EL Quarter Final: FC Barcelona - Eintracht Frankfurt 3-4 agg.

[DonAK]

At least we didn't pay 30m for our manager to be KO-ed by Villarreal.

 

[El MeSSiaS]

Juventus, Roma, Liverpool, Bayern, PSG now Frankfurt we have been gifting "historic wins" to a lot of teams lately.

 

[Barcilliant]

We cannot even win the fucking Europa League nowadays. I'm not even sure where to start. Whose fault is it? Players,managers,board,fans....grass??? I don't have any answers anymore.

 

[fergus90]

To be honest bar the first half in the Napoli away game, we've been pretty lacklustre for the whole EL campaign. Galatasaray away was okay in patches but we'd been performing much better in the league in comparison.

 

[te amo barca]

We cannot even win the fucking Europa League nowadays. I'm not even sure where to start. Whose fault is it? Players,managers,board,fans....grass??? I don't have any answers anymore.

Stop freaking out. Xavi didn't get the setup right. Our seniors can't cope with the pressure as well. Camp Nou was a disgrace. It is a combination of all factors and we were rightfully eliminated. We'll see if the club makes the right conclusions but I'm skeptical

 

[Luftstalag14]

Xavi didn't learn his lesson from the first leg and didn't take Frankfurt seriously enough, we made too many mistakes and we simply couldn't cope with the type of pacey game they played.

Since we came off our pedestal, we have always struggle against Bundesliga teams I felt.

 

[Barcaman]

Congratulations to Eintracht and their support.

Reality check for Xavi and many of us who got too excited and overestimated ourselves.

 

[Barcilliant]

Stop freaking out. Xavi didn't get the setup right. Our seniors can't cope with the pressure as well. Camp Nou was a disgrace. It is a combination of all factors and we were rightfully eliminated. We'll see if the club makes the right conclusions but I'm skeptical

An elite club should not be a disaster in Europe.in a second tier competition we have been humiliated by a second tier team. Disgraceful.

 

[serghei]

Xavi didn't learn his lesson from the first leg and didn't take Frankfurt seriously enough, we made too many mistakes and we simply couldn't cope with the type of pacey game they played.

Since we came off our pedestal, we have always struggle against Bundesliga teams I felt.

And EPL sides too.

 

[te amo barca]

An elite club should not be a disaster in Europe.in a second tier competition we have been humiliated by a second tier team. Disgraceful.

Well you can't magically transform a team that was declining for years into a top team in half a season. Xavi has improved us, that cannot be denied. More is needed. Especially good signings. Our depth is comical.

 

[Birdy]

Xavi didn't learn his lesson from the first leg and didn't take Frankfurt seriously enough, we made too many mistakes and we simply couldn't cope with the type of pacey game they played.

Since we came off our pedestal, we have always struggle against Bundesliga teams I felt.

This!
We ended the game as we should have started really.
The start was atrocious, and it's not only about the pen.
Xavi playing the same ineffective 4-3-3 with Gavi Pedri advanced as if the 1st leg never happened.
Should learn how to adjust to opponents

 

[DonAK]

Stop signing for depth and start signing for competition, even in spots you feel like are well covered. When you sign merely for depth is when you get players like Andre Gomes, Paco Alcacer and the likes of that, and that's also when the starters get complacent.

But first of all we need to sign for replacing a few players who started tonight.

 

[serghei]

Stop signing for depth and start signing for competition, even in spots you feel like are well covered. When you sign merely for depth is when you get players like Andre Gomes, Paco Alcacer and the likes of that, and that's also when the starters get complacent.

But first of all we need to sign for replacing a few players who started tonight.

That's what I was saying.

Look at the competition top teams have. Pool have a front 6 (yeah, six forwards ranging from elite, to very good, to still good at worst!!!) of Salah, Mane, Firmino, Jota, Diaz and Origi. Their last player, the 6th option scored multiple goals in CL semis and final.

 

[Luftstalag14]

And EPL sides too.

Perhaps but at least when we played against Chelsea couple of seasons ago I didn't felt we had this sort of disadvantage. Liverpool in the second left when we were humiliated, kind of.

 

[serghei]

Perhaps but at least when we played against Chelsea couple of seasons ago I didn't felt we had this sort of disadvantage. Liverpool in the second left when we were humiliated, kind of.

Yeah, that Chelsea was more of an EL side. And Barca still had a top 5 team easily back then.