CL Quarter Final: Barca - PSG 1-4

companyofcules said:

Gundogan points at Lewandowski.
They were 3 outside the box holdig 3 players, Vitinha was free so somebody had to step. Only Lewandowski was free. Blaming FDJ for turnig back too late to counter is not really ok since he had to help Cancelo like a DM.

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Devils said:

Should have accepted defeat at the red card dawg.

It was over as soon as that hit.

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ZenI said:

I remember fucking screaming at the TV “step out, press the player with the ball - he has tons of space and time” and than they scored. This actually happened 2-3 times and they almost scored more because we were too lazy to press the player on the ball just outside our pk-area. What a bunch of bums. Aroju was atrocious even before his sending off, passing % of maybe 50?

Anyway, I'm fucking gutted - I can't remember last time I took a loss this bad. I got wasted, cried myself to sleep and called in sick today

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ZenI said:

Dude, I did - but kind of lied to myself. But what can I say, I bleed blaugrana - been a fan for 34 of my 44 year old life. I've tackled all this shit the last couple of years, but this loss hit me right in the heart...

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Temptation said:

I understand. You're supposed to be heartbroken.


This was such a golden opportunity for the club to make a CL final. Brilliant draw. The CL could completely turn the club around.


It's been nearly 9 years since you lot enjoyed a CL run and won it.


You guys were absolutely cruising with a 2 goal advantage at home.


That red card ruined your season completely. It killed your dreams and hope. Dreams and hope is everything the sport is about.



Araujo's mistake last night is up there with Karius against Madrid. The only difference is Karius didn't harm us long term as we won it the very next year but the potential repercussions of Araujo's mistakes are catastrophic for Barca in the short term. You might not get such a brilliant opportunity in the next few years. Financially, it could have helped you guys drastically.

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NKMaribor said:

It‘s both imo. As long as Pedri and co. are depicted as top tier, while also club being such a mess institutionally, well…

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companyofcules said:

Barcelona has no mentality issue, just quality issue, at best tactical issue. To talk about a club with so many trophies about mentality issues is just a clap-trap. We can't afford world class anymore and it matters!!

The last core gave a F about results in the last stages and you can't change that by always defending them and giving them huge wages.
The rot started in 2012 and Pep left because it was a given.
They got so spoiled by a pletora of idiots running the catalan media, blogs and vlogs Rosell and Bartomeu, but they were not some lossers, but serial winners. It's called fat cat syndrome.
Why they were serial winners?
Again, they absolutely raped Real many times because quality matters. Only Iniesta, Alves were miles above CR7 in talent, Busquets miles over Xabi or Casemiro when he could run, Pique miles over Ramos( who had the logic of Lenglet). They had Marcelo and Benzema, so too little.

When the Barca core got old Marcelo and Benzema vs fat Suarez were complemented with Modric vs Rakitic lol, Isco vs whatever rudimentary we had, James Rodriguez vs an older Messi.
But still took them from 2017 to 2022 to get a better core. By then then Barcelona was just a regular team.

For our quality we can't win without years of training to park the bus.

Barca is famous for hiring bad GK's and low tier coaches, but mentality wise we were always serial winners, but not always we can play and win since we tend to get mediocre really fast.

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companyofcules said:

Well they do have a team exactly fit to make us suffer. Fast, clutch, powerful with some skills pitted against a team without any DM
It's not the mentality lol It's the quality. Iniesta was not some Ramos but he had quality. Quality makes the difference. Xavi is like any deluded barca kid, thinks tactics midfielders can won by themselves.

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Neeraj said:

I don't disagree about the quality bit or that our team is mediocre at best.

Having said that, how many teams have we seen teams make it REALLY difficult for the opposition after going down to ten men? The likes of sporting gijon, getafe, etc.. Intern Milan in CL... Once you have a brace strategy you don't need that much quality since you're playing attack vs defense. You need far less quality to park the bus than control a game.

So while I agree that they have more quality, it's most definitely also a mentality issue. We didn't even look like we would make them sweat. Even in the first half it already looked game over.

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companyofcules said:

Barcelona has no mentality issue, just quality issue, at best tactical issue. To talk about a club with so many trophies about mentality issues is just a clap-trap. We can't afford world class anymore and it matters!!

The last core gave a F about results in the last stages and you can't change that by always defending them and giving them huge wages.
The rot started in 2012 and Pep left because it was a given.
They got so spoiled by a pletora of idiots running the catalan media, blogs and vlogs Rosell and Bartomeu, but they were not some lossers, but serial winners. It's called fat cat syndrome.
Why they were serial winners?
Again, they absolutely raped Real many times because quality matters. Only Iniesta, Alves were miles above CR7 in talent, Busquets miles over Xabi or Casemiro when he could run, Pique miles over Ramos( who had the logic of Lenglet). They had Marcelo and Benzema, so too little.

When the Barca core got old Marcelo and Benzema vs fat Suarez were complemented with Modric vs Rakitic lol, Isco vs whatever rudimentary we had, James Rodriguez vs an older Messi.
But still took them from 2017 to 2022 to get a better core. By then then Barcelona was just a regular team.

For our quality we can't win without years of training to park the bus.

Barca is famous for hiring bad GK's and low tier coaches, but mentality wise we were always serial winners, but not always we can play and win since we tend to get mediocre really fast.

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serghei said:

It's obvious that we could have played better in 10 men in defense. But the problem was that not only did we play in 10 men, but the defense also lost it's best defender.

It's very complicated.

The examples you talk about are extremely rare, and usually reserved for the best of the best defensive sides. But it is true that the team was also affected mentally by the early sending off, and this, coupled with Cancelo's trash defending, made PSG's job even easier.

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draconifire said:

Bro we definitely have a mentality issue. Even when we had the best team in the world, a team that should have been in the semis at least every time, we got absolutely smacked. We had Messi, Iniesta Neymar and so many fucking amazing players, where a team with just one of them becomes the title contender, what do we have. Look at fucking Madrid, shit ass team during that time, was barely the better team when they won the league, since Pep we have 9 title and 7Cdr, they have 4 title and 3 Cdr but what do they have and everyone else envy's them about, every cule and football fan will replace these stats with them in a heartbeat, is Champions league trophy and there ability to reach the top. You cannot find me a single person after so a decade of watching them win, and they will say Ya they are happy with the trophy we got. What sets them apart? They are just as shit of a team with so many problems during the same time as us

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