serghei
Senior Member
Digisport, the best sport station in my country are Barca and Madrid obsessed. They are showing Clasicos since 2003 and some of the best matches of Pep's Barcelona. Barcelona - Atletico right now from 2008 (6-1, 5-1 at HT).
Some things which are incredible compared to how we play today.
- The speed of passing and moving is at least two levels above what we see right now. We played so fast and moved so well that we basically got away with playing Gudjohnssen in midfield.
- Eto'o was incredible, his movement and hard work is incredible. Even in 2008 he used to go in the wing really a lot, making room for Messi and even Iniesta centrally.
- Busquets was great, but he was clearly the worst midfielder in that team (first 11).
- Xavi never loses the ball, but we all knew that.
- Camp Nou was fuller and louder then.
- Messi was living for football at that time. He celebrated goals like a mad man even in La Liga. So much joy and ambition.
- Xavi's workrate, stamina, and physical level are incredibly underrated. The man never stopped moving.
- Iturralde Gonzales was a great ref. He's what Lahoz could be if he wasn't a self-centered idiot.
- 2008-09 team is greater than 2014-15 team imo. Would be a serious match for 2011 Barcelona. 2009 in a more well-rounded, more direct in transition and less dominant possession team compared with 2011 Barcelona (while still being a monster possession team, just not 80% possession-monster). Like 2011 Barcelona with some Jupp's 2013 Bayern thrown in.
It's somewhat of a paradox, because if we kept the physical and slightly more individualistic profile of the 2009 team more, we would have won more CLs (at least 3/4) than we did, even though we ended up creating the best team I've seen in 2011.
Selling Eto'o is why we lost the CL in 2010. From Eto'o to Bojan was just
.
Wish they'd show games from Stoichkov and Romario days too.
Some things which are incredible compared to how we play today.
- The speed of passing and moving is at least two levels above what we see right now. We played so fast and moved so well that we basically got away with playing Gudjohnssen in midfield.
- Eto'o was incredible, his movement and hard work is incredible. Even in 2008 he used to go in the wing really a lot, making room for Messi and even Iniesta centrally.
- Busquets was great, but he was clearly the worst midfielder in that team (first 11).
- Xavi never loses the ball, but we all knew that.
- Camp Nou was fuller and louder then.
- Messi was living for football at that time. He celebrated goals like a mad man even in La Liga. So much joy and ambition.
- Xavi's workrate, stamina, and physical level are incredibly underrated. The man never stopped moving.
- Iturralde Gonzales was a great ref. He's what Lahoz could be if he wasn't a self-centered idiot.
- 2008-09 team is greater than 2014-15 team imo. Would be a serious match for 2011 Barcelona. 2009 in a more well-rounded, more direct in transition and less dominant possession team compared with 2011 Barcelona (while still being a monster possession team, just not 80% possession-monster). Like 2011 Barcelona with some Jupp's 2013 Bayern thrown in.
It's somewhat of a paradox, because if we kept the physical and slightly more individualistic profile of the 2009 team more, we would have won more CLs (at least 3/4) than we did, even though we ended up creating the best team I've seen in 2011.
Selling Eto'o is why we lost the CL in 2010. From Eto'o to Bojan was just
.Wish they'd show games from Stoichkov and Romario days too.
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