Pedri does it, but thats about it

wait *XAVI 2024*

O.D struggles with > park the bus mostly not being in a stable team ?

@Chodex just let him stick around. If he’s bad in 2025….start the conversation if we shouldn’t exit him agreed?

@Sefyan Abdalla facts

Thanks for this wonderful video, keep it up!

You should apply for barca coaching staff job and show them these videos

An extremely important video and a very subtle one. Xavi should look more into player development. His tactics are good. He needs proper execution from the players

This was a very thought provoking unbiased analysis, giving pros and cons to every player/situation. Two things though that I think can be analyzed further, the first being La Pausa, it's great when you're equally good at releasing that 1st time pass when you've caught a low blocking stubborn defense up the field, and I don't think Pedri recognizes those as often as he should, he allowed Inter to regroup a lot of times, which forces the wingers to then constantly having to rely on 1v1s or pinpoint crosses to a lone Lewandowski. The polar opposite is De Jong, who's great at breaking in between the lines with his runs, but then fails to produce a line breaking pass in the final third after all the hard work, Dembele just looks clumsy when he fails but he succeeds more often than most, otherwise he wouldn't be La Liga's leading assist maker. The 2nd analysis I want to address is our failure to capitalize on those 45° passes that Messi capitalised on so much from Alves and Alba, Dembele and Fati have proven capable of that when they don't lose the ball, our midfielders need to make those late runs on the edge of the box and be able to take those first time shots as the defense rushes in facing their own posts, but we always seem to revert to "La Pausa" and lose the momentum. My biggest problem with our team though, is our lack of capability or motivation to switch gears as the game/opponent requires, it's just the same monotonous boring kickabout mode that we always seem to be on.

Barca fans NEED you're channel. Reality. Spent the last week reading comments from Barca fans about how Dembele DESTROYED Alphonso Davies. Marcos Lopez a Spanish analyst pointed out how between Pedri Raphinha and Dembele completed ONE pass to Lewandowski in the three games prior to the clasico.

For me one of the most annoying thing is, even when Pedri make those chances our attackers apart from Lewa, are sending those balls to Mars or straight at the keeper, we need the other attackers to score more goals we cant just count on Lewa

Thats what mekes kdb special. He does not care just makes the pass.

True, however I think Xavi asks him to do so. None of our midfielders understand the 'la pausa' like Pedri (and Busquets) so I feel like he needs to do it to often to make up for that. How good Frenkie and Gavi may be, it is not something that they are born with like Pedri. Ideal would be that next season, without Busi, the structure changes and that Pedri can play higher and drop the burden of slowing down the play 90% of him having the ball. However I only see that happening if we would always play him/Gavi as a false winger, or buy someone who can make up for that in a double pivot with Frenkie.

@@pumelelabanca1442 don't compare a grown man to a kid fam😂 KDB was cosidered to be shit before he went to City

@@jovo21 because he was in a small club nobody really knew but he was always class

That would be very interesting!

Good shout 💯

There's been no evolution since Cruyff, all evolution has stopped since Cruyff died.

quick little 20 year analysis.

Why, it's always been a mid club

I think this is something that if FDJ manages to master as well he can finally take busi's place

@@Darduel yeah. In case of busi its not just decision making atm but precogniation to some extent. He studies his options before recieving aligns himself and makes move in a couple of touches, FDJ starts the play after recieving the ball putting him at an disadvantage

@@Darduel I think his problem is that he tends to make a lot runs with the ball to the opponents defense and he dribbles past 1 or 2 players and normally lose it to the 3rd which looks great on highlights but it doesn’t give much to the team, and sometimes he shows his vision with great pases but they are few and far in between and I feel he tends to lose his focus on the game quite often

He's fucking overrated

If you watch any goal compilation of Lewy, you will see, he's very precise, just like his idol Therry Henry was.

Yesss

Appreciate the support :)

Yeah, finishing may cost us many games this season, like last game Pedri alone could have 3 assists (Torres,Ansu and Gavi i think), our wingers need to score more goals not just wait on Lewa to score, and also the wingers need to use their head a bit like they will do excellent work at taking the ball to the opponent 16 yard box only to lose it or make a bad decision

Ansu fati is fine. He's just having a bit of a shake off from the long term injury coupled with inconsistent minutes on the pitch. Once he gets more playing time and calm, scores back to back goals, ding ding, we see an even better version of Ansu fati from the 2020 version.

