Felix, de jong superb. Kounde, gundogan, pedri good. Raphinha inconsistant. R9 boy oh boy… He’s so out of form its like robert is playing against us at times trying to force positive play. Its like xavi is determined to play him into good form which his options are pretty sparse in torres/ guiu…

Cool to have that baseline understood and these lot who have been gassed to high heavens better obliterate what the previous did. I’ve been quite cautious in my expectation because of the deluded fanbase.

For me halaands lack of anything but goals hinders him quite a bit while being a ghost from quarters on in the cl. Messi singlehandedly lead argentina to the wc and did 40 g/a in 40 games in a shitshow of a team also battling covid. Halaand has plenty of time to win a ballon dor in the future.