Captn 🇵🇸
@CaptnGuardiola
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Football, FC Barcelona, Analysis. We don't have to agree. Also #DroitAuBut. Subscribe 📝 https://t.co/crn0XvFbtV Youtube 📺 https://t.co/7GvkeadsLE
Joined April 2014
Facing PSG, the best team in Europe, is the ultimate litmus test. It exposed Barça's weaknesses & margin of progress at the elite level. Some thoughts on the game & our play overall. In no particular order. 👇🏾🧵
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"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist" ✍🏾
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The greatest feat of plutocratic capitalism is convincing people to equate it w/ freedom & self-expression, while painting socialism as a controlling & homogenizing force, yet its own final form is state-enabled tech surveillance, where the individual is nothing but a data point.
BREAKING: Apple announces “digital ID.”
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Based on some players' behavior, body language and even words, there are clear doubts & hesitations around the high DF line. While everyone must fully buy in and stay synchronized to execute it flawlessly.
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Great tactical analysis by @Blayasensat of Barça's game vs Celta Vigo. Explains the flaw mentioned in the quoted tweet + a couple of other issues and some changes made by Flick (Frenkie's positioning, offside approach). https://t.co/XSegLgQles (English audio track available)
Look at the distances Eric & Baldé have to cover when Celta moves the ball from side to side, constantly tucking in (ball on far side) then going wide & forward (ball side). You do that 3 to 5 times in a row & you'll undoubtedly be late at some point (fatigue, loss of focus).
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I don't comment much on Rashford's *performances* because I know the "G/A" brigade will undoubtedly invade my mentions, but maaaannnnn.....
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Look at the distances Eric & Baldé have to cover when Celta moves the ball from side to side, constantly tucking in (ball on far side) then going wide & forward (ball side). You do that 3 to 5 times in a row & you'll undoubtedly be late at some point (fatigue, loss of focus).
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I really enjoy watching this young OL team. Many players w/ good technique & dribbling skills like Merah, Moreira, Fofana. That English midfielder Morton is quite complete. But (yet another) Kluivert in DF is a bit limited IMHO. And good old Ghezzal seems washed up... #olpsg
Lyon dodged bankruptcy & relegation, their coach is serving a 9 months ban, they sold most of their key players, bought a bunch of little known players & bet on youngsters (Khalis Merah is a baller), and now they're 2nd in Ligue 1 ! Football can be funny sometimes.
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🚨 Sunderland have moved the advertisement hoardings forward at the Stadium of Light, to counter Arsenal’s long throws. 📐
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@jdeposicion @NealGardner_ I agree. It's in micro details even. Last yr everything was done w/ extreme focus. Like the angles of the runs to press : each one knew how & where to orient the ball carrier. Now most of the times it's just a straightforward run w/o clear intention (I don't wanna name names...)
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I'm not gonna dismiss individual factors like having key players injured or out of form, but the fact that we keep on conceding the exact same type of chances & goals (patterns) is enough to conclude that there's a deep systemic tactical issue and it's on the coach to fix it.
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It's unsustainable : the DISTANCES btwn players are too LARGE, which makes quick combinations impossible, forces into solo actions and makes effective counter-pressing impossible. Every turnover means a counter-attack & huge spaces to defend in numerical inferiority. #BrugesBarca
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What a savage tackle by Diaz. Ankle gone. AFCON participation gone. Hoping it’s not a season-ending injury for Hakimi 🤞🏾💔
La cheville d'Achraf Hakimi sur le tacle assassin de Luis Diaz... 😨😨😨
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