@@perleon_ Yeah I agree, right now Fati needs to get game time to get his confidence back up. Even this season he doesn't play bad but I think he plays a little safe to not get injured, so he needs time and and more games to get his confidence back up and if he stays healthy he can be one of the best in the world, we saw this season how dangerous he can be when he is not "holding back" like vs Real that sprint and low cross for Ferran and he almost scored for 2-2, he will get better with time we just need be patient with him

ansu pushing himself to perform to make sure he is selected for the world cup, before the injury he was running with clever timing but now he just running at every opportunity.

@@kelvinkamdani8905 Yeah I can agree with that as well, especially vs Valencia he was trying to shoot from every position even if he had better options to pass, he needs to take it slowly and relax a little, I know this is a world cup year but he should think for the future as well after all he is just 20 years he has like 3 or 4 world cups left if he perform good, so he should take it slowly and get back to his best

Lets blame dembele for everything. That helps solve the problem.

@@zor2014 he's part of the problem. Doesn't help to shove that to a side.

Dembele's fanboys incoming in three, two...

@@freshavocadew right? It's like, you blame Dembele & you're blaming him for everything.

O the dembele hate begins agian

🤣

Wow atlast i have found some sensible comment. I have saying this from long time. In matches were we are behind in terms of goals.rather than making passing and passing and build ups..shoot at Target.. that's the most easiest way. Try for 4,5 shots

Busquets is never improving in that, he is at the deathknell of his career. Pedri and De Jong probably will, Gavi so far is very unrefined player and is hard to tell where is his style going to end up.

The team should be more creative collectively tbh

Lol just ask him before the game starts which Dembele showed up 😆 🤣

If Dembele doesn’t have high football IQ please explain it to me why he’s the player with the highest assist in laliga this year (and season) by far, and until this weekend, only Messi assisted more than him, 4 more. Yet Messi plays with Mbappe and Neymar? How does he beat the best defenders or why is he the one with the most clear chances created in Barca, and the player with the most progressive passes if he stupid as you say? Can any one explain that?why does pedri have zero assists this season, or raphinha only 2, yet they one person with high assists and chances created is the one we are told has low IQ?

Bernardo Silva would have been perfect for us

I think that explains why Xavi was so desperate for Bernando Silva. The season, especially the CL, would’ve looked so different

Dembele's skill set are honed in for a counter attacking team. Not a slow build up situation. Plus the whole team FEEDS HIM THE BALL TO CREATE CHANCES. Because no one else can. The team overall is predictable and Dembele gets insulted way too much. Guy is top 3 in assist in Europe in limited playing time. Plus he is too wide to be as effective.

Its called tactics. Dembele plays better with an overlapping defenders who can drag players away.

@@vikingsownpackers I do think so too he has changed his ideal playstyle to suit Barcelona

I blame xavi bcos he still wants to play slow football when our plays would be better suited for counterattacks

Should have kept Dest or the Portuguese guy before him. They were great attackers. Portuguese guy wasn't terrible at defending

Nah Xavi won't do that, he cant look like a kid who copies his homework

Yea, I hope Joao Felix comes or else I'll be calmly sad.

@@jstos3675 that is hardcore nice of you

Only Frenkie does this really well, that's why the pace is higher whenever he plays.

Not even a Barca fan, but you can’t expect a new coach to be on the level of Guardiola with developing intricate play. Most people romanticise Pep’s Barca, but they also had certain limitations (for starters couldn’t counter even if there was a clear cut opportunity, whereas when Lucho came in they were ruthless). He also struggled to break down teams at times as Henry stated in the final third they were free to express themselves, but not before. Now I’m not saying Guardiola did bad, but just pointing out how he has now developed as a coach with time. Xavi will probably too.

*if we get stable i think Jordi Cruijff should be president first a one year trial*

It's because of Dembele. Take a look in the match vs villareal where Xavi played Fati and Ferran who both get inside.

A true barca fans cry indeed

Absolutely correct ❤️❤️

Exactly, they were brave enough to attack in the middle so they could create space behind and out wide. BUT, they also had world class wingbacks in their prime (Dani and Jordi) supporting them.

