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Great example. Barcelona’s biggest problem is not using the striker in the press. Raphinha can easily force Konate to make a pass instead of Gordon needing to. It’s forcing them to play but at their terms. Use Raphinha and let Gordon stay on Valverde.
Too immature.
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The reason I was so high on signing Amadou Onana for Barcelona is because we need to focus on signing players that are not just competent technically but also physically excellent. Our physical floor is poor & it will hurt our ability to compete all-round.
Needs to change.
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Like Arne Slot said, there’s no point of tactics if you can’t win your duels. Our dueling ability in this squad is absolutely shocking. Arteta prioritised improving the physical floor & turning Arsenal into a team with physical monsters from the beginning & look at them now.
Villa might not be a giant but they’re incredibly smart in big games. Emery is a great KO coach & loves strategising vs big teams. He has an underdog mentality & loves preparing detailed game plans for big matches. He fits the profile of Flick’s kryptonite managers.
Curious.
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Rotos de dolor, con un nudo en la garganta y sin poder creer que esto sea verdad, desde el CD Tenerife comunicamos el trágico fallecimiento, este martes, día 3 de noviembre de 2026, a las 8:00 horas, de Jesús de Miguel Alameda.
No hay palabras de consuelo; no hay absolutamente nada que mitigue este sentimiento repleto de tristeza. Estamos junto a su desolada familia, junto a sus seres queridos, junto a todo el tinerfeñismo que hoy llora por este cruel desenlace.
La familia de Jesús de Miguel agradece todas y cada una de las muestras de apoyo recibidas, e igualmente solicita, de corazón, máximo respeto a su privacidad, en estos terribles momentos.
🖤 DEP
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ما الذي ينقص برشلونة للفوز بدوري أبطال أوروبا❓
🚨🚨بيب غوارديولا: دوري أبطال أوروبا بطولة تدمر المشاريع وآمل ألا يكون هذا هو الحال هنا.
لا يجب أن نفكر في أنه لمجرد عدم الفوز بها، فإن كل ما تم بناؤه ليس جيداً.
الدوري هو البطولة التي تمنحك الثبات والاستمرارية. أما في دوري الأبطال، فالمطلوب هو أن تصل إلى المراحل النهائية في حالة جيدة، دون وجود إصابات في الفريق، كما أن تأثير التحكيم ضخم وهائل في هذه البطولة.
لذلك، الشيء المهم هو أن يكون العمل اليومي ممتازاً، وأن يستمر الفريق في النمو والتحسن، وألا يعتقدوا أنه لمجرد عدم الوصول إلى نهائي دوري الأبطال أو عدم التتويج به، فإن الموسم يعتبر سيئاً.
ما يحدد الأساس لتقييم ما إذا كان الموسم جيداً أم لا هو بطولة الدوري.
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Think Iraola deserves far more credit than the general consensus seems to be right now, he’s lost ONE match at Liverpool, to City. They’re 3 wins from 3 in the UCL, on 15 points after 8 games (71-ish point pace), utilising Nyoni, Koumas, Rio, McConnell. They were one of the teams whose transfer business was most worrying, Araujo’s done well but RB, LB, central midfield, he’s managed those issues near-perfectly. Still so much to be improved on even from a coaching POV but in a transition season with a sub optimal “rebuild” in the summer, you couldn’t have asked for much more.
I’d agree with this if our performances in the KOs are not good enough. Criticism shouldn’t be condescending. Respecting an individual is part of criticism. You can acknowledge Flick raising the ceiling of this team while saying he might not be able to take us there.
Simple.
This is so apt. There’s no other way to look at it. I said in a previous post that Flick is just another step in the right direction, but he’s not the man to take us to the promised land. How can he be that man when he keeps failing to beat big teams?
When his original contract expires in 2028, he should walk away without even considering the option of extending it for another year.
Simply does not apply in this context. This is a long established strategy since 2 seasons. We haven’t seen many goals in that manner this season because we’ve been pressing much better, blocking passing angles better & not allowing long switches. We didn’t do that vs Madrid
There seems to be an unwritten rule among coaches: they don't expose to the public the weaknesses of another team. It's very rare when a coach does it, to expose the other team verbally.
But Mourinho has now done it for 2 seasons in a row.
Last season, Benfica faced a Porto side that had won every game until then. Porto were playing well and dominating.
Then Mourinho held them to a 0-0 draw, in a game where Porto couldn't even create a big chance. He did this by letting the CBs have the ball and always focusing the pressure on the CDM, Alan Varela, to disrupt Porto's build up.
He explained this in a press conference, saying this is how you hold Porto down, and later even called them "easy to analyse".
And all of a sudden, this is how every team started playing against Porto (Moreirense started it straight away, in the following matchday). And the quality of Porto's game decreased massively.
Porto were still champions, in this case, but playing one of the most boring and pragmatic types of football that the country had ever seen, from the moment they faced Mourinho's Benfica in matchday 8.
And now he has broken that unwritten rule once again.
Mourinho beat Barcelona and explained to everyone that the way to break their high line is to have the midfielders running in behind, because their high line is not prepared to cover them.
I wonder if we're now going to see a lot of teams using their midfielders to exploit the space against Barcelona, and if that will have any big impact on Barcelona's win rate (which was 100% until now) for the rest of the season.
