Marca end of the season awards

The institution in charge of awarding the Pichichi and Zamorra awards has announced the results of their online poll with 150,000+ votes

Best eleven

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Revelation eleven

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Worst eleven

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lol at jordi alba making best LB
and how is Song included in worst CDM

iraizoz inb4 arq

I think both best eleven and revelation look about right. The worst 11 is unnecessary

Busquets, Ozil and Alba are there on names alone, none of them deserve to be there.

Also Sanchez being in the worst eleven is harsh, there are worse performers at Barca alone lol including Pedro

Iraizoz is only given the worst 11 because statistically his numbers have been awful. By that reason it we should just use moneyball in Football.

He did make 2-3 awful mistakes though.

What is more puzzling is Munain who's play has saved Athletic more than even Susaeta & alongside him has been their best attacker in creating ridiculous amounts of chances. Didn't help that Bielsa fielded him from positions as LB, or CM or wide forward.


The rest? Martinez Inigo Vela & Agirrexte

Alba? LMAO 5 LBs were better than him.

Illaramendi is also surprising as he never was touted to be THAT good. That was always Pardo. Similar to the story of Arteta and Alonso, where Arteta was always light years ahead in talent and in the youths yet Alonso became the more famous one.

Though Arteta is an Everton legend and has been nothing short of excellent for Arsenal

I'm surprised they didn't include Modric in their worst eleven.. Essien

ffs Rodgers, buy that revelation eleven!

Godin and Felipe should walk into that 1st team.

Happy to see Jordi Amat on the newcomers list; really, really hope to see him stay at Espanyol past the summer.

Can't blame people for saying Song flopped, he was brought in to play CB

Also Mou worst manager

Glad Amat is there, I was pimping him 3 years ago in the Madrid section

Nick can confirm this.

Zealous wrote:Glad Amat is there, I was pimping him 3 years ago in the Madrid section

Nick can confirm this.

Espanyol

Brilliant club

Alexis worst 11!!!?

In the 1st half of the season, he wasn't good enough but in the 2nd part he was great!
8 goals and 9 assists in 29 Liga games (18 Starts) are great numbers!
Passing Accuracy: 80%
Dribbles: 26 (1 per game)
Chances Created: 35 !!
Conversion rate: 8/32 = 25%.

Didn't know we brought in OptaKhaled here to prove Sanchez wasn't awful despite being highly underwhelming.

Let's get that moneyball statistics crap out of here. Only Barça fans seem to
do that nowadays

Khaled wrote:Alexis worst 11!!!?

In the 1st half of the season, he wasn't good enough but in the 2nd part he was great!
8 goals and 9 assists in 29 Liga games (18 Starts) are great numbers!
Passing Accuracy: 80%
Dribbles: 26 (1 per game)
Chances Created: 35 !!
Conversion rate: 8/32 = 25%.

It's a public poll in a Spanish website, 90% of the people in spain root for Barca or Madrid, hence they're overrepresented. There's definitely worse performers.

Arquitescu wrote:Didn't know we brought in OptaKhaled here to prove Sanchez wasn't awful despite being highly underwhelming.

Let's get that moneyball statistics crap out of here. Only Barça fans seem to
do that nowadays

We "Barca fans" expected a lot more from Alexis when we 1st signed him.
But, its harsh to say that he's one of the worst in the League this season!
He was good overall, needs to improve (take more attempts - shots, dribbles)

BarrileteCosmico wrote:

Khaled wrote:Alexis worst 11!!!?

In the 1st half of the season, he wasn't good enough but in the 2nd part he was great!
8 goals and 9 assists in 29 Liga games (18 Starts) are great numbers!
Passing Accuracy: 80%
Dribbles: 26 (1 per game)
Chances Created: 35 !!
Conversion rate: 8/32 = 25%.

It's a public poll in a Spanish website, 90% of the people in spain root for Barca or Madrid, hence they're overrepresented. There's definitely worse performers.

EVEN Song, he did nothing wrong! He was good as a backup for Busquets.

Essien and Song shouldn't even be in the worst 11. Song wasn't expected to be a starter and we he did play he did adequately. Same with Essien. Filling in at RB and CDM and doing alright.

Varane could have easily taken Ramos' spot in the best 11.

Courtois making the best GK.

The worst 11 is stupid because obviously there are many players worse than Muniain, Song or Alexis. If it was called Flop 11 it would be more accurate although Song no way should be there, he has been good. Alexis should definitely be there, some good games when the league is over don't compensate for a terrible season where he was the worst forward at Barcelona by far.

What Ramos did to be in best 11?

Most Worst XIs are actually Flop XIs. I'm pretty sure there are worse players in relegation teams but they are overlooked for high profile players who disappointed in top tier teams, hence why I think Flop XI is a much more accurate name.