Lliga | Round 23: Levante - FC Barcelona 0-2

[Xavinho]

Job done, and with a minimum of energy expended in the middle of a run where we play every three or four days. You can't play every match against ex-premier league players turned manager who have no clue what they're doing.

 

[Barcaman]

They never learned that lesson. Was even worse under pep.
But I guess that's a bad side of having players that won everything.

In any case, things worked out well this time but I am worried as we haven't been playing well recently except for Valencia win.

 

[Flavia]

Those Barça's 12h kickoffs won't help to captivate the asian market, hahaha. The struggle to play early seems real. 12h, 16h... rarely a good display.

 

[FC B]

MSN should have been told it's an official game today. Nonetheless, 3 points secured thus objective accomplished !

 

[serghei]

They never learned that lesson. Was even worse under pep.
But I guess that's a bad side of having players that won everything.

In any case, things worked out well this time but I am worried as we haven't been playing well recently except for Valencia win.

Yea, we complain about drawing 2-2 with Deportivo, but in arguably our best time in history, we lost at home to f-ing Hercules Alicante. Last year we lost to Malaga at home. We always had games in which we didn't play as motivated. But they're isolated and don't usually affect our season.

I'm sure we'll play much better against Celta.

 

[vlad]

credits to levante, they played awesome match

 

[barcafan161]

We have been playing twice a week for weeks don't forget we can't play perfect every week.

 

[StarLord]

It seems that early kick-offs are not our thing.

Bad game but we got the points. Looking forward now. Valencia game is meaningless, we should just not lose that game so Lucho's run can go on. Next target is to beat Celta.

 

[MasChe]

maybe players underperform on purpose, so that Chinese market loses interest, and they can go back to playing games in evening

 

[serghei]

maybe players underperform on purpose, so that Chinese market loses interest, and they can go back to playing games in evening

Never thought about this.

 

[Theoden]

Thats normal there will be games like today,players were not motivated enough.I dont mind as long as we get 3 points.Sure we will be better against Celta

 

[Altomonte]

I am just watching the start of the game after having seen the last 25 minutes. Actually, Barça played pretty well the first 25 minutes or so. Messi's goal was legitimate, referee was wrong to disallow it. Suarez and Neymar had great chances to score as well. Last 25 minutes: our defence was very solid, but offense had almost disappeared - no chances created except for Messi's final pass that led to second goal. Give Levante some credit - they defended well and had more energy in the second half. Bottom line: It's not easy to play 2 games per week!

 

[Barcaman]

maybe players underperform on purpose, so that Chinese market loses interest, and they can go back to playing games in evening

 

[Ritchie]

These early games are usually bad for Barca. They lack the usual rhythm. Certainly away from home.

 

[MasChe]

but that's a bit farfetched.
it probably just messes up their siesta too