Nothing more to say after this.

Yay, Vicsoc!

We often talk about it, but this video from Paradigma Guardiola shows our relentless pressure and attacking, right up to the first goal. Note how whenever Sevilla got the ball, what we did to get it right back. This doesn’t even mention our passing, our relentless movement and always having someone available for a pass.

This video, if you’re preparing to play us, is terrifying. Because there is no defense for play such as this. One part of me says that’s institutional arrogance. Then I watch again.

You can’t play if you don’t have the ball.

Enjoy.

Perhaps the problem is that this team needs a challenge. Hercules doesn’t do it, Mallorca doesn’t do it. This team needs a reason to bare its teeth, and go for the jugular. Like a victory addict, it needs stronger and stronger juice to make the thrills more acute.

So rolling into this match, with one and all questioning who we are and what we do, nattering about a “resurgent” Sevilla and predicting all kinds of stuff, we do a flashback to the all-attacking, all the time Barca, and destroy them. This was the best, most complete display we have offered this season. Valencia got only a half of football, and that was enough. Sevilla got the full deal, and it was grim. As Sevilla’s coach, Manzano, said after the match, “There was never a game.”
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Oh. Yes. Baby Kxevin will be running this one, so check your negativity at the door. Or should I say, “All your negativity are belong to us!” Or something like that. So get those quality links/streams ready, because we’ll hit the ground running, 10 mins. before match start.

I’m traveling today, so your preview is…a little different…

Scene: The sun shines mightily on Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper. Several men kick a spherical object back and forth.

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