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andrewbaba44:
I already gave up on spain

They are bad at pk

They are a good team but their style of play is making them look unserious

Any game that goes to pk in the semis Spain will loose, they should learn to kill chances during 90 minutes

Spain doesn't have a striker. That's their Achilles heels

swiz123:
Omo, this spanish goal keeper na pk wizard o... Teams should avoid playing penalties with spain o

Commentator said his dancing threw off Vargas who missed. After that mistake against Croatia, it come be like say some demon enter the guy. He's not put a foot wrong since that slip up

ddippset:
i like your analysis.

So what role would you recommend for him next season?

Starter?
Sub?
Bench?

Starter. He's been very consistent in this tournament and has shown with the right system, he's still a quality player

FirstbornWds:
You are right. Now, that brings us to ask, what exactly has Frankie being doing? The guy has been a box-box to player, a position that Koke seems to master well here. Maybe, just Maybe, Koeman will learn a thing or two from this

Frankie started as a double pivot with Bus and was trying to carry the ball from defense to attack. When we lost the ball, we were utterly exposed cause Pedri himself was also further up the same pitch. When Koeman stopped tinkering with that set-up and reverted to just Bus in that DM, we beat an Athletic Bilbao convincingly and almost won La Liga

We just need to need to just play with the same setup as Spain. Leave Bus in front of the defense. Allow De Jong to drop a little bit to move the ball from defense to attack. Him and Pedri can do this very well and are very good at pressing. No need of Messi dropping so deep to create chances. Then hopefully Aguero and Depay can get their shooting boots on. We'll be the team to beat next season

FirstbornWds:
I honestly thought I was the only one that noticed that.


Busquests is so bossing this midfield. Just imagine the confidence Pedri and Koke have going forward.


The best captain for this NT since Casillas left. See the maturity of play abeg

He has been back to back man of the match and is arguably has been the best player on he field today.

Spain struggled without him playing Rodri when the tournament started because he had covid. Since he came back, the team has functioned much better and it's no coincidence he's bagging the awards while the team seemed to have clicked since then.

He's playing well because Enrique knows he's quality and not playing him out of position or making him press. He's job is to beat the press, break the lines and protect that back 4. Making him to press or advance the ball doesn't make sense where players like Koke, Pedro are available.

This are one of the key reasons why we've been struggling. Having coaches that can't utilise our players and won't play to our strengths

Seriously, screw Valverde for the rot he and that clueless Bart brought to this club.

See as Bus is controlling the midfield, putting in man of the match and playing like his old self cause he has a coach who understands his role and is allowing him to express himself by sitting in front of the defence, dictating play and not wondering off chasing the ball, being a box to box midfielder.

Busquet was never a CM. Play to his strength by having ball carrying midfielders like Pedri and co do the job. He's a one touch player, not a ball carrying one

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Definition of self snitching,smfh

Nisiw365:
Its the same email compromise

Alright. I think BEC is like advanced Alibaba. Tools are more expensive on the side just like the money dey bigger

Nisiw365:
Business email compromise. Thats what hush puppy, inviticus obi, ponle were doing before their arrest

Alibaba and BEC no be the same??

Credit where it's due. I always knew Koeman was the man for the job and always wanted him prior to Sentien. He spearheaded the revival of Netherland national team that was on the brink of total collapse and I believe he'll do the same here.

It took him quite a while to get us going. The impressive thing he has done so far is work on our mentality on the pitch. We have scrapped wins,did come backs that normally we would give up on and even having such a poor game against PSG in the first leg, we didnt let our heads drop for a second.

The youngsters are coming up in the team. Messi has quietly picked up form. Griezmann has gained some grains of confidence,same with Dembele. It wasn't all gloom and doom like we all expected and the future looks bright. Forca Barca

Honestly, this has not really been a bad season. We've so far overachieved.

Phyno and Flavour still sample them heavily in their music and make a lot of references to them. I can't count how many times, I've heard a Phyno song and be like that's Osadebe's beats or drums

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Our problems are so fundamental that it's so hard watching us do the same mistake over and over again

This small teams will always get 10 men behind the balls so why are we not stretching them by getting Alba and Dest bombing forward. From Getafe to Atletico now Cadiz all used same formula to beat us. If they are going to sit and try to counter us,just get extra men there are stretch that backline.

