Why Barcelona are reliant on Pedri 

When Pedri is on the ball, time moves to his pace. He's a Time Keeper

I feel Pedri absorbs Xavi ball the most. I don't think Xavi spends any effort to transmit to him what he wants. A real gem.

Pedri will win a balon d’or one day. His potential is legit that high it’s insane. Mark my words, we’re watching one of the best midfielders of our generation hands down!

I want him back so bad. we just cant progress the ball without him. Everytime he is injured we remember how much we need him.

10/10 upload timing

The part where you mentioned how Xavi tweaks his system accordingly and the versatility of Pedri in it really shows that you are a quality analyst. Being able to look at the big picture, instead on focusing on a single game combined with pattern recognition are very valuable skills that distinguish you from the rest.

Pedri is top 5 midfielders in the world... its normal to depend on him. Without him we look nervous in possession, he's a player thats always available to give the ball to his positional sense is incredible and his passing is almost always accurate

Pedri is half the reason why we're able to witness unleashed Dembele. The pausa attracts opposition press and thereforce since dembele operates in wider space, is left unmarked. And pedri then releases an unreal long ball to use Dembele's abilities to their best. The press resistance in opposition half is one aspect barca lacks a lot without pedri.

The timing of this upload😭😭😭

Just after a Bernabeu Classico win 😂

The one thing Barca got really right against RM today and were lacking in the most against United was their intensity and fight to win the second ball and get it out of Real’s counter press. This is a really important aspect in the modern game imo that doesn’t really come into the tactics picture. At the end of the day, it is a team sport and that togetherness and rallying can help come through even with a significantly depleted squad. The midfield and defense was on fire today and their confidence with carrying the ball out of the back with those quick passes was just majestic to watch - that was Barcelona- the movement of the ball was so quick with those combinations - even though they didn’t create a lot of clear chances, it felt dominant. And they should have def scored the second, don’t know what Fati was doing there!

we won tonight but this was a defensive battle

Dude!! This is so much better to be informed! I love seeing Pedri playing but this video put more emphasis and details to this guy's magic skills. But my question is, who can replace him now if the club is opting for stretching the squad and to have his replacement? Would all these options that Pedri has on the pitch be disrupted when we are having someone like Messi again at this club?

I love how casually dembele got unnoticed when he topped every graph he showed.

great video pedri is already irreplaceable for us would be cool if you did a video on possible transfers barca could make (in positions such as DM, LW or RB. maybe even a backup CM for pedri)

Wow what amazing clear analysis! Love it so much ! It’s actually scary how different the team with and without him .. hopefully they will sign a player that can take some the time and do rotation with him so he won’t be injured. Thank you for the video 🌷

Pedri can play for deep, can progress the ball from his own yard, can play final pass and now can score. Fantastic dribbler and ball retention. An all time great midfielder is in making

I said before and I will say it again, as soon as Barca lose Araujo or Pedri shit gets BAD! We just won against Real tonight and Im super proud of the team but this month will be long... Visca Barca! Lets hope for the best! This title has to be ours!

Pablo Torre is the closest player to Pedri profile in this Barca Team. It's crazy how Xavi just overlook his potential..😔

Fdj is heart of midfield and Pedri is soul of our team....

I have always thought that after Messi's departure, we won’t be able to experience beautiful moments of individual brilliance but never have I thought that Pedri would change that so soon. Whenever he is with the ball, he can pull of magic at any time and he usually does in every match. So, comforting for supporters, teammates and coach alike to have Pedri on the field because of their ease and comfort with the ball given our way of playing. Regardless of his importance and value to the team, he should not be overplayed and rested whenever possible. This time we might have overplayed him and now he is injured.

LOVE that you include clips of the games in your videos. Channels like tifo and FMS have good analysis but it's so difficult to follow without the clips of the games. Your analysis is great. Hopefully you don't get into copyright trouble

Pedri frequently takes the burden of showing for, receiving, and keeping the ball for his teammates when they are in difficult positions. I think this not only enables the team to progress the ball more fluidly and quickly, but also makes everyone else on the field more confident of getting out of tough situations and playing at their highest level. I Have watched all of your videos and this has been the best one yet! Keep up the great work.

Thank you for analysing Pedri's skills and relevance in the team so well!!

I'm glad that I found this channel, I learned so much from your analysis!

Brilliant video. The one additional aspect of his game potentially worth discussing is his defensive ability. He doesn’t challenge incessantly like Gavi or have the physical tools of Araujo but his defensive positioning, reading of the game, ball recovery and press resistance after winning the ball back are incomparable. As much as we suffer from a lack of creativity and progression offensively without Pedri, his absence in defence costs as significantly in transition and puts far more pressure on the back line.

I would like to see a video of potential targets in the right back and cdm positions for barca this summer. Foyth and Amrabat seem good to me

Love the fact you are adding fans okay videos ! Aa always best video!

Excellent breakdown, keep up the good work

Great stuff mate.

