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MATS Neymar Suarez

Messi Rakitic Alves

You can say what you like about the tactics that Simeone employed tonight but Miranda and Godin did not deserve to be on the losing team as they were outstanding again. They for me are the best central defensive partnership in the world, its a shame that they won't be gracing the semi finals.

Real as they look toothless without Modric and the way we are playing we would beat them comfortably. But with this being Uefa I am sure that Madrid will get Juve (the weakest team left in besides themselves).

You can't say that they weren't going to score as all takes is to win a set piece to score from it like they did in the final last year. And without the red card I think that Atleti were as comfortable Real and Real looked toothless in terms of creating openings without Modric.

Atleti got was they deserved tonight (with the exception of Godin and Miranda who were outstanding) they did not even attempt to get the away goal. However you always felt that they were comfortable defensively until the very harsh sending off. And if Real were going to score it was always going...

Iniesta Neymar Busquets

He did not play very well today but you have to ask yet again where is Neymar to when his full back needs some defensive support ?

Bravo Messi Rakitic

Suarez Xavi Messi

Firstly Neymar was not really in the game second as it got physical and he did what he usually does when the game get's intense and physical he went missing, also when you are defending a lead Neymar does not track back and defend to help out his full back like he should and like Messi does on...

No I am just highlighting that it is something that Pep did regularly (so the players should have been able to adapt to it no trouble) and was never criticised for it except for on one occasion when we lost and had Pique not given the ball away tonight we would have won the game and no one would...

I'm a big critic of Alves but I though that he was very good defensively in particular. However what a ridiculous effort from about 40 yards with what was our last attack of the game.

Nonsense the 11 players on the pitch had 4 world cup winners, the best player in the world and 32 La Liga titles and 16 Champions League titles between them. I think that it is incomprehensible that those players cannot adapt to a simple tweak of formation. And a change that is not uncommon to...

Yeah because changing manager for the fourth time in four seasons will automatically solve everything.

If one substitution kills the focus of the players then I would suggest that they are clearly not mentally tough and focused enough to win titles.

Mathieu Messi Rakitic I would have put Neymar in but I thought that his reaction at being subbed was petulant and showed that he still has a lot of growing up to do. It was not the behaviour that I would expect from an FC Barcelona player.

We'd only conceded 18 goals all season when that sub was made so that is a pretty rock solid record. And we hardly tried to defend we just put on an extra body in midfield for a bit more control which we had until Pique gave the ball away.

And then we get caught on the break and they equalise and people are critical of him for looking for going for another goal instead of just closing the game out. What cost Barca tonight were individual mistakes by Bravo, Pique and Suarez.

We hardly played defensively the game was very open and end to end. If we had took our chances scored we would have scored at least 5.