Ernesto Valverde - V1

Givenchy

Senior Member
I don't wanna be negative but fuck me, why did he sub Arthur off at that time? could of gone horribly wrong as Lyon were gaining momentum. it goes to show he hasn't learned from past mistakes and hes still deciding his subs before the game, theres no adapting.

if the players can fire themselves up then we have a chance at the CL but this guy is a fucking anchor weighing us down
 

mc_lovin

Senior Member
The subs kind of worked though^^ Still would have liked Arthur to play the full 90 minutes, because hes our best midfielder.
 

Sorin

Well-known member
This guy is taking years out of my life. What pissed me the most was, again, the lack of a sub when Bob was barely standing on his feet. He took over 10 minutes to sub in Semedo. Like he waited for Roberto to shit the bed before he changed him. At one point he gave away the ball and Lyon had a dangerous counter, then he bends over in pain, clearly out of breath and the cunt faced manager was still hesitating in subbing him off. Absolutely infuriating.

Not to mention the same cowardly tactics of sitting back like a mid table team. We can't fucking defend without the ball you blind motherfucker. Stop subbing Arthur out and try controling the flow of play more not defend with all our might.
 

Givenchy

Senior Member
The subs kind of worked though^^ Still would have liked Arthur to play the full 90 minutes, because hes our best midfielder.

it worked because Messi can produce magic out of nowhere and has been 'working' because of Messi more times than not. if he fields Vidal-Busi-Raki vs City/Liverpool level team we'll be exposed i feel.

Vidal for Raki/Busi should be the goto sub imo
 

FinBarcelonafan

Well-known member
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What a great gif.
 

El Gato

Villarato!
If Barca don’t draw an offensive team, you can very well win this easily. Any of Juve, Spurs or Porto in 1/4s and semis, and you’re in the final. Then anybody is beatable over 90 mins.

Which means Valverde will potentially deliver the treble. And you all are moaning haha.
 

Aryagorn

Improvin' Perfection!!
If Barca don’t draw an offensive team, you can very well win this easily. Any of Juve, Spurs or Porto in 1/4s and semis, and you’re in the final. Then anybody is beatable over 90 mins.

Which means Valverde will potentially deliver the treble. And you all are moaning haha.
obvious troll is obvious
 

Aryagorn

Improvin' Perfection!!
I hate this asshole for not being fast enough to retaliate against the newly energised Lyon in the second half - I hate the stupid fcuk for trying to defend a 2-1 score when we don't freaking have an away goal and ruined our whole season coz of it less than a year ago - I hate the retard fcuk for not bringing Coutinho to center in 4-2-3-1, with Dembouz out on left, despite the fact that he was buzzing with new found confidence from his goal


But, I will give him one thing - looks like he's advised Suarez (or the team have decided by themselves) but he is now moving into the wings by bringing his striking partners into the center making Coutinho (& RB?) more effective
 
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Remy savage

New member
I don't get most of your folks here. When EV is bad by all means vilify him but we won 5-1 and he still gets the stick. The performance was good if we are being truthful and objective, during the first half we were in their half for most of it and I might be wrong but they didn't have a shot on target. We created chances and it's not like EV decides whether the team finishes those chances or not, that's on the players. His job is to choose a strategy with the right players that give us a high probability of winning and I think in the first half you have to give him credit for it as if our player's finishing was more clinical we would have buried the game in the first half(And it's not like only messi showed up in that half or even in the second half). Most might moan and give the usual "play messi as false 9 and bench Suarez" but Suarez in my opinion played his heart out today even if he didn't get a goal and coutinho actually looked good in the first half so those choices where the right choices by EV in retrospect. We had a dominant first half with some quick one-twos
reminiscent of Pep's barca and a bit of shaky play during some period in the second half. Now I've seen some here say he told the team to defend the lead but really that's just criticism that seems really biased as at no moment were we looking like a team that was instructed to sit back and absorb the pressure. In all fairness did we really expect to spend the whole of the 90 mins in Lyon's half as that seems the expectations of some judging from their reactions (yes we are stronger than Lyon but we have to consider this is a Lyon team that gave Pep's "exalted" man city team a run for their money over two legs). Likely chance Lyon employed new tactics during the early stage of the second or half and the team had to respond to it, which EV did with his subs(funnily most here are not crediting EV for this and are just putting it down to messi's brilliance but in reality the two played a part ). From what I've seen the post always gets moved with EV, first people were blaming him for lack of rotation in our last game and already predicting a loss with some here expressing their desire that we lose the match just so they'll be able to say EV is terrible, then when the line up for the match was released some were predicting a loss for us again. We win with a truly dominant first half display and a second half display that showed the teams ability to adapt to situations and yet people still are complaining. If we won 5-1 with a terrible display that can be understood but can anyone who wants to be objective call this match a terrible display apart from those 10-20mins where Lyon started fighting back( which in reality wasn't that terrible as Lyon didn't have that many clear cut chances).
Enjoy the game, give credit where and when it's due and wish for the best for team(No matter how we feel as fans the team is still in the run for the Cl and it's not like that struggled to pass this stage yet there are people who are predicting our loss again). If your bosses appraised you the way you do EV after delivering results like EV has done I'm sure most will be screaming that life's unfair.
Forca barca!
 

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