2012–13 Season - Successful, Fair or Failure?
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Irish_Cules
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Satisfied. Considering we won La Liga with Tito's and Abidal's illness, it's a success but out performances in the classicos and Champions League were poor.
Yannick03
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Definitely satisfied. With all the problems this season, especially Tito's illness. Considering Tito's health, we still managed to reach the semifinals of both the UCL and Copa del Rey. The Supercopa was given away by Valdes and if we were more clinical in Madrid, we probably would have been in the final of the CDR.
I'm especially thrilled La Liga is ours again, couldn't be happier. Let's just hope Tito learned his lessons and we'll have a good transfer period, then we'll be more competitive. Still good times to be a Culé.
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I'm especially thrilled La Liga is ours again, couldn't be happier. Let's just hope Tito learned his lessons and we'll have a good transfer period, then we'll be more competitive. Still good times to be a Culé.
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jamrock
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Failed to beat a signed decent team in the cl, Milan are average at best
Failed to mean our only real competition in la liga
Failed to impose yourself on most games we played this season(having more possession is not the same thing)
Failed to played with a clear philosophy and idea (it was give the ball to messi or iniesta when things get tough)
Failed to played a organized defense
Failed to integrate even one cantera into the first team.
Suffer the worst defeat in the history of the cl semifinals
Won la liga
Could get 100 points or 1 more point that pep ever got
Was the season a failure
Of course it was thank good for messi n iniesta in the first half of the season and Jose for messing up Madrid internally.
If it would have been a disaster
Fire Tito now
Failed to mean our only real competition in la liga
Failed to impose yourself on most games we played this season(having more possession is not the same thing)
Failed to played with a clear philosophy and idea (it was give the ball to messi or iniesta when things get tough)
Failed to played a organized defense
Failed to integrate even one cantera into the first team.
Suffer the worst defeat in the history of the cl semifinals
Won la liga
Could get 100 points or 1 more point that pep ever got
Was the season a failure
Of course it was thank good for messi n iniesta in the first half of the season and Jose for messing up Madrid internally.
If it would have been a disaster
Fire Tito now
Stric
New member
Voted fair, but both fair and satisfied work for me.
Winning the Liga title and reaching the CL semis is a success, no doubt about that, but too many things were looking bad this season for me to just ignore it and praise the entire 2012/2013 campaign. I don't think our team is performing as well as they have in recent years, which is a big downside. We lost the Supercopa (and could've been completely humiliated if it wasn't for several incredible misses by Higuain), lost the Copa del Rey looking very uninterested, got absolutely humiliated in the CL following the group stages only managed to beat Milan in the home leg. This is not the Barcelona I know. But all things considered, it was a good season.
Winning the Liga title and reaching the CL semis is a success, no doubt about that, but too many things were looking bad this season for me to just ignore it and praise the entire 2012/2013 campaign. I don't think our team is performing as well as they have in recent years, which is a big downside. We lost the Supercopa (and could've been completely humiliated if it wasn't for several incredible misses by Higuain), lost the Copa del Rey looking very uninterested, got absolutely humiliated in the CL following the group stages only managed to beat Milan in the home leg. This is not the Barcelona I know. But all things considered, it was a good season.
Paganinisrvnge
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On paper, it was a success. However, looking at the performances of the team; it was a failure in some ways. If it weren't for Messi putting the team on his back; it would have been a complete failure of a season. If Messi had been injured for about 4 months....3rd or 4th place in La Liga is not unreasonable and a definite Champions League exit at the round of 16.
Let's face it, guys. Barcelona were often abysmal when Messi didn't play or until he bailed them out. Xavi declined a lot this season(except a few matches), Alexis didn't start playing decently well until the last month, Pedro was awful, Pique and Alves were inconsistent, Busquets suffered, Fabregas suffered, Puyol always hurt, etc.
Some people are excusing Tito but I won't do the same. He often made horrible substitutions or no substitutions at all. I can't even count the amount of times he waited until the last 10 minutes to bring on Villa in a match where he should have been brought on way sooner. He didn't give Thiago, Montoya, Bartra, or especially Tello enough minutes when they clearly deserved them. Does Tito hate youth? Everyone was hoping for Tello against Bayern and he didn't even make the subs. Tito's tactics were also very poor at times aside from the Milan 2nd leg. He should have started a double pivot in the first leg vs Bayern and even when he saw things were going poorly he didn't do ANYTHING. Could have made changes at halftime when it was only 1-0 and Barcelona could have had a good result with even a 2-1 loss but nope.
In conclusion, winning La Liga is great but I'm more disappointed in the way the team played in big matches and how they got horribly embarrassed in the Champions League(only even made the semis thanks to Messi) than I am happy about La Liga.
Let's face it, guys. Barcelona were often abysmal when Messi didn't play or until he bailed them out. Xavi declined a lot this season(except a few matches), Alexis didn't start playing decently well until the last month, Pedro was awful, Pique and Alves were inconsistent, Busquets suffered, Fabregas suffered, Puyol always hurt, etc.
Some people are excusing Tito but I won't do the same. He often made horrible substitutions or no substitutions at all. I can't even count the amount of times he waited until the last 10 minutes to bring on Villa in a match where he should have been brought on way sooner. He didn't give Thiago, Montoya, Bartra, or especially Tello enough minutes when they clearly deserved them. Does Tito hate youth? Everyone was hoping for Tello against Bayern and he didn't even make the subs. Tito's tactics were also very poor at times aside from the Milan 2nd leg. He should have started a double pivot in the first leg vs Bayern and even when he saw things were going poorly he didn't do ANYTHING. Could have made changes at halftime when it was only 1-0 and Barcelona could have had a good result with even a 2-1 loss but nope.
In conclusion, winning La Liga is great but I'm more disappointed in the way the team played in big matches and how they got horribly embarrassed in the Champions League(only even made the semis thanks to Messi) than I am happy about La Liga.
Calling them cules is giving them too much credit, they'd be more suited to supporting Madrid. Or better yet, they should just tune into the Champions League final and cheer for whoever wins, if winning La Liga isn't a success then why even bother watching it?
Superfly
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This.
Indignado
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Regarding the previous seasons and the team's status as best team in the world, you can't label the current season a success. Yes, we won La Liga which is great, but we dropped out of the CL and the Copa and didn't manage to win a single Clásico apart from the unimporant one at the beginning of the season (and we subsequently lost the Supercopa). I think the last season was even more of a success than the current one, not because of the things we won but because of the way we played, and the way we played this season against big teams leaves me wondering if Tito has any tactical understanding at all. I genuinely hope he can turn it around but if we continue playing like this, we're not competitive on European level.
Again, I'm not complaining about the lack of titles, sure winning La Liga and reaching the semis of the CL sounds like a great season, but the thing is that we never played well against big teams and that we dropped out 0-7 against Bayern. If that's not a disaster then I don't know what is.
Again, I'm not complaining about the lack of titles, sure winning La Liga and reaching the semis of the CL sounds like a great season, but the thing is that we never played well against big teams and that we dropped out 0-7 against Bayern. If that's not a disaster then I don't know what is.
Semi-Neutral
Sir Alupp Heynrguson
It's a success but for the high standards we've established over the past few years it's not as successful as it could have been. Not to mention I think you can't call us spoiled for being mad about losing 7-0.
darthvader7888
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Blue Demon
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Satisfied. With all that had happened in the latter half of the year. I'd take this Liga trophy. Yet I hope they take this year as a lesson on what is needed for next.
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