Match Review: Barca vs Valladolid

who is a Barca fan has been watching that match is probably at 9 if there is something like that but that water performance storm yeah I don't know when was the last time I saw the team play this uh free fluid and um insane that is yeah you said it I'm not even sure what happened there uh somewhere you know along the way I just I just kind of I don't want to say I dozed off because it was very very fun it was It was obviously a very entertaining match lots of goals that's always good but I was so confident in our ability not only to to to win this game from the bat you know it was z00 that's the biggest compliment I can give to flick when it was z00 um and we were still you know trying to score the goal we still trying to break through I was I was just confident that we would do it that it would happen the goal would come because the attacks were so promising we were kind of do we were dominating the the match and and are it just looked inevitable to me and and to that that is the biggest compliment I can give to fck as of this moment is that even when the the score is is level and we haven't scored a goal yet I know it's coming right in games like these you could just feel it coming and and to me that's wonderful because usually when you when you watch big teams and you watch the best teams that's where you get you get that sense of of okay a goal is coming it will definitely be there from for this team and that team and sadly this feeling is is the feeling I usually get with Real Madrid these past Seasons I would watch them was like I just know it they going to score because they keep playing this way they keep piling on and I know they're going to score and I hate it and but I know it's coming right um and I've missed this feeling with Barcelona in particular for the last couple of seasons and in these first yeah more probably more yeah probably more I wasn't going to say more but yeah it's probably more probably a lot more but yeah the main thing is these first couple the four games that we've seen so far from flick I I've had this feeling in my stomach right I had this feeling that okay we're actually building towards a goal here even though preseason I would say was I mean yeah preseason is preseason but you could feel that the tendency was that MH yeah yeah absolutely the preseason was was a good kind of intro to all of this but it's always the same thing right okay the preseason you like okay fine we're playing good football but let's just wait let's just see how it goes when when the actual season arrives and it's the same thing here with four games in this is the perfect start I did not expect this I know you didn't expect this I think many or most of the fans did expect this because this was not an easy first couple of game not easy first four games um I I honestly I think dropping know points in at least to uh expectation but getting all the points from all the games that that's kind of insane all right let's take this on because there's so much to talk about with Fin's hatrick uh we got to talk about the Midfield we got to talk about uh the mean uh we also was interesting sergy Dominguez coming in um it was obviously flick could do it and it's good that he he took off the players and but I like what Dominguez played obviously he's being trained in that manner uh you know back in back in uh in training so that'll be good but let's start with uh the most obvious one Barca had a terrible transfer window but I think they did get the most important thing right I think the best signing off the window was flick and I think that's proving itself I think we didn't get most of the things right I think but but to their credit I think um getting flick was necessary and hard um like given javi's um you know history and chvi is standing in Barcelona so taking that decision would have been super hard uh but it was also needed and we have discussed about it many a time no shade on him I think Chavi will be an amazing coach in time uh as he learns uh and he gathers experience uh but I think that was an incredibly right decision to take and and laort did take that and I think getting Dan Almo in for this team because you can see the combination you can see how they play of each other and it's not every player cannot do that so I think from that perspective I think these two Bara got absolutely spot on let's start there yeah that's a good place to start I guess Fleck as the main reinforcement that that's there's there's a case to be made for that absolutely there is I mean obviously it's early days so we don't know how long he can keep this up um but knowing flick and and and seeing you know his experience and what he's done so so far uh uh you know at Bayern in Germany it's it's likely that this continues because he's that kind of a coach right he's that kind of a coach who likes his team to be drilled who who is very very clear in in what he wants and now we're seeing what he wants from the team because this is essentially the same Squad that Chavi had bar Dano right so Dano is the only 10 people almost 10 people in the squore of the same yeah yeah so and that's without franki without Gabi without Aro so it you know there's still room for improvement obviously and and and going like individually looking at the Players these are not necessarily players that that would you know start over the over the uh the injured players that we have right so so it's it's the same players but the the football is so different the football is much more clear this it's it's it's a bit of the same thing when it comes to