3 - Alejandro Balde

[Don Juan Laporta Estruch]

Great game. Still only 20 years old. Mad talk here all week that we need a new left back. I'm with Ale.

Basta ya.

 

[Arfaraza]

That guy's injured

Great news for us. Coz he's been doing well this season

 

[serghei]

Not bad at all. One of his best games in a long time.

 

[TacticsTim]

You all need to watch the first half again. He was awful and Bayerns every attack came through diagonals to olise who was alone every time.
Henry also called him out too he was really bad tonight

 

[Don Juan Laporta Estruch]

You all need to watch the first half again. He was awful and Bayerns every attack came through diagonals to olise who was alone every time.
Henry also called him out too he was really bad tonight

Yes that is true but the reason for that has been mentioned here before. Flick's system is to have one atttacking full back and one defensive. Kounde sits for the most part and is very rarely found in attacking areas. Lamine is assigned the right attacking zone.

Ale has to push up in order to provide left sided width as Raphinha is assigned to move more centrally. Without Ale occupying the left attacking zone, Raphinha has to occupy that space and not the central space. Which means Raph is not in the position to score his 1st and 3rd goals.

Ale can be beaten with this stick of leaving the left back space open all season long, but people need to understand the huge benefits he is bringing by playing so high up as well.

 

[serghei]

Thing is, unless you are absolutely a killer in offense, and Balde isn't that yet, you have to be pretty good in defense too, which Balde isn't.

So... Balde either ups his offensive contributions by a lot in time, or he improves in defense and becomes a more balanced fullback. Balanced fullbacks are Alves, Carvajal, Lahm. Offensive fullbacks are Alba, Marcelo, Alves, Carlos. Yeah, Alves is the only one that I've seen and has been a motor on both ends.

 

[serghei]

Fix the crosses first. Too often he shoots it straight at the other fullback or puts it in blindly.

 

[jamrock]

Yes that is true but the reason for that has been mentioned here before. Flick's system is to have one atttacking full back and one defensive. Kounde sits for the most part and is very rarely found in attacking areas. Lamine is assigned the right attacking zone.

Ale has to push up in order to provide left sided width as Raphinha is assigned to move more centrally. Without Ale occupying the left attacking zone, Raphinha has to occupy that space and not the central space. Which means Raph is not in the position to score his 1st and 3rd goals.

Ale can be beaten with this stick of leaving the left back space open all season long, but people need to understand the huge benefits he is bringing by playing so high up as well.

Exactly.

I don't know why people keep talking, without seeing how he's being used tactically.

In the 2nd half when he played as a more traditional FB, he was very good.

 

[Givenchy]

Thought he did okay in the 2nd half defensively. Problem with him going forward is he really is starting to remind me of Dembele with his final third decision making..

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Thing is, unless you are absolutely a killer in offense, and Balde isn't that yet, you have to be pretty good in defense too, which Balde isn't.

So... Balde either ups his offensive contributions by a lot in time, or he improves in defense and becomes a more balanced fullback. Balanced fullbacks are Alves, Carvajal, Lahm. Offensive fullbacks are Alba, Marcelo, Alves, Carlos. Yeah, Alves is the only one that I've seen and has been a motor on both ends.

Agree with this. Something he definitely needs to improve on.

 

[TacticsTim]

It's not flicks "tactics" that make him ball watch and defensively unaware

 

[Gazzznigga]

Some comments here are just so laughable

All Barca defenders, i repeat, ALL were playing very badly until the tactics changed from the highline to a mid block about halfway into the 1st half. It was clear they all improved after that.

How any reasonable fellow who watched the match as opposed to reading online comments on BF will single out only one of the lot for poor perfomance is the mystery here.

 

[TacticsTim]

Some comments here are just so laughable

All Barca defenders, i repeat, ALL were playing very badly until the tactics changed from the highline to a mid block about halfway into the 1st half. It was clear they all improved after that.

How any reasonable fellow who watched the match as opposed to reading online comments on BF will single out only one of the lot for poor perfomance is the mystery here.

Because if you did watch the match you would notice that almost every attack came from Olise's side who would then switch diagonally. And Olise was always alone and free cuz Balde is clueless. Watch better

 

[Gazzznigga]

Because if you did watch the match you would notice that almost every attack came from Olise's side who would then switch diagonally. And Olise was always alone and free cuz Balde is clueless. Watch better

...but the reason for that was correctly explained by Don Juan Laporta above. Did you read it? If you did and still made your comment after that then your case is more serious than i thought

 

[Gazzznigga]

Something else must be behind some of the myopic comments on Balde against BM. i think he played the best of this season yesterday even if there are still areas needing improvement in his play.

Where he get shithoused here by blind Barca fans for his performance, he is being praised by many Bayern fans on the official Bayernmunichfcforum for limiting Oliseh(who many Bayern fans regard as their best player so far this season) to a few crosses and dangers. Having an Oliseh and a Guerrero run at you constantly is not normal especially if you are playing alone wide on the flank with no out and out left winger to support.

Com'on men!!