Lliga | Round 31: FC Barcelona - Real Madrid 1-2

[Altomonte]

I really don't know why people don't understand how difficult it is to perform at the highest level on a Saturday after a tough game on Tuesday evening (actually Wednesday morning Barcelona time) and a very long trip home. Both Messi and Suarez gave all they had for their respective countries. Messi had MoM performance for Argentina while Ronaldo, Bale and Benzema all played in Europe.
That's a handicup vey difficult to overcome, even for the best.
In addition, a more important game against Atletico is coming up.
MSN were not as sharp as usual and they were tired at the end. Fully expected and understandable.

 

[Kohe321]

People need to realise that Bale, Benzema and Ronaldo (off all people) worked a lot harder than our strikers. A lot harder.

I think we all realize that mate, it's pretty much clear as day.

 

[JamDav1982]

The only time Marcelo has not had this type of game vs Barca recently is when Roberto played on the right in 4-0 win.

Scary to think what Alba could do.

Love Messi but it is a bit of a joke when Barca change the formation as he cant/wont track back.

 

[Jägermeister]

Atletico won´t break into sweat if we play like this and hopefully we don´t screw up our chances for the CL now. This is a bad time to be out of form.

 

[oggmar]

If we get through Atletico in the CL I hope we get Real Madrid in the semis.

I can't believe we played this bad and lost to a Real Madrid even worse

 

[Morten]

Good game. It seems Real just wanted it more, i dont know, the el clasico was kinda dull, it didnt feel much like el clasico.

 

[SKS-]

Credit to RM for piling on the pressure and taking their chances, but we really didn't do ourselves any favors by not capitalizing on their mistakes in the first half.

Oh well, hopefully the team can focus on the tasks ahead.

 

[Kuchi]

Dont forget Bravo, he didn't save shit

 

[serghei]

I think we all realize that mate, it's pretty much clear as day.

You think?

 

[Flavia]

Absolutely pathetic display after Pique scored. The whole team completely switched off.

MSN was horrendous, and yeah I get that they are all jetlagged, but you can still force yourself to mentally keep focus for ninety minutes. Suarez was very sloppy, but you can at least say he showed the right spirit - the other two were completely disinterested and showed no hunger to do anything valuable after 1-0. At one point Rakitic was locked down with 2-3 players surrounding him, and Messi just stood at a distance watching him get dispossessed. Normally he would of course run up to him and help him out, but here he just watched it unfold.

Sigh, just an awful performance by everyone barring Pique and Mascherano, and perhaps Busquets. This is the kind of display Puyol's nightmares are made of, where the team just stops caring and lets the opponent win by pure willpower alone. Congratulations RM, you won deservedly after showing the will to win.

That's what worries me the most. Complacency went on full mode after the goal. They literally stopped and started thinking about atletico. Maybe it was a good wake up call. Fifa virus hit us hard again, as it usually does. Strange so many were thinking this would be easy.

rm deserved to win, and Bale had a great match.

 

[BarçaBarça]

People need to realise that Bale, Benzema and Ronaldo (off all people) worked a lot harder than our strikers. A lot harder.

This is right, as I see it - maybe MSN was tired, but it was clear that even Ronaldo actually contributed in their defence, and today that was enough to paralyse our attack.

 

[Catalan Fan]

We should of taken our chances in first half, I still can't fathom how Suarez missed ? Ramos should of been off much, much earlier but the ref was awful.

But it is what it is... poor overall performance and RM always looked likely to score on the counter.

Hopefully we can bounce back against Atleti on tues.

 

[Kohe321]

You think?

I sure hope so? I mean it was one of the defining characteristics of the match.

 

[Total-Football]

barca was out of form .. especially physically .. messi walks and doent put on a pressure on defenders that's déjà vu but when Ney and suarez arent doing it also here it becomes a problem .. those damn trips to South america are the culprits here .
my only regret is why not Sergio Roberto ( a tiki taka prototype ) instead of Arda who looks so nervous when the balls comes to him .

 

[Barcaman]

The only time Marcelo has not had this type of game vs Barca recently is when Roberto played on the right in 4-0 win.

Scary to think what Alba could do.

Love Messi but it is a bit of a joke when Barca change the formation as he cant/wont track back.

Good point about Roberto. Lucho is to blame he let Turan in instead of useless Turan.
I won't even mention MSN and fear of subbing them off.

Other mistake he did is to keep Messi in the center so much as Real crowded the middle and there was simply no space there.


I am kinda worried. If this Real can beat us, Atleti can do it too.