JamDav1982
Senior Member
Go watch the game if you dont know how bad Busquets, Pique and Lenglet were.
Needs no more explaining.
CL | Round of 16: PSG - FC Barcelona (5-2 agg)
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Go watch the game if you dont know how bad Busquets, Pique and Lenglet were.
Needs no more explaining.
So do you think a other coach would have saved us? Dont you realize its not about the coach but more about our squad. How many coaches do we need to fire and hire to realize that we have shit players?
JamDav1982
Senior Member
Barca are progressing and going in right direction compared to another season of last year with same players older. The decisons taken by Koemann tonight were crazy against this PSG.
Bobo32
Senior Member
Yeah this is great, I put up numbers, reasoning, and this is what you give.
Why are you even writing if you have nothing to say, but the most predictable stuff?
Richard.H
Senior Member
You are mistaken or didn't even watch games back then to think Puyol and Alves weren't solid defensively.
Alves was consistently chewing out 10/10 performances vs Ronaldo defensively.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
Ronaldo scored a number of times when up against Alves and gave him the runaround with his movement quite a few tines.
Richard.H
Senior Member
This was almost exclusively in the 12/13 season and 13/14 season. Alves had some very noteworthy performances against him, like the 0-2 at the Bernabeu in the 09/10 LL Clasico
JamDav1982
Senior Member
Doesnt matter what season it was. Ronaldo got the better of Alves plenty and scored v Barca.
Been discussed to death before and there still seems to be this myth that he dominated him every time and didnt.
Bobo32
Senior Member
Alves was great 1v1, Puyol was a great defender, sure.
Maybe you didn't watch pre-turnaround though, I doubt you would say Puyol was very 'solid' in 2003. Great, sure, but not solid
Anyway, you are right, some of them were good defenders in themselves, but the defence as a whole was truly shit if you would've just switched them and put them in Man Utd or Juventus, playing their way.
That was my point.
Birdy
Senior Member
Tone down a bit lads.
Koeman is trying to revert an illness that has been there for years.
Tonight's game was a confirmation that he has not reverted it yet when facing the top dogs in Europe.
That does not mean his work is not worth. We have discussed it several times, and the underlying numbers simply prove that Koeman has improved the team.
Now, about the personnel, I will have to agree with the above posts.
Pique, Busquets should sit permanently at the bench next season, and Lenglet should be a sub.
Koeman is trying to revert an illness that has been there for years.
Tonight's game was a confirmation that he has not reverted it yet when facing the top dogs in Europe.
That does not mean his work is not worth. We have discussed it several times, and the underlying numbers simply prove that Koeman has improved the team.
Now, about the personnel, I will have to agree with the above posts.
Pique, Busquets should sit permanently at the bench next season, and Lenglet should be a sub.
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fergus90
Senior Member
You better stop these predictions, you're running out of space in your signature.
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