Lliga: Real Sociedad - FC Barcelona 1-0

[Blaugrana Bull]

About 30.000 people in a stadium, 36 professional footballers and no professional coach.
Moyes did not manage to outclass Lucho, Lucho somehow managed to be weaker than him.

 

[Bertus]

About 30.000 people in a stadium, 36 professional footballers and no professional coach.
Moyes did not manage to outclass Lucho, Lucho somehow managed to be weaker than him.

Can't stop laughing thinking that Barca got powned by Moyes

That said, it's sad and it's really , really worrying.

 

[linetty]

Quite an achievement to lose without facing a shot on goal

 

[DrPepper]

Yeah, Sociedad weren't even good defensively... And still we found no way through.

They left those spaces between the lines open throughout the match and we never had a man there...

 

[Morten]

Yeah, Sociedad weren't even good defensively... And still we found no way through.

They left those spaces between the lines open throughout the match and we never had a man there...

Messi use to stand in that space waiting for the ball very often, why not this match, i mean second half.

 

[te amo barca]

Alexis would have easily occupied that space

 

[Blaugrana Bull]

Well there is this guy who thrives in such spaces. Especially when used in the center. Quite solid player who also scores sometimes.

I think it is him: View attachment 6746

 

[linetty]

Messi use to stand in that space waiting for the ball very often, why not this match, i mean second half.

Yeah and we lookde much better with Neymar and Messi in the second half but there wasn't enough time to get back into the game.

I'm sure we would've won if Messi and Neymar started from the 1st minute.

 

[DrPepper]

Maybe Messi or some other players do this naturally. But a manager should be able to see that and instruct someone else (Munir, Suarez, Xavi or Montoya) to occupy that space during the first half. It's not that difficult.

 

[Bertus]

In that current setup, Messi falls back too much to help in midfield.

Many times, good scoring chances start from him behind the attacking line. He gets the ball, dribble one or two players and then passes the ball and usually tries to combine with neymar.

If there was no problem in midfield, yeah he would stand there in attack, right among the last defensive line of La Real.

The team is lacking so much right now, so Messi has to do too much at once because if he doesn't, no one will.

It's not messi that is a problem. He tries his best but can't do everything by himself.

 

[DennyCrane]

Yeah, Sociedad weren't even good defensively... And still we found no way through.

They left those spaces between the lines open throughout the match and we never had a man there...

It's pretty sad when you think about it, RS were a complete clusterfuck. But it gets downright depressing when you see this

and notice that our team wasn't any better in that department.

 

[Flavia]

It's pretty sad when you think about it, RS were a complete clusterfuck. But it gets downright depressing when you see this

and notice that our team wasn't any better in that department.

Yes. This was a huge opportunity to finally win at anoeta. If only we had a coach.

 

[serghei]

Well, he's a bad coach, that's pretty clear, but the biggest problem is not that we won't win anything this season, I don't even care about that, the problem is we let a stupid coach decide our squad for the next 2 years. Alexis and Cesc sales were horrible deals. Horrible. And who did we bring? Mathieu who is a mediocre CB that starts to make a fool of himself every difficult game he plays in, Suarez who is horrible as well and cost a fortune, Douglas who is beyond description, Rakitic who also doesn't play or plays badly in the big games and Vermaelen who's yet to play for us. This is comic stuff.

 

[serghei]

It's pretty sad when you think about it, RS were a complete clusterfuck. But it gets downright depressing when you see this

and notice that our team wasn't any better in that department.

Where are our wingers in this picture. Why don't they track back with RS FBs? I bet that there are 70m between Mathieu and the strikers in that pic. This is amateurish stuff.

Compare it with this:

And, over just 15 SECONDS, this:

 

[xavi]

I haven't comment on this forum for years but after yestrday's game I just had to revisit this site and check if I'm only one who thinks that this team is losing it's identity. No more "6 second rule", no more "tika taka" just plenty of short passes and long crosses from side in front of goal. And after Real lost against Valencia, I was so exited to watch RS-Barca match but after the game I was so mad.

Hopefully something will change and fast.