@mxdric You would because people like @ArsenKveFCB have taken over and he’s doing better than we ever did! Re the B team at the moment: there are a couple of top talents getting coverage like Kochen and the Fernandez cousins, but frankly “their” best players are with the first team 😅
🎞️ 2016 — Sergio Ramos and 9 year old Lamine Yamal enter the pitch together…
😄 2023 — Sergio Ramos and Lamine Yamal both start for Barça-Sevilla tonight.
🎥 @Gol
Raphinha as an interior and Gundo as the pivot... Is Xavi planning to turn Raphinha into his own version of Bernardo, who can play both interior and RW? They do have slightly different skill sets, but both left footed interiors, and extremely hard working off the ball.
Lamine > Raphinha > Fermin. Boom! The two youngsters and the Brazilian make the difference for Xavi. 2-2. Now let's go for the kill. Remuntada is on.
Hoping to see some rotations with the backline tonight. Both Christensen and Koundé have already played *a lot* of football, this should be a great opportunity to give Inigo a good run-in + ease Araújo back in.
Gavi is a pure baller man... slowly developing into that Xavi role of deep lying plamaker / organiser. Still a long way to go, but who better to learn it from than the man himself?
I think even bigger issue has been the buildup from back. Iñigo hasn't been at the level of Kounde and Christensen, especially with this being his first start this season, and it's not Araujo's strong suite with her. Need one of Kounde or Christensen to come on in the 2nd half.
Lewandowski finally rested! At 35, he needs to do that more often, had been ruthlessly playing every single game for 90 mins in the past 18 months, due to our lack of options. Hopefully Ferran does well tonight so Xavi gets confidence to rest Lewa going forward as well.