Thank you for your thoughtful analysis and balanced assessment of the Barcelona game. The team's recent games have been very frustrating: it feels like the players don't understand their coach and his instructions. Or the settings are so inadequate to their abilities that they just get lost. I don't understand Xavi, who, time after time, uses his wingers Dembele and Rafinho at the same time, depriving one of them of his native position and reducing the benefits. And this in the presence of the motor Torres and Fati. I don't understand Xavi's position in relation to Balde and his preference for Alonso over the young defender. I don't understand the team's defensive play - we get goals so easy it makes you want to cry. We can put it down to injuries, the youth of Xavi, inflated expectations, mistakes of the previous management, but it's 2022, crazy summer shopping and loud statements about claiming victory in La Liga and the Champions League semifinals. The reality is that strong European teams are flicking us in the nose and Real Madrid are beating us with unprecedented ease.
Thank you for your thoughtful analysis and balanced assessment of the Barcelona game. The team's recent games have been very frustrating: it feels like the players don't understand their coach and his instructions. Or the settings are so inadequate to their abilities that they just get lost. I don't understand Xavi, who, time after time, uses his wingers Dembele and Rafinho at the same time, depriving one of them of his native position and reducing the benefits. And this in the presence of the motor Torres and Fati. I don't understand Xavi's position in relation to Balde and his preference for Alonso over the young defender. I don't understand the team's defensive play - we get goals so easy it makes you want to cry. We can put it down to injuries, the youth of Xavi, inflated expectations, mistakes of the previous management, but it's 2022, crazy summer shopping and loud statements about claiming victory in La Liga and the Champions League semifinals. The reality is that strong European teams are flicking us in the nose and Real Madrid are beating us with unprecedented ease.