The exclusionm-nos. He will turn 18 next month. He goes to taxi workouts. He had never lived in a city as big as Barcelona. Last season he played for Las Palmas, in the Second Division. He hasn’t sucked Barça’s DNA. Okay, it’s still early to do grandiose readings with Pedri, but football is illusion. In fact, it is one of the few we will have left if the damn pandemic locks us back in the house. sine die. So let’s take the audacity to compare the canary to Iniesta. Or, at least, to believe that he has everything to pay homage to the legacy of La Mancha. His display against Juventus, open on the left wing against a World Cup winner like Cuadrado, are big words.
Asleep on Italian soil. Sergio Busquets has paid in Turin for his poor performance in the classic. The Vallès native has accumulated two consecutive substitutions in the Champions League, something that has not happened since his beginnings as a footballer. With Koeman, the midfielder of the best Barça in history is rotating meat, which can be understood in terms of age and attrition. Now, if the reliable alternative has to be this version of Miralem Pjanic, let the coach think twice. The Bosnian has not yet taken the right tone to be considered indisputable. It should start to be applied in a drawing, the 4-2-3-1, which in theory knows perfectly.
An alternate gentleman. He makes no noise other than to give directions to his companions. And he will return to the bench unmoved once Marc-André ter Stegen is recovered from a knee injury. However, the great services that Neto Murara is offering at the beginning of this course should be acknowledged. The Brazilian goalkeeper saved Barça from a wider score in the classic and has transmitted a lot of security in all the matches he has played. With his feet he is light years away from the level of his German counterpart, but he also solves high pressure situations without getting nervous. It seemed impossible to Jasper Cillessen to replace him.
A remarkable striker. 0 to 2 at Juventus. With the public in the stands, and with a VAR in Spanish, it would have probably cost more for Barça to get such a positive score at the stadium of the Italian champion. Barça have played better and have had more chances than their rivals, with Griezmann finally released in the middle and Dembélé remembering, even for a moment, why the club paid more than 100 million. But it should be noted that Morata has had three goals disallowed for offside. One hat trick. The Madrid striker is a player subscribed to the quasi. That’s why they didn’t want him as a reference at the Santiago Bernabéu.
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