Madridistas All Over Copa And Euros Collide While Colombians Dominate - The Other Teams Thread

Before Guardiola*

 

Messi was way more responsible for that group's success than Guardiola. They won a CL with freaking Luis Enrique as their coach.

 

If Modric is 10, I would give Xavi a solid 6.5 considering his entire career. 8 during his Messi years.

 

Disagree, he was a very good player, it didn't last very long but for a few seasons there he was part of the best midfield in the world, for the best team at the time and arguably one of best squads to ever be put together.

 

In terms of player profile Xavi was much closer to Kroos. Certainly not the flashiest nor did he have the acceleration+agility to carry the ball forward but he made the game tick for Barcelona.
A major difference compared to Kroos is that he used to make those clever runs off the ball.
A staggering stat btw: he had 23 assists in 2008-2009 in La Liga alone (and 16 the following season).

 

I wouldn't say they got 7 easier games waiting for them, they need to face Bayern, and Dortmund away, they also need to face Benfica away and that isn't an easy game(1W , 2D, 1L).

The fact that they lost in the first games it means also they can't rotate too much, and it's also help us in the La Liga. if they wouldn't lose to Monaco, Flick would made rotations vs Young Boys* instead of Osasona.

*Young Boys are much weaker than than Osasona.

 

Glad to see PSG lose games in the Champions League. Many of their fans blamed Mbappe for their failures in the champions league and have been nonstop hyping the team chemistry under Enrique and calling all their players world class.

Let’s see how they do without a leader on the pitch

 

And from Negreira.

 

Enrique handicapped them even further by kicking Dembele off the squad list for the game their only WC attacker

 

Girona have scored their first ever CL goal.

 

But nobody really knows what was behind it. Only that they had an argument over a selfish play by Dembele in a game they had already won by a big margin. If this was in private then there is no reason for him to have excluded him from the squad putting QSG at a disadvantage, unless it got personal/physical. If it happened infront of the whole team then it depends on how the conversation went.

What we do know is that Enrique is a weirdo and a control freak while Dembele has 2 braincells but there has been no indication from his previous stints that Dembele is the sort that will verbally disrespect his coach while there is plenty of examples where Enrique acts all authoritarian.

 

Girona collapsing completely

 

Gazzaniga rectifying his dumb mistake by saving the penalty

 

The players that don't fulfill their potential these days are lazy as hell. That's always been the case, but then you'd have players like Cassano and Balotelli who were interesting characters and not just withering away eating pizza and playing Fortnite.

 

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This is considered a slap on the wrist.

 

Here, let me cheer you up:

A number of Culers and some in the media are questioning why Flick HEAVILY rotated against Osasuna away, rather than doing some rotation at home vs Alaves, and then more at home vs Young Boys.

It is questionable, strategically, to have rotated heavily, on the road, against the strongest side of the 3 fixtures. Some see it as an unforced error.

We'll have to see.

 

Pretty much. I didn't post it but in response to the idea that of having the stadium closed for the next Madrid derby, etc., the punishment has to be consquential enough to be a deterent.

The stopping the game and teams going to the lockerrooms backfired on Real Madrid so that of course doesn't help and when you have half measures like "partial" stadium closures all you do embolden the behavior because I doubt this is going make these cavemen reconsider or have second thoughts about doing this type of thing (again).