Physically, we're really rubbish. What was that defender doing for that goal.A centre defender getting out some like that is really disturbing. We easily get out muscled. Pedri,Trincao,Dest all really have 0 physicality and get easily bullied

homesteady:
The Pedri part is definitely not true. If there is one thing I like Keoman for, it is because he plays Pedri. Pedri wasn't so effective for some parts of the match, but he made many brilliant plays and would have gotten at least 2 assists today, especially that good back pass he gave to Griezmann.
During the 2and half, he grew massively into the game, and he was playing like one very experienced player.

There's nothing he does Puig won't do over again. Fati went off and our attack down the left handside was dead except Alba who bombed forward. Apart from Alba that side,Pedri was offering absolutely nothing. Just some side ways pass.

Fati actually takes players on and creates spaces to shoot but this guy was doing none of that. Give him the ball and he will just turn around and pass it back like Trincao. Dude had 0 take ons in the 2nd half and didn't create any key pass in the half despite playing full 90 mins. Apart from that back heel pass to Griezmann,he didn't do anything

joviegghead:
We'll have to endure.

maybe he's trying to keep all players fresh as possible. The season is still long.

Honestly, Busquets tried today.

The team(attacking) played well. just that defense. that defense. that defense will be our downfall this season.

Busquet could hold on to a ball he received for a second. Always wanted to give it out immediately and that was so annoying given that he was one to best players that actually knew how to hold up play and distribute effectively. He was really poor in tracking back especially in the first half when Betis had a big chance. He was no where to be seen.

He pretty much started playing ok when we had firm grip of the game.

michealdeco:
I thought I was the only one who sees Trincao as a clueless player

Pedri is pretty good for his age but definitely shouldn't be a consecutive starter

Am beginning to think Koeman has something against Puig

What is one thing that Pedri currently offer?? Because I can't name one thing that guy does. He loses a lot of balls,can't press and can't dribble. He shouldn't be getting the amount of minutes he's getting when he have Puig who's so much better wasting on the bench

Dude should go out on loan. He's young and has a lot to learn. But if he's one person we are relying on to do anything,then we're in for a shocker

Honestly,Koeman's substitutions annoyed me.

Pedri offers absolutely nothing. He can't dribble and loses the ball a lot of tines. The obsession with Pedri and Busquet is starting to annoy me. Roberto should've been off the game at half time. Culpable for the two goals as they came from his wing.

Trincao is so predictable and has 0 physicality. Can't shoot, can't do nothing. Why remove Demebele who was the 2nd attacking threat we had after Fati. Will take the 3 pte but there's a lot left to be desired

joviegghead:
There's just something wrong. The attack is fluid but blunt. Good movement just unfortunate, I think.
Defense?
Old men.
All betis did was to target Roberto and the center

Roberto has been poor all game. All the big chances and goal came from his side. He needs to be subbed off at half time and Dembele's crossing has been piss poor. Only positive is De Jong and Fati

Ikennablue:
its not for fun. You can see it in his face that he is worried. That guy need a time off to put himself together. He seems to be under a lot of pressure and you can do well in this kind of pressure. This is the same thing that happened to Messi in the world cup final

I don't see why he didn't just go for power over placement for the penalty. You're already very low in confidence and the last thing you want at this stage is to give yourself a chance to failure.

The thing is really annoying tbh. Suarez was slated for missing easy chances and wasting opportunities to kill off games. A striker low in confidence prays for opportunities and penalties to help boost his confidence. Dude gets 5 big chances per game and wastes all of them. It's time for him to get dropped

haymekus:
Ngl pedri is not that bad, just that he’s more like a cm/am than a winger

But once clownman likes a player, he must find a way to use that player, regardless of if the player suit his game plan or not

Even in the match against juve, apart from a couple of dribbles, he wasn’t really an attacking threat in that game.

Pedri played the entire game as a CAM occasionally drifting to the wide and played absolutely nonsense. He was not creative, couldn't even complete a pass and was just horrendous. The painful part was that he played the same nonsense against Alaves. He's always trying to play some finesse pass,dribble and he absolutely can't shoot.

I get Koeman trying to channel everything away from Messi and trying to find some replacement for Messi by tasking Pedri to take more responsibilities but the truth is that this guy just can't do it. Dude is still young and has a lot to learn and it clearly shows in his game. Puig would've given us more from that position

NegroAcheiver:
Mehn both keepers are the stars today. Koeman if you like continue playing pedri on the wings and use griezmann as the striker. I really had high hopes for koeman before.

Pedri on the wings?? What match did you watch?? Pedri is dogshit tbf. From poor passes to what have you.

