La Liga | Round 3: FC Barcelona - Villarreal 4-0

[serghei]

Now would be a good time to get some players in and build momentum for them.

 

[Vilarrubi]

Barca have had far too much movement and options for them going forward.

Night and day to the turgid attacking play of last season.

Having Fati, Coutinho, Griezmann and Messi all in the box is a nightmare for Villarreal.

 

[soul24rage]

man Busi has to come off.

Make all 5 subs and put on the young lads

 

[Gaudi]

First impressions:

1. We play faster, much better tempo. But it remains to be seen is it a new normal or just first game
2. We have bodies in the box finally. All attacks seem much better because of that simple fact
3. Coutinho looks good in this setup
4. Fati looks mega good
5. We need someone for Busi

If Dembele, Trincao and Pedri show something we are ok.

 

[SeloBarca]

Gotta say, Coutinho actually looks better in an AM role, who woulda thought..

 

[fergus90]

It's extremely refreshing to see 4 attackers in the box waiting to get on the end of a cross. Seems like forever since we saw that on a regular basis.

 

[xXKonan]

Never was all that impressed with Pau Torres.

Seems like another bog standard Spanish CB.

 

[Zidane82]

GOATinho is fucking class this game. Hopefully he keeps this up for the season.

Replace Griez with Dembele/Trincao and Replace Busquets with literally anyone and this will be even better.

I think we will have to sacrifice my hero Busqs if we are to see the best of FDJ ..,

 

[huskerdu]

First impressions:

1. We play faster, much better tempo. But it remains to be seen is it a new normal or just first game
2. We have bodies in the box finally. All attacks seem much better because of that simple fact
3. Coutinho looks good in this setup
4. Fati looks mega good
5. We need someone for Busi

If Dembele, Trincao and Pedri show something we are ok.

How do you feel about our defense?

 

[BBZ8800]

Some said that 4231 is defensive and only 433 is the way to go.

I haven't seen us attacking with 4 attackers for years.

Ansu very good.
Cou very good.

Messi dwelling on the ball.
Frenkie scared and looking for Messi in every action.

We play faster.
We don't need Busi and Arthur to dwell on the ball for 20 seconds in the build up.

We play direct, faster, some long balls, switching sides and not a granny slow football with 2 meter sideway passes like in previous seasons.

 

[kattanib]

What has changed?

We have only one lazy player and all else is expected to run

Messi isn?t special in the since that priority should be given to him in passes, aka when Messi is humanized all else will rise

We are returning to our routes and have meaningful entertaining possession with fast risky forward passes

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Get Roberto and Busi out of that first 11 and we might be onto something.

True.

 

[Zidane82]

Gotta say, Coutinho actually looks better in an AM role, who woulda thought..

Errr anyone who saw him play at Liverpool ..

 

[ThwiX]

Griezmann and Busi are my two complaints so far. Rest of our players have been great.

 

[soul24rage]

Never was all that impressed with Pau Torres.

Seems like another bog standard Spanish CB.

2 goals in 2 games vs Villareal

Our goalscoring CB