An honest review of Puyol vs Galacticos

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@muhammadfajri2687 5 ай бұрын

The captain who deserve respect both from friend or foe

@mike0133 5 ай бұрын

My opinion: did very well in this match. I agree he wasn't very tecnicall gifted but playing in a time like Barca that is very offensive and put you always in 1 VS 1 situation, is not easy, if you watch carefull he was covering even area of the full back, you need a lot of stamina and team sacrifice spirit to do that. P.S.: even if R9 wasn't in his prime, he was still a world class striker and stopping him so many time, wasn't an easy work.

@thebeatnumber 5 ай бұрын

Not sure you're being fair to Puyol. He may have been an old school rugged type of CB, but his game reading and timings of his tackling was quite good. Maybe not Maldini or Baresi good, but then very few CBs are on the same level as Maldini and Baresi. He would never have sustained a 16 year career in one of the biggest clubs in world football if he hadn't been world class. This example you're using is Puyol against prime Ronaldo R9 and on his day, R9 could make any world class defender make mistakes and look average.

@mike0133 5 ай бұрын

That wasn't prime R9.

@athuldas4959 5 ай бұрын

every player has pros and cons, he has just highlighted one of puyol's. he was not being overly critical

@theiceman7590 5 ай бұрын

This wasnt prime Ronaldo by any means

@NationOfMasturbation 5 ай бұрын

Even Nesta struggled against Ronaldo in Serie A

@YBAModded 5 ай бұрын

Ronaldo is ronaldo

@rockgamiasedes677 5 ай бұрын

Here is my two cents on Puyol . from the very beginning of his career as an youth he was out talented by everyone in La Masia. Actually it took him couple of tries to get into La Masia in the first place. And the moment he stepped into that academy he knew how talented kids around him are. The despair that he felt might have been enormous. And under all that despair he decided that the only thing he could give out to the club more than anyone else is his soul. And that he did. Carlos Puyol played every match for Barcelona to try to give out his life and his last being . Compared to the greatest technically gifted defenders of all times, he may have lacked in several areas. But remember this - the way you underestimate him or downplaying him , Puyol has underestimated himself harder. So what he became is a tenacious monster. If Maldini's motto was -If I have to make a tackle I have already made a mistake, Puyol's motto was exactly opposite. He was going to tackle and tackle and tackle again until he won. The result was that of unstoppable defender that do not want be defeated or stopped. Ask C Ronaldo how he felt going against him or Real Madrid attacking trident of 2010s. Which imo as far more effective and threatening than failed galacticos. His leadership may have been missing for Barcelona but so was his defensive capabilities. It was not attack minded Dani Alves or aerial expert Pique that gave headache to opponents, it was easy to beat and impossible to shake off Carlos Puyol . And it's about god damn time internet should understand what he was and how reliable he was for people watching from the stands.

@mintcake6895 5 ай бұрын

ok boomer

@samizayn5666 4 ай бұрын

Look many players have passion. Puyol was different gravy tho. His entire career was built out of passion. That is because in La.Masia he probably knew that he wouldn't cut it with talent because La Masia has so much of it. Puyol was the personification of keep going.

@nathanhosea489 3 ай бұрын

Ronaldo probably rates Puyol as the better defender of the two. He got the better of Pique many times

@seasoncheng5435 5 ай бұрын

Actually Puyol was more than perfect for Barcelona because he gave complementary texture to the purist technical game. Something special about him was that he knew how to trap the ball when it's the right time instead of clearing it - something quite nuanced for a physical player. And he played one of the highest and most technical demanding defensive lines and still made it work. Remember: he had to make "tiki taka" work too.

@hanssteiner4315 5 ай бұрын

Most legendary he stopped whining and diving by his own teammates like Busquets. Most teammates instantly forgot that lesson when Puyol stopped.

@yared8771 5 ай бұрын

Man I love this channel 😊

@bzilla-d4i 5 ай бұрын

You should do a video on Christian Vieri, the best Italian striker of the past 30 years and why he cost €47m in 1999.

