Quote from: Velvet78 on Today at 10:06:18 AM

Quote from: poodle63 on Today at 05:36:37 AM

It's very attractive game. Villareal was strong enough in giving barcelona a hard game. Barcelona needs to dominate a half of field before the club was able making so many attacks against villareal.
Some mistakes being made by villareal. What a significant result from barcelona. Impressive performance from yamal. This 16 years old guy has been performing even better compared with raphinha.
It's a magic to see that 16 years old was able performing like a world class player. No raphinha but yes for yamal. Raphinha was not even better than yamal.

Barcelona youth setup has always been amazing. They always manage to grow really skilled players from there. I think Yamal is one of those players. He has a good talent at this young age. He should play as much as possible to improve his skills much more. Dembele's departure is really helping him now.

Xavi can have him in the starting lineup in the coming games as well after watching his effective football. He was nearly scoring a goal in this game as well.

It has the culture of Barcelona, signing young and talented prospects and developing them into world class players, and so far it's worked perfectly for them, Barcelona really needed to offload Dembele for other rising star to shine, though Dembele is a very talented player and a lot was expected of him at Barcelona when he arrived at Barcelona from Dortmund but his playing time at Barca was limited due to his reoccurring injury spells, and so far the player that's benefitted from his departure is Yamal, because he's getting playing time and it would built his confidence level and help him develop into a top class as expected by Barcelona.
The team looks good and balanced I think what they need currently is Lewandowski to get back to his full potential and start helping them to score goals and compete better against their top rivals this season.