La Liga | Round 5: FC Barcelona - Sevilla 1-1

[SmilerBam]

So...as i said, a very tough match against a very good team.People were sure of 3-0,4-1...shows you how many really know football around here.Bunch of FIFA wannabees that think Frenkie De Jong is wordclass🤣

 

[mc_lovin]

Dest looked decent in his cameo. Araujo as well. Rest was poor. Not overreacting yet. Still early days.

 

[malvolio]

back to the same old shit 'pass the ball to Messi'

someone should make a highlights video of how many times players stopped, slowed the game down to look for Messi tonight

that's what happens when everyone, bar coutinho, of our attacking players is shite.

 

[Richard.H]

back to the same old shit 'pass the ball to Messi'

someone should make a highlights video of how many times players stopped, slowed the game down to look for Messi tonight

There is no solution to this. These players are just inherently scared and are pussies. Cou and Fati are the only one in the squad that don’t look at Messi. Alba is the biggest pussy with Messi tunnel vision

 

[JerseyAddict]

Wasn't that a pen on Messi in 92nd min?
Guy clearly stomp his foot.

No VAR?

 

[XaviV]

I saw a penalty, but admit I need more replays.

back to the same old shit 'pass the ball to Messi'

someone should make a highlights video of how many times players stopped, slowed the game down to look for Messi tonight

It's too early to get rid of bad habits.

 

[serghei]

We lacked the energy to press and allowed Sevilla to pass untroubled.

Wasn't that a pen on Messi in 92nd min?
Guy clearly stomp his foot.

No VAR?

It's Manzano. What do you expect? You only get a pen if it's stonewall with that guy in charge in the last minute.

 

[Sterlingfan2000]

Holy hell we look exhausted, like all top teams around the world.

 

[wisconsincule]

How is that not a penalty??!

 

[Birdy]

Too many bad signs today...
Messi awful and disrupting any structure,
Griezman his usual self,
Koeman making wrong substitutions, removing Fati, playing all 3 of Busi, FDJ, and Pjanic at the same time, and not bringing in Dembele when the game was screaming for his skills.

Get it right

 

[Richard.H]

Wasn't that a pen on Messi in 92nd min?
Guy clearly stomp his foot.

No VAR?

La liga working overtime to ensure Vardrid gets another league title

 

[SmilerBam]

Messi in the box is always a thereat. Better than noone there.

Not ideal, but better than noone.

Messi is not a striker.Not a fals one, not a positive one.We need a striker.I know we ll not buy it, but we do.Also we need to drop Griezzyboy and Busquets.They are beyond pathetic.

 

[malvolio]

we have a collection of not good enough or unproven players and you just can't have a serious team with the likes of fati, griez, trincao, pedri, dembele, braitwaithe

 

[JohnN]

Messi as uninvolved as ever, pressing more than ever and this is the outcome..
Please don't blame a 33 guy for this, if you have any sanity.
We need more control.

Really bad subs from Koeman. Puig would be ideal as would Dembele. We were worse after the subs..
I am out.

 

[ArtistCatalunya]

What Messi expects from the team is :
either a front-striker who occupy the defenders and give him some space (like Suarez did) ,
or a winger who asks for the ball behind the defensive line (like Alba, Neymar). Yeah, our current wingers can be good (Fati is excellent), but Fati doesn't ask for the ball behind the defenders. Also, Alba didn't make the habitual runs today. That's why we had no clues in attacks, and that made the role of Messi more diffcult, as he didn't find runners with him
+ We should be more offensive, especially in CampNou. Even under EV (the conservative coach), we were dominating possession in our stadium, either in LaLiga or in CL.