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Apparently they went after Messi and his wife. We need Messi to come out with a statement against him. Otherwise, nothing is going to happen.

More then likely this will be a trophy less season. No chance do we win the CL and we’ll need Madrid to collapse to win the league.

This club is run so poorly it's now a joke on the scale of Manchester United. The squad is pretty woeful for the amount of money spent in recent years and it doesn't seem like there is any thought made with the decisions on who is brought in and who goes out on loan/sold. There's no long term...

Already looking much better going forward. Better movement, crisper passing. It seems Messi likes this formation better then the one Setien used in previous games.

Vidal comes on and we create our 2 best chances of the half and we look much better in the attacking 1/3 of the field.

It's got nothing to do with the training. That's just a lazy excuse because people have heard training has been more intense. Look at the profiles of the players and you'll be able to figure out why there is little movement and no penetration.

We are sorely lacking in penetration once again. The only players running in behind are Greizmann and Fati and we desperately need 1 more runner. I'm betting that we see Vidal on for Arthur early in the 2nd half as he'll help with that. Oh, and we're not really playing a 3-4-3 or 3-5-2. In...

Messi hasn't really played on the right wing for quite a few years now. He may start out there, or he may be pictured out there in the pre-match lineup, but he's been a more central player then a typical right winger. I know people may not like it but.......it's Messi and you accommodate him...

Exactly. You don't understand what he's trying to do but because it's different then what Valverde was doing you don't like it and are going to complain about it.

What 3 or 4 inexplicable decisions has he made in the two games. Just because you don't agree, or likely don't understand, with what he has done does not mean his decisions aren't logical.

It’s going to take more then a week to correct 2 and 1/2 years of another coaches training and tactics. Christ, if it was Pep back instead of Setien we’d still have the same problems. People need to be a little realistic about things. This isn’t a video game.

At least you’re willing to give it a try.

That’s the key. We need the players to master the system before things go much smoother. Those that were expecting immediate changes to how we played are expecting something that was never going to happen.

This isn’t really true. You can run any formation and have it structured and have the roles defined. It is going to take more then a week or two for the new manager to install a different structure into the team. In the meantime, there’s every chance that we’ll look out of sorts and we won’t...

Are you sure that you're a Barca supporter?

A little bit of pragmatism in his first game. It might be a couple weeks but we won’t be seeing this midfield much at all going forward

Good post. This game will be interesting for a few reasons and you’ve mentioned most. Really hoping to see a midfield 3 of Arthur, Puig, and Busquets although just coming back from injury Arthur may not be ready to start. Haven’t been this excited for a Barca game in a long time.

We’ll play with more cohesion once he gets his preferred midfield in there. With Suarez out, and no striker likely to come in, I think we’ll see a front 3 of Dembele, Griezmann, Messi. Ansu or Perez to play until Dembele is fit unless he goes with a different formation.

No, no, no. A “plan B” doesn’t necessarily have to be crossing to a target man. That’s the complete opposite of anything that Setien would do if you listen to him talk.

Griezmann will do much better through the middle then he did off the left. You’d think the midfield in tomorrow’s match will not be the one he uses long term. Long term I expect that De Jong and Arthur will be in there with one other. Sounds like Puig may play tomorrow. It’s too bad Aleña went...