Finally, someone who gets it. Messi was RW but had a free role. DEMBELE OR Raphina should have freedom to drop deep or get closer to Lewandowski. Make it unpredictable and mix it up

Spot on. He is any manager’s dream because Messi makes almost the right decisions offensively each time

Which is exactly why our players are bad at it cause for years all they did was pass the ball to Messi so he can make something happen. That's why he had to leave in fact he left a season too late in my opinion.

@@joshlamingo1145 to some extent I agree. The less quality players would definitely rely on Messi more to do the thinking on the field when it comes to the attack. However, I disagree with you that Messi needed to leave the team. Instead, I would argue that the previous board's mistake was thinking that they could rely on Messi's brilliance and be careless in their planning of the team. Ie. allow mediocre players to stay or be signed, both on huge wages, all while Messi was papering the cracks for them. All Messi's departure did was expose the Bartomeu's boards mess on the field (I guess in that sense I do agree with you that Messi needed to leave for us to truly see the extent of Barca's issues). An example of another team that is better planned even after departures of great players would be Real Madrid. Many quality players left the team, but the squad that remains were still of high quality. Madrid's midfield, while having been dominated by Kroos, Modric and Casemiro, were introduced with fresh legs of Valverde, Camavinga and now Tchoumeni. Granted, they didn't have to face the financial mess that Bartomeu left for Barca, but that just goes back to my point about Barca board not planning properly. Messi wasn't the problem imo. He was merely doing what he did best, carrying the burden of the team with his brilliance. The players around him either did not step up or was not good enough for Barca to remain dominant after he left. Even Pedri and Ansu Fati played brilliantly while Messi was around. Additionally, we can see at PSG, the whole team is playing brilliantly with Messi around, but they aren't solely relying on him. The Barca management of Bartomeu was responsible to ensure that the team was not over-reliant on him, and they failed.

@@daniaaal You act like Messi is the only player we had. We had three coaches in a row who relied on him even with decent players and quality around him. Yes management was atrocious but they are not responsible for the coaches tactics. Koeman is the only coach who gets a break cause he surrounded him with young players. Given how Xavi is treating Busi right now I swear nothing would've changed so yes Messi did have to leave. If we'd hired a headstrong coach like ETH I would agree that he didn't have to leave.

@@joshlamingo1145 Messi was NOT the only player we had. He was the BEST player Barca had in the squad, so it doesn't make sense to say that it was time to let go of Messi, because there were many other players in the squad who the management should've offload way before Messi. PSG playing brilliantly with Messi is an example of that. They're already a good team, but with Messi they're even better. Again, I view Messi as not the problem that Barca had sporting-wise. Of course financially his salary was an issue, coupled with La Liga tightening the wage cap for teams, but Messi was clearly the most important player in the team in terms of both playing well and winning games. The question has always been whether the management was able to adequately improve the team regardless of whether Messi plays or not. Thus, that's why I said that the issue is mismanagement of player recruitment and retention of existing players who weren't good enough or were no longer good enough. To me, Busquets is only a problem if there is no adequate cover for his defensive flaws. We can see that before the international break, Barca were playing brilliantly and were on an unbeaten run. Busquets played most of the time then. The difference now is that without players like Araujo, Christensen and Kounde, Barca are exposed. I do agree with you that Barca needs to let go of relying Busquets, but to me the issue has always been whether they can find a suitable CDM. I think De Jong is growing in the role very well and in my observation, Xavi is already slowly phasing out Busquets in recent games. However, I do think Barca need a proper CDM like Rodri or a similar profile to Tchoumeni, because De Jong's ability to move the ball forward benefits playing De Jong further up the pitch as well. I also agree with you that Barca board should've considered getting Ten Hag, but I don't think Xavi is a poor choice at the same time. I've always known since his appointment that Barca need time for Xavi to implement his ideas with the young team. A brilliant example of patience paying off is Arsenal at the moment. Arteta still had the backing of the club despite finishing 7th in his first full season, then spending 150m in his second summer only to finish 5th place at the end of last season. And now they're 1st in the league. That's almost three years of Arsenal board backing a manager with no experience. At least wait for the end of the season to see how well Xavi has fared. The team is 2nd in the league with the the joint most goals scored, fewest goals conceded and the most clean sheets.

I have no idea what the issue is here. It seems like they all have some baggage from previous managers who wanted to take the ball wide OR they just aren't confident. FDJ had a great opportunity against Valencia. They could all take a lesson from Fede Valverde this season