The technical analysis you just made is quite on point and also gives perspective to what Barca's future recruitment goal should be;Getting a foil for Pedri.....not necessarily like for like, but someone as dynamic.....I have always had this yearning that as important as Pedri is that could be a pitfall to the potentials of this Barca team.overplaying him on regular can leave him susceptible to aftermath of wear and tear, and when he is not in the squad the cracks beginning to show. He needs someone to take a bit of the burden. I would recommend that guy from las Palma's (moliero). His skill set is quite similar although not on the same level as Pedri, but he's got the potential to reach those heights.on the other hand they could also put their trust in Pablo Torre and give him more game time. That way he eases his way gradually into the team and when fully adapted may give a different attacking/creative profile to the team which can make the team even less predictable and more dangerous.

Always on point Purist. Exquisite analysis 💯

These videos are incredibly detailed and in depth, thank you for creating this 👍🏽 Joshua Kimmich analysis next? 👀

Judging by the quality’s of your contents, you should be having over a million subscribers! Best wishes

Your understanding of this Barça team and interpretation of stats is absolutely spot on!

That’s why next season Barca should go for a midfielder like Bernardo Silva to compliment Pedri and an elite DM , Pedri can be the playmaker if Silva arrives

We have Papa Kessié now

I am following your channel for the past couple of weeks. And I must say, though there are many football analysis and other related channels, after a long time I found a channel where I can learn new things... Your videos are informative, analytical yet easy to understand and short & efficient , keeping in mind that you perfectly cover every aspect of the subject... Love your videos... Keep it up... from India... P.s :- Another interesting thing that I noticed, this urge for deep analysis & understanding of the game, I mostly see these in Barca fan base (no disregard to other fanbase) ...Be it a piece of writing or video analysis...

From the moment he exploded on the scene I knew he would be special. Before the start of the season I said he is our best and most important player. More than Lewandowski even by a mile

Great video!

This is a perfect analysis.

Great video brother. You explained everything all too well.

This is very accurate, these are the points I’ve been making all along

amazing video

Could you maybe do a video on Frenkie de Jong? Great video as allways!

It's appalling how forgotten Pablo Torre is! I know that Xavi would rather lose than play him, but I was bewildered why he wasn't mentioned in this video as one of the options! He is the closest profile we have to Pedri.

Please post more often

nice man and cool haircut dude.... kempt?

When he is playing the game flows according to his play 🙂 we need him back asap

God bless him and may he stay with us as long as he wants to run after the ball.. cant wait till he's back..

Pedri and gavi is the engine of the team right now they are playing their heart and soul out, they are the stars for me

Absolutely brilliant player 👏. Vamos barca

The most surprising thing that i know after pedri get the injury is how he is so important our possession keeping After his injury we completely lost our possession And adding on top of that we have busi,dejon,gavi and yes we can't keep the possession without him I don't know how it is possible but now its happening

Posting this today after Barca beat Madrid 1-0 at the Bernebau is an indirect way to say Madrid were super horrible today 🤣

in a box midfield i think a double pivot of Nico & Kessie is unbeatable. or Busquests and Nico . With frenkie/gavi and pedri playing in the half spaces

You explained this beautifully. I'm a city fan and I'm currently looking for a way to identify a 'Pausa' player through stats since City lost Gundogun. These types of players are a dime a dozen.

Man i just want to watch this guy play, sadly injuries gonna be coming tho 😢

Awesome vedio, pedri at his age is the most complete midfielder today

well well well

You said it all. This is why Guardiola and the coaches after him were so successful. They had several players on the team with insane La Pausa ability. Xavi and Iniesta, Messi and even Pique was decent at it. Suarez and Ney absorbed so well from Messi. This crop of players have work to do.

Great analysis as usual! Pedri really is essential for this team. Because of FFP Bernardo might be hard to sign in the summer but what are your realistic “backup” options in that position? Or should we go for other positions (RB, DM and (Lw + Left footed CB)) and maybe go for Wirtz next summer, if he even fits into our system.

I have observed that the gap between our first choice and secondary players affects us a lot. Previously ig it was due to how we wanted to play a certain way and the players weren't the best fit.

I think we should try Pablo Torre in the pedri role. Think he will be good 👍

Pablo torre is also creative but still not there yet but I’m summer definitely need one

Great analysis, if you watch Barça videos where players talking and interacting you will see that pedri is a natural leader, a kind of a subtle one, the one that Xavi used to be when he was a player.. but definitely not when he was 20 😅 This man is just crazy, future ballon d'or without any doubt Xavi should either adapt his approach to make him defend less and rest without the ball like Messi, or rest him in the less complicated games which requires an upgrade of Pablo Torre

this video makes me miss him more

My favorite football analyst. Love from India 🇳🇪

we need a good backup asap

A good player to bring in during the summer (funds permitting) is Florian Wirtz. I think he'll be a decent like for like for Pedri whom we won't have to depend on so much.