We're honestly very bad.

Messi is probably in the worst form of his life.Man can't make a 10 metre pass to save his life. Pedri is rubbish. I've seen him in a couple of games and dude is completely a bad player. Not exceptional or good about his game.

Busquet and Jordi Alba are done and should be moved on the next summer transfer window. There was a counter attack in the first half that Jordi Alba didn't track back for and dude lost his man for Dynamo's goal. The two players have honestly been very bad.

De Jong should never play defense again. Fati should work on his finishing. No footworks from him but finishing still has a lot to be done. MATS and Fati are the only positives from the game. The two goalkeepers were really exceptional

A lot of work needs to be done and Koeman from his reactions knows that. We first need to make sure this senior players never play for us next season. A total overhaul is needed from the defense to the attack. I don't see us winning anything this season tbh.

onuwaje:
For the first time since the 8-2 bashing i watched a Barca game for 90 minutes and to be honest with you. Nothing has changed if we meet anoda hot inform team we go collect major lashing.
Here's what i think

1. Messi has lost interest in Barca, the Messi i know hardly gets dispossessed but you and i probably lost count as to how many times Messi was dispossessed

2. Team Dynamics is very poor
Barca should start living their life without putting Messi in the picture, he wants to leave the tewm in the first place.

3. The coach isn't helping matters and WE NEED GOOD SIGNINGS O

I think little has changed. At least we have a coach that knows when to make subs and know the right people to put in.

You can't blame anything on Koeman on this match. He made the necessary changes at the right time. It's not his fault Pedri can't shoot a ball or Messi is getting dispossessed while trying to dribble 10 people

The team dynamics for me wasn't that poor as we moved a lot of the ball without Messi but I do agree that we desperately need to sign good players.

That entire backline needs to be changed. Busquet is done and we should move on. Dembele is more of a liability right now. Man can't make a 10 metre pass to save his life. This players needs to go back to training and let the basics of shooting. Even Messi himself won't shoot even with spaces before him.

There's a lot of work to be done tbh

Man,Pedri was so annoying trying to show boat when he can simply shoot. Messi trying to dribble and getting dispossessed a lot of times. Trincao offered nothing. Fati can't finish. Only positive from this match was De Jong and Koeman. Koeman made the necessary changes at the right time but this team can't do anything.

We have a lot of work to do in this team. Dembele and Busquet should never wear this shirt again. Messi is really out of form and Koeman should tell him to keep things simple instead of getting dispossessed everytime. Fati needs to work on his finishing. We should be shooting instead of all this useless passes. We should go for 2 CBs in January. Pique and Lenglet should see the bench. From henceforth,Pjanic/De Jong for me

tesppidd:
Go and watch again.

That he's out of his line doesn't mean he's not going to receive a back pass.

The ball was played softly too and he trapped it well. He was trying to do a turn when it was taken off him.

I don't know where you're watching but the commentators on dstv are even blaming Neto you are here talking another thing.

He shouldn't pass that ball back,simple. The keeper is in close proximity and giving the ball to the keeper at that range with an attacker breathing down his neck puts some unnecessary pressure on the goalkeeper. He was in complete control of that situation and just gifted Alaves an unnecessary goal

Honestly,what's with the stupid misses?? Why are we not shooting and trying to walk the ball into the net?? Whats the whole dribbling nonsense? Busquet should be kissing the bench. Pique should not be starting any match for us. Dude has proven he can't coordinate his backline and continues to make rookie and comical errors

He played well overall but there are still shades of our old selves

tesppidd:
Jeez what did pique do agaiin?

The other day Lenglet made a mistake people were blaming Pique.

Now it's Neto and you're blaming Pique.

What do you mean?? The keeper was already off his lines charging for the ball and he played it back to him therefore putting him off. That's some stupid mistake that's solely Pique's fault

Lots of deadwoods to move from this club. Pique is clearly a liability and has overstayed his welcome. I don't see how we are winning with this back four with Pique leading

How can you make a schoolboy mistake like that??

, oya show up come tell us where our palliatives dey for the entire Anambra state

homesteady:
I'm happy that those people that were mocking Barcelona for selling Suarez can now keep shut.

That fat fucker missed one good chance around 20 something minute and I kept on laughing till half time

Maybe the way he left wasn't encouraging but we were never going to miss him. He knew this and that's why he was fighting to stay

Good striker but complacency,no competition and feeling irreplaceable killed Suarez