Raphinha has 6 goals 7 assists to start the season for Barcelona who are top of La Liga, hardly comparable with Richarlison who is a bench player for Spurs. That's a higher level than a lot of Brazilian forwards. Rivaldo said Raphinha reminds him of himself:
Rivaldo is a humble man then.
Of course he was my favourite player as a kid, lethal but I didnt want to put him in with the slightly older gen even though he and Ronaldp actually formed a great partnership whenever they started.
What? This is the same team that won La Liga and Champions League just 5 months ago and they have added Mbappe.
No Kroos, no control. It can work out, but quite often it is not convincing and sometimes it doesn't work at all at the moment.
I think FCB will win
Should be. Expect a high scoring event here and a quite open battle.
I hope FCB wins big. Can't stand those FCB feckers.
There's a number of departures, like Kroos, Nacho, Joselu, and absences like Carvajal and Alaba. Last season was also pretty long and I suspect lots of players are still tired. Plus they won Liga/CL so they feel entitled to be lazy (which I respect tbh).
Think they’ll target a couple of domestic players to cover the league games for the rest of the season, don’t know what they do about the gap Kroos has left though
I don´t think it´s that big of a problem. Their team are young and they have good economy. They will buy the next Kroos if their youngsters fail to reach his level. Real will continue to dominate Europe for a long time..
Think Barca will win this one.
They won’t. They will play well, have some really good chances and then will lose. It’s what they always do against box clubs.
Hoping you’re wrong. They create enough chances in games. It’s just whether they take them or not. Can see it being an end to end game. Both teams wanting to attack.
I do. I like it that there are more different matches, it prevents "groups of death" and makes it overall more fair to all teams.
Brest look a bit wobbly though
Reminds me of that iconic, if admittely homophobic, chant about the "Fans von Leverkusen"
Tit for tat goals wise.
Nope, mostly strongest XI possible.
They started the season younger.
Ha!
FCB will surely score a few more.
