CL | 1/8 Finals: FC Barcelona - Chelsea 4-1 agg.

[FinBarcelonafan]

That was awful, just awful, its so easy to defend vs barca, joke of attack, suarez alone up there and messi far behind, when suarez have the ball he is alone vs 3 players, same with messi, S. Roberto... just please put him in midfield and bring semedo, paulinho is really showing how barca throwed 40m for nothing

Next game we can put in Semedo. He was not available today. I agree otherwise. Our attack vs bus is toothless. We have no chance vs teams who are parking the bus.

 

[DonAK]

we're exacly like in 2013. Absolutely no idea how to attack.

We just pray Messi does something otherwise we're dead.

I thought you were of the opinion that the current system is perfect?

You're right though. Very slow team.

 

[Faceless]

Season is playing out exactly like Tata’s

I’m feeling 2012-2013 vibes too. Shame, we have some potential but the overreliance on aging key players is pulling us down.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Top teams in the CL all know how we play , everything through Messi and hundreds of passes around the box till we lose possession. Theres no chance we are winning this trophy this year.

Our only chance is teams get cocky and attack vs us like Real. Then I like our chances way more than vs parked busses. For example, I think United would crush us but I like our chances vs Liverpool...

 

[Givenchy]

terrible performance, were lucky Messi managed to bail us out as usual. its scary how slow our team is, getting Dembele ready is of the utmost importance.

Raki and Paulinho were fucking shocking, the amount of times we had an attack on for them to slow play down and pass backwards was mindblowing. Pique seems to want to do keep-ups near the corner flag than actually clear the ball. Busi had a poor game but i wont put that much blame on him with a slow ass midfield next to him

 

[Giginho75]

Top teams in the CL all know how we play , everything through Messi and hundreds of passes around the box till we lose possession. Theres no chance we are winning this trophy this year.

No chance? Maybe just a little bit exaggerated?

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

I’m feeling 2012-2013 vibes too. Shame, we have some potential but the overreliance on aging key players is pulling us down.

We need Dembele and Semedo. No way we are winning CL without them. and I mean them playing on a good level.. Valverde need to get these guys playing on higher level or we are finished.

 

[Raki13]

terrible performance, were lucky Messi managed to bail us out as usual. its scary how slow our team is, getting Dembele ready is of the utmost importance.

Raki and Paulinho were fucking shocking, the amount of times we had an attack on for them to slow play down and pass backwards was mindblowing. Pique seems to want to do keep-ups near the corner flag than actually clear the ball. Busi had a poor game but i wont put that much blame on him with a slow ass midfield next to him

The back passing was down to the managers tactics , the guy was playing for possession and a draw .

 

[serghei]

I thought you were of the opinion that the current system is perfect?

You're right though. Very slow team.

We're slow because we slow the game down to keep the ball. We're using possession to defend. Valverde is using our technicality to keep the ball and not concede chances. That's working to a point, but you still have to create chances and score goals.

When the other team is defending as a block and you don't risk anything, this is the game that comes out of this scenario.

 

[JamDav1982]

We need Dembele and Semedo. No way we are winning CL without them. and I mean them playing on a good level.. Valverde need to get these guys playing on higher level or we are finished.

Semedo needs to show a lot more. That is on him not Valverde.

 

[Givenchy]

The back passing was down to the managers tactics , the guy was playing for possession and a draw .

Valverde was playing for a 0-0 draw?

 

[DonAK]

We're slow because we slow the game down to keep the ball. We're using possession to defend. Valverde is using our technicality to keep the ball and not concede. That's working to a point, but you still have to create chances and score goals.

We were slow on the two counter attack opportunities we had. Okay Paulinho fucked up one of them, but on the other one the Chelsea defenders easily caught up with us. That's actually one area Neymar was so great for us.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

terrible performance, were lucky Messi managed to bail us out as usual. its scary how slow our team is, getting Dembele ready is of the utmost importance.

Raki and Paulinho were fucking shocking, the amount of times we had an attack on for them to slow play down and pass backwards was mindblowing. Pique seems to want to do keep-ups near the corner flag than actually clear the ball. Busi had a poor game but i wont put that much blame on him with a slow ass midfield next to him

It's obvious we are lacking speed in midfield. Fast teams can just overrun our midfield with no worry. Look at our midfield, Paulinho, Iniesta, Rakitic and Busquest. All snails basically. We need some speed and quickness to our midfield badly.

 

[Stoichkov1]

I thought you were of the opinion that the current system is perfect?

You're right though. Very slow team.

It's perfect at not conceding goals.

Anyway it's not about the system. We have midgets so we can't use crosses to break down a bus and other than Messi we don't have dribblers or technically good footballers who can play quick 1-2s to create disorder in the opponents' defence. It's no suprise we can't create chances against parked buses.

 

[serghei]

We were slow on the two counter attack opportunities we had. Okay Paulinho fucked up one of them, but on the other one the Chelsea defenders easily caught up with us. That's actually one area Neymar was so great for us.

Because the fastest players for us were suspended, on the bench, or don't have right to play in CL. But the bigger issue is the speed with which the ball travels, and the low amount of risk we take in our passing game.