La Liga Round 9: Barca - Girona 2-1

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JamDav1982

Senior Member
The offside trap will always be vulnerable when Pedri and Kounde lose the ball like they did in todays game and Kounde has been doing near enough every game.

It allows for little chance to pressure and straight on top of a defence not ready for it.

Thing that pisses me off is when there is 3/4 defenders trying to plauy offside and all it takes is one run to take them out the game.

Too many defending v that many attackers.
 
MonteCuler

MonteCuler

Well-known member
Pedri genius goal then fucking Witsel scores a bicycle kick, Girona randomly creates 4-5 great chances, literal monsoon at half time, second half chance every minute for 1 of the teams, Flick gets a red and then Barça CB comes on as striker and wins the game in stoppage time

This season all spectacular games. Either in terms of drama or team play. When it's drama the neutrals are more satisfied, but honestly I like it once a while too. And when huge drama ends in favour of the team it can boost morale
 
Horatio

Horatio

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Offence is best defense. Raphinha’s pressing will help greatly as we will recover the ball higher up and give opponent less moments to attack.

But offside trap being so poorly carried out will still hurt us.
 
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JamDav1982

Senior Member
Raphinha should help but the team have been conceding too many goals with him also for a while and he wasn't great in games has played so far this season either.

Teams have adapted to Barcas high line and also started to man mark FDJ and Pedri and show ball to Barca full backs who are weak on ball when pressed.
 
serghei

serghei

Senior Member
Raphinha gives you options for direct passes. 2 goals in the 4-0 vs Madrid came with passes over midfield from CBs to timed runs by Raphinha who cooked the RB for pace. 2 goals vs Bayern also directly to Raphinha, 3rd and 4th. We need to get Raphinha back to last season form, fit, and ready to eat those long passes. He benefits from more space when other teams overcommit in midfield.

This doesn't mean it's ok for Pedri and De Jong to not be able to solve a 2 vs 2. If they are the players we think they are, man for man should not be enough to block them. Especially vs likes of Sevilla and Girona.
 
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HeadElastico

HeadElastico

Active member
Concerning performance. Pedri was WC until he got tired and of course made the one mistake.

The solution to this ridiculously ineffective high line cannot just be PRESS HARDER PRESS HARDER. Flick has got to realise fitness levels and adjust accordingly. He's just not seeming to do it and we're quite a few games into his second season now.
 
Maradona37

Maradona37

Well-known member
Watched this game. Barca played well in spells, but good work gets undone by that very high line. It isn't working like it did at this point last season. Girona got in so often and their finishing was awful (commentator said they were near bottom of the league for shot conversion). The thing is, they don't even have to work or do anything special to get a race against the goalkeeper - it's just one man holding his position, waiting, then a ball in behind and he's away. Faster attackers llke Mbappe won't be caught and will have a clean shot.

Lovely goals by Pedri and Witsel, though. The goal to win it was nice, but you cannot rely on late winners after the opposition miss sitters every week.

The warning signs are there and surely Flick cannot continue to ignore them? Barca are capable of playing beautiful football sometimes, but it's undone by mistakes and that high line. It didn't cost them at the weekend but it might in future.
 
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