La Liga | Round 8: Alaves - FC Barcelona

[serghei]

Physical aspect is alarming. Alaves faster, stronger and winning most 50/50s.

Don't think so. They took the ball only from Messi with ease using their physicality. The rest were poor with passing and gave it away. Other than Messi who has no business starting every game looking at how he presents himself out there, we looked fine physically. But we're committing dumb errors. Probably because most of the players are used to playing at turtle slow speed with mindless possession and no verticality, and we're playing faster and more direct with Koeman.

 

[LMTR14]

He looks like he would rather be out painting the shed in the back garden than on the field.. he is not enjoying his football at all anymore. Sad to see.

well he WANTED to leave bad. there's nothing with this current barca that wasn't easy to predict. why are busquets, pique and roberto still in the team...

 

[Givenchy]

Todays football has left Busi, Pique and Messi behind. remember it used to be in the CL we got exposed but now its happening vs midtable and cannon fodder in la liga week in week out, nobody fears this team.

 

[JamDav1982]

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He?s not bad positionally but he?s way too slow for the modern game. At best he should be used as a sub in the 70th minute when you?re leading by 2 goals and need some stability

He is awful positionally and as he is so slow tries to win ball early.

A bad a defensive player as top club will get at DM and constantly leaving huge gaps due to him getting sucked out of position time and again.

 

[Rory]

We?re not going to win league games when 5-7 / 11 of our team are going to make some catastrophic error

 

[hardyboy]

Even Lucho sensed that Busquets is finished after playing him 1 game for Spain after his comeback and never played him after that. I've no idea what is taking Koeman so long to get it!

 

[Cool]

Pjanic in for Busi to atleast help us speed the play, Dest in for Roberto to overload the flank and provide more speed (since Koeman is not even doing the false RB thing), Pedri in for Griezmann and push Fati as the CF to control the midfield.

Don?t sub out Dembele, whenever he was left 1v1 against his fullback he turned him sideways, don?t kill that flank.

 

[wisconsincule]

Can still come back and win this but this team is done... no one shows any confidence...

 

[Birdy]

So far erratic, disjoint ugly performance. Much worse than El Classico.

Busi needs to go off ASAP, as well as this fucking embarrassing joke of a player called Roberto

 

[Laplacian]

Yeah it's alarming it took only a game for everyone to figure out this Barcelona. This season is going to be rough. How long will it take for the rest of them to realise they don't need to play defensively against us?

 

[Respekt_III]

I need a drink

Make sure it's really strong

 

[Sorin]

Btw, does Griezmann know how to shoot? Fucking hell, his shots are going sideways. What a freaking failure of a player.

 

[Daisymorr]

Busi off and Pedri on.

FDJ as Dm and go 4-3-3. Messi can play as part of midfield 3, advanced.

 

[JamDav1982]

Even Lucho sensed that Busquets is finished after playing him 1 game for Spain after his comeback and never played him after that. I've no idea what is taking Koeman so long to get it!

He plays most of the time for Spain.

 

[Richard.H]

RK either is too stupid or doesn’t have balls to bench Busi. The strange obsession that each coach has with him is really frustrating. The tactical decisions for this squad have been incredibly confusing for the past three seasons