Sid Lowe

Now, it's a bit of a fluke and it is Paphos' only shot on goal, but they get beaten by them.

And so it's trying to find an explanation for that.

And it's really, really difficult to find one, to be honest, because in La Liga, they've been efficient.

They've been incredibly good on the break.

They're an athletic team.

They're a strong team.

They're a tall team.

And really and truly, you look around the league from fourth downwards and there's no one who can touch them.

Obviously, week by week, there might be games when they don't win, but there's no one who can touch them consistently.

But in Champions League, they've just been awful.

Yes, absolutely.

I don't think you have to support Barcelona to love watching Pedri play, the smoothness with which he plays, the intelligence, the creativity, the inventiveness, and it's a real pity.

I think it's a pity as well because there's been a sense over the last...

essentially since Flick took over, but maybe a little bit, going back a tiny bit beyond that, of Pedri starting to get things right in fitness terms.

And as you say, he's had a career with a lot of injuries.

A lot is always said, and I think rightly so, about that first season, which he played the Olympics and the European Championships, being very young, had, I think, over 70 games that calendar year, and it was just too many.

And inevitably...

There were muscular problems that came with that and a series of them.

But over the last 18 months or so, he seemed to have continuity.

He seemed to be able to avoid most of those.