La Liga Round 9: Alaves - Barca 0-3

[Skalman]

Horrible second half, why do we stop playing? thank god they haven't learned the offside rule and cant finish. Only Lewa, Raphina and Casado worth mentioning with a good performance

 

[Barcaman]

Alaves first loss at home this season and we came out with comfortable win.

Not gonna complain for taking the foot off the pedal.

Flick is doing miracles.

 

[Grande]

They are scared.

 

[Iniesta Ultra]

Too much out of control basketball going on. The only time we use pausa is when Cubarsi or Martinez have the ball at the back, or when Yamal gets the ball and three defenders close him down while his teammates make no movement to give him an out pass. Too many hail marys. Panda's reactance is slow and can get picked off too easily a la rags.

Like I posted before Fati needs to be starting in easier matches and playing next to Yamal. Luckily ferret's injury might finally force Flick in doing the right thing.

 

[akaranzo]

Horrible second half, why do we stop playing? thank god they haven't learned the offside rule and cant finish. Only Lewa, Raphina and Casado worth mentioning with a good performance

Because we had basically secured the win and we have enough injuries. Flick probably told them to take it easy in the second half. You can't go 100% in every single half of every game, the players need to pick moments to conserve a bit of energy.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Second half was terrible. We didn't press enough and they got a lot of chances. Way too many chances for my liking, but the offside trap worked well and Pena had a black voodoo day and saved or opponent somehow missed the net.

 

[ZenI]

Too much out of control basketball going on. The only time we use pausa is when Cubarsi or Martinez have the ball at the back, or when Yamal gets the ball and three defenders close him down while his teammates make no movement to give him an out pass. Too many hail marys. Panda's reactance is slow and can get picked off too easily a la rags.

Like I posted before Fati needs to be starting in easier matches and playing next to Yamal. Luckily ferret's injury might finally force Flick in doing the right thing.

Yup I agree. Also agree with Yamal, he needs more 1-2s etc - Kounde is starting to gel a little, but they need to gel more. Olmo coming back will also help Yamal and the team.
Almost everything our defense does rests upon Hail Marys, a crazy amount of offsides by Villareal and Alaves has saved our asses. Against Villareal we wouldn't have come back if they scored 1-2 of those chances.
Fati needs to start more matches overall - be it LW, RW, ACM or CF. Sooner or later we'll have to start rotate Lamine and Raphinha - and god forbid any of them gets injured. If Fati keeps up from where he left today and ads some more strength and speed we at least have a decent squad player - because Flick needs to quit this Tuna nonsense, he's been awful this season and not much better last season.

 

[Iniesta Ultra]

Kounde is starting to gel a little

impossible to hallucinate that even on the strongest psychedelics

 

[Masetro10]

All I see over the last few games is that Barca is going to get murdered running this offside trap against actual good teams. I hate to say it but expect nothing against RM and Bayern

 

[jamrock]

It's something that has been identified by many, let's hope flick is smart enough to adjust.

High line and at times the FB, pushing even higher than the CBs, with the wingers coming in to Press the opposition center backs.

Just oceans of space behind our Fbs to exploit, plus a fast forward can start his run from deeper and break the offside trap.

Will be interesting what happens Vs Bayern and Madrid.

 

[Jaguar]

All I see over the last few games is that Barca is going to get murdered running this offside trap against actual good teams. I hate to say it but expect nothing against RM and Bayern

I expect and believe we will win at least 1 of those games.

 

[Iniesta Ultra]

We should win both matches if Flick picks the proper lineups.