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VIDEO: The Barcelona team playing piggy-in-the-middle is exactly as you’d expect

Published 20:23 26 Oct 2015 GMT

Updated 09:08 27 Oct 2015 GMT

Conan Doherty
VIDEO: The Barcelona team playing piggy-in-the-middle is exactly as you’d expect

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Somewhere in Spain, Brendan Rodgers is having a wet dream.

Barcelona wrote the book on possession football and they put their theory into practice better than anyone. We've seen manys a team try out a classic game of piggy-in-the-middle only to have their inadequacies at actually playing football shown up. But Barca have no such problems. The Champions League winners were at their effortless best pinging one-touch passes to one another in training even with the so-called best pressing striker in the world, Luis Suarez, manically closing them down. You'd rather be a strip of bacon than a piggy in the middle of that circle.

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VIDEO: The Barcelona team playing piggy-in-the-middle is exactly as you'd expect