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Ivan Rakitic: what happened?
"When Barcelona signed Ivan Rakitic, many had questions. But once they saw him play for Barcelona those questions faded away. The Croatian was magnificent and helped power the Blaugrana to the Treble, scoring the opening goal in the 2015 Champions League Final.

Then in 2016/17, he fell off hard. Struggling in the absence of Dani Alves as a dominant possession-skilled right-back. He looked a shadow of his former self but the signing of Nelson Semedo promised to restore him to former glories. It has not. He has the odd game every now and again that makes you think he’s found his way, that he’s back in the saddle, but he absolutely is not.

Against Atlético, Rakitic was shockingly poor. Being caught out of position for Atleti’s goal was the worst of it, but there wasn’t really a best of it. He just floundered around, slowing the performance down. It’s telling that Barcelona only began looking truly dangerous once he was taken off for Paulinho.

It goes from bad to worse for Rakitic as Sergi Roberto, a central midfielder by trade, once again showed his decisive quality by creating Barcelona’s equalising goal with quality play in the same inside right channel that Rakitic had been floundering about in all game long. It can’t be long before Roberto (or Paulinho) replaces Rakitic in Barça’s ‘Gala XI.’"