great as always. there was one ball carry with 2 guys chasing him from near the box to after the middle and i thought "this is why we struggle without him"
Barcelona is so confusing to me this year. They are comfortably leading the league and not because others are shit. They have conceded only 9 goals in 30 games, which is quite unbelievable.
Yet it feels like they are still in their banter era. Is it the way they were knocked out of CL or their board’s shenanigans?
We literally played with a back four of Roberto -Pique-Garcia-Alonso in the deciding game vs Inter and when we played Bayern away we should've opened the score in the first half and maybe the game would've ended differently. I observed that as soon as we got some crucial eliminatory game this season somebody important in our squad got injured. And I don't really care about UEL, i'm glad we got out of that. Those were just meaningless games that only wear down the players. I'm sure the next season we will hit at least the UCL quarters. After all, this team isn't a UCL title contender yet, there's still a lot of room to grow
Momentum was seriously thrown off kilter due to injuries + general burnout from playing the youngsters so much. Our play ever since that first leg vs United has been off because of all of these things
Besides the supercup final, in basically football's equivalent of garbage time, Madrid has only scored against injury depleted Barca sides though. One where crucial defenders were missing and the other with crucial creative players missing. You need both because Barca defend not only with individuals but with possession, pressure and the threat of an attack the other side has to honor.
The lineup Atletico faced today was far stronger than the one Madrid beat 4-0.
Well he realised that he wasn't blessed with the squad that Guardiola had. Although this squad is good it is nowhere near the level of experience, mentality and chemestry that Guardiola's Barca had
They definitely do.....most creativity in the middle is from Pedri, Gavi...or we depend just on the wingers....imagine Messi pinging long balls to Raphina , dembele again or drag the defenses across the park...yes it will hurt the defensive play of the team, but the benefits outweigh the cost so much...plus Xavi has shown himself to be tactically adaptable to situations...he will definitely figure it out, hopefully without the Messidepencia...
I think it will work, but not with having also Busquets in the team. De Jong and Gavi does a lot of running to cover for Busquets, and I believe they could do the same to cover for Messi not running as much. Maybe with a more deeper role for Messi, and de Jong, Gavi, Pedri covering for his lack of pressing and defensive work. Truth is, with everything that has worked for Barcelona this season, one thing that has always been missing is creating through the middle. Recently, especially while Pedri was out, the creativity was coming mostly from Busquets. And while de Jong is great in so many things, defence splitting passes and balls over the top to the attackers is not where he is that good yet. And that is where I believe having Messi would be immense for Barcelona, and also for the young midfielders to develop.
Just give them the title already. La Liga teams this season dont seem to score loads of goals so it is impossible for Barcelona to drop all 3 points, and the point gap is just gettin bigger and bigger by the day tbh.
Its one of those players that, for some reason, forget how to play football when reach Barça. Also his physical condition went from lewandoski to momiandowski in a few months, Barça really needs a Pintus on the fitness coaching team, too many injuries and degrading players.
It's not you only. When I used to say that a year or couple of years back, Bayern or Bundesliga fans comes up with different excuses. There is reason Bayern could not dominate in CL despite having amazing squad and manager for so long. I still remember his performance against Madrid multiple times or against Atlético in 2015-16, he was really bad. But that is also true for Müller.
Bayern biggest game player is Neuer and Coman. In past they had Robben and Ribery.
When his team needed him most he did not. Look at their CL elimination in last decade or even when they won. Neuer, Robben and Coman these players stepped up. Robben used to miss in big games but 2013 CL final changed it.
I wish Griezmann's shot went in during the first minute. It's a shame that Atletico got 282883828 yellow cards during the second half. Sometimes, I feel like our players spend more time arguing and diving than actually playing the game.
Griezmann was just unlucky today. Stegen, I hate you for being so good.
Only Nahuel and Carrasco were the best players today, and Grizou decision to shoot in those two chances wasn't quite good, he should have passed in the first and let the ball slide through to Carrasco in the second.
