Zeitgeist
Player Valuation: £35m
Agree with this. Very good yesterday. His link-up play and work-rate are fantastic. The flicks and turns are boss to watch and effective, to boot.
My only issue with him is his penalty area play. Unfortunately, if he's going to play so far forward, this is a big issue. If Bernard is playing one of your forward roles, you absolutely cannot afford another player whose goal and assist return is so poor in, say, a front 3, if you want to achieve anything of note, because your forwards simply have to be where your goals come from.
Iniesta didn't make an assist or score for a calendar year for Barca.
Bernard was making the team tick yesterday and getting the crowd on side, swinging the moment in our favour is hugely important and he was doing just that