Luis Enrique

[ThwiX]

Zidane outsmarted him today in his first Clasico.

 

[6 Ballons for Messi]

This loss weighs heavily on lucho.
It's clear as day from the (non existent)intensity barca had that he told the players to not step on the gas and just cruise while zidane saw his team getting picked apart in the first 20mins and yet kept an aggressive stance that paid out in the end.
If msn is not up for it lucho isn't as well, that says a lot.

 

[Mitchell1978]

Wrong choice for the substitution and its not the first time.

 

[bismp]

He is as responsible as it gets.

The team became really lazy after Pique's goal,and that didn't change after Benzi's goal.

He made the worst possible sub,which resulted in us losing the midfield.

But as if thia wasn't enough,he did NOTHING to at least secure the draw,despite seeing how dangerous RM were and despite being lucky with Bale's disallowed goal.

 

[Flavia]

Enrique's insistence with arda being Rakitic's sub is worrying. Arda is not suited for that role. he's an attacking player, for the final third. He needs to stop that experiment, it has failed.

 

[SKS-]

The change of play was occurring before the sub, but regardless, I think Roberto should've been the one called upon.

 

[barcanuck]

Enrique's insistence with arda being Rakitic's sub is worrying. Arda is not suited for that role. he's an attacking player, for the final third. He needs to stop that experiment, it has failed.

I agree, today's SUB and lack of other 2 subs was a bit of a worry.

Bob should of been first sub, then Arda but Raki was our best player today. Needed to keep him in and take out the Don.

 

[6 Ballons for Messi]

Yeah turan will not be a similar player with rocketic.
We must groom him for iniesta's position, there he will show his talents.

 

[ThwiX]

Villarreal, Deportivo x2, Real Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla etc. etc.

Too many games where we took the lead, in some games with several goals, but somehow manage to throw it away. It seems to be a trend under Lucho. Team starts sleeping and even if they get away with some scares, they just can't wake up. It didn't matter if Bale's goal got disallowed. Everyone and their mother could see that Real Madrid would win at that point. We had luck so many times in the same situation against Las Palmas, Sevilla, Malaga, but you can't expect that against BBC.

 

[6 Ballons for Messi]

Good observation thwix.
With Pep we never stopped going for it, at 5-0 we would push for 6-0, same as bayern now days.
Lucho doesn't do that, he's naive and we have paid the price many times.

 

[JamDav1982]

Good observation thwix.
With Pep we never stopped going for it, at 5-0 we would push for 6-0, same as bayern now days.
Lucho doesn't do that, he's naive and we have paid the price many times.

At the same time Barca got dominated worse than today in some of Peps last few classicos and never won 4-0 in Madrid.

The way Pep plys the same way no matter what is more naïve than what Lucho does.

Lucho just had a bad day at the office but he usually adapts.

 

[vlad]

he really fcked up with sub, i mean, whole performance was bad, but cmon, you have some nice players on the bench, if thing does not go how it should be, make changes, lucho is very bad in that, i just cant understand why he is pushing arda on raketic place when arda is not that type of player, roberto would do better job

 

[raki]

Good observation thwix.
With Pep we never stopped going for it, at 5-0 we would push for 6-0, same as bayern now days.
Lucho doesn't do that, he's naive and we have paid the price many times.

That´s false. You are overeacting with a false statement.

 

[ebc_99]

He is a young coach and will continue to make mistakes, even the most experienced managers do so. But we had similar performancs last year and the same complaints from fans and it ended well so I am going to assume he knows what he is doing even if he doesn't always get it right.

 

[vlad]

Good observation thwix.
With Pep we never stopped going for it, at 5-0 we would push for 6-0, same as bayern now days.
Lucho doesn't do that, he's naive and we have paid the price many times.

pep is also sometimes naive, as much as he want trash opponnent he sometimes get slap in the face with that kind of approach, just watch bayern in CL, bayern already should be out of competition.