Lelouch vi Britannia
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0-0 away isn't the greatest of results. Concede a late goal and it's 1-0 which is bad. Concede another and it's basically disastrous.
You need the away goal.
0-0 away isn't the greatest of results. Concede a late goal and it's 1-0 which is bad. Concede another and it's basically disastrous.
You need the away goal.
Horatio
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Never said not to score away. But like LeeRomeno said defense today is highly exploitable by better sides.
Joan
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It's still better than losing.
The problem with this lineup is that you can't have a player who doesn't want to defend (Messi) and one who can't (Dembele) operating on the same side backed up with Roberto.
Also, depends on the opponent.
Lelouch vi Britannia
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Despite still being a 4-4-2 on paper it's pretty much a completely different formation when you take out Paulinho for Dembele. Could actually work; it allows both Messi and Suarez to be in the center.
FinBarcelonafan
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Exactly and finally we were quick in counter attacks. Girona struggled to defend vs us because we were so quick, but with Chelsea roster we are moving like snails and they have all the time in the world to get back to defense and defend well. Today we made sure Girona was in hurry, all the time.
This is how Barcelona should play. Of course today Girona played very offensive game, so we looked better but this is type of football you want to watc!
xXKonan
Senior Member
The XI that we played today, I think everyone and probably Valverde himself was visioning since the post Neymar deal.
Coutinho in for Iniesta, Dembele being Ney's replacement and Semedo being our RB. But there were quite a bit of bumps in the road however. We bought Dembele in but he was sidelined by a bad injury for months.
Everyone knows about the Coutinho saga, we couldn't get him in August but we had to wait until January to finally sign him. And Semedo was in and out of the team. Today showed that vision I think many of us were waiting for and it looked great. It sucked though we lost Semedo to an injury.
Either way I want to see this team more often. It had the pace, Creativity and other things that have been missing for awhile now.
Ousmane Dembélé
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Passing Map from Girona Match:
LeeRomeno
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Passing Map from Girona Match:
Yea, it felt like playing with 4 attackers at times.
khaled_a_d
Senior Member
Yesterday game was fun to watch, it was a game for entertainment, help player confidence and integrating the new boys (Semedo/Coutinho/Dembele) and the whole moral of the team after underwhelming February
But it wasn't a game to make conclusions unfortunately
Girona played stupid and to helped us to maximize our strength, against tougher teams Coutinho won't have same spaces he had, him and Dembele would be punished for their bad positioning, Semedo attacking would look way worse.
Girona left us space while they are far inferior than us, I really want to say "this is the best formation" etc but the truth is while this is more or less our long term line up it isn't really going to work much this season in tougher games.
Semedo injury also make it worse, was hoping he can stay fit to give us the option of pushing Roberto in midfield when needed
But it wasn't a game to make conclusions unfortunately
Girona played stupid and to helped us to maximize our strength, against tougher teams Coutinho won't have same spaces he had, him and Dembele would be punished for their bad positioning, Semedo attacking would look way worse.
Girona left us space while they are far inferior than us, I really want to say "this is the best formation" etc but the truth is while this is more or less our long term line up it isn't really going to work much this season in tougher games.
Semedo injury also make it worse, was hoping he can stay fit to give us the option of pushing Roberto in midfield when needed
MagIX
Senior Member
It's seems that it's a failure if you do not win the triplete... as if it were easy to do it.
Winning the triplete is an absolute exception that very few in the world have managed to obtain
We are 1. in la liga with a comfortable advantage (and RM far away and we trashed them at berabeu), we are in cdr final, we are in good position to be in CL 1/4 final...
and this in Valverde fist season, without Naymar, without reinforcements (dembele injured, Coutinho in January).... REALLY NOT BAD, WELL DONE VALVERDE.
I am sure that no one would have bet 1 cent on these results.
Winning the triplete is an absolute exception that very few in the world have managed to obtain
We are 1. in la liga with a comfortable advantage (and RM far away and we trashed them at berabeu), we are in cdr final, we are in good position to be in CL 1/4 final...
and this in Valverde fist season, without Naymar, without reinforcements (dembele injured, Coutinho in January).... REALLY NOT BAD, WELL DONE VALVERDE.
I am sure that no one would have bet 1 cent on these results.
soul24rage
Senior Member
agreed especially with the expectations we had for the season after the fiasco of the supercup and neymar's departure
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