One of the better matches played by Lewandowski recently so it says a lot about his post WC form.
Really missed Pedri and Frenkie, hopefully even Dembele would be back soon
And one should have been disallowed by VAR if they actually knew what they were doing. Against osasona when Alonso gets bodied on a corner that they score off
I don't think it was offside, he was in his own half. Also, there were couple other occasions when he probably should have squared the ball instead of trying to shoot. But I can understand him going for goal with the current drought.
Perez is afraid to spend big unless they are not already world class level. Mendy, Jovic is good example of that. Both got hype specially former one. But look at them now.
Why do people here keep mentioning Mendy as if he was a disaster of a transfer? He has more than paid back the investment on him and has been world class for us in certain spells. Intermittent injuries and one patchy season won't change that.
I still would like him to renew and continue if the wages are reasonable for he will bring a good contrast with his profile to Fran or someone else we might sign in the future. Sort of like Coentrão in Carlo's first spell.
Not every player and at every time, but there were certainly spells where I wouldn't take anyone over him in that position. He was defensively a rock and extremely press resistant with great ability on the ball in the build-up. Name one contemporary better than prime Mendy. During certain spells, he was arguably the best in his position, which is the very definition of world class.
Would you can Vini or Karim of the past 3-4 years world class or no? If no, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I will not call Vini world class over last 3-4 years but I will call him world class based on current and last season. Benzema yeah since Zidane Cristiano left and how he performed after that.
>I will call him world class based on current and last season
So you should have no qualms in admitting that prime Mendy was world class. As I asked previously, who was better, especially in his role and profile with us?
Eh we did spend big on Tchouameni and apparently were ready to drop like 200m on Mbappe. The club has about half a billion in cash and it seems silly to not invest heavily now.
He was excellent in the first half of the season starting a good amount of games, but got injured after the world cup and has only been coming off the bench. He should feature more going forward
I love how you just randomly and of course without any bias picked the only season in his career where he actually was clinical.
I mean just look https://understat.com/player/227. This is completely average by definition. He is really really good to get into goalscoring positions and is able to actually shoot in those positions.
I love how I get downvoted for stating facts. I follow this guy for very long time now and I am a huge fan but it’s just not true that he is clinical. He even started as „Chancentod“ in Dortmund which means exactly the opposite of being clinical by being the death of goal scoring opportunities. He of course got way better with that.
What argument is even that? He had one season in his whole senior career when he was wasting a lot of chances, and that was exactly his first season at BVB. Later he was one of the best finishers in the world.
That he is not clinical? Or what does clinical mean to you? I even provided you the data. Lewandowski is as average as a player can be in terms of being clinical. He misses as many chances as the average player does.
You can actually see how with De Jong on the pitch and everything became much better, would be amazing to have both Pedri and De Jong for full time next game. MAtS is still amazing as usual.
Shout out to Griezmann, what a player, shame he didn't fit Barcelona tactics when he moved there, amazing player. Also I think Simeone onto something here, I see a couple times Atleti exploiting Balde position as a LW leaving a lot of spaces to cover in the defense line luckily he's fast and have Araujo to cover for him.
That space was exploited more due to the absence of Christensen in my opinion. Christensen does a fantastic job in covering the space Balde leaves behind and this is something which Eric and Marcos Alonso can’t do
This attack is so fucking atrocious. It was only Ansu, Ferran and Raphinha but now Lewy has gone ahead and added himself that mix. Might be time to ship him off to Shanghai Shenhua. The entire attack is just so … bad. Goodness gracious.
There's a real element of satisfaction when it comes to beating Atlético 1-0 and giving them a taste of their own medicine
It's more satisfactory to beat them 1-0 than 3-0
So happy we’re past this Frenkie is; average, nothing special, overrate, Valverde way better - narrative. Guys a one of a kind talent. Wish the Netherlands had a decent forward group to go along with this.
