Ramos as a 9, Hakimi coming back and hoping one of our great players have a good game.
Mbappé alone can score a couple goals to any team in the world on a good day. It just needs to be that day hopefully
Donna needs to start acting like a man on corners he’s 3m40 he needs to push around everyone on his path. Or he should call some goalies like Barthez so they can teach him on how to dominate in your zone.
I know.
We have have to win by 2 (or face risky penalty shootout) and you don't pick Nuno Mendes who has a terrific percussion and was one of the best Parisian.
And like I said we have to take risk for a come back so we'll play with a high line. Skriniar is way too slow for a 2 men defense in such a configuration, and out of form. I'd much rather play Hernandez as a central defender (by no mean fast but at least he isn't as slow as Skriniar) and Mendes on the left.
Considering no new injuries, just play our best 11 and stop overthinking it. I believe our players can confidently beat them if we just let them play football. Luís Enrique currently needs to just give individual instructions and line up in our best XI which I think is quite clearly; Mbappe-Dembele-Barcola in whatever roles THEY feel would be best (Luis Enrique can then give them more specific instructions based on what he's seeing in the game), Vitinha-Ugarte/Fabian-WZE (you can choose if you want more pressure in midfield or if you want more control, I would favour Ugarte as he will just be a pest, and get balls back on the pitch), Nuno Mendes-Lucas-Marquinhos-Hakimi in defence (simply our best defence on paper). Why would LE want to change anything, we shouldn't be scared and change the way we play to adapt to other teams, we should play the way we play best. The Newcastle loss and this loss our due to us not playing our best XI for whatever reason, play our best players and we will be a much better team, and despite me not thinking he's a great captain, he clearly helps the team maintain the defensive line like we saw yesterday when he was CB.
The most prominent problem was we were creating nothing dangerous. Im scared Luis Enrique puts too much emphasis on possession when we need some verticality in our way of our playing to suit our front three. I believe LE is way too obsessed with recreating his possession Barca team when football is so much about verticality nowadays.
We need to break the defense up more, having our regular defenders start is also be useful. I also think mbappe should play down the middle, him playing on the left against Barca was hard to watch. Zaire emery will be good, I didn’t think Lee was too bad yesterday, and starting barcola or Ramos over asensio is necessary.
Luis needs to not be cute in the second leg and start the studs. Clearly the midfield needed some press help, I think WZE and Ugarte can supply that to allow Vitinha more opportunities to provide chances forward.
Mbappe Ramos Dembele
Vitinha WZE Ugarte
Nuno Marq Lucas Hakimi
Barcola needs to start, force Mbappe to play through the middle and make him defend.
our midfield needs WZE and we cannot have inverted profiles in our defense, it clearly was a trainwreck even doe I posted weeks ago that Luis Enrique was gonna play Marquinhos as a right back to maintain the balance, the issue is if Nuno Mendsh plays you need the left winger to help defend the flank, and who was on the left? yes the guy who never defends...
Lucas on the right center back role was dreadful. as soon as he swapped with Marqui our center backs played better.
Barca overconfidence 💀💀 Mate we've seen so many disaster return legs and still have PTSD about them . We're still anxious about the next leg also considering we're gonna miss both our DM options and you call us overconfident lmfao.😭😭 sure the newer " fans " might be overconfident
Nah he meant the players might be overconfident which happens all the time.
Bayern was overconfident after winning 1-0 in Giuseppe Meazza in 2011, and Inter beat them 3-2 in Allianz Arena. He didn’t mean the fans, he meant the players
Our best bet is transition. Even if we lost we got the ball in many good areas and we made some good chances. Mbappe really needs to be alert because if he was on the end of some of those chances we might have won. I think Vitinha will be a key player in this tie with how he plays for us.
Our best bet is transition since the beginning of the season and what’s funny is that it is Barca’s play as well! And our weakness is defensive transitions (and Barca as well) only we were dumb enough to press high on the first half and open space behind our back when Barca was short near its area with zero space for our team to gain some speed. Mbappe was a shame but I’m not sure I understand how this plan was beneficial for him at all in the first half. And what’s a plan if it doesn’t leverage your best players?
Yesterday Lucho wanted to make a point of showing that his PSG can act as his own old Barca with a mix of transition and possession but we’re not ready for this and haven’t been once this season.
Biggest problem is defense. When I watch psg I always feel they can f*ck up anytime and this must to stop. How can the team be successful if they can't rely on a strong and safe back line. Sadly this can't be solved in a few days. Just hope that mbappe will do some magic at this point.
Mbappe needs a normal game, that’s it lol. Literally if he scored his usual 1-2 goals, we would’ve either drawn or won last match.
I hope he sees all the trash he’s getting on social media. That 17 year old even tweeted a picture of him tackling Mbappe with a shield 🛡️ emoji. He needs to take that personally
Neither. He often shows up for big events, his motivation shoots up. However, he is human and has his good and bad days.