you know just identifying space exploiting space and all that stuff people know this already people know that sh was vertical people know that flick is vertical but you know this just goes to show you that it's not the verticality that's the issue it's just how you implement how you actually how it actually benefits the team is it is it just a tool or is it is it just is is the philosophy that you're trying to enforce on your on your team so it's it's different and and yes when you look back at Chavi his first half half season was amazing so I'm I'm still kind of hesitant to say okay this is definitely it and flick is definitely the Savior so let's just wait and see how sustainable this approach is because you know we've seen a lot of great shouts okay the the team is actually more fit they're actually running a bit more they're actually pressing until the 19th minute it's it's very very impressive and and and Chavis Barca and I hate that we we have to compare this so much but we have well it's it's the first thing people people say right so it's okay look at this team under the shavei look at this team in the flick it's natural okay so that that does happen but you know I think Shi had uh one period where his team was dominant off and on the ball and then somewhere along the line that kind of you know it just kind of dissipated sort of you know it just went away now does that mean that the team just didn't have it in them to to sustain that kind of football uh whether that was emotionally whether that was physically whether that was tactically or you know or is it just a Defence that that flick is doing something something else entirely is he actually um is this actually Flex expertise is it just a new coach kind of boost that you get you know you always do get that it's it's it's a real thing although it's not really palpable it's not really um you can't really put it into Data into numbers into something that's that's very um definite but at the same time it does exist because teams do get that boost from new coaches and then you know it's always it's a new season it's a brand brand new start and players feel that energy right I feel like flick is doing things outside of what can actually see that's affecting the team in a positive way as well so I mean it remains to be seen but I think so far yes you're absolutely right flick being the the the biggest reinforcement that that seems to be paying off at at this very moment yeah I would say so yeah and then you know it's to your point I think you and I have talked about you know verticality and and chabi for so long the whole of last season yeah and probably the season before but if you see Flick I mean the buildup IS narrow is purely Central was totally against what chvi was doing one second if you look at Wingers and fullbacks they have such unique roles right the Wingers actually tuck in Center towards the C invert right the fullbacks are going at 90 like they're literally pushing up and adding to the attack that is there the verticality here that we talk about is mostly in link up plays to find spaces and release the runners right and you got like all of them and you got like at any given point of time there are like five Runners consistently going crashing into the box which is hard for any team to uh you know uh defend against and it's and and the buildup is still is predominantly Central so that's fundamentally different from what shabi was doing even though both believe in width both believe in you know verticality both believe in finding that that that quick ball and releasing and you know all that stuff so philosophically while both are same the way of implementation is so very different from that perspective like cha would have never used Rafa in this matter and and you've seen that right and I'm not saying that Rafia has like today obviously great got a hatrick and everything I don't think he's going to get a hatrick in every game and that's not the point but over the games if you have seen throughout preseason and now the utilization his utilization is so different correct or the way um I me Almo could have got a hatrick today somebody said this here as well right easily um if he was lucky so I think the implement has been very very different correct and that is definitely helping Barca like quickly gain ascendency in matches or TR control matches in the way it's being placed whereas earlier it was slow very laborious um with the fear of being caught in transition because here even though we are playing this way there the fear hasn't been that much of you being caught in transition I've hardly seen that and whenever that has happened we've had people like to sweep it up or cover it up and so on and so forth so I think fundamentally yes there is a huge change in in the way um these two teams are playing even though maybe from the philosophical point of view Chavi and flick are similar in in the way they interpret the game I think the biggest difference is how they perceive WID you you mentioned the flick seems more narrow but they both use WID they both like to have these Wingers kind of wi initially but then flick kind of uses that minimum width so so Wingers can of used using the the minimum width they can use to still stay outside of the opposition's block and can be be a wide presence but also they they're tucking in as much as human imposs right so they're not using maximum width which would be all the way wide but touch line hugging I'm not see any touchline hugging they're there getting and then they're crashing in and then they're being supported by the by the