Medhi Benatia (31 Viewers)

JuveJay

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Mar 6, 2007
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Yeah he was great. Him and Umtiti I thought were the best players. 2 CBs as stand out players in a Juve-Barca match, doesn't that say it all lol.

Maybe the back 3 is the answer for him.
You can see the new Barfa coach actually has them set up to be capable on the defensive phase when play switches. Last season whenever we went at Barcelona we had numbers and they didn't track runs, you can't win anything doing that and they seem to have realised that with their attack and Iniesta behind they need to regroup quicker as Busquets can't do it all.
 

JCK

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May 11, 2004
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Easily his best game for us. One every challenge, beast in the air. Looked like the Roma version of Benatia.
It only happened when the whole team was defending, with some space in front of him he would not have pulled such a performance especially the passing success.
 

Boksic

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May 11, 2005
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Hopefully he can build on his Barcelona performance. He still did his usual switch off and lost his man when defending a set-piece in the first half when Barca hit the post, but for the rest of the match he was very good.
 

Hust

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May 29, 2005
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Hopefully he can build on his Barcelona performance. He still did his usual switch off and lost his man when defending a set-piece in the first half when Barca hit the post, but for the rest of the match he was very good.
Sounds like half of our current team.
 

Hust

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May 29, 2005
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Roma form the last 2 games. Needs to keep this up because when he is good, he is really freakin' good...but when he is bad...eeek.
 

Fr3sh

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Roma form the last 2 games. Needs to keep this up because when he is good, he is really freakin' good...but when he is bad...eeek.
Hopefully he'll keep form, as long as he doesn't have another injury or sidelined for a while I think he'll be fine.
And he's been one of our best performers for several games now.
 

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