La Liga Round 2: Levante - Barca 2-3

Who wins?

  • Levante

    Votes: 3 23.1%

  • Draw

    Votes: 2 15.4%

  • Barca

    Votes: 8 61.5%
  • Total voters
    13
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JamDav1982

Senior Member
RedxMAK said:
To show you guys how impressive this win was, this was Barcelona’s first win after being 2-0 down at half time for the first time this century.
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Barca came back from 2-0 v Ateltico a few months ago which is more impressive.

Feels like one of those specific stats where Barca will very rarely have been down 2-0 at HT v teams like Levante.
 
Don Juan Laporta Estruch

Don Juan Laporta Estruch

Basta yaaaaaaa, Cabron ! y Bona nit 🥂
High line yesterday was as bad as it's ever been. Simple ball down the side, or over the top and Levante had a 1 on 1 with the goalkeeper. An El Commandante of a few years ago and we would've legit conceded 4 or 5 yesterday ............ Vs Little Levante !

I've long given up complaining about it though because it's evident Flick's not going to change it. And who can blame him. Fact of the matter is every man and his dog said it would cost us last season, and Flick stuck by it and gifted the club a glorious treble.

Don Flick has earnt the right for the supporters to trust that the attackers will cover up the defensive inadequacies and outscore the opposition, as they did again, yesterday.
 
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gregorrin10

Senior Member
FC B said:
They lifted the foot off the gas pedal way too much after the equaliser. If it wasn't for the own goal would've lost 2 points already by now.
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I mean I wouldn't say that. We were all over them, especially around that 75th-80th minute mark, but we just couldn't put the ball in the back of the net then.
 
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gregorrin10

Senior Member
akaranzo said:
How are we a year into Flick's tenure and people are still complaining about a ''suicidal high line'' :lol:

Yes, a high line is literally a core part of Flick's tactics and we've already seen it's benefits (as well as it's risks) but moreso it's benefits. All of last season was an example of that and last night's game once again. It's not changing and why would it when we won every trophy besides CL last season?
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These are the same people like the English journalists, who don't even watch the club week in week, yet they feel entitled to run their mouth in their puff pieces about how Barca's high line is not good and should be improved upon.

It's simple really. I watch football for the entertainment. And fuck me, if this last year of watching Barca hasn't been entertaining. High line, high risk, yet high reward football, defensive blunders, yet overshadowed in all but one case (Inter) by brilliant attacking play and mastery of the highest order, from build up to the goals we scored, all of it, the whole package, I take it all into account.

In fact, people who don't find Flick's Barca entertaining, they're not fit for watching football in my opinion.
 
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Maradona37

Well-known member
gregorrin10 said:
These are the same people like the English journalists, who don't even watch the club week in week, yet they feel entitled to run their mouth in their puff pieces about how Barca's high line is not good and should be improved upon.

It's simple really. I watch football for the entertainment. And fuck me, if this last year of watching Barca hasn't been entertaining. High line, high risk, yet high reward football, defensive blunders, yet overshadowed in all but one case (Inter) by brilliant attacking play and mastery of the highest order, from build up to the goals we scored, all of it, the whole package, I take it all into account.

In fact, people who don't find Flick's Barca entertaining, they're not fit for watching football in my opinion.
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It's very entertaining and I enjoy watching it - the problem is that to win big trophies (consistently, not in one season) you need to be boring and pragmatic from time to time too, as there's so many games in a season and it's impossible to play champagne football even 80 percent of the time.

I mean this kamikaze football has already cost Barca a CL Final by conceding so many goals against Inter and refusing to play smartly at the end. Admittedly that's more down to Lamine's youthful naivety than Flick's tactics, but still. Inter are not a free-scoring team in Europe and conceding 7 goals against them over two games shows there's something wrong.
 
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Skalman

Active member
Need to sort out the defense fast, our attack will sort it out by itself, but the defense really need work, if its even possible with the CB´s we have.
 
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Maradona37

Well-known member
Skalman said:
Need to sort out the defense fast, our attack will sort it out by itself, but the defense really need work, if its even possible with the CB´s we have.
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Of course the other inescapable point is that you cannot seperate defence and attack.

The high line and high risk is what leads to high reward and so many goals being able to be scored.

If Flick played more pragmatically you'd concede fewer but likely score fewer too.

Overall, though, I think the balance is too much to the attacking phase. I love attacking football as much as anyone but this seems like it will cost Barca in a big game again, like it did against Inter. Levante are scoring goals against you - what will Liverpool or Bayern do?

If Flick thinks most of the CBs are a lost cause and will concede even if he plays more cautiously, so decides just to attack and try to outscore opposition, then fair play.
 
behindbrowneyes

behindbrowneyes

Well-known member
Kind of games you need to win when you want to become champions of La Liga.

Especially yesterday, where it seemed that everything was going against Barça. First goal was a beautiful counter attack, finished perfectly by their striker. Second....

Not gonna talk about the intentionally watering the pitch...
 
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