fullbacks by the time the Winger is inverting inside the fullbacks already there yeah you know and and that's pretty interesting in the way he said set that up it is the thing is okay so we're not getting call in transition because of that because I keep saying this how you play in possession kind of informs how you play out of possession and now Fleck has all the central presence right he has all these players sensually meaning that the distances between them are so minimal right they you have a player next to you at all times if you're a Barca player and you play in the hall between the lines you have a player to your left to your right behind you in front of you you have players very very close to you and let's say you lose the ball okay because that sometimes happens those areas are very congested um the the marking is very very tight in those areas if you do lose the ball and you will lose the ball especially with the way Bara play that just has to happen right it's not shade on Barca or in flick it happens in those areas right because it's difficult to keep the ball in those areas but now suddenly you have an optimal optimal setup around you to kind of force or not force but stop the opposition from actually going into that transition mode going into those quick breaks before they happen because if Barca put themselves in in a situation where they have to defend these one-on-one breaks or or or the opposition kind of exploiting open space we're always going to be at a disadvantage and not we're not the only ones uh arsenals and the cities and and you know everyone struggles with this right it's not something that someone has an antidote to you can have a physical player who eats space and the middle but in open space like that um with the opposition having the momentum you know that Dynamic superiority when they run at you um um from a deeper starting position they will always be in an advantage over you right so it it's not the a single profile would certainly make us invulnerable in those situations but now currently so far what we're doing is we're stopping that before it actually develops into something more dangerous because we have players so close to each other and we can counter press much more much more effectively so not only are you playing to your strings because it doesn't surprise anyone to know that barca's best quality is in the middle right all of our best players can of conjugate towards the middle and that's and they have lots of touches uh on the ball per game right so having your best players touch the ball a lot you know it's not any kind of you know uh world breaking analysis that that will give you results that will give you uh more from your team when your best players have more the ball right that's that's very very simple but it's very very true now flick is plain towards that and he he he knows that his biggest strengths are in the middle he has pedri and he Haso he has lamin he has leowski uh and even Rafia so you have all these players and he's giving them the tools he's playing to their strengths so I think that is the biggest and most positive change that we've seen is actually Barca playing to the strengths of his of their team and and this is what happen playing position nobody's out of their position all the players are playing in the position that they meant to play to a large extent um and I think the other thing that I that that that struck me was I mean markal is just three matches old but the fact he wasn't there and you didn't feel his uh absence so the the collective uh how it comes across uh to cover up for a requirement and how you don't feel that because the team on its own structurally is so well defined that they can do the job that is required because generally with Barca what you have what will often happen is that if one person goes down you'll you'll feel it you'll feel it very very distinctly okay that person is not there and that's why we are not playing well or what have you and so on so that been pretty interesting so yeah I mean I think we should do uh an analysis on on just the differences in playmaking DM as we enter the um uh the break the international break over the last next two weeks so hopefully we'll be able to bring something uh to you guys on in terms of you know what we see difference in the way like setting it up and so on but okay let's move let's keep moving on uh let's talk a little bit about uh Rafia well he seems to have found new leash of life on on the left side and and it's it's it's amazing right and and that's what happens when you when you don't force him into that he was he was a wide player before Flex he was a wide player on the right side he was he was often forced into to those wide player roles or or tasks that don't really suit him right so he's very one-footed we know this we know what he's going to do um doesn't make him any worse of a player because he his skill set is simple but as L now we see that if you if you actually ask him to do the things that he's comfortable with things that kind of suit his play style he he will give you a lot right not just in position he will also give you a lot out of position now on the right on before flake um he was this wide presence that that need to do a lot of breaker and fixer stuff which is you know you have your one-on-one presence and you need that oneon-one presence to be a very very creative Force um make a difference in those individual one-onone Duss and then go from there now all a sudden he's not forced into those roles anymore um he's making much more runs he's he's he's very quick in his