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Is Schweini cleared from his injury, though?

I think Kroos might be the more reliable passer (as in tries less tricks and can keep it simple), so perhaps he'll play at the bottom of the midfield. But yeah, since Pep said Thiago can play anywhere, then he might.

Thiago clocked a 92% successful passing rate in La Liga last year and 93% on the U-21 European Championship. That is enough to match Gustavo's passing prowess and surpass Kroos'. Guardiola knows what he is getting.

Huh, he's seemed more like a flair player when I've seen him. Then sure, why not!

ballackfcb wrote:

lau03143 wrote:I don't particularly care about this one or the Audi cup.

Winning or losing them will have no effect on our forthcoming season.

By the way this game is live on ESPN in UK at 5.30 uk time.

Brilliant!

quaazi wrote:Is Schweini cleared from his injury, though?

yeah... and even if he is, I don't think he'll be playing this match, not being able to train for such a long time...

YlonenXabi wrote:I'm a little bit worried by the fact that we won't have our defensive CM's for the next few friendlies where we'll be facing tougher opposition.

I know those are just some irrelevant friendlies, but some bad results and Guardiola will have all the pressure from the sensationalist media (and many users in this forum ) over him

Im also very worried about that, I think Pep may be forced to play Can since at the moment he is the only DM Bayern have at the moment but lets hope that Gustavo and Martinez are back for the Barca and BvB games or things will get messy. It was clear in the Hansa Rostock game that you need a great DM to play a 4-1-4-1 successfully....

So we are not playing against Dortmund on the 20th ?

Yeah. Hamburg guys like us too much.
We might play Dortmund in final the next day.

YlonenXabi wrote:

tflags wrote:Thiago clocked a 92% successful passing rate in La Liga last year and 93% on the U-21 European Championship. That is enough to match Gustavo's passing prowess and surpass Kroos'. Guardiola knows what he is getting.

Hmm that's good but one of the things that Barça supporters hated about Thiago is that he made those unnecesary skill moves that ended up in losing the ball in dangerous zones when he played in deeper positions in the midfield.

Then again you can look at his stats and discover that he is rated "VERY STRONG" in ball possession, was dribbled HALF the time than Kroos and has the exact same average lost balls than Kroos, the Busdesliga most successful playmaker last season.

Like I said, Guardiola knows what he is getting.