Luis Enrique

[Barça Barça Barça]

PSG and Valencia comming up. If he doesn't get his shit together and realises we have a team that can punish opponents when they open up, than he deserves to be sacked along with this board. It's April, these kind of stupid mistakes should've been gone by now.

Yeah because changing manager for the fourth time in four seasons will automatically solve everything.

 

[Neymessi]

It was actually a sensible sub.

NO

 

[Kohe321]

If one substitution kills the focus of the players then I would suggest that they are clearly not mentally tough and focused enough to win titles.

All substitutions are not made equal.

Bad decisions like this disrupt the focus and chemistry on many levels. First of all it was absurd to sub off the best attacking player on the night with a midfielder when everyone was in the mindset of defending the lead by scoring another goal. Suddenly they had to shift their mindset from "defending by scoring" to "defending through possession", which you could see threw them off. Synergy disrupted right there. Secondly, changing formations like that in the middle of a barrage from Sevilla is just something you don't do.

In my opinion Iniesta should have been subbed off for Xavi and Pedro subbed on for Suarez. I'm fairly confident that we would have won the game if this had happened, but we'll never know of course.

Agreed. LE made a huge mistake subbing Neymar for Xavi. Should had been Iniesta for Xavi.
But he's bound to make mistakes. He's very young, and not that experienced in top level.

I don't understand why people are claiming for his head, though. No way he should be sacked for that. The team played very well until sevilla scored the 1st.

I agree, it's such a shame that our great performance in the first half ends up being forgotten and completely overshadowed by mistakes. We threw this game away, and that is what makes it so difficult to swallow. Individual mistakes in key moments from key players, topped off by an epicly misjudged decision by Lucho.

 

[Hamzah]

Yeah because changing manager for the fourth time in four seasons will automatically solve everything.

+1

Lucho is nothing special but he has done some good things and all in all its better to keep him for one more season. We need some fucking consistency. Every year with a new coach is kinda wasted because not everyone is settled.

 

[Barcaman]

It was thanks to Pique's blunder that we lost points, not because of a (bad) sub.
Should have taken Iniesta off but we can only speculate and don't see everything Lucho does.

 

[Morten]

Lucho has done well for you guys, no question about it. Though i would say the way you play isnt as pleasing as it used to be.

 

[serghei]

It was thanks to Pique's blunder that we lost points, not because of a (bad) sub.
Should have taken Iniesta off but we can only speculate and don't see everything Lucho does.

Or Suarez's miss with the empty net. Let's not forget about that.

 

[Sumlit]

Biggest reason's for the result in my eyes were first and foremost, the two mistakes, which both resulted in 2 goals. Sevilla had no other shots on target so you can easily see the magnitude of the mistakes.

Second biggest reason was Suarez missing several good chances that should have resulted in at least 1 goal. Couple with the mistakes, that is a minimum of a 3 goal swing. Devastating.

Then you have LE's mistakes, which were all around poor use of substitutions. Slow to stop the midfield bleeding with some fresh subs, then taking out Neymar who was playing the best on the field and killing the attack thereafter.

 

[serghei]

Lucho's first to blame for me. You have to go for the 3-1 when the other team leaves you space. You just have to do that. If you don't, there's a pretty big chance you'll concede and draw the game.

 

[TornAndFrayed]

just wasn't to be tonight. Too many once in a season type mistakes in one game. Sigh. And to think we played some of our very best football in the first half.

 

[Barça Barça Barça]

All substitutions are not made equal.

Bad decisions like this disrupt the focus and chemistry on many levels. First of all it was absurd to sub off the best attacking player on the night with a midfielder when everyone was in the mindset of defending the lead by scoring another goal. Suddenly they had to shift their mindset from "defending by scoring" to "defending through possession", which you could see threw them off. Synergy disrupted right there. Secondly, changing formations like that in the middle of a barrage from Sevilla is just something you don't do.

Nonsense the 11 players on the pitch had 4 world cup winners, the best player in the world and 32 La Liga titles and 16 Champions League titles between them. I think that it is incomprehensible that those players cannot adapt to a simple tweak of formation. And a change that is not uncommon to as I can think of numerous occasion when Pep subbed a forward for a midfielder, most infamously in the 2-1 defeat at Arsenal when he brought Keita on for Villa.

 

[DonAK]

Nonsense the 11 players on the pitch had 4 world cup winners, the best player in the world and 32 La Liga titles and 16 Champions League titles between them. I think that it is incomprehensible that those players cannot adapt to a simple tweak of formation. And a change that is not uncommon to as I can think of numerous occasion when Pep subbed a forward for a midfielder, most infamously in the 2-1 defeat at Arsenal when he brought Keita on for Villa.

What...

 

[Vlom]

Nonsense the 11 players on the pitch had 4 world cup winners, the best player in the world and 32 La Liga titles and 16 Champions League titles between them. I think that it is incomprehensible that those players cannot adapt to a simple tweak of formation. And a change that is not uncommon to as I can think of numerous occasion when Pep subbed a forward for a midfielder, most infamously in the 2-1 defeat at Arsenal when he brought Keita on for Villa.

So your example to defend the sub is another loss sub ?

 

[Barça Barça Barça]

So your example to defend the sub is another loss sub ?

No I am just highlighting that it is something that Pep did regularly (so the players should have been able to adapt to it no trouble) and was never criticised for it except for on one occasion when we lost and had Pique not given the ball away tonight we would have won the game and no one would be mentioning the sub.

 

[Kohe321]

Nonsense the 11 players on the pitch had 4 world cup winners, the best player in the world and 32 La Liga titles and 16 Champions League titles between them. I think that it is incomprehensible that those players cannot adapt to a simple tweak of formation. And a change that is not uncommon to as I can think of numerous occasion when Pep subbed a forward for a midfielder, most infamously in the 2-1 defeat at Arsenal when he brought Keita on for Villa.

You're missing the point of how taking off one the most dangerous attackers on the night affected the group when everyone was thinking that the plan was to defend the lead by scoring. How seasoned veterans the players are is completely irrelevant, a bad plan like that throws anyone off regardless of experience.

Think about it. Everyone knew that if they conceded a goal and drew the game it would be a small disaster, and a cushion of two goals would be infintely better than trying to contain an ever bolder Sevilla side. Changing the formation and gameplan suddenly like that just served to throw them off. Even worse, it removed some of their hope that they could still win if they did concede that 2-2 equalizer, as scoring that winning third goal would be much more difficult without Neymar. And what do you know, that's exactly what happened.