Champions League 2017/18
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JamDav1982
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Tiredness did not have much to do with Barca going out v Roma.
Valverde chose poor tactics and players looked like couldnt match the fight of Roma. To be honest they looked sulky and entitled the moment EV played in a way EV didnt like. Real players would play anyway to win and to a man would fight like fuck.
This idea that Barca winning copa had much impact is overplayed.
The biggest Barca players have not turned up enough in CL in recent years and team based on Messi central has been too one dimensional.
Devils
Senior Member
Coutinho and Griezmann will be huge for that.
The problem is the attitude of current players and manager. The likes of Suarez and Alba need to be put into place and their attitudes are wretched. Also the likes Pique, Busi, Rakitic, Umtiti, Roberto need to realize that their positions are guaranteed they should be fighting for their place on the first team.
Ya but the champions league is a cup competition that requires luck. You don't have to be at your best all year to win it. Real are the winners but they are not the best team in Europe. Bayern were clearly better over two legs. Also remember real oat a few games in the champions league but away goals saved them. If there was a European super league I'm sure real wouldn't win it with this team and Barca would finish above them. The only year real were the best in europe was 16/17 because they were league and European champions deservedly
raskolnikov
Well-known member
I agree except for the last part. Ref saved them vs Bayern and la liga refs and luck helped them towards a la liga win. In my opinion we should have won la liga the last 10 years in a row if not for la liga refs.
BruceWayne11
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Real Madrid, like Barca and Atletico, start every year in three competitions; CDR, CL and La Liga. Everyone should hold Madrid accountable for losing 2 out of 3. Of course, CL is the most prestigious one, with La Liga a close second. If they truly were Europe's best team, they wouldn't be losing the other two domestic titles to Barca, being beaten 3-0 and drawing 2-2 to us in the process.
serghei
Senior Member
La Liga is always the main priority, I can't stress this enough, but the team should realise that CL becomes the big focus from march onwards. You plan the season going steady and strong in La Liga, but when the CL knockouts start, you begin thinking about that more and manage La Liga games with that in mind.
But we should always go full on for both La Liga and CL. Playing about half of La Liga game with nothing at stake is not very good either. Imagine seeing almost 30 Barca games with no meaning. Would be like shit, and 2-3 CL very good CL nights won't change that. Going 17 points off 1st place doesn't sound interesting to me.
We should absolutely not look to replicate Madrid's strategy, it's not our style. I very much like how we approach the season, but we did indeed fucked up overplaying the same players near important CL games among other things.
I agree about playing young players in Copa del Rey next season.
But we should always go full on for both La Liga and CL. Playing about half of La Liga game with nothing at stake is not very good either. Imagine seeing almost 30 Barca games with no meaning. Would be like shit, and 2-3 CL very good CL nights won't change that. Going 17 points off 1st place doesn't sound interesting to me.
We should absolutely not look to replicate Madrid's strategy, it's not our style. I very much like how we approach the season, but we did indeed fucked up overplaying the same players near important CL games among other things.
I agree about playing young players in Copa del Rey next season.
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FC B
Senior Member
I feel LFC would've torn us to pieces in the first leg with their insane pressure, determination, work rate and their front three.
I see a few comments that Liverpool fans aren't even upset. We are but we are also realistic . We have 3 players out needing surgery and the bench is very week. We are confident in the future because we feel we are at the beginning of something positive. We will sign 3 or 4 players this window and strengthen the squad. I dont like bitching but one has to wonder why the referees are taken in year after year by Real. They let out screams like they have been shot and when you see the replay you realise the player wasn't even touched but they get the free kick. Salah Ramos ? Why is it always him? He is the type of player who would switch off your life support to charge his mobile phone. Karma is a wonderful thing though and he will get his comeuppance. Nobody will shed a tear when this happens.
Well I'm a Liverpool fan and I'm devastated! I really felt we would have won at Mo not been injured, and the manner of his injury really has made me so angry. Ramos knew what he was doing and nothing anyone says will convince me otherwise. Ramos is absolute scum, he takes out our star player (and may rob him off the world cup) he elbows Karius, and tried to get Mane (our next best player) sent off by pretending he hit him in the face, rolling around, holding his face, crying, the usual nonsense from scummy players like this. We were on top until Mo went off. We simply cannot replace a player of that quality and Madrid got confidence from this, and we couldn't really get any momentum once he went off. Of course Karius was an absolute disaster, the worst goal keeping mistake I've ever seen for the Benzema goal, and the 2nd mistake was also terrible. Hopefully we'll get rid off him in the summer and get a competent 'keeper.
ronniecro
Active member
and it should be,his move which lead to benzema goal is one of the most idiotic things i've seen from professional goalkeeper
Devils
Senior Member
In Madrid's last 4 CL campaigns, every single top team on the planet has faced them (and failed) but Barca were never good enough to even get to the stage to play them.
That's brutal reality.
I have to say it's been over a decade since I did not look forward to a new season, but I am already exhausted at the thought of next season with these primadonnas and our coward of a manager.
What's worse is going to media narrative that "With Coutinho and Griezmann, Barca are going to be among the favourites for the CL title". Such a farce. This club is becoming deluded.
That's brutal reality.
I have to say it's been over a decade since I did not look forward to a new season, but I am already exhausted at the thought of next season with these primadonnas and our coward of a manager.
What's worse is going to media narrative that "With Coutinho and Griezmann, Barca are going to be among the favourites for the CL title". Such a farce. This club is becoming deluded.
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