Shockingly the Camp Nou crowd booed Barca's game a few times yesterday but failed to do so even once in 2.5 years under Valverde's mediocre, slow and predictable football
Hmm, it was love-hate all game. Like they booed the fact that we sort of time wasted with the ball a lot in the 2nd half. That was not nice to see at home. But they cheered the great sequences like it didn't happen in Valverde's time imo.
It was a frustrating game. We showed we have all the tools to score a lot because at times we cut open this Getafe line with some superb plays, but somehow we ended up on the ropes. Looked like a lazy performance from the stands, but I think our legs are simply gone after 60 mins.
This is similar to Arteta's Arsenal. New manager during the season, new style of management, and the team just struggles to readjust to the intensity of the new regime, being usually too tired by min. 60. This is why you don't change managers mid season, especially not managers who are very different in terms of philosophy.
Someone, I think Hamzah, said we don't move off the ball a lot. Which is crazy, because moving off the ball a lot more than during Valverde is what is emptying our gas tank so fast. This team has been trained and prepared in a poor way for fluid football (which is what we're playing now). It was built for static, italian football, where players pass and stand still, keeping their positions in a rigid manner.