interchanges in the middle as well and then he attacks the space he uses his movement which is one of his biggest weap is his movement Rafia not just on the ball but also off the ball but Rafia when he attacks that space you know for for that goal from kubar his pass Rafa's run is what we we talked about on our blog a lot of times which is the parallel run call Par because he starts wide and then he first he goes horizontally so he will go parallel with the defensive line and then he will cut inside the reason why this I call this undefendable is because number one it kind of mitigates the the the offside line because he's not attacking the space immediately so he's caught offside no he's going parallel to the defensive line so he's avoiding the offside trap but he's also building speed and momentum he so that he when he actually turns and goes vertical forward he's already at full speed almost at full speed meaning that he gets a dynamic advantage over the defender and that's why I I was I was discussing this with a couple of other friends analysts and and there's no actual solution solution to this so what do you do as a Defender the only thing you can actually try and do is to build up speed yourself which would mean that you have to start running backwards much much sooner but if you do that you leave Rafa in lots of space right so you have to be tight on him but at the same time you can you cannot build speed as quickly as him and by the time he actually turns and attacks that space he's already flying past you right so it's it's a very very effective well it's it's not just effective it's undefendable right it's so he scored love go with this with this particular move and I love that about him um and yeah so far I think he's been our our best player I would even say you know yeah in this season I think he he has been definitely the best player I think Danny om will come very close in a few games in the if he continues playing this way but I think yeah we're going to see a lot more of Rafia um scoring and a lot more of Rafia assisting uh this season if it continues in this manner if he stays fit and so on let's take some points on on what people are saying we should not bash chav was yes yes yes chabi was an excellent he's an excellent person and we still believe that chabi will be an excellent coach as yours go by and he did take care of a very very dark time and for that we are very grateful so no there is no comparison in terms of bashing him it's just looking at two different uh you know styles of play from coaches who are probably similar in the way they interpret the game and that's what trying to understand so um no share to shabi um and thanks for everything that he has done no abely um I just add sorry Dev um for interrupting I would just add that Chavi if if the main thing about flick was we said if he can adapt to this Barca and not force his buern side or his Bayern tactics onto this Barca he would be much much more successful as a coach right and so far we are seeing this he's adapting more to to what the squad actually can give him to the strength of the squad whereas shavei was very very stubborn in his approach he saw football in a c way and he did not want to deviate from that that whatever that that vision of football was in his mind so far we're seeing much more flexibility from Fleck which is surprising because he he doesn't strike me as a flexible kind of guy right um so we'll see yeah sorry you carry on no no no it's it's Val we just having a chat and I think okay uh leoski raenia Alo Lin everybody has scored more than m true we are we are having fun and and and we are like making it's is okay it's you know we are clubs so we'll have a little bit of J but it's mbapp will figure it out and M is going to score a lot of goals let's just be honest about it it's going to take a little time it always does um they they've really got a very stacked uh you know forward line uh extremely talented so yeah uh it's going to take a little time but T is going to figure it out and then once they do MP is going to score goals so they'll do what they need to do I think for us if we continue playing like this the league is very very uh doable right because as I said again there's only two games with Real Madrid and two games with Atletico uh and if we play like this I think um with the rest we have a really good chance of of of winning and and so on so so let's hope that that happens um now let's go into some of the other stuff that we're talking about is um uh the what did you feel about um Petri today um Cado because he was new but I think he did pretty well I mean there was not a single missp pass in the in in the first half I think well he did about 48 out of 48 that was that was what he did he didn't he wasn't flashy he just kept it simple he looked after the defense finished his passes and on and then uh also I wanted to touch base on what you felt the little bit that we saw about Sergio Dominguez and the fact that um he did use Eric gar here in the pivot position Chavi also wanted to do that uh but like what do you feel about that because I think he's just trying and testing different things that he might need to use later in the season in tougher times I think this obviously having a a a cushion like that is is going to give you the confidence to actually test things experiment a little bit but it was also the way Barca were so comfortable in possession that you can actually afford having players like you know C and pedri and double pivot and Dominguez and Eric Garcia because none of those players are you know the pro