EL Round 16: Galatasaray - Barcelona 1-2 agg.

[Catta]

Not the best of games, but a win is a win. On to the next round.

 

[fergus90]

Job done, onto to the next round!

 

[malvolio]

Hard fought, but need some of these to get experience in grinding out wins.

 

[mc_lovin]

We win away games in Europe and the teams looks to have a plan. I am happy.

 

[Vladinho]

Wasn't able to watch the game, just the last 10 minutes. I liked how they kept their composure under so much pressure...passing, passing and passing. They had the legs for that, but Xavi made it possible at a mental level

 

[Horatio]

don't think we need another magical night. Just decent football should be enough.

siu

 

[te amo barca]

We were honestly playing with fire in the second half by stalling the game. Should've gone for the third goal and put any doubts to bed.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Painful. Not good look for the next round. Very happy to go through.

 

[JohnN]

We were honestly playing with fire in the second half by stalling the game. Should've gone for the third goal and put any doubts to bed.

We missed a couple of sitters to be fair and played calmly on and much Sharper in the second half.

 

[Masetro10]

Ferran 3/10 Pretty much a non factor
Auba 5/10 Scored a goal didn't do much else
Traore 2/10 Low blocks aren't the games for him
Pedri 6/10 Pretty bad but scored a nice goal.
FDJ 5/10 Blew a 1v1 and had a couple other chances
Busquets 4/10 Not his best game, too many counters
Dest 5/10 Average sad to see the injury
Alba 6/10 Average had some nice through balls
Garcia 2/10 Terrible, too small, too weak.
Pique 6/10 Pretty decent today

Dembele 7/10 undisputed starter now
Araujo 7/10 rock solid as usual
Gavi 7/10 Gavi is an X-Factor. He gets in the game. He runs around he makes plays he doesn't make many bad ones. Started to really enjoy this player. Energy and brings the Edge we need. Can't all be choir boys.
Lenglet unrated but a disaster waiting to happen
Memphis 5/10 close to scoring one to put the game away
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Overall bad performance but a win in a hostile environment. Real Madrid will counter much better and execute much better than Galatasaray... Dest is out now. It will be Alves vs Vinicius again. Not sure how we contain Vini on the counter if we are going to play so so high.

Must play Dembele, Auba, Torres front 3 to score goals in big games.

 

[JamDav1982]

Jesus fuck that is some moronic ratings.

 

[Horatio]

Jesus fuck that is some moronic ratings.

What would you give busquets?

 

[ajnotkeith]

Araujo lucky not to give away a pen late in the game especially in such a hostile stadium, a lot of refs would give that.

 

[Masetro10]

Jesus fuck that is some moronic ratings.

That's what I saw from as unbiased a POV as possible. Huge Busquets fan. Some of these can go even lower in my estimation. Thanks for your opinion though.

 

[Gnidrologist]

People seem to think that pep/xavi ball is always this carefree champagne football, where we stroll around making bakcheels passes. Team did well under pressure and it's great to see better second halves not vice versa as was before. It means coach know how to improve during match.