People are getting way overboard with this game. It wasn't as bad as stats show. Slavia shot on goal from every single place they could, so their attempts are inflated.
In reality, they had 2 good chances in the last minutes of the first half when we lost concentration and some chances created by individual mistakes from Pique, FDJ , etc.. Those mistakes were mostly not clearing the ball correctly.
Busquets was not bad at all, despite what many think. FDJ was not good in this match. Pique was really bad as well as Griezmann and Suarez was wasteful.
Semedo was truly great though, proving once again that he should be playing that position last year too, on his own.
In the first half we were keeping our midfielders high up the field, thus turning our CBs into playmakers. This worked until the 35th minute or so.
In the second half, we abandoned structured buildup and tried to play a physical game with long balls and counter attacks against a team that can run more than us.
What hurt our performance was the amazingly well though tactic of throwing long balls and giving away posesion easily making our midfield redundant on our own, with no pressure whatsoever.
That about sums it up.
