{"id":616138,"date":"2026-09-14T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616138\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:10:10","slug":"there-is-a-reason-he-wasnt-playing-pat-nevin-warns-liverpool-fans-over-bradley-barcola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616138\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;There is a reason he wasn\u2019t playing&#8217; &#8211; Pat Nevin warns Liverpool fans over Bradley Barcola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nevin further argued that pure speed will not be enough for Barcola when opponents choose to defend deeply and deny him any room to operate. <\/p>\n<p>The former Chelsea man believes that intelligence and creativity are paramount in those tight situations, traits he feels the \u00a3123m signing currently lacks. &#8220;The big thing, underlying it all, is that you also need space to run into,&#8221; Nevin concluded. &#8220;But if you\u2019re really fast and playing against a low block, there\u2019s nowhere to run. At that point, you need pure skill and intelligence, not just speed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nevin further argued that pure speed will not be enough for Barcola when opponents choose to defend deeply&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9459,85,46,172,2619,105],"class_list":["post-616138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-b-barcola","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-liverpool","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}