Category: La Liga

October 18, 2020 / Kxevin / Analysis

Getafe 1, Barça 0, aka “A well-earned dismantling”

Watching the Barça match today, a deserved loss, brought to mind lyrics from “Exactly What…

September 27, 2020 / Kxevin / Analysis

It feels weird that the FC Barcelona season is only just now getting under way,…

July 17, 2020 / Kxevin / Analysis

The “only Messi has more” hashtag now includes heartache. It has for years, really, but…

July 12, 2020 / Kxevin / Analysis

It isn’t that Barça isn’t that good. It isn’t that Barça is old. It’s both,…

July 6, 2020 / Kxevin / Analysis

Football is back, blablabla … nah. In the wake of the 1-4 win over Villarreal…

June 28, 2020 / Kxevin / Analysis

When Quique Setien arrived at FC Barcelona, it’s easy to forget circumstances, but they’re worth…

June 24, 2020 / Kxevin / Analysis

It wasn’t what Riqui Puig did, but how he did it. It wasn’t what Ansu…

June 20, 2020 / Kxevin / Analysis

We’re all old enough to remember when Quique Setien was the answer. We’re all old…

March 2, 2020 / Kxevin / Analysis

Life is sometimes better without illusion. Many people said that Zidane would start Vinicius because…

February 28, 2020 / Kxevin / Analysis

There was no purer evidence of how broken Barca is as a team and footballing…

February 22, 2020 / Kxevin / Analysis

The challenging thing about home matches right before a big Champions League knockout tie a…

February 21, 2020 / Kxevin / Analysis

When FC Barcelona was granted the emergency signing of a player in the wake of…