profiles that we've been screaming for um to you know to partner that single pivot in the Midfield so they're not that that we've been looking for and yet with them on the pitch we looked you know as dominant as ever so that comes from the stability in possession and the stability that that in position seure gives you out of position that's why I talked just just a minute ago as well um and and I feel like Caso and pedri together I think they did really really well um pedri was kind of doing the normal c role and then KAS was doing the Bernard role and that was good because KAS can do that he has the the temperament to do that if he if you ask him to do it he will do it it's just the physical side of his profile that's usually been a problem because you know back in in in um in Prima when he was playing for Bara atletic you know that that wasn't a problem because there players were not so physically dominant compared to him right they were not so physically more advanced or more developed than him um so he could he could actually do with them he could actually tackle he could actually track back but in in in senior football what we've seen and we've seen this game as well he can get out muscle he can get out run he can he can kind of be caught out of position and and players can kind of Blitz past him in a sense right that will happen that has happened already um but in possession he he can of takes almost all the boxes right he can be very very calm and very collected in position he can be someone who's a bit more horizontal even though he has a very very dynamic DC nature you know so as a player he's very dynamic in nature so that's that's who he is but he can he can do what Bernal does in possession most mostly um it's just that out of possession they are kings that if you have a faulty structure those kings those flaws would be highlighted a lot right and that that's when they become a big problem in this game in particular it wasn't a big problem because Barca did really well to control the game in possession and that then seeped over into out of possession Style um that that we saw we saw this confidence we saw this stability that we need right um and and so in general I was very very happy but there was no concern um in my mind going into the game when it comes to the in position stuff because cadro and pedri together they have so much press assistance so much technical quality and and Security in and confidence in possession on the ball that there was never any fear on in that regard it was more of of are they going to be left on an island defensively are they going to have the support they need uh off the ball and they did have that and and all of a sudden you know that fixes most of your issues that that double pivot in particular has correct I would agree I think somebody said um you know we bash leor but he gets a lot of clutch decisions right yes he does and we'll do a full session on this by looking very dispassionately at the things that have that he's done wrong and there are things that that that haven been right but it is true he has got a lot of decisions absolutely spot on and somewhere we need to be objective about it and and look at both of them correct there's it's not like he's great or he's a awful just a balance of things um but yeah he's got a lot of them right and um if this continues and um I think I saw they're saying that the next game with Atlanta will be played at camp now I think that's what the the roster says so that if that means that the team is going back to play in Camp now and we can get that you know actionable that'll be huge that'll be huge for Barcelona and his finances as we go to next year the other thing that I think will be great for finances is because we haven't been able to spend anything in this this year and the last year honestly we hardly spend anything um it's not because we don't have the money is because we our wage bill is very high by 2025 when the wage bill goes down uh we still paying people like Messi and and so on so so on once that goes down and hopefully we sell a few more I think it will happen I think it will be manageable to a large extent so when you have the wage bill down the revenue is what it is we get a new deal it will happen with Nike someday if not tomorrow uh I think it'll be a much better condition along with gate uh fees of of C now that come in uh for us to buy uh you know two or three really differential players that the team probably needs right and and that will be a totally different look to Bara so I think from that perspective has got a lot of things right right right and and we talk about that we'll talk about that we'll dedicate a complete session to it but not today we'll talk about the match tomorrow today uh we are still a major injury away yes D I want to take your point on this we are uh we we are about 18 players completely so we are thin and the games are coming thick and fast we just saw the Champions League uh you know uh roster that came out and there's quite a few games uh especially in October I think we've got seevilla we got um Bayan we got um Real Madrid in a span of seven yeah tough times yeah you will need all your squad and you know this will be much more easier than what is what we going to face at that time so so D what's your point people are talking about picking up a free what have you how do we tackle this how do we tackle this I I don't know I mean I do know that this squad if it if we get to that point with a Fed Squad I I think the squad is good enough to go through that period I don't want to say unscathed because you