Hans-Dieter Flick

[malvolio]

Meh, he talks the same things always. Intensity and hopes. Not much to be learned from managers pressers in general. Some combination of moaning, hopes, and things to improve all the time, with a hope that what went poorly will get fixed.

Thing is this wishful thinking about us doing a U-turn in the second part of the season is based on nothing. We were shit in CL vs big teams last season, we are shit this season too.
It's not like this team was some juggernaut that obliterated everything and is now in a drop of form.

I'm not concentrating much on LL as there you can win with donkies like Fermin and Ferran.

 

[Porque]

Aside from the Ferran chance, Barca were still getting dunked on by Chelsea. Couldn't cope with the intensity or physicality of their players. Caicedo, Enzo, Reece, Cucrella were bullying the Barca players with their physiciality.

Chelsea in attack just did was PSG did 3 years ago: Target the likes of Araujo, Kounde and Balde because they know they are poor on the ball.

It's very easy, if you can bully the Barca midfield and put pressure on the Barca defense, the backline will crumble like stale bread.

Until Barca gets some defenders who are good on the ball and can play out of pressure, this is a cakwalk for any team.

Chelsea adjust very well after the first 15-20 minutes where we were finding good outlets from midfield and defence.

I'd put that partly down to Maresca being a very good coach, and us lacking the talent (Araujo-Pique in defence, Eric in midfield).

Lewy for example is getting blasted on here but 11v11 I thought he was doing fine with the ref being very soft to the Chelsea centreback for some reason he their duels.