Lliga | Round 7: FC Barcelona - Athletic Bilbao 1-1

biraboyz

Banned
We won all matches at the start of a season.
Then he made rotations and we didn't win 2 matches.
Today, in the 3rd match, rotations again, we are losing.

To some extent, it surely makes sense to GO BACK to something which worked for 12 Months in the last season and in the first 5-6 matches.
Vidal was better this match but EV is betting on mechanisms from the last season to get back on track.

Well this is kinda true, Valverde is clueless on his rotations. Instead benching Pique he benched Messi, but I think he should've sub Raki not Vidal. And for fck sake bench Pique and Suarez regularly
 

Daniele

Member
Because of valverde the team is affected by a sort of lack of identity, but I would put the blame also on the players, who started running only the last 25 minutes (except Messi)
 

BigBarcaBoy

Active member
Well this is kinda true, Valverde is clueless on his rotations. Instead benching Pique he benched Messi, but I think he should've sub Raki not Vidal. And for fck sake bench Pique and Suarez regularly
Bench pique and suarez and play who exactly ?
 

biraboyz

Banned
Unpopular opinion but tata should have definitely been given more time before he was sacked. We would have NEVER blown a 3-0 lead against roma. The first half under tata was actually very, very good. In the 2nd half fabregas totally forgot that he was a footballer and messi absolutely stopped running. Can't blame him for not winning trophies.

Overall if trophies and wins are kept apart and the quality of playing is taken into account, I think we played better under tata.

This, I don't know why the so much hate on Tata. He don't have his own team, he basically run what's in there and yet almost won the league
 

PhilS

Active member
The team was a lot better in the second half, I enjoyed watching them with the sound off. A draw with the 16th place Liga team is a definite step up at this stage of the game.

Maybe Tottenham will play even worse than Barca is currently playing. Seems like a long shot, Tot should slaughter this current Barca side.
 

Kul_z

Senior Member
So glad I missed this.

Do I have to ask how did we play?

Since messi joined in, we showed the urgency and will, but it was an utter disaster from other players. Rakitic horrible- arguably the worst game i saw from a barca player in awhile, suarez is at least trying, dembele showed glimpses of good but his first touch started to iritate me. Coutinho is lost right now, there's no chemistry with others. Vidal was our best player and he gets subbed for messi. Pique was outrun 2 times, semedo saved his ass and then he went full suarez in attack, maybe we should bench suarez and put pique up there, at least defence would be safe. Lenglet was i'd say okay. Newest one, you cant throw shit at him but he was average. Roberto is roberto, busquets had couple of mistakes that could cost us, but i like him and his slow motion turning that nobody on the pitch could stop. If i was a real madrid supporter, i'd buy a ticket to watch us play at camp nou just to laugh my ass off. Valverde, just be gentleman and fuck off.
 

clemente

New member
We play 11 players, all from different countries, everyone just seem so cold to eachother, there is no connection. I was kinda surprised when I saw Dembele looking for Semedo and then Semedo passing back to Dembele, only Messi can connect with Suarez/Alba and thats it, nobody else has chemistry, no 1-2 quick passing, no telepathy.
 

JerseyAddict

Well-known member
I missed the game.
Now I am watching RM and AM. AM is deadly in a counter. Court saved RM ass 2 times.

2 weeks ago I was like "LL will be a walk in a park". Now I am scared as shit that CDR will be only silver in the case.

Wtf is Valverde doing. Wtf was that lineup. 3 games in a row 2 out of 9 pts.

WTF is going on???
 

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