know you never know with these big games things can happen we we're still not where we want to be even though the start has been absolutely amazing more than we have we could have hoped for I'm not I don't want to rush things I don't want to say okay we're already there where we want to be because we're not obviously but if this squad arrives into that Champions League crunch time uh fit and we have these players available and maybe we have a couple more players coming uh from injury and recovering I I would be very confident I wouldn't be too too scared going into that period right when it comes to facing these teams like in a vacuum individually I'm not scared of anyone in La Liga like obviously Real Madrid have who they have obviously Atletico have had a big summer as well although they're still kind of trying to to to piece it all together as well but I'm not scared of any of these teams right I I I believe in the quality that we have but the problem yeah as you mentioned that is the having a thin Squad is very very problematic because when you when you get to that stage of the season when you have two or three games per per week and and you know unexpected things happen and Bara have been very unlucky with injuries so we we don't really know um if something's going to happen or not and we do have a couple players that are still quite a big risk you know it's Alma going to stay fit through the Seas is is Bal going to stay fit through season is pedri going to stay fit through season we have so many question marks and what happens when when if one of those players goes down we don't really have anyone uh to just simply plug in and them it's it's a tough position and I don't think can we actually bring anyone I don't I don't think so I'm not sure how emergency signings work we we did an emergency signing before right and and um I I'm not too familiar with with the whole process how does that work when can you they don't have a club and you have the money and you can you still have to be able to uh be like we can't spend right now right money because La Liga won't allow us right so they we still have to get across that but if we do and there's a player sitting on the free somewhere we can bring that person in honest okay so the point was selling Frankie for 60 and Rao for 80 and picking up Kim for free in the summer would be exent business save the coins for Mr Hen and that was from benley well I think Frankie is gonna go on his own we don't need I think he's just gonna go right um Aro I still think there's a point in keeping him I I personally still think that he's got skills that if coached and built over time he can be um a really good asset for years to come and I I think some of the challenges that he had with you know interpersonal issues with people like kundan and so on so forth they should not be there the person's gone what have you I don't know um and just he has to improve himself a lot uh right and we've talked about it but I still think keeping Aro might not be such a bad idea uh Eric I don't know how much longer he's going to stay this season but is he going to be forever no idea Jonathan T we have heard about him a lot in the last five days so I don't know maybe maybe but do we really need D I would I would like you know um pass it on to I don't know um yeah laa does like making flashy signings but flashy signings is what has got us here right I would suggest that we look into what works for the team and pick up people in that manner um and I think that that would help to to a large extent Dom what's your it it would it it all goes back to to to one of the points that we made I think it was in the last live session when we said would it actually be responsible for of us to actually invest a huge sum of money in the single player when the squad needs depth when the squad needs cover in multiple positions can we actually afford Splash and B on just one position on just one player no matter how differential that player is and and the same argument goes for Alo as well I mean obviously he's he's he's been amazing in these couple of games and he's been the difference in in so many instances but was his signing responsible I don't I still don't know if it was right so from that respect from that uh perspective I'm not sure if if that would be the the right call but um selling Frankie um yeah I mean I think at this point it's pretty clear that he's going to go now are we going to sell him I don't think we will sell him I think he will just he will Rel is no longer there like he's there but the relationship is completely gone I don't think he's yeah so that that story is kind of it just it just um it's very sad because I feel like once he comes in if he comes in um think he would have been very good actually in this system I think so I think so because this system as of right now obviously we don't know what will happen in the future but as of right now the system yeah it does it does seem like it would mitigate some of his flaws now obviously he he Fring the own coming into this team it brings a complet different Dynamic it brings a carry heavy kind of pres the Midfield um that hasn't really been geared towards carrying the ball through the middle that much uh we do create superiorities we can of bait the press forward and then we can play either over them or through them but it's mostly passing right it's mostly passing but I think Frankie has a great passing repertoire as well people don't really mention that as much because you know everyone focuses on the carry but he can be a good pass of the ball as well and I think