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If you love Messi, if you love FC Barca, watch this video #Messi767, available on the club website. Wonderful to see his teammates all the way back to his first year as a regular with the club. <iframe scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true"...

When you look back to the Laporta era as the most recent "decent" management for this club, that is a miserable situation. Laporta burned money, just squandered very large amounts for travel, food, corporate expenses. So, not exactly a team-first good guy. But, he has never been arrested or...

Who knew that Koeman was so convincingly hiding his tactical brilliance? The 3-5-2 makes this a reborn team. This setup helps in so many ways! The 4 man backline was not even close to cutting it defensively against good competition. The three CBs with help from the two former fullbacks...

Koemen rotated midweek, so the only rotation I would expect for this game would be taking off a regular or two for subs at the hour mark. Same for the Copa game that follows this one. Savilla is a quality team this year, they should be too good for the current Barca. After losing these two...

It's time to give more opportunities to the younger players. This squad has no hope to win CL or La Liga. Finishing 2nd, 3rd or 4th in Liga, who cares. Let's see what regular playing time show us for the youth, so the team can decide who to keep going forwards. Huge squad changes needed this...

So, banned for only two games, the first round of Copa and the Liga game against the relegation team. La Liga shows its gratitude for the zillions of euros Messi has earned them!

Greizmann hurts the team more than Coutinho did. At Coutinho's position, there were alternatives, so Coutinho did not play much. The worst problem with Greizmann is the lack of alternatives, and that he does play well enough to deserve to be on the field for this team. He plays well enough...

If you don't start Messi, Busquets, Pique, Alba, Dembele, Fati, or Coutinho, this is one mighty drab team. Not surprised by the result given the injuries and choices made for the starting lineup. Not worth watching. Except for Dembele, none of these jokers deserved to wear this uniform today.

Although he is indeed young, he is doing a very fine impression of being the type of center back who will go out there and pretty regularly lose the game for you. Young is not enough, should never start for Barca.

So, Barca is still able to get the offense rolling, some of the time. But in most games these days, this team is worse than mediocre. The last two games, Barca has been relegation level. There is still enough talent that it is hard to imagine the team playing enough terrible games from here...

Dembele and Fati out at the same time, omph. All the remaining forwards play best in the middle of the field, with the exception of poor Trincao, who is completely psyched out in his shooting. More Liga losses coming up.

Unfortunately true. But Roberto's skill set is better suited to several positions other than forward. The team no longer plays Roberto at forward. For a forward, not shooting well is rather serious. I can't yet see Trincao developing into a regular starter at a top club. It's OK for Barca...

Barca seemed to be playing with 10 men for most of the first half. It was difficult to determine that Pedri was even on the field. Maybe someday. Not now.

Looking at the current, healthy Barca roster, the player who has the most latent productivity is Greizmann. With Fati out, how well Greizmann does now will be critical to the success of the team. Can't say I'm optimistic, he is one lost puppy.

Older than time.

Well, maybe top 6 in La Liga is unrealistic this year. But, if Barca can focus on Copa, maybe then can sneak in there and win it, which could still get our guys into the Europa league next season.

I want to see Dembele Messi Fati Countinho in attack in El Clasico.

Dembele back to life, great to see.

Not a great pen, but style points don't count.

Trincao, not sure how much quality is there. But better than the current Greizmann.