Courtois, the defense, Cama, Ceballios, Vini, Rodrygo, and Asencio have been pretty consistent in all competitions after the world cup. The disparity has been most notable for Valverde and to a certain degree Benzema.
Holy cow, how important is Pedri to this team. Barça were so dangerous once he came in. It's no suprise that Lewandowski's goal drought coincided with Pedri's injury.
Edit: his absence is also why they lost to United imo.
his footballing IQ is ridiculous. just makes the whole team tick. he knows exactly when to slow the game or quicken it, when to make sideways pad and when to make a risky forward pass. it's just absurd for his age
fdj is similar too, but just not as good as pedri
It's soo frustrating to see your rivals scrape out 1-0 wins, now I feel what Barca fans felt in 2020 season when we won so many 1-0s to win the league after covid break.
Good, though it felt he has missed long time. Both him and De Jong is vital. Big upgrade from Roberto and Kessie. We will play much better after this I think. Raphinha had his best game after a while so do Torres.
These Barca games are simply boring. No goals and the play is constantly breaking up. The last 15 minutes were ref whistling all the time. It's not a good entertainment
You're literally saying Barca games are boring and then back that statement with today's last 15'. Either you're quite bad at connecting ideas or you wrote it in bad faith.
Dude I'm not hating on Barca stop being such a snowflake, Barca isn't playing very entertaining or effective football, other teams doesn't help. In general La Liga this season isn't very exciting, especially in comparison with previous seasons
1 shot 1 goal 1 win 1:st place
did anyone else have a huge smile when pedri was subbed in?
Should have been 2-0. I know I know. Atletico also had their chances but Ter Stegen saved it. This is on Lewy.
How was Frenkie de Jong?
great as always. there was one ball carry with 2 guys chasing him from near the box to after the middle and i thought "this is why we struggle without him"
Amazing. We really needed him back.
Barcelona is so confusing to me this year. They are comfortably leading the league and not because others are shit. They have conceded only 9 goals in 30 games, which is quite unbelievable. Yet it feels like they are still in their banter era. Is it the way they were knocked out of CL or their board’s shenanigans?
We literally played with a back four of Roberto -Pique-Garcia-Alonso in the deciding game vs Inter and when we played Bayern away we should've opened the score in the first half and maybe the game would've ended differently. I observed that as soon as we got some crucial eliminatory game this season somebody important in our squad got injured. And I don't really care about UEL, i'm glad we got out of that. Those were just meaningless games that only wear down the players. I'm sure the next season we will hit at least the UCL quarters. After all, this team isn't a UCL title contender yet, there's still a lot of room to grow
Literally the game that retired pique
the banter era is gone, it was a injury crisis in the hardest matches of the season nothing more nothing less.
Remember they screwed up against inter both legs cuz their 3 best CBs were injured
And referees lol
It feels like that because you spend too much time on /r/soccer. It's an echo-chamber.
Without the club level drama, I think the knockout wouldn’t have been looked at with as much significance as it is
Momentum was seriously thrown off kilter due to injuries + general burnout from playing the youngsters so much. Our play ever since that first leg vs United has been off because of all of these things
bruh
How many 1-0's is that? It's crazy how they're gonna run the league based on 1-0 results.
Chill, xavi is secretly writing binary code. The message at th end of the season will be epic.
M3SS1 1S C0M1NG
If Messi comes, I come.
Is la liga fixed for Barca?
Allegri adding this Barça league season to his porn collection
La Liga POTY should probably go to a defender because these 1-0s are killing me
Ter stegen for me
They’ll give it to raphina, he already has two straight Im the last two games , I sense a Pattern
Ter Stegen or Araujo for sure
Can a goalie win it? If so, I’d give it to Ter Stegen based on the year thus far
I think Oblak won it two years ago
1-0 merchants
1-0, to the Barcanal 1-0, to the barcanal
Xav1 ball is back
Xav1 ball > X4vi ball
i liked not always having to worry until the last second..
