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Barcelona are currently without the services of Jules Kounde, who\u2019s been out since the start of March<\/a> with a hamstring injury. However, the hope is that he will be back soon, and the ongoing international break presents an opportunity for him to return before the Catalans are back in action.<\/p>\n Earlier in the week, Kounde was speaking to the media channels for Kings League (via Cadena SER<\/a>), the competition run by ex-Barcelona defender Gerard Pique. He has a team involved in the league, and during one of the streams, he was asked about his favourite player among his club teammates, and his answer was rather telling.<\/p>\n \u201cPedri is my favourite player. He\u2019s absolutely brilliant. Honestly, he\u2019s one of those players who operates on another level; even what he does in training and everything else. Actually, it\u2019s his innate technique, with the right foot and with the left he can pivot to the right or left, he has an incredible vision of the game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Kounde believes that a lot of people underrate Pedri \u2013 in particular, he believes that the Barcelona midfielder\u2019s defensive ability is often overlooked.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is also a very underestimated aspect about him, which I think doesn\u2019t stand out enough: his defensive work. Pedri is a player who constantly runs and recovers the ball\u2026 Last year, he was the player who recovered the most balls in Europe. He covers about 12km per game and, at the same time, he has to regain possession, move the team forward, distribute the ball and break the rival defensive lines. He is absolutely brilliant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \n Pedri is undoubtedly one of the best players in the Barcelona squad, and whenever he isn\u2019t playing, his absence is often felt. Kounde, like the Catalan club\u2019s supporters, will be hoping that the 23-year-old manages to stay fit between now and the end of the season.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Jules Kounde lauds favourite Barcelona teammate – “He operates on another level”<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barcelona are currently without the services of Jules Kounde, who\u2019s been out since the start of March with a hamstring injury. However, the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Kounde: Pedri\u2019s defensive work is underappreciated<\/h2>\n