We keep taking hits at every level. Football, Basketball, Women's football.
Handball next in Final four next month. Could see us bottling a 5 goal lead in final or something.
Well, at least we won futsal CL.
Classic case of Barca's archaic football getting schooled by physicality/pressing/speed.
Nothing we haven't seen like 50 times over the last 7 years.
True, but this team is like a 2010 men's team. We'll see if they'll learn and bounce back. I have much more faith in them than I ever had in our amigos in last 7 years.
As Alexia said we just couldn't match Lyon's intensity and I think a big reason for that is we are not playing enough competitive games in the league. We streamrolled through the league just by a pure quality/technical difference in comparision to other teams. Didn't even need to do much work tactically and that played a role against Lyon as well. I think Giraldez was a bit naive and Cortes would probably do better as he already learned his lesson in that loss against Lyon in 2019 (when quality difference was obviously much in favour of Lyon).
But then again we were all over the place defensively in first 30 minutes. Can't really say anything about the first goal, just world class finish that even men's football stars wouldn't be ashamed off. But second and third were both preventable. And then I expected a better response in 2nd half after we've scored but Lyon just played as an experienced team. They also wasted a lot of time. Should add like 15 minutes of extra time but don't think it would help us anyway as we just didn't create anywhere near enough of constant pressure on their goal. Only way we could get back into the game would be if that Aitana's shot from almost halfway line would go in. That goal would give the players and fans (they were great BTW, big props to them) a new energy and maybe shake Lyon's confidence a bit. And we would still have more than enough time to equalise.
Not much time to rest anyway, we already play in semi final of Copa de la Reina against CD Tacon on Wednesday.