz

 

[serghei]

Juvenil A?

Alba played great vs Sevilla, then was rotated vs Villareal, played today, not a big deal. Alonso scored a goal, stop overreating. Some of the worst players in this game were the normal starters, like Kounde, Lewa.