Copa Champions 2021!!! : FC Barcelona - Athletic Bilbao 4-0

[pregra]

Useless ref. And pretty much all our offensive players have been just a useless. Right now it seems that we are back to just hoping that Messi will pull something out of the bag. Also, how many 1/10 performances' is Pedri allowed to have before he is benched?

 

[JerseyAddict]

Yeah, ref called every tiny thing we did and Bilbao he didn't. It will be one of "those" games. We need to win by large margin or we will lose by referee decision.

I can put my money that Bilbao cross they had that went near the goal was offside. The refs didn't wven blink.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Useless ref. And pretty all our offensive players have been just a useless. Right now it seems that we are back to just hoping that Messi will pull something out of the bag. Also, how many 1/10 performances' is Pedri allowed to have before he is benched?

True. Pedri is pretty invisible most of the time. Not seeing what he adds. Basically Rakitic copy, running diesel motor all over the pitch without losing the control of the ball though.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

I can put my money that Bilbao cross they had that went near the goal was offside. The refs didn't wven blink.

Is there VAR? So true btw. I wasn't concerned about it because it was offside to my eye but who the feck knows if he would check it on VAR..

 

[ArtistCatalunya]

I suggest Moriba instead of Pedri at the minute 60 to play the Box-to-box role and give an option of finishing, as we are playing without a propre 9.
I prefer DeJong to stay defensive like that, because Busquets is unable to defend alone at DM.
(So: it will be Moriba instead of Pedri, or instead of Busquets).

 

[Altomonte]

Koeman must make a few changes.
- Ilaix instead of Pedri
- Dembele or Braithwaite instead of Griezmann
- Puig?

 

[BerkeleyBernie]

Puig on at 80 minutes to provide the vision and energy in the midfield, produces a key pass for the win.

While Barca is able to easily control the game, so many opportunities go missing because of lack of awareness of what teammates are doing. For instance, one break where Pedri was wide open in the middle of the pitch yet the ball was forced down the congested right side. No chameleon eyes (Puig & Busquets are two exceptions; they generally know their options before receiving the ball). De Jong is a boring visionless machine, a holding defensive midfielder. Much better at centerback where his lack of vision isn't a liability to a team lacking creativity.

 

[Birdy]

Ref is defining the game in that he officiates the way Bilbao wants.

All those harsh challenges should have been penalized. The fact that they are not give more courage to Bilbao to keep playing to the limit of being dirty.

Other than that, Bilbalo only threatened from a set piece. If it weren't for the ref, I would be 100% sure we have this

 

[raedkuwait]

Wtf how can you play football and miss that.

 

[kattanib]

Honestly Koeman and the players are doing great, just unlucky and a great keeper. They need to keep on doing what they are doing and eventually we will score

 

[kattanib]

And there it is

 

[ArtistCatalunya]

For once, Jordi Alba makes a cross, haha

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Nice goals!!

 

[mesiesta]

This was some good Copa campaign. We were almost out in quarters and semis and now are close to win the title 😄

 

[ArtistCatalunya]

Beautiful combination from Messi and DeJong !