Bobo32
Senior Member
Disappointing and depressing.
Xavi is most at fault for still allowing his team to become afraid in the last stages of games.
His subs were bad - Luuk played decently and what's more, he deserved more minutes. Depay looked like a ghost of his own, actively terrible self. Abde for Jutgla was whatever. Dembele out should've been done earlier and not because of the red card, then he chose to go down on two men up front and play with Sanz, who looks like a nothing player, on midfield instead of Puig. Ironically, Dembele might've actually been a bit more useful in the counter plan he had after the red, but instead Barcelona got to defend for the rest of the game. He can talk all he wants about the need to defend with the ball and so on but he didn't make the right decisions for that today.
It was very obvious that Gavi, who didn't have a great game anyways, was becoming tired, and as he always dives into tackles, the red was very predictable.
Xavi is most at fault for still allowing his team to become afraid in the last stages of games.
His subs were bad - Luuk played decently and what's more, he deserved more minutes. Depay looked like a ghost of his own, actively terrible self. Abde for Jutgla was whatever. Dembele out should've been done earlier and not because of the red card, then he chose to go down on two men up front and play with Sanz, who looks like a nothing player, on midfield instead of Puig. Ironically, Dembele might've actually been a bit more useful in the counter plan he had after the red, but instead Barcelona got to defend for the rest of the game. He can talk all he wants about the need to defend with the ball and so on but he didn't make the right decisions for that today.
It was very obvious that Gavi, who didn't have a great game anyways, was becoming tired, and as he always dives into tackles, the red was very predictable.