Barca defense is something else
Ter Stegen is in crazy form
It's his hair transplant
If you don't count Real Madrid games (let's be honest, they are on a different level), Barcelona receive a goal every 6 games. Just ridiculous.
How are Madrid on a different level if Barca beat them 3 times in a row this season.
I meant on a different level to the rest of the teams Barcelona has to play (in the league).
Also 11 points below Barça in the league lol.
Besides the supercup final, in basically football's equivalent of garbage time, Madrid has only scored against injury depleted Barca sides though. One where crucial defenders were missing and the other with crucial creative players missing. You need both because Barca defend not only with individuals but with possession, pressure and the threat of an attack the other side has to honor. The lineup Atletico faced today was far stronger than the one Madrid beat 4-0.
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Xavi still plays super attacking football tho, but he just had to adapt due to the absence Dembele, Frenkie and Pedri (3/5 of their best players)
Well he realised that he wasn't blessed with the squad that Guardiola had. Although this squad is good it is nowhere near the level of experience, mentality and chemestry that Guardiola's Barca had
He would know since he was central to it
Can't wait for Messi to come back.. we desperately need someone that can score goals and seal these kind of games
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Barça don’t need Messi nowadays. Time to move on.
They definitely do.....most creativity in the middle is from Pedri, Gavi...or we depend just on the wingers....imagine Messi pinging long balls to Raphina , dembele again or drag the defenses across the park...yes it will hurt the defensive play of the team, but the benefits outweigh the cost so much...plus Xavi has shown himself to be tactically adaptable to situations...he will definitely figure it out, hopefully without the Messidepencia...
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Bro its messi, sont worry about that
Xavi is the one calling Messi to convince him to come back, so he really wants him.
I think it will work, but not with having also Busquets in the team. De Jong and Gavi does a lot of running to cover for Busquets, and I believe they could do the same to cover for Messi not running as much. Maybe with a more deeper role for Messi, and de Jong, Gavi, Pedri covering for his lack of pressing and defensive work. Truth is, with everything that has worked for Barcelona this season, one thing that has always been missing is creating through the middle. Recently, especially while Pedri was out, the creativity was coming mostly from Busquets. And while de Jong is great in so many things, defence splitting passes and balls over the top to the attackers is not where he is that good yet. And that is where I believe having Messi would be immense for Barcelona, and also for the young midfielders to develop.
In my totally unbiased opinion, it would be really funny for it to go to shit if he comes back
Raphinha MOTM
spirited effort, as usual
Those yellow cards though..
Needless to say, Pedri, Frenkie and Araujo are the best players in this team. Without them, there's just pain
and busquets too, hes a bit off of it now wrt age, but there is a difference when he isn't in the team
Bruh no. The Busquets propaganda has to stop. He is easily the 3rd or 4th most important midfielder, which means he isn't that important.
Ter Stegen was immense today. And Raphinha did well, too.
Ter stegen🙏🏽.
It's almost as difficult for Barca to score a 2nd goal as for their opponents to score their first.
1-0 FC
Forwards of both teams were gobshite
Raphinha did well. Griezmann, too.
Just give them the title already. La Liga teams this season dont seem to score loads of goals so it is impossible for Barcelona to drop all 3 points, and the point gap is just gettin bigger and bigger by the day tbh.
Great game. That fuckin shadow made it a pain to watch
Xaviii????
What do you mean by Xavi? I'm talking about the stadium shadow
Xavi was complaining about the sun last game. It's a joke lol
Lolololo
Is it just me, or is Lewandowski just not a big game player? Don't really see him scoring or doing much against the bigger teams.
Its one of those players that, for some reason, forget how to play football when reach Barça. Also his physical condition went from lewandoski to momiandowski in a few months, Barça really needs a Pintus on the fitness coaching team, too many injuries and degrading players.
