{"id":240277,"date":"2025-09-20T01:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240277\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T01:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:23:09","slug":"premier-league-legends-in-awe-of-barcelona-superstar-after-performance-vs-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240277\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League legends in awe of Barcelona superstar after performance vs Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedri and Frenkie de Jong are rightfully earning massive praise for their performance last night in Barcelona\u2019s 2-1 win over Newcastle United in the UEFA Champions League, for the game would have been very different without them around.<\/p>\n<p>The duo, starting as the double-pivot, showed the world why they are the sport\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/three-takeaways-from-newcastle-united-1-2-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most technically gifted players<\/a> in their position as they soaked in the hosts\u2019 rough press and came out unscathed time and time again to help Barcelona retain possession.<\/p>\n<p>Pedri, in particular, stole the show with his press resistance, ability to dictate play, and progress the ball forward, and was the major highlight in Barcelona\u2019s dance to the full-time whistle after Newcastle\u2019s seemingly hope-injecting goal in the 90th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Players and pundits in awe<\/p>\n<p>The reaction to Pedri\u2019s performance from across England was something special last night, for it appeared that the players and pundits in the Premier League took notice of his talent for the first time and could not get enough.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to his social media after the game, Manchester United legend Paul Scholes did not hold back and showered praise on the Spanish youngster for his quality.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rcd-mallorca-v-fc-barcelona-laliga-ea-sports-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"MALLORCA, SPAIN - AUGUST 16: Pedri of FC Barcelona gestures during the LaLiga EA Sports match between RCD Mallorca and FC Barcelona at Estadio de Son Moix on August 16, 2025 in Mallorca, Spain. (Photo by Rafa Babot\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-177767\"  \/>Too good. (Photo by Rafa Babot\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cPedri is my new favourite player,\u201d <\/strong>he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Also joining the party was Arsenal and Barcelona legend Thierry Henry, who compared him to one of football\u2019s all-time greats in his position.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHe is the player who most resembles Laudrup.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joining the aforementioned legends in showering praise on the 22-year-old was former Manchester City star Jack Grealish, who lauded Pedri and Frenkie de Jong for their masterclass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cPedri and De Jong are a pleasure to watch play,\u201d <\/strong>he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport.es\/es\/noticias\/barca\/locos-pedri-parecido-laudrup-121736670\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SPORT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pedri and Frenkie de Jong are rightfully earning massive praise for their performance last night in Barcelona\u2019s 2-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1386,4444,5727,24037,16863,78958,79794,221,62,128488,116133,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-240277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-barcelona-news","10":"tag-fc-barcelona","11":"tag-jack-grealish","12":"tag-newcastle-united","13":"tag-paul-scholes","14":"tag-pedri","15":"tag-soccer","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-thierry-henry","18":"tag-uefa-champions-league","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115234013798599640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}