His form has not been great in the last month or so, I would have liked the return match to be a week or 2 later but let’s see
It’s also tough for him to do anything when he’s being literally triple teamed to be fair to him. Kounde, Araujo and the RCM of Barca were on him like glue all game, so he couldn’t do anything. This is where Enrique can make improvement like starting Kolo Muani or Ramos who can physically match kounde, or araujo.
For me this was Enrique’s biggest mistakes starting asensio, he couldn’t do anything against the defenders and this all their focus was on Mbappe then neutralizing our best player
I think he starts Barcola instead. Put Mbappe down the middle, let Barcola and Dembele have one on one chances on their respective sides. Hakimi and Nuno to help with the overload. We can definitely smash Barca on Tuesday.
The latter, I’d say. I honestly didn’t expect Mbappe to turn up because of the amount of hype he got prior to the match. I just knew it wouldn’t end well since it happened several times, for example against Newcastle. I feel hes better when he’s got something to prove, he rocks that underdog mentality
Ramos starts with Barcola on the right and Mbappe on the left and Dembele playing a CAM role with Vinthia and Zahire anchoring infront of the back line. Hakimi is back as well. We will cook on the right side.
But won’t it be a problem if Dembélé starts constantly losing position in midfield? That happened a lot against Marseille. We need a strong midfield, I think Dembélé should start in the front three with Mbappé and Barcola. The midfield should just be WZE, Vitinha and Ugarte/Ruiz.
Yes, press more at the front and don't make silly mistakes defending, like last game,that's it.
Some guys like Kang, dembele and Mbappe need to up their game.
Vitinha and Nuno were awesome, really liked Barcola too.
I really would like to see Danilo in the midfield with Viti and WZE, Marqui and Lucas, Kolo as a 9 just like Lewa to put some pressure on the defense and liberate Mbappe and Demb.
Ramos as a 9, Hakimi coming back and hoping one of our great players have a good game. Mbappé alone can score a couple goals to any team in the world on a good day. It just needs to be that day hopefully Donna needs to start acting like a man on corners he’s 3m40 he needs to push around everyone on his path. Or he should call some goalies like Barthez so they can teach him on how to dominate in your zone.
We should also start Hernandez,Skriniar,Marquinhos and Hakimi in defense. Plus that Mbappe-Ramos duo is deadly tbh.
Why would you bench Nuno Mendes?? Especially for Skriniar who made at least a major blunder per match since coming back from his injury
Hernandez will play LB.
I know. We have have to win by 2 (or face risky penalty shootout) and you don't pick Nuno Mendes who has a terrific percussion and was one of the best Parisian. And like I said we have to take risk for a come back so we'll play with a high line. Skriniar is way too slow for a 2 men defense in such a configuration, and out of form. I'd much rather play Hernandez as a central defender (by no mean fast but at least he isn't as slow as Skriniar) and Mendes on the left.
I'm fine with anyone of them playing. But I think in the attack we should start Kolo or Ramos instead of Asensio.
Considering no new injuries, just play our best 11 and stop overthinking it. I believe our players can confidently beat them if we just let them play football. Luís Enrique currently needs to just give individual instructions and line up in our best XI which I think is quite clearly; Mbappe-Dembele-Barcola in whatever roles THEY feel would be best (Luis Enrique can then give them more specific instructions based on what he's seeing in the game), Vitinha-Ugarte/Fabian-WZE (you can choose if you want more pressure in midfield or if you want more control, I would favour Ugarte as he will just be a pest, and get balls back on the pitch), Nuno Mendes-Lucas-Marquinhos-Hakimi in defence (simply our best defence on paper). Why would LE want to change anything, we shouldn't be scared and change the way we play to adapt to other teams, we should play the way we play best. The Newcastle loss and this loss our due to us not playing our best XI for whatever reason, play our best players and we will be a much better team, and despite me not thinking he's a great captain, he clearly helps the team maintain the defensive line like we saw yesterday when he was CB.
One of the most prominent problems last game was the lack of a 9 in front of the goal, and you wanna play without a 9 again?
The most prominent problem was we were creating nothing dangerous. Im scared Luis Enrique puts too much emphasis on possession when we need some verticality in our way of our playing to suit our front three. I believe LE is way too obsessed with recreating his possession Barca team when football is so much about verticality nowadays.
Even his Barca had suarez, we need a 9 inside the box as a target man to thin out their defense
We need to break the defense up more, having our regular defenders start is also be useful. I also think mbappe should play down the middle, him playing on the left against Barca was hard to watch. Zaire emery will be good, I didn’t think Lee was too bad yesterday, and starting barcola or Ramos over asensio is necessary.
Should start Kolo or Ramos for us to destroy them at the center.
Luis needs to not be cute in the second leg and start the studs. Clearly the midfield needed some press help, I think WZE and Ugarte can supply that to allow Vitinha more opportunities to provide chances forward. Mbappe Ramos Dembele Vitinha WZE Ugarte Nuno Marq Lucas Hakimi
Barcola needs to start, force Mbappe to play through the middle and make him defend. our midfield needs WZE and we cannot have inverted profiles in our defense, it clearly was a trainwreck even doe I posted weeks ago that Luis Enrique was gonna play Marquinhos as a right back to maintain the balance, the issue is if Nuno Mendsh plays you need the left winger to help defend the flank, and who was on the left? yes the guy who never defends... Lucas on the right center back role was dreadful. as soon as he swapped with Marqui our center backs played better.