he has all the all the elements all all the aspects to be a great great player under the flick and I think he he will be if he if he actually ever plays for flick I don't we'll see it obviously um and if he does it will it will be an even bigger shame that we have to well not have to get rid of him but at this point it's just it's bound to happen it's inevitable right so I think counting on Frankie is is you know it's it's not it's not really U reasonable at this point but personally I think I still think that he comes in his his fit um and he's healthy I think he can still be one of our best midfielders and he would be I think I still believe that honestly I wanted to ask you about uh fty I I I know deeply divisive but looking at this team play right now and how fat likes to play and how he likes to invert and and where his strength lies uh between the lines and so on he can be quite a handful if if the team is creating this level of chances what do you feel Dom I'm curious to see how he performs once he's back from whatever injury he is and uh what he can deliver because if if you can unlock that plus lamine that's pretty insane that's absolutely yeah that is ridiculous um just the talent though between those two is insane and I feel like he would fit because you know in the first two games um this season we had fan Tores right and think of anati I think anat is simil in similar vein as to the current fan Torres only his instincts and all his bow striking and his movement in the Box are superior to Fan so Anu would theoretically be an improvement on the fan profile I'm not say I'm not comparing qualities at a moment UNC comparing profiles and and as a left Winger under flick FTI would be similar to what Fen was right only theoretically theoretically better right so so and and fan starting those first two games that kind of gives you a hand of what flick wants from his left Winger obviously olmo and Rafa are different to Fen uh they're used as a different type of Winger but I think flick likes fen's profile as a left Winger that's why he was kind of don't want to say insisting on him but that's why he was playing in the first two games right because he liked that as a profile he like the balance it creates between the among the the front three and the balance is there is there um because you have like a runner go scoter you have a a poacher in the middle and then you have a very very uh Elite Creator on the right so your your front line is well balanced right there's there's enough there to kind of cover everything that you need um and so F can of AFF fits that fa and type again not comparing qualties just profile wise ano and Fen are similar in that regard in the way what they would give you from that left side of the pitch right so I think a fully fit answer an answer that's actually physically back to his I don't want to say best but back to his optimal self that way he can actually perform for a senior team in La Liga yes absolutely men I think that's a big it would be a big big plus for fake and and that's why F keeps saying okay I'm liking what I've seen from hansu because he saw something in training or he saw something in the profile that he like obviously likes and I don't think that he said that just to please the fans I think he genuinely means it because means yeah yeah yeah because the reason why he's still in the team otherwise he could have gone I mean we were sure that he's going to be sold correct and it's still there I mean it's all the uh you know chaos that our club represents then there must be a reason for this um it also then thinks about you know like we could have also sold and we should have sold probably ROK but we didn't against all the odds we actually went for alone with real ba so if you think about from those perspectives maybe there is a thought process behind all of this maybe just saying we don't know but maybe there is a thought process that has gone into taking very tough decisions under very strous circumstances where you can't spend because your hands are tied legally and so on so so hopefully we'll see um the other fact was uh how about lamin I think um I don't know but he seems to be playing more of a playmaker role um flick uh than an actual threat or a false sign or a goal scorer himself what do you mean that D yeah that's again comes back to the balance that you have in the front three he is the playmaker of the of the three in the front line however you you turn it he is the the most creative player and we talked about this he's kind of growing into that role that will give him more involvement more touches per game and it will give him more strings to pull let's put it that way so I think that's where lamine is heading towards because before he was more of a transitional threat he was more the isolation on the on the wing and he can still obviously do that because one-on-one you you know yeah he was always bet on lamin whoever is on the other side he would bet on lamin but centrally it has opened so many angles for him and he can he can use his body he can use both feet reasonably well and he just creates so so much from those most dangerous positions on the pitch and the best thing is he's kind of learning that paa he's learning that um composure because you know that goal I think it was Rafia third he makes that run right he makes that run down the middle he he's carrying the ball carrying the ball and he has multiple passes open to him right so he can yeah he waits he waits and then once he sees Rafia you know through on goal then he sends a lot nice little pass the very well he held