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

[biraboyz]

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]

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]

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]

Pique playing as a striker is so FUCKING IRRITATING!

There is an instance that Messi seems pointing to Pique to move back to his proper place instead of clogging the front space...😁

 

[Barcaman]

So glad I missed this.

Do I have to ask how did we play?

 

[tacticvarium]

Did Messi and Busi have a fight with Valverde?

 

[biraboyz]

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

 

[messi2140]

So glad I missed this.

Do I have to ask how did we play?

Same old. Boring to watch , questionable subs and Messi bailing this team out.

 

[PhilS]

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.

 

[gasgas]

Same old. Boring to watch , questionable subs and Messi bailing this team out.

Seemed improved to me.
A good number of chances compared to last game

 

[Kul_z]

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.

 

[Luftstalag14]

Seemed improved to me.
A good number of chances compared to last game

Considering we were playing at home and we were winless in two games, we should have played much better than this.

 

[Dan1983]

Third on the trot where we haven't won.

 

[clemente]

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]

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???