It's obvious to the eyes that Pedri's absence is affecting the team, one wonders about the improvement of FDJ & the role Busquets has to play in the team. The wingers for me are far from it, they can't take the initiative at all. Come post season, every player must work with the team's performance & improvement coach. But it does make me wonder more about Xavi, why can't he change strategy to utilize the players at his disposal, you can't keep forcing a Pedri influenced system on them, he'll never get the best out of them.

Pablo torre could develop into a backup for Pedri. He has that forward progression but need to learn Pausa and Control

With Gündoğan being free in the summer, and that lack of a profile being within the sqaud, would you consider his arrival vital to the squad building Barca need to do this summer.? Personally I think along with this RB/DM needs to be addressed as I think the specific profile should be a problem solver. Someone able to understand the game-state and when increase/decrease that tempo during that phase of the game. Often we lack the "pausa" that once characterized the great Barca teams of the past. One thing is for sure both FDJ and Pedri need to have freedom for their best to show.

I think pablo torre has some vision and control but we haven t really seen a lot of him to accurately judge him

Agreed!

DAMN I was today years.old when I realized how good he is I'm saying this as a Barca fan ♥️💙😂😂🤦😅

What catches my attention in your analysis is the lack of Pausa. You've mentioned it before in a previous video. The team doesn't have enough Pausa, which is something Barca midfield has never lacked until now. I see some indecision, wrongly timed and misplaced passes that boils my blood up!😡. It's usually ruins our counterattacks. The only thing perfect in this team right now is Defence. Midfield still has a long way to go. Great analysis as always!

The timing of this upload fjfjdjf

Pedri is the Orchestrator

Pedri is the search engine of spaces in football for Barça

I think Gavi has the potential to be an Iniesta type of midfielder. He has the movement on lock in the way Xavi has deployed him. But he lacks the control to take on that extra role and lighten the load off Pedri. He is aggressive and costs the team future games with picking up yellows or loses his cool. I think as he matures and receives future instruction under Xavi, he can develop and flourish as a duo with Pedri.

Pedri is ❤️

As much praise as one can have for Pedri and his amazing skill and talent, one can also criticize Xavi for not putting effort into building the team's identity and having a real plan. Relying on one player to glue everything together proved to be a big problem. A better approach would be to challenge and guide the others specially with how much young talent he has in the team right now and help improve the unit as a whole. I wonder if he will figure out how to go around one player's injury without making it look like he can't trust the current squad to carry out a plan.....even though personally I believe the current squad (without Pedri) can do wonders if they were to be given a good plan.

Can you analyze the last madrid-barca? It has been said a lot of xavi's approach, pragmatism, but in press conference he said his approach was the same as always but the team couldn't manage madrid's pressure at midfield and 3/4, so they ended up defending. Sorry if my english is poor in football lenguague, greetings from Argentina.

Would be nice to see an analysis about the strategies Xavi can use with the players available when Pedri is not

Its incredible what the barca team could be with messi on it. He could be another controler like Pedri.

Can you make a video of how you would solve this problem?

High quality video

Please do the Copa del Rey El Clasico match analysis

So basically, Pedri is like the metronome of this team. I thought as much. He holds the game down in a way no one else can. And since they are playing DeJong out of position, and his defensive abilities are more required these days, you can't see that same magic in Frenkie.

Pedri is a nice mixture of iniesta and Xavi. Elegant on the ball, can carry the ball to the final third, control the tempo and find the killer pass. But we can’t rely on him all the time. That’s why I think Barça needs wirtz, he’s someone who’s more attacking and has that finishing touch/eye for goal. Pedri-Wirtz-De Jong trio😮‍💨

Can you please make a video on Stefan Bajcetic. Please

Pedri has that Messi-esque thing to me. Even if it's just 1% of Messi, that's already a gift most don't even dream about, much less have. For his age, he's unbelievably good with the ball and he was that since he arrived here. Just a naturally gifted midfield player. Without him, we had to play a completely different style. There's less control and creativity and more sluggish chance relying tactics. It worked against Real but it's not always gonna happen. I hope he gets back soon. For good or bad, we need him. One could even say we almost depend on him with a huge percentage for our attacks. We're so lucky to have him.

I think this match should explain very well why Xavi didn't bother to care about the Europa league, at least Barca went down fighting which is the good thing here about their Europa league exit. This match showed Barca prioritized domestic success compared to Europa league, and with how Xavi adapted quick without key players, this shows he is ready to take on Europe, but it just isn't the time yet.

He remember me to Juan Román Riquelme

I just hope that Pedri doesn't suffer from the burnout that Messi had when the whole team relied on him saving a hole match or even a season.

Do you think Xavi is trying to replace Gavi with Bernardo Silva and doesn't see Gavi as a starter? Frienkie is not a CDM if busi leaves.

Gundogan is a must signing

#8! Anyone else notice the skill and know-how (know-how not technique!😤) that Pedri has, as well as the direct similarities with his style of play when compared to Andres iniesta !? Footballing iq on another level, especially now when the sport is declining in quality, imo!

Pedro needs that number 10, he's a star

Pedri and Messi, I would love to see that one day