Pedri

Luminia Mall would press Housen high.

And so that would leave Rafinha here to... kind of dictate play or dictate that press and decide, okay, do I need to help support runners? Do I need to continue to see is to a money trying to drop in is Bernardo Silva trying to drop in to one of my midfielders in either Pedri or Fermin, usually because Rodri and Bellingham, those two were just hanging out with each other, you know, It's just holding hands, basically the whole, the whole match.

So Rafinha would either drop in to force Lunen to make a choice and force Lunen to try to get the ball out to the wings, to the open fullbacks as Barcelona usually do.

They leave the fullbacks open in this time, of course, Cucurea and Valverde.

It was a number of runners trying to run off.

And again, there are other things around the edges that hurt Barcelona.

The midfielders in Pedri and Rodri gave the ball away much too much.

But...

Absolutely.

Fifth minute, Gouler pounces on him and a stick by Pedri.

Almost scores.

Camarcy does a nice blocking off the ball to Mbappe.

And Yamal looked like he was out there making TikTok shorts, just going for fancy dribbles and thinking he was going to be toying with Kukureya all day.

And it was quite the opposite, as a matter of fact.

And then Pedri, as you mentioned with that early giveaway, Yamal, He has amazing control on the ball, but he thinks that he's playing against Real Batiste here.

He thinks he's going against Malaga or something where he can just dribble it out with no worries whatsoever.

I was having this conversation with my personal trainer, who's a Madre Lista 100%.

And I thought this victory was in our hands already, just because I thought the midfield of Pedri and Radhi was going to outlast, outsmart, outpace.

madrid's midfield but last night in the first 20 30 minutes it was an awful start for that midfield for bettering rather i just want to start off remy on your kind of what you saw with the midfield but i want to start off with this stat that rathering and bedri lost the ball lost possession 13 times a piece last night to me that is a rarity that we haven't ever seen from these two and also happening in the same match in a classical and a big night.

I think that kind of set the stage for our defeat last night.

Absolutely.

I mean, I was telling somebody I was watching the game with, I'm like, this is one, the worst Pedri performance I think I've ever seen in a Barca shirt.

Like, hands down, I have not seen a game more consequential with a performance that bad.

And I think it was made even more clear because everything went through him.

I have Jamal as a star.

I have Pedri, midfielder.

He makes an assist.

Cucurella, obviously, did his squat.

Like, are they going to have Olmo back? I think that would have helped quite a bit.

Pedri didn't have a great game.

That could help.

But like...

We saw the same thing with Laminia Mall, and there's an important factor here.

Laminia Mall, Pedri, another guy with that overuse, what's the common thread between the two in point of injury? They were still developing their bodies.

Like they're learning how to be footballers and they're learning what their body is going to be.

So they're having these structural issues with the body because of the growth, the rapid growth.

He's two best players in that game.

with Pedri and Xabi Espar.

And he took off both Pedri and Xabi Espar.

So, like, he clearly wasn't that fussed about, I've got to win this game, I've got to win this game, I've got to win this game.

He was like, let's keep, I mean, Xabi Espar, by the way, what a performance that was against PSG.

Oh, fantastic.

This is the thing.

Whenever I compare Vettini and Pedri, I'm always like, listen, Pedri is better at everything except for shooting.

He

benched Pedri in the World Cup too.

Just right.

Answer this question quickly.

You got to compare it to something.

Yeah, but despite all that, he was still a very important player in that team.

He started every game and he displaced Pedri in the Spain team and was arguably one of the best midfielders in the tournament and probably one of the best midfielders for Spain as

well.