Ronald Koeman
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serghei
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They might be downplaying not the Cup itself, but the difficulty of this new format where you don't have a second leg to trash low division sides who come on Camp Nou.
You fuck up on the night and show unprepared, tired and unfocused, you're out. Simple as that.
serghei
Senior Member
They are very different though. This Supercopa is a marketing stunt made so that the Arabs can see a Barca - Real that is not friendly in exchange for some money. Copa del Rey is a trophy with real pedigree and history behind it.
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Birdy
Senior Member
Agree, but subs should be at least against Cornella in the Copa.
12-3 starters are dead tired after having played 6 games in 20 days.
Messi is suspended anyway for a few games.
But in any case against Cornella, we should have NEto, Umtiti, Firpo, Pjanic, Puig, Trincao and Konrad as definite starters
Total-Football
Senior Member
Throw trincao and inshallah
FinBarcelonafan
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Wtf?we literally lost in an irrelevant tournament. If we crash out of Copa and bottle it vs PSG, then yes, the season could be considered over.
PSG is the favourite. We can't bottle it.
Most of the people(non Barca fans) expect Barca to get crushed . Again.
Messigician
Senior Member
Its time to go!
Messigician
Senior Member
1-0 scrappy wins and a penalty shootout doesn't cover up the fact we are in fucking shambles.
His tactics and subs aren't good enough
His tactics and subs aren't good enough
Messigician
Senior Member
Knows he's done
Koeman: "We are disappointed and sad, but we don't have much time to regret it. Today I saw things that I liked, but there are things to improve. I give my utmost. My job is not very good if you win today and very bad if you lose... It was painful to lose today." https://t.co/uRvIyOCHog
Koeman: "We are disappointed and sad, but we don't have much time to regret it. Today I saw things that I liked, but there are things to improve. I give my utmost. My job is not very good if you win today and very bad if you lose... It was painful to lose today." https://t.co/uRvIyOCHog
FinBarcelonafan
Well-known member
True.. The lack of players from the bench is killing us.
malvolio
Senior Member
Wtf?
copa might be an objective, if we get lucky with draws. but personally don't see this team having the kill factor to pull out important wins.
vs psg will have to limit the score, that's all. imagine neymar/mbappe running at the likes of dest/mingueza/araujo/lenglet/alba
FinBarcelonafan
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copa might be an objective, if we get lucky with draws. but personally don't see this team having the kill factor to pull out important wins.
vs psg will have to limit the score, that's all. imagine neymar/mbappe running at the likes of dest/mingueza/araujo/lenglet/alba
That's why sitting back vs PSG would be important. PSG is good in counters. They sit back and throw the ball to Neymar/DiMaria or Mbappe. That's their whole game plan. As long as we can eliminate those counters we can win. We can't play Lenglet vs Neymar or Mbappe though. We would get slaughtered.
behindbrowneyes
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His bench for yesterday's game was: Neto, Pena, Mingueza, Umtiti, Firpo, Pjanic, Puig, Trincao, Braithwaite.
Hard to blame him for the selection. His options for Lenglet are inexperienced Mingueza and Umtiti. The only starter you can really discuss is Pedri because he is dead tired and Puig at least a somewhat decent replacement. Pjanic has done nothing in this shirt to justify a start over Busquets. Trincao? Looked like a prospect but seems to be overwhelmed with his task. Braithwaite is a squad player. He does his job but is not someone who creates something on his own.
Say what you want about Pique and Roberto, but squad is missing them as options. There is no way Pique would do worse than Lenglet. I'm sure he'd do better than the French and be a leader for Araujo, who is doing very well.
About Fati, there is not even a discussion. He is missed a lot on the left wing and his scorers are missed.
You can discuss about Coutinho being useful or not. He had a good start under Koeman but looked bad after his injury.
This squad is far from perfect and Koeman is addressing it with his wishes, but looks like there is no money for transfers, even rather cheap players like Depay and Garcia are not doable. I hope he gives Konrad a few chances as Trincao offers nothing noteable and should be loaned.
Hard to blame him for the selection. His options for Lenglet are inexperienced Mingueza and Umtiti. The only starter you can really discuss is Pedri because he is dead tired and Puig at least a somewhat decent replacement. Pjanic has done nothing in this shirt to justify a start over Busquets. Trincao? Looked like a prospect but seems to be overwhelmed with his task. Braithwaite is a squad player. He does his job but is not someone who creates something on his own.
Say what you want about Pique and Roberto, but squad is missing them as options. There is no way Pique would do worse than Lenglet. I'm sure he'd do better than the French and be a leader for Araujo, who is doing very well.
About Fati, there is not even a discussion. He is missed a lot on the left wing and his scorers are missed.
You can discuss about Coutinho being useful or not. He had a good start under Koeman but looked bad after his injury.
This squad is far from perfect and Koeman is addressing it with his wishes, but looks like there is no money for transfers, even rather cheap players like Depay and Garcia are not doable. I hope he gives Konrad a few chances as Trincao offers nothing noteable and should be loaned.
FinBarcelonafan
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So much truth in this. We can't complain Koeman not making subs. Most of the subs simply suck.
He needs to rotate more though. He is running Pedri to the ground.
He got tactics right the few games before which have been important wins. We conceded silly goals yesterday, didn't create much in fairness which is partly on him. Still we've seen the best version of Frenkie, recently the best Griezmann at barca and we've also generally created more chances. His substitutions are incredibly poor but has a barca manager in recent years ever had such shocking subs to call on?
basically what behindbrowneyes said lol only just read it
basically what behindbrowneyes said lol only just read it
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