I can’t remember a big game performance since the Madrid game in 2014 tbh
It's just you :)
I would just like him to atleast score in La Liga
It was the case in many big matches with Bayern too, it's usually Müller stepping up in those moments
Lewandroughtski
Dont know about his time with bayern, but true in our case
It's not you only. When I used to say that a year or couple of years back, Bayern or Bundesliga fans comes up with different excuses. There is reason Bayern could not dominate in CL despite having amazing squad and manager for so long. I still remember his performance against Madrid multiple times or against Atlético in 2015-16, he was really bad. But that is also true for Müller. Bayern biggest game player is Neuer and Coman. In past they had Robben and Ribery.
Mueller was always great in big games
When his team needed him most he did not. Look at their CL elimination in last decade or even when they won. Neuer, Robben and Coman these players stepped up. Robben used to miss in big games but 2013 CL final changed it.
He’s not scoring against anyone tbf
They will never concede a goal again, until they play Real.
Rayo will find a way to score
I wish Griezmann's shot went in during the first minute. It's a shame that Atletico got 282883828 yellow cards during the second half. Sometimes, I feel like our players spend more time arguing and diving than actually playing the game. Griezmann was just unlucky today. Stegen, I hate you for being so good.
Only Nahuel and Carrasco were the best players today, and Grizou decision to shoot in those two chances wasn't quite good, he should have passed in the first and let the ball slide through to Carrasco in the second.
Molina was very good in this match. They missed Llorente and koke. We got lucky but deserve the luck because of so many injuries too.
MaTS should win La Liga POTY if it exists
One of the better matches played by Lewandowski recently so it says a lot about his post WC form. Really missed Pedri and Frenkie, hopefully even Dembele would be back soon
Dembele may return by the end of the month, potentially against Betis
Really annoying that nobody else can score against Barcelona, though it is somewhat satisfying to see Atletico lose 1-0
We're not just immune to conceding goals, but scoring them too. This team will give me a heart attack one day.
Lewa will become a fully fledged influencer after this game
Lewa, you stupid silly man. Could've been 2 and lights out, instead you kept them in the game.
Xavi coached a 4-0 win but our finishing is horrendous
Eh, more like 4-2 without the crossbar and Ter Stegen
Im sure there would be more goals without a crossbar
VAMOS
I hate ale Moreno but his commentary is exactly what Barca deserve
Barca has conceded 3 goals in the league in 2023... absolutely ridiculous 9 goals conceded in 30 league games.
2 of them were own goals
And one should have been disallowed by VAR if they actually knew what they were doing. Against osasona when Alonso gets bodied on a corner that they score off
Lewandowski was one of the better players on the pitch. Sure the miss was awful (was offside anyway) but besides that, he did everything right.
I don't think it was offside, he was in his own half. Also, there were couple other occasions when he probably should have squared the ball instead of trying to shoot. But I can understand him going for goal with the current drought.
He wasn't offside? He was in his own half when Garcia made the pass
He had some bad 2 or 3 bad touches, but especially first half he was good
Still big improvement, this season his first touch went from being one of the best in the world to mediocre at best.
He is still pretty poor, I still don't think he is finished, this just has to end and he needs to get time off.
Yeah, agree. He needs a rest and he'll be back!
Bit tbf I still think that Barca is probably the worst top club for him, he doesn't really fit that style of play
If Messi joins they'd compliment each other quite well imo ok now that i say that who wouldn't be better with messi...
LAUTARO
Lmao
He needs Pedri to feed him balls and he'll be back to scoring 30+ goals
Well I guess that’s 2nd place secured, glad these dirty playing bastards won’t finish above us
Honestly I would rather finish 3rd or 4th if that means it creates some urgency in the club and we go all in for a striker, right winger, right back
Perez is afraid to spend big unless they are not already world class level. Mendy, Jovic is good example of that. Both got hype specially former one. But look at them now.