on to it till the last moment and he because he could have played the pass to like two or three other players I'm not I don't I'm forgetting who who it was maybe it was was probably allo but I don't remember anymore but he waited and waited until there was the the perfect moment where you know the past looks very simple obviously it wasn't a simple pass but he made it look simple because you know he was waiting for the per perfect moment to actually deploy it so that kind of tells you everything you need to know about I mean he's he's actually you know he's playing his own game because he he's entirely different level um and you know he's only starting theoretically he's only starting and when it yeah when it comes to goal scoring we keep saying that we we said this on on our YouTube channel when we did a whole video on line he has the fundamentals of a great goal scorer right he doesn't mean he'll be a three plus goals per season kind of player he doesn't know doesn't need that but he can be a a great goal scorer right because he has the bow he has the the in he's an instinctive finisher meaning that he when he gets a the ball inside the area he can manufactures angles and separations on his own you you don't have to put lamin in a favorable position to score for him to score a goal you just give him the mo he will do the rest right he will create an angle to to to squeeze the the the shot in he will create a separation he will he just you know he can smell it and that's that sort of thing right so he he does have that he has a nose for goal as well and we've seen it I mean so um I don't know I don't know what his ultimate form is but it's going to be SC scary uh anyways super happy uh I I don't think most of our schoolers haven't been this happy in the longest time so I think we should all enjoy this moment um because it's I think we've all waited for this for a very very very very very very long time uh hasn't definitely happened in the past five or six seasons more than that probably I think the last I remember something remotely close to this book with Luis henrique and then we had differ Shi players uh but the way they played the the fluidity I think the fluidity if I look at it and that's that's the fluidity we're talking about uh without going to play comparisons person to person well now there's two weeks of uh National break hopefully everybody stays fit and does not because we are also very known for uh having injuries during International break so hopefully everybody stays fit but when they come back it's hirona and then it's Monaco and then it's FAL what do you take of that uh stretch Dom and I'll I'll add my thoughts uh well definitely not an easy stretch by any means but after this stretch of four games because I I thought this this was a yeah so I thought I think this side of the of the um International break was tougher than the the the immediate next couple of games after it so I think I'm confident going into it I'm quite confident going into it but I do I do call for calm um because it's four games we as fans obviously everyone's so happy and we are happy and we want to spread positivity but let's just let's just wait for a bit longer let's just see how this how this you know how sustainable this is and and because I don't want us to get into a position when we we start blaming players left and right blaming flick and all that stuff so let's see how it goes let's give this team team a bit of time and and and let's settle into this winning mentality and take it game by game and that's all that we ask basically yeah I think Monaco won't be easy Monaco will be hard um and we saw that in the gamper as well even though you can't really compare but they they're team they're a functional team they they're not individual they're they're a collective who play as a team and in the Champions League it it'll be hard away so Monaco won't be easy I think Jona also won't be this easy uh yes they have considerably been weakened uh because uh you know after most of their good players have been taken away by other teams and that's the problem with small teams right uh but Michelle is a good coach he is a great coach and he is I don't like he he would have studied the team he would have studied these four games he would have done the homework that is necessary and um Jon also like playing right they they come out to play football so I don't think Jona also is going to be easy but what it will do is probably give us an idea about how the team can adapt to different uh structures and players and you know so on and so forth so hopefully that'll be something that um you know we look into it it'll be three away games it's going to be three tough ones but the thing is there are much more tougher ones coming so if we can't survive this we're not going to survive those so that's the only thing that we got to keep in mind um thank you once again everyone for joining right we'll obviously bring in a few more pieces from this as we go into the national break we'll have some time we'll possibly do some uh the content pieces so please follow that and and and share uh thanks for joining super happy uh like all of you um seven goals when was the last time we expected that with a V Le so um yeah super happy very happy and I think we deserve this little bit of happiness for all the pain that we've all gone through the years uh so let's enjoy it h take it for the moment H give Mr flick our regards and the team uh be happy for them and then when we come back uh we'll see how we fair with that we'll say be Kyle Barca and thank you everybody for joining