CL | Round 4: Manchester City - FC Barcelona 3-1

[Asylum15]

I am struggling to understand what a hell happened. We were controlling the game and suddenly all of that was gone with Roberto/Busquets mistake.

This. They were scared of us, making mistakes, and their fans were completely silent.

Sergi passes a stupid inaccurate ball, and then the BPL mentality kicks in, one goal back, they believe they can win.

Busquets has to be singled out, I've not made a judgement for weeks but he is costing us game after game. When the man's speed of mind is off, the complete lack of speed in his body is shown up when you've got mobile opposition. It's fucking killing us!

 

[BigBarcaBoy]

Midfield disappeared again in the second half, disappointed that we weren't more ahead, still can't believe the third was allowed.far better man for man than city but second half was poor, if gomes scores then it's a different game but need to regain ability to control games.

 

[Ghostmaster]

Never mind the result, the midfield is the most worrying thing, last season the midfield with Mascherano-Busi-Roberto was better than whatever combinations we play today with Gomes, Arda, Denis or Rafihna.

 

[reaper]

Arda should just not be at Barcelona,.. slow, average technique.. Good player for Atletico or a team like that.. but not Barcelona material. When he came on for Raketic.. we shattered.

 

[Zincubus]

Midfield continues to struggle, Roberto also had a shocking performance

Dare you to say that in the Sergie Roberto thread

 

[Raketa10]

Don't know what to say except that we have 8 fucking midfielders. Out of this 8 we have 3 which are good, 1 who is playing RB and 4 who are f... useless!!! I agree that Gomes was ok today and that Rafinha is playing good this season BUT no one can say that Gomes, Arda, Rafinha and Denis are type of players Barca needs and ABOVE all they are all SLOW AS F..K

If you think carefully we have Iniesta and Roberto who are not slow and others are F..K turtles and only Rakitic and Busi are capable of hiding that by having other qualities.

We will win nothing this year and all because of disasterous scouting and buying policy.

Not to mention that Busi has worst season of his life!

 

[hulinat]

2 gift goals lost us the game

 

[utility73]

Match was a total crap shoot in first half and City got a lot better at flinging crap in second while Barça just imploded totally.

 

[raskolnikov]

Maybe we need to put Messi as dmf in a pirlo type role since Busquets has taken a season off and we lack all control without Iniesta.

 

[akaranzo]

Credit to City, they were magnificent. We on the other hand were absolutely awful after the 1-1 goal. Pep simply outsmarted Lucho today and showed why he's the best manager in the world. Luckily this loss doesn't exactly have catastrophic repercussions for us.

 

[Zincubus]

Arda should just not be at Barcelona,.. slow, average technique.. Good player for Atletico or a team like that.. but not Barcelona material. When he came on for Raketic.. we shattered.

Arda has fabulous technique I think ... Just a tad slow I'd agree ...... Depends where he's played tbh

 

[raskolnikov]

2 gift goals lost us the game

Could have easily been much more though, it reminded me of a el classico when Mou was still coach. Think it was the supercopa return or copa de rey. Could ahve easily been 5-1 as could have been the score tonight.

 

[xxxxxx]

Here's how our management think:

We really need defenders so we can compete with a good defence next season...... they go and buy a striker for 30m and midfielder for 40m.

 

[viper76]

We lost I don't care we will finish top of the group but What pisses me off is we played our best 11 when we have a more important game on Sunday we could have rested our main players and give a chance for the youngsters.

 

[Devils]

I don't really care about the result of this, it was more of the performance that I was looking forward to.

That being said, going to Sevilla this weekend feels waiting to enter the execution chamber.