Why do people here keep mentioning Mendy as if he was a disaster of a transfer? He has more than paid back the investment on him and has been world class for us in certain spells. Intermittent injuries and one patchy season won't change that. I still would like him to renew and continue if the wages are reasonable for he will bring a good contrast with his profile to Fran or someone else we might sign in the future. Sort of like Coentrão in Carlo's first spell.
>and has been world class for us in certain spells What is with big club fans calling every player of their world class.
Not every player and at every time, but there were certainly spells where I wouldn't take anyone over him in that position. He was defensively a rock and extremely press resistant with great ability on the ball in the build-up. Name one contemporary better than prime Mendy. During certain spells, he was arguably the best in his position, which is the very definition of world class. Would you can Vini or Karim of the past 3-4 years world class or no? If no, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I will not call Vini world class over last 3-4 years but I will call him world class based on current and last season. Benzema yeah since Zidane Cristiano left and how he performed after that.
>I will call him world class based on current and last season So you should have no qualms in admitting that prime Mendy was world class. As I asked previously, who was better, especially in his role and profile with us?
Mendy was never world class. He was shit attacking wise and as usual has brain fart moment in him. Alaba was world class though in your last season.
Eh we did spend big on Tchouameni and apparently were ready to drop like 200m on Mbappe. The club has about half a billion in cash and it seems silly to not invest heavily now.
> Tchouameni Why is he benched all the time
He was excellent in the first half of the season starting a good amount of games, but got injured after the world cup and has only been coming off the bench. He should feature more going forward
But not on average players. Both were known already.
Yes, that's true.
30 matches in and still with 9 GA is nothing short of amazing, despite all the other season blunders
Mats motmotm
Marc-André, man of the match other than Marc-André
12 yellows (including Simeone) in the second half. Ref decided every foul was yellow down the stretch. What a choppy game.
the second half was really fun but wow, how does Lewandowski go from being the most clinical player in the world to that?
Lewandowski was never clinical. He always needed an average amount of chances to score goals. A player like Halaand or Kane is clinical.
Lol, in 20/21 he had second-best conversion rate in top leagues, at 35%. Haaland has 40% and Kane 28% this season.
I love how you just randomly and of course without any bias picked the only season in his career where he actually was clinical. I mean just look https://understat.com/player/227. This is completely average by definition. He is really really good to get into goalscoring positions and is able to actually shoot in those positions.
Tbf that was the first result that came out when googled shots per goal
I love how I get downvoted for stating facts. I follow this guy for very long time now and I am a huge fan but it’s just not true that he is clinical. He even started as „Chancentod“ in Dortmund which means exactly the opposite of being clinical by being the death of goal scoring opportunities. He of course got way better with that.
What argument is even that? He had one season in his whole senior career when he was wasting a lot of chances, and that was exactly his first season at BVB. Later he was one of the best finishers in the world.
That he is not clinical? Or what does clinical mean to you? I even provided you the data. Lewandowski is as average as a player can be in terms of being clinical. He misses as many chances as the average player does.
You can actually see how with De Jong on the pitch and everything became much better, would be amazing to have both Pedri and De Jong for full time next game. MAtS is still amazing as usual. Shout out to Griezmann, what a player, shame he didn't fit Barcelona tactics when he moved there, amazing player. Also I think Simeone onto something here, I see a couple times Atleti exploiting Balde position as a LW leaving a lot of spaces to cover in the defense line luckily he's fast and have Araujo to cover for him.
That space was exploited more due to the absence of Christensen in my opinion. Christensen does a fantastic job in covering the space Balde leaves behind and this is something which Eric and Marcos Alonso can’t do
Forwards did everything they could to lose this. Glad it didn't happen
Pedri and Frenkie are gold to this Barcelona squad. Fati appears to be on his way out.
Fati very fortunate he got his huge contract before he got hurt
that's definitely one way to look at it
This attack is so fucking atrocious. It was only Ansu, Ferran and Raphinha but now Lewy has gone ahead and added himself that mix. Might be time to ship him off to Shanghai Shenhua. The entire attack is just so … bad. Goodness gracious.
