Daniel Alves

[Zangash]

Yea, it was a bad bad game. Move on. There were 5-6 players who were abysmal today, Alves included. No need to make this game about Alves in particular.

"Move on"?

You have two posts in this thread that are ramming his performance. You can talk about how poor he was but I should "Move on"?

 

[BerkeleyBernie]

Nolito owned him tonight. There was no Rakitic to babysit but that's no excuse.

Nolito was pretty damn impressive, great footwork.

 

[FCBarca]

He was poor today but he's also played well of late - all it means is that he is not the player he once was...Valuable to this team still?...Of course

The problem in a renewal is that he will expect to get the wages he knows he can get elsewhere and his years of service won't be enough to warrant it...I'd like to see him remain and rotate with Montoya more but he's no longer 1st choice for this squad

 

[Flavia]

Bravo commited a penalty, luckily not called by the ref, because of his blunder. That was horrible. But if it was douglas, Nolito would have an even better game.

 

[Zangash]

Bravo commited a penalty, luckily not called by the ref, because of his blunder. That was horrible. But if it was douglas, Nolito would have an even better game.

That looked like a clean tackle to me tbh. He got the ball with his trailing leg and the lead leg didn't make any contact. It was awkward and could have easily been given but it seemed a good call to me.

 

[xavi_the_Boss]

He was horrible.That freakin back pass.
It seemed he didn´t care to much about his defensive duties either.
Does he really want a 3 year deal?
He shouldn´t get that either 1 year or nothing.

 

[serghei]

Bravo commited a penalty

It looked like he got the ball first to me.

 

[Kohe321]

Yeah I think he kicked the ball away just before he hit the player. It could have gone either way, but watching the replay I feel the ref made the correct call.

Haven't watched it again since the match though.

 

[linetty]

It looked like he got the ball first to me.

Yeah, he definitely got the ball first.

 

[Flavia]

It looked like he got the ball first to me.

It was pretty much at the same time. That would be given 8 out of 10 times, imo. I was really relieved the ref didn't call it, but if he did, there'd be nothing to complain about.

 

[DonAK]

Watched the replay last night and Larrivey got the ball away first before he was taken down.

Bravo took the man and then the ball.

 

[Blaugrana Bull]

It wasn't a penalty. Tough decision for the ref and he got it right.

 

[CatalinR10]

From a different angle you could see clearly that he touched the ball first

 

[linetty]

Watched the replay last night and Larrivey got the ball away first before he was taken down.

Bravo took the man and then the ball.

Larrivey? I thought it was Nolito unless we're talking about different situations.

I think he clearly gets the ball watching last replay.

 

[Kohe321]

Larrivey? I thought it was Nolito unless we're talking about different situations.

I think he clearly gets the ball watching last replay.

I played this at 0,25 speed in youtube and pressed play-pause every frame. It seems to me that Nolito hits the ball upwards first, and just a millisecond later Bravo hits it away mid-air just before making contact with Nolito. Everything happened extremely quickly and I agree that it could easily have gone either way, which these situations often do. But objectively, to my eyes, it certainly looks like Bravo clears the ball away before making contact, and thus the decision was correct. At any rate I wouldn't exactly have been angry with Bravo or the referee had it been ruled a penalty, but rather frustrated at the sloppiness of Mathieu, Iniesta and Alves that preceded the whole situation.

Anyway, great job by Bravo on keeping another clean sheet. He really is performing incredibly well for us.