Bah. Screw the announcers. Let them be ignorant, because they are.
Anybody who condemns an entire league based on how one team plays one match is even worse than the wannabe scouts who rely on YouTube skillz videos.
I don't know about pure class, but he did his role well as a destroyer. In fact, Gala's backline did a generally superb job of sticking to their mark and preventing shots from coming off.
Going the other direction, Melo was pretty useless.