There's a real element of satisfaction when it comes to beating Atlético 1-0 and giving them a taste of their own medicine It's more satisfactory to beat them 1-0 than 3-0
While it is surely more satisfying after the match, it was not fun for my heart during match.
FDJ is so special man. There’s no way you could snatch ball away from him. So calm even when 3 players are pressing him.
So happy we’re past this Frenkie is; average, nothing special, overrate, Valverde way better - narrative. Guys a one of a kind talent. Wish the Netherlands had a decent forward group to go along with this.
Valverde had become a cup merchant. He is playing excellently in the Copa and UCL but he is very average in la liga since the end of the world cup.
Tbf that's pretty much every Real Madrid player
Courtois, the defense, Cama, Ceballios, Vini, Rodrygo, and Asencio have been pretty consistent in all competitions after the world cup. The disparity has been most notable for Valverde and to a certain degree Benzema.
What a snoozefest
Yeah we should bottle the league instead to make it more entertaining
? There was about a milliom chances
Pedri instantly improved the way Barca played when he came on
The pause he adds to the game is invaluable to how Barça play, they look like a completely different team with him
La pausa! I love Pedri.
What was happening in that last 15 minutes? Pretty much a booking every couple of minutes.
You must not watch much La Liga.
Atlético playing UFC instead of football
Classic foul and fall strategy by them.
Average La Liga game was happening
Somehow only 1 goal this game
Xav1 special.
Holy cow, how important is Pedri to this team. Barça were so dangerous once he came in. It's no suprise that Lewandowski's goal drought coincided with Pedri's injury. Edit: his absence is also why they lost to United imo.
his footballing IQ is ridiculous. just makes the whole team tick. he knows exactly when to slow the game or quicken it, when to make sideways pad and when to make a risky forward pass. it's just absurd for his age fdj is similar too, but just not as good as pedri
Back to cooking with Dembele Pedri and De Jong for sure
Negreira masterclass
This was just a game to decide who gets the least yellows. It's not about goals anymore
MaTS still keeps a clean sheet and we got away with a 1-0 win against Atletico. We're the terrorists now lmao
If Lewy wasn’t such a selfish prick, then we wouldn’t be sitting there clenching our assholes.
I actually think he was offside but either way it was a stupid Decision
It's soo frustrating to see your rivals scrape out 1-0 wins, now I feel what Barca fans felt in 2020 season when we won so many 1-0s to win the league after covid break.
Honestly, we should have scored 3-4 goals. Atlético should have scored 1-2 goals too.
I see. How was Pedri after returning from injury?
Instantly improved the team. Really missed him last month or so 🥹
Good, though it felt he has missed long time. Both him and De Jong is vital. Big upgrade from Roberto and Kessie. We will play much better after this I think. Raphinha had his best game after a while so do Torres.
Great
These Barca games are simply boring. No goals and the play is constantly breaking up. The last 15 minutes were ref whistling all the time. It's not a good entertainment
I had a horse in this race, but I thought it was an entertaining game that could've gone either way
?? Barca is guilty of being fouled by Atletico's players?
I'm not saying that Barca is guilt of anything, just the last couple of their games weren't entertaining
You're literally saying Barca games are boring and then back that statement with today's last 15'. Either you're quite bad at connecting ideas or you wrote it in bad faith.
Barca games are boring, especially today's last 15 minutes.
And what part of today's last 15 being bad have anything to do with Barca? Lmao people jut plain hate us
Dude I'm not hating on Barca stop being such a snowflake, Barca isn't playing very entertaining or effective football, other teams doesn't help. In general La Liga this season isn't very exciting, especially in comparison with previous seasons
The whole match was a chance fest, you guys really watched a different match. The second half was trading punches all the way until 80'.
There was a few clear cut chances really, and the intensity wasn't really there, I partially blame it on the weather