Barcilliant
Senior Member
The best thing is we are winning when we are not playing well.
This rarely happened during the Pep hey days.
This rarely happened during the Pep hey days.
well, barca had best defence last season, why do we forget that? under guardiola, midfield was best in barcelona, now, under enrique, attack is the best, of course you set game plan for fast passing ball to attackers, there is nothing bad about it. No need to worry, real and atletico are worse in the league, in champions league we will see. Barca will win la liga. After this season barca needs to improve defence, i love masche but i think he is ready to go, alves also.
Arsenal scouts were seen at Camp Nou watching this game and I bet other CL competitors of ours were watching it too and I am afraid they will take a page from Simeone's playbook: Press the hell out of us and force errors and mispasses. This has become our Achilles heel that we apparently have nothing to counter this pressing and all we can do seems to be waiting for them to get tired later so we can turn things around.
Yeah we won many key games given our tight schedule. But the fashion in which we won some of these games was hardly convincing. We can't always count luck to be on our side. Luis Enrique wasn't satisfied with our performance today either and I hope he can really address the key issues before we start our tough CL campaign.
Finally from a team-development perspective this team badly needs some balance waist down. When MSN is out/out of form/having an off day, what do we do?
Arsenal scouts were seen at Camp Nou watching this game and I bet other CL competitors of ours were watching it too and I am afraid they will take a page from Simeone's playbook: Press the hell out of us and force errors and mispasses. This has become our Achilles heel that we apparently have nothing to counter this pressing and all we can do seems to be waiting for them to get tired later so we can turn things around.
Yeah we won many key games given our tight schedule. But the fashion in which we won some of these games was hardly convincing. We can't always count luck to be on our side. Luis Enrique wasn't satisfied with our performance today either and I hope he can really address the key issues before we start our tough CL campaign.
Finally from a team-development perspective this team badly needs some balance waist down. When MSN is out/out of form/having an off day, what do we do?
I would love Arsenal to press high up the pitch. Their defense is known for not being able to handle a fast counter attack. And we're not talking about a midtable EPL clubs, we're talking about 3 of the best players in the world.
Bring it on.
There's one thing replicating it, and there's another thing pulling it off.
No disrespect to Arsenal, but I really doubt in their ability to implement it successfully.
They have the players to hurt us too and the pace in their side worries me.
They have the players to hurt us too and the pace in their side worries me.
We have won 8 games in a row, and have not lost in I don't know how many.
We are making massive headway towards securing the domestic double following a treble-winning season, and still people are worried about the state of Barça
Can we enjoy this, and stop taking it for granted?