La Liga Round 33: Barca - Mallorca 1-0

[JamDav1982]

Rodriguez and Maffeo are horrible niggly cunts to play in a tight game also.

Good they are out.

Maybe Mallorca coach does a EV and focuses in their next game with team selection.

 

[draconifire]

I expect us to drop points against Athletic on the last match day. Other difficult games are against Villareal and Mallorca
The only game in which Vardrid has a chance of dropping points is against Getafe, but similar to the Athletic game, it's highly unlikely.

We have to win every game. If we lose the Classico, it's GGs for us.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Can't believe they actually gave him just one game suspension for that leg breaker. Truly suspect decision.

Even Real fans were saying it was a disgrace on Reddit. Brutal decision.

 

[Barcaman]

Love Barca but there's too much games. It kills the quality of football.

Just cut the league by 2 teams and useless supercopa semis. That's 5 matches less already.

 

[FCBarca]

Too many matches, no question - something has to change. Not sure the league needs to be reduced but certainly that could be one option while the most direct solution would be to reduce the number of competitions outside of leagues

Big reason why I think players will ultimately have to force the issue by organizing a strike

 

[Catta]

League of 18 teams, Copa games only one leg, Supercopa only the final like in the past.

Easy solution, would benefit all the teams playing in European competitions.

 

[FC B]

I'd go for 16 league teams, enough games already considering CL group phase also added more games.

 

[Loki]

It's pointess to talk about less games, it will never happen out of 2 reasons.

1. Football is first of all a business nowadays and no businessman will decrease his income
2. Even if they agree to reduce games, no one would actually agree to cut his own competition, because of point 1.

What Fifa will do in the future I expect is to allow bigger squads, more players on the bench, more subs. The money must continue to flow, so expect like 7 subs and 3 players more on the bench in the near future. As a result, the games get even more generic, nobody will care about them 2 days later, the quality will continue to decline. That's the future of fooball.
But fans have only themselves to blame, because they continue to finance this shit show.

 

[Fati_Future_BallonDor]

League of 18 teams, Copa games only one leg, Supercopa only the final like in the past.

Easy solution, would benefit all the teams playing in European competitions.

Well said catta

 

[Nucky]

Matches that titles are won on. Must win match.. Also a chance to rest some key players..

 

[Gazzznigga]

Matches that titles are won on. Must win match.. Also a chance to rest some key players..

Unfortunately, the last attempt to rest key players boomeranged badly. Barca had to scramble rested players back hurriedly to het even in the match.
Go with full squad, rest players after a healthy lead

 

[Barcaman]

Matchday!

Think Flick hinted at some rotations. Since Lamine didn't start against Celta, Raphinha could start from bench.
Others could be Araujo for Cubarsi and Eric for Frankie.

Hoping for a less hectic match than Celta.

 

[TheStig]

League of 18 teams, Copa games only one leg, Supercopa only the final like in the past.

Easy solution, would benefit all the teams playing in European competitions.

+ no more Nation League


but it's impossible. There will be more and more games that will mean less and less. The players will have more injuries and the quality of football is lowering already.

 

[Porque]

The solution is much more simple even if games are not reduced.

It is to have a European club football window running the course of the season, and then the international football window after it.

That way in the club football off season you have all your international games. Qualifiers, Nations League, World cups whatever.

The theory would be that in the international window you have many more players to select from, so more players would get rested and rotated.

So someone like Pedri and Lamine can play half the nations League games, then a different set of call ups can play the other set of Nations League games.

 

[RedxMAK]

Why are people acting like we are gonna struggle if we rotate, we are literally going to play a B team of Mallorca, they have so much suspensions and injuries at the moment, it will be disgraceful not to win