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Youth team development

Rex

it's 1-1 btw.

Rex

Barcelona 2-1 after awful defending between LB and CB.

Rex

Zelelem in the number 4 jersey. Bodes well!

Rex

Toral is a real unit.

Penalty for Barcelona and a red card for our goalkeeper Iliev.

Rex

Zelelem out for the reserve goalkeeper. disappointing. Have to say - Zelelem looked really lax in his defending in these 15 minutes I managed to see him.

Penalty missed, Adebayor style. 🙂

Rex

Barcelona have some really top class youngsters.

Rex

Gnabry off after 70 minutes. Jack Jebb coming on.

Rex

Olsson probably our best player in the second half. We were disappointing even before the sending off. Toral being played as a left sided midfielder hasn't worked at all. He just looks big and slow.

Rex

Bellerin is impressive. It has been all defending for him all half, and he has handled that excellently. We already know he is top notch going forward.

Rex

Toral playing central now, and he looks a lot better for it. Bellerin in a rare foray forward, and he immediately sets up Jebb for a good shooting opportunity. Tame shot in the end.

Fuck. Excellent chance spurned after a corner. Fell to a CB and the finish was poor.

Rex

Akpom 2-2, get in!

Olsson instrumental early, Akpom moves as a proper striker; holds the ball up, plays someone in, then goes full pelt towards goal, gets there for a tap-in. Heading for penalties. No extra time.

Qwiss

Really think Akpom should have minutes this season.

Rex

Olsson has been the best central mid on the pitch this half. Hardly put a foot wrong, and he has had to do a LOT of defending too. He is excellent on the ball, and very calm under pressure.

Rex

Fuck. Barcelona 3-2 in the 88th minute. That's it then.
Aaaaand now they make it 4-2.

Rex

The Arsenal LB has been absolute bobbins the whole half.

Rex

I like Akpom a lot. Looks a lot more rounded than Sanogo, and he has really good pace for a big guy.

yuv

Good stuff from the boys - the were not second best here and showed a lot of positive stuff. Bit unlucky.

Rex

Every Barcelona player seems to want to run at our LB. 😆
Every one of them go past him like he isn't there too. 🙁

Rex

Game over, we are out.

Rohit

Rex wrote:
I like Akpom a lot. Looks a lot more rounded than Sanogo, and he has really good pace for a big guy.

I think it was Captain who questioned bringing Sanogo in when we already had Akpom. Didn't see this game but that assessment isn't surprising.

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