Ok, I was his defender, and he can leave after this.
But still, if you guys think that this is only on him, imo, you are wrong.
Our players are a team of complacent pussies.
We won 1 CL in the last 8 years, even though we have Messi in a team. We had 5 different coaches in these 8 years, and we had Messi, old Xavi, prime Iniesta, prime Busi.
Our team is perfectly good for La Liga.
If Liverpool played in La Liga, we would won a title each season with 10 points advantage.
And we would probably win head to head ties against them in La Liga.
But if we'll face them in a CL quarters or semis, we will get knocked out 90% of times.
Remember Atletico in 2014 and 2016.
We were beating them for fun in La Liga matches.
But when we play in sudden-death matches, all of our matches always look the same: opponents are running and fighting like lions and we are lost and scared on a field.
But then, we'll face Atletico 2 weeks after that in La Liga or in a CDR, and we'll win 3:1 and people will say: their win in a CL was a pure luck.
Look at this Liverpool.
In the last 4 years, we reached only 1 CL semis.
Yet, this Liverpool will play in 2 CL finals in a row.
They are not a team for league championships. Pep's teams and Barca are teams who will win league title in 90% of cases.
But again, pair us with Liverpool in a CL, and both Barca and Pep and their mentally light teams filled with choir boys are screwed.
Again, ok fine, people will say that this is all about Valverde, but remember:
2014: Atletico: our team chocked and pissed their pants
2016: Atletico: the same
2017: Psg 4:0 and a lucky 2nd match. But then again, we lost to Juve 3:0 two weeks later.
2018: Roma 3:0
2019: Liverpool 4:0
Again, no problem, I am with you now, we can fire EV, sell Raki, Vidal, sell everyone whom you don't like.
But remember:
2014: Atletico 0:1, we played with: Xavi, Iniesta, Busi, Fabregas. We were eaten alive by a mentally stronger team than us.
2016: Atletico 0:2, we played with: Iniesta, Busi, Rakitic. Eaten alive again.
2017: Psg 0:4: Iniesta, Busi, Gomes
2017: Juve 0:3: Rakitic, Iniesta, Roberto, Gomes
2018: Roma 0:3: Iniesta, Busi, Rakitic, Roberto
2019: Liverpool 0:4: Vidal, Rakitic, Busi
My point is, people will now say that we lost because of workhorses.
But we lost against ANY decent fighting team in the last 5-6 years. Even with Xavi-Iniesta-Busi in 2014 and with Iniesta-Busi in 14, 16, 17, 18.
Ev is here (and guilty) for only the last 2 years.
But who is here ALL the time, in our all defeats/sulking and pissing our pants?
= Iniesta
= Busi
= Pique
= Alba
= Messi
This year at least we tried with Vidal. It still didn't work.
League titles are won with a pure technical quality. This is why Barca and City are winning it all the time.
In a CL, I would still say that a combination of technique and muscles, and especially: MENTAL STRENGTH and bravery, momentum are winning titles.
I was mad at Dembele for missing a sitter for 4:0, but honestly, today while watching a match, I had a feeling that even if we would have 7:0 in the first match, that we would lose 0:8 today.
No matter which score we had in the first match, we were ghosts and scared at Anfield.
NOT only because of EV (who is guilty), but because of team of pussies.
Alba: an idiot and a pussy when matches like this one come.
Roberto: a nice schoolboy and scared in matches like this one.
Semedo: useless in attack, scared in La Liga and especially scared in a CL.
Pique: mostly a nice guy.
Busquets: too nice guy and a pussy in some moments.
Messi: a nice guy, sulking in bad times.
Suarez, Vidal and Rakitic are 50:50, they could offer some fight sometimes.
What is left? Dembele, another nice guy and scared of everything. Will he lead us to glory in the future?
Coutinho, a nice guy and scared in matches like this one.
Arthur, no idea about him, but he seems like another nice guy.
Puig one day: extremely nice guy.
Again, fine, I am with you: sell all players whom you want and get a new coach and play with Frenkie-Arthur, but I have a feeling that until our core of a team will be changed, that we will be able to lose every single CL tie with 0:5 in the 2nd leg.
Atletico are fighters, at least bigger fighters than us.
Roma are bigger fighters than us.
Liverpool are bigger fighters.
We might be technically the best team in the world, but mentally our players are weak in moments like this.
They just seem like unprepared to fight, to bullying, to pressure, to 50 000 fans booing at them etc.
But as I have said a few times in the post, our team will win in La Liga the next weekend, and we will win against Atletico in the next match and people will think that everything is fine.
It is not fine.
Our guys can ONLY win matches when the pressure is off.
When the stakes are high, we are sulking and go MIA. Regardless if we play EV's tactics of Xavi-Iniesta-Busi in 2014'.