Barcelona's 3-1 home defeat to Real Madrid ahead of a testing trip to Juventus in the Champions League on Wednesday was a nasty little jolt to Ronald Koeman's previously robust sheen as the new manager at Camp Nou. The Dutchman's exuberant roll of the dice to start 17-year-old Pedri against La Liga's champions didn't work -- in fact, it flopped.
Fair play to Koeman though: when you roll the dice you can either win big or look daft. His other experiment with moving Philippe Coutinho out of the No.