@theiceman7590 5 ай бұрын

He was incredible and he had only one foot

@gladiatorscoops4907 5 ай бұрын

Vieri was a monster striker, deceptively quick, incredibly strong, great in the air and such incredible shooting technique and shot power, he was dangerous from anywhere. When I used to play I used to try and shoot with the same body shape as Vieri, he would always have his body over the ball. leaning right over as he hit it, so he rarely skied a shot.

@bzilla-d4i 5 ай бұрын

It's so sad that injuries literally killed his career. He should've been at that 2006 World Cup with us

@doomisdead23-kl6pg 5 ай бұрын

The fact is people didn't rate R9 after his injury but still he played like someone who never got injured. Made everyone in their prime years look like fools.

@gladiatorscoops4907 5 ай бұрын

I don't think the general consensus for R9 after the injury was that ppl didnt rate him, more like he went from being head and shoulders the best player on the planet to one of the top 3 strikers in world football in those early 00's along with Henry and Shevchenko. He was still an unbelievable talent, still faster than 99 percent other players, still capable of beating 3,4 players with the ball at his feet and still dangerous from any position around the box if he found room to shoot from either foot. The key difference in R9 after the injury apart from the loss of some power and pace was his engine and the ability to pick the ball up and go at teams again and again. Before his injury he demanded the ball, would often pick it up from deep then go at teams, then a few minutes later do it again. When he was at Madrid those moments were far less and usually from further forward areas. One of the patterns I would notice watching R9 at Madrid late on a Saturday or Sunday night on SkySports was he would often be completely out of a game, then one moment where the opposition were too high up the pitch Zidane would put a through ball and R9 was gone, no defender could catch him and he would score, he only needed that one chance, that one run, or that one moment when he isolated a defender and he would burst past and score.

@FlowMustGoOn 5 ай бұрын

being beaten by ronaldo in 2003 its really no that big problem , he destroys so many players in that time

@mohamedalotaibi9307 5 ай бұрын

The problem wasn't with puyol it was with how Barcelona play

@deathhunter6628 5 ай бұрын

You are very biased towards seria a players

@Al-ji4gd 4 ай бұрын

With good reason. Serie A was the best league in the world for 20 years, and Italy had always been the home of football, both at the club level and international stage, until very recently. La Liga, even at its best, was dominated by 2 or 3 clubs max. Also, individually, Italy has always had the best defenders of all time, not Spain.

@samizayn5666 4 ай бұрын

@@Al-ji4gdItaly isn't the home of football. It was for 20 years from 90s to 2000s but not now. Not before that as well.

@Al-ji4gd 4 ай бұрын

@@samizayn5666 From the 80s, actually, but ok, it's not the biggest league currently. It's still one of the biggest leagues and footballing countries in the world, arguably top 2.

@nathanhosea489 3 ай бұрын

It was the best league in the world from 1985 to 2006. This is a retro channel that talks about football in those days. That's why he rates that league so highly

@davidmovil250 2 ай бұрын

Yes, totally biased

@davidmovil250 2 ай бұрын

This is a very very poor analysis from a Serie A fan who needs to underestimate the defensive quality of Puyol with some topics. This video is far from being honest. I am a great fan of the italian defenders of the 90's and 00's; Nesta, Cannavaro, Maldini. But they were not perfect. We can say, for example, that Nesta didn't know how to do a proper standing tackle, he was the king of the sliding tackle for a reason. He uses incorrectly sometimes the slide tackle rather than the standing tackle. That was his style. Great elegance, but not always technically correct. Puyol was much more than a leader, he had an inmense defensive talent. He has been one of the best covering defenders and standing tacklers of all time. Sorry, but you are showing in this video a little knowledge about Puyol ¿Do you say he was rash and he committed faults? Come on man, you can do it better. Puyol was known for being a tough but clean defender. Less than 1 fault per game. Only 3 red cars in his entire career... This is not a proper analisys. By the way, is pretty unfair to make some comparisons between a defender, who plays in a very offensive team which had problems in that era to even qualifying to CL, and Serie A defenders which play in a defensive minded teams. Ask Cannavaro where had he the most difficult task. ¿At Juve or at Real?