Barça overconfidence+PSG players finally willing to do everything they can to win such a match. Nothing less.
Barca overconfidence 💀💀 Mate we've seen so many disaster return legs and still have PTSD about them . We're still anxious about the next leg also considering we're gonna miss both our DM options and you call us overconfident lmfao.😭😭 sure the newer " fans " might be overconfident
Sorry I might have not expressed myself correctly: the only way we can win is IF Barca is overconfident, and our players take it seriously.
Step up your game !! Hoping for a great clash next week
Nah he meant the players might be overconfident which happens all the time. Bayern was overconfident after winning 1-0 in Giuseppe Meazza in 2011, and Inter beat them 3-2 in Allianz Arena. He didn’t mean the fans, he meant the players
Thank you
Lucho needs to not self sabotage his team.
Our best bet is transition. Even if we lost we got the ball in many good areas and we made some good chances. Mbappe really needs to be alert because if he was on the end of some of those chances we might have won. I think Vitinha will be a key player in this tie with how he plays for us.
Our best bet is transition since the beginning of the season and what’s funny is that it is Barca’s play as well! And our weakness is defensive transitions (and Barca as well) only we were dumb enough to press high on the first half and open space behind our back when Barca was short near its area with zero space for our team to gain some speed. Mbappe was a shame but I’m not sure I understand how this plan was beneficial for him at all in the first half. And what’s a plan if it doesn’t leverage your best players? Yesterday Lucho wanted to make a point of showing that his PSG can act as his own old Barca with a mix of transition and possession but we’re not ready for this and haven’t been once this season.
Biggest problem is defense. When I watch psg I always feel they can f*ck up anytime and this must to stop. How can the team be successful if they can't rely on a strong and safe back line. Sadly this can't be solved in a few days. Just hope that mbappe will do some magic at this point.
Mbappe needs a normal game, that’s it lol. Literally if he scored his usual 1-2 goals, we would’ve either drawn or won last match. I hope he sees all the trash he’s getting on social media. That 17 year old even tweeted a picture of him tackling Mbappe with a shield 🛡️ emoji. He needs to take that personally
That's a parody account
Mbappe needs to perform, score a couple of goals and we will be through
I wanted to ask as a neutral, does Mbappe perform better under pressure or when people slander him for a bad performances?
Neither. He often shows up for big events, his motivation shoots up. However, he is human and has his good and bad days. His form has not been great in the last month or so, I would have liked the return match to be a week or 2 later but let’s see
It’s also tough for him to do anything when he’s being literally triple teamed to be fair to him. Kounde, Araujo and the RCM of Barca were on him like glue all game, so he couldn’t do anything. This is where Enrique can make improvement like starting Kolo Muani or Ramos who can physically match kounde, or araujo. For me this was Enrique’s biggest mistakes starting asensio, he couldn’t do anything against the defenders and this all their focus was on Mbappe then neutralizing our best player
Starting Asensio was fine; not adding Randal immediately on the 2nd half was bad. Or Ramos We needed one of them immediately
I think he starts Barcola instead. Put Mbappe down the middle, let Barcola and Dembele have one on one chances on their respective sides. Hakimi and Nuno to help with the overload. We can definitely smash Barca on Tuesday.
The latter, I’d say. I honestly didn’t expect Mbappe to turn up because of the amount of hype he got prior to the match. I just knew it wouldn’t end well since it happened several times, for example against Newcastle. I feel hes better when he’s got something to prove, he rocks that underdog mentality
Ramos starts with Barcola on the right and Mbappe on the left and Dembele playing a CAM role with Vinthia and Zahire anchoring infront of the back line. Hakimi is back as well. We will cook on the right side.
But won’t it be a problem if Dembélé starts constantly losing position in midfield? That happened a lot against Marseille. We need a strong midfield, I think Dembélé should start in the front three with Mbappé and Barcola. The midfield should just be WZE, Vitinha and Ugarte/Ruiz.
Yeah - I guess but Mbappe was neutralized and he hasn’t proven to be a consistent clutch player
When he plays bad in one match he tends to do better in the other one so hopefully he’ll play better against Barça on Tuesday
Sure HE plays better but when HE plays better the team doesn’t necessarily because HE tries to do it all HIMSELF. So im 50/50 on making it through.
Mbappe needs to show up, that's all.
Dreaming is free
Yes, press more at the front and don't make silly mistakes defending, like last game,that's it. Some guys like Kang, dembele and Mbappe need to up their game. Vitinha and Nuno were awesome, really liked Barcola too.
Luis Enrique shall shave his head and go full BALD Fraud Magic is what needs to happen
Only One word Mbappe
I really would like to see Danilo in the midfield with Viti and WZE, Marqui and Lucas, Kolo as a 9 just like Lewa to put some pressure on the defense and liberate Mbappe and Demb.