Barcelona midfielder Pedri has been described as a \u201ccombination of Xavi and Iniesta\u201d by former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes.<\/p>\n
The ex-Red Devils described Pedri as his new favorite player after seeing him play a starring role against Newcastle in the Champions League and has now piled more praise on the Spain star.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe number 1 is Pedri. When I saw him against Newcastle , I said, \u2018Wow!\u2019… He\u2019s like a combination of Xavi and Iniesta . We\u2019re not just talking about his feet, but above all his football intelligence. Sometimes he finds himself in difficult situations, and the way he overcomes them with a little one-two or a shoulder feint is incredible. His technique is brilliant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201dThe best thing was that when Newcastle scored, there were eight minutes of stoppage time left. I thought it was going to be exciting… But Pedri had the ball for seven of the eight minutes. He took complete control of the game. I thought it was brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hansi Flick was asked about Scholes\u2019s comments at his pre-match press conference and was happy to hear his opinion. He told reporters: \u201cWhen you\u2019re an attacker, you have more focus. If Scholes says that , that he was a wonderful player, it\u2019s a good thing. Pedri is at an incredible level, as is Frenkie. I\u2019m very happy with what I see in training.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona midfielder Pedri has been described as a \u201ccombination of Xavi and Iniesta\u201d by former Manchester United midfielder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1480,403,99],"class_list":["post-179700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}