Maybe you are right, maybe we are overreacting. The point is I don't see Lucho being horrible, if something is not right with Barca, he is not the only one to blame.
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raskolnikov
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Still, with the players we have, it should be possible to create a team that competes for prices, even with our defence. A quality coach like Simeone proved it last season with Atletico.
Utilizing a team's strengths to their advantage, why be a poor excuse of Pep's Barca if the players can't pull it off anymore? create something different, i'm sure Pep would.
Utilizing a team's strengths to their advantage, why be a poor excuse of Pep's Barca if the players can't pull it off anymore? create something different, i'm sure Pep would.
DonAK
President of FC Barcelona
Did Lucho hack Ursegor's account?
Cule4life
The Culest
That would be logical if we were playing well consistently with a good system and tactics......
Ursegor
World Champion
Guys, guys. Calma.
Look. I have no problem with criticism. But there needs to be some balance. Not everything is Scrubrique's fault. La Liga away games have always been tricky. Potatoe pitches, small teams treating Barca games like WC finals, parked airplanes ... You can't possibly tell me this is the first time you've seen a Barca away game in similar manner. I've seen it a thousand times now. Last season Barca dropped points in 8 of 19 away games and several victories away from home like against Sevilla, Espanyol, Villarreal (funny Dani Banani cross own goal), even Getafe (who were leading by 2 goals at some point) were far from convincing. So why freak out now? It's not as if Barca got outplayed.
Lineups? I have nothing to complain. Forward line picked itself with Neymar's injury. Defense doesn't matter because Barca didn't concede and only allowed 1 chance so who cares if Bartra and Mascherano played or not, most likely irrelevant for the result unless Mascherano would've scored his first goal in his Barca career or Bartra would have scored from a set piece. In midfield Iniesta was on the bench because he was mediocre and looked tired against PSG. If you're a believer that Rafinha would have completely changed the game that's fair enough. I don't so I have 0 complaints about the lineup.
Formation? Usual 4-3-3 that Barca is practising since Jesus got nailed. You might complain why he didn't emulate the PSG lineup. I'm fairly certain that lineup worked against PSG because of their 2 striker system. I don't see what it would have done without Neymar available anyway. Instead of Alba's runs you'd have Munir looking clumsy and waiting for ball to feet on the left side and a spare defender at the back. Unnecessary against a parked bus.
The pressing was good, some half chances were created, the precision in the final meters was not quite there. Simple, really. When I heard Neymar was injured I knew this was going to become an annoying game because Suarez is still finding his feet and looking for his first La Liga goal so it always came down to Messi providing magic or not but obviously he decided to hit the woodwork again instead.
Look. I have no problem with criticism. But there needs to be some balance. Not everything is Scrubrique's fault. La Liga away games have always been tricky. Potatoe pitches, small teams treating Barca games like WC finals, parked airplanes ... You can't possibly tell me this is the first time you've seen a Barca away game in similar manner. I've seen it a thousand times now. Last season Barca dropped points in 8 of 19 away games and several victories away from home like against Sevilla, Espanyol, Villarreal (funny Dani Banani cross own goal), even Getafe (who were leading by 2 goals at some point) were far from convincing. So why freak out now? It's not as if Barca got outplayed.
Lineups? I have nothing to complain. Forward line picked itself with Neymar's injury. Defense doesn't matter because Barca didn't concede and only allowed 1 chance so who cares if Bartra and Mascherano played or not, most likely irrelevant for the result unless Mascherano would've scored his first goal in his Barca career or Bartra would have scored from a set piece. In midfield Iniesta was on the bench because he was mediocre and looked tired against PSG. If you're a believer that Rafinha would have completely changed the game that's fair enough. I don't so I have 0 complaints about the lineup.
Formation? Usual 4-3-3 that Barca is practising since Jesus got nailed. You might complain why he didn't emulate the PSG lineup. I'm fairly certain that lineup worked against PSG because of their 2 striker system. I don't see what it would have done without Neymar available anyway. Instead of Alba's runs you'd have Munir looking clumsy and waiting for ball to feet on the left side and a spare defender at the back. Unnecessary against a parked bus.
The pressing was good, some half chances were created, the precision in the final meters was not quite there. Simple, really. When I heard Neymar was injured I knew this was going to become an annoying game because Suarez is still finding his feet and looking for his first La Liga goal so it always came down to Messi providing magic or not but obviously he decided to hit the woodwork again instead.
putogusiluz8
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Ursegor
World Champion
Depends on your definition of "playing well consistently" and your expectations. If you accept that this isn't a juggernaut team anymore but just a very good team I'd say 4 points behind a Madrid team on a 20 game winning streak with the Bernabeu fixture out of the way already isn't exactly bad and if referees did their jobs it could have been even closer. All of that with key players like Busquets, Iniesta and Suarez clearly playing well below their levels. If Iniesta could find some form and Suarez starts scoring that alone would transform this team so much. So there is a lot of room for improvement still which isn't just on the coach. Not to say Lucho is doing everything right but who expected that from a rookie coach anyway?
Ghostmaster
Danger Ahead
Maybe Getafe's game wasn't entirely his fault, but Malaga's draw was, playing Douglas destroyed the dynamic of team which wasn't that great to begin with, what sane manager would introduce RB rookie to play in away game when your attack relies on fullbacks? 2 points lost right there simply because of his stupidity.
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rixxer
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Wow, Ursgor owning thise thread. Those doomsayers offensive after Getafe game was naturally expected, but last pages have been copy paste read.
Nothing more to say, but unfortunately, there is not much to read in this thread right now, no reasonable arguements except Lucho out and clueless tags flyying everywhere. Depressing.
Nothing more to say, but unfortunately, there is not much to read in this thread right now, no reasonable arguements except Lucho out and clueless tags flyying everywhere. Depressing.
CuleLife4Life
Active member
Lol yes sorry. I was thinking Zubi and Barto at the same time. Don't know why it came out as Busi.
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