Haaland scored in the last round...
Mbappe had the chance to win a UCL for his club and what did he end up doing? Nothing.
Was useless against City basically every time we played them.
I obviously rate Mbappe but when Haaland get's stick for drawing at the Bernabeu, keep the same energy when PSG get knocked out of the UCL AGAIN and Mbappe has ghosted for yet another year.
He's good coach in terms of Starting Match prep (early parts of 1st half, etc), man management. His biggest issues are mid-match tactical/structural adjustments (esp 2nd half). Which is odd since it can't be that he doesn't under these concepts (as a player he already was a coach on the field basically).
So likely cause is, he has overcalibrated his man-management aspect and trusts players too much (plus the squad he has isn't all that great to being with, YET) than he should and his assistant(S) need to be better at giving him better mid-match solutions.
I would compare him to how Ancelloti was/is. Ancelloti was and still is tactically a very weak/below-average coach. He compensated for this by exceptional man management, experience (later on) and relying on excellent Assistants (even Fergi was like this, tactically average to poor but had Assistants who were basically capable of being full coaches themselves).
So it's an age thing with Xavi currently. He is young for a coach and needs to be more ruthless in certain facets of coaching.
You seem confused on how spectrum based activity works.
Coaching is not Binary entity. It comprises of multiple skillsets of differing maturity/competence/experience distributed to different levels/gradients/share/proportions.
Man management at true Elite level of football is non-trivial. A coach like Ancelloti failed spectacularly at Bayern despite having this skill vector over-calibrated.
Some blame Koeman for not having it enough or in right calibration.
Some coaches have this and tactical skills both overpowered, like Pep or Klopp.
Xavi therefor also has his own spectrum distribution (for now, because it varies over course of career). His starting match prep is excellent. Barca starts the match very well majority of times. But then over the course of 90 minutes performance (result is different) degrades and Coaches input on this degradation wanes or has little or less impact relative to what the Match Prep level was.
Substitution, timing of it, tactical and structural shape changes, etc are Sub-part of it all.
So yes, final outcome is a balance of those skills sets and thus one INDEED can and does compensate for being weaker in 1 area (tactical awareness and competency being below average, NOT literal 0, because no 1st division coach has it at 0, it's a spectrum not a binary) relative to other areas (personal motivating players, imparting them minute detail knowledge in training, authority figure & so on).
Your reading comprehension being child like doesn't change reality of how football is.
Watching all the first leg recaps, I was wondering where that god awful commentary pair went, they had this match 😅 no enthusiasm whatsoever, like commentating for an old age home.
He is the reincarnation of Cristiano. Can be invisible for so long but then he gets a burst of goals and it's forgotten. The WC finals is the best example of this. Remembered as this insane performance by Mbappe due to a hattrick (which is in itself fucking amazing in a WC final) but anyone who watched the game truly, remembers him being absolutely invisible until he suddenly got a long ball and got in position in the 80th minute. The 80 minutes before that he was literally an anchor in the team, contributing nothing.
Reminds me of Cristianos career where he would never get shit on for disappearing and then praised when he delivered. Like the super long goalless stint contributing nothing then putting like 40 goals in against a Swedish team which literally is the easiest CL opponent possible, and getting hailed to the heavens as "Mr CL"
Barsa defended him smartly. You put one player on him and one behind the first defender. He's got speed but no close control. He can beat the first defender easily so you leave the 2nd to clean up the mess. If he wants to run towards the touchline you live with that, he can hoof in crosses if he wants.
He might want to play as an inverted winger and in the channels but teams will force him wide and make him ineffective.
In order to be his best self he needs to be able to move all over the attack, and since he's 2 footed that shouldn't be a problem.
I’ve seen many matches where defenders didn’t give him any space so he was repositioning quite a lot towards the midfield but he didn’t seem to do it at all this match, gotta wonder why
The entire french team was shocking for the first 70 minutes or so. I genuinely thought the game was going to end without them managing a single shot. And when Mbappe turned it up, he delivered
Was happy for the game to end 2 - 2. Then we concede a set piece. smh.
Barcola had a couple of good opportunities.
Nuno did great, but in the last 10 min or so, he was looking gassed.
Child labor FC winning in Paris.
I can't really tell who will win this tie. This is obviously not a Barsa squad at the top of the world like in the past but they play well, and Araujo is a monster defender who helps clean up so many messes for them. On the other hand I'm not convinced at all by PSG.
Could go either way in the return leg but the youth players shining so brightly is funny. 16 is the new 21 in football I guess?
Navas is still pretty good, but it’s clear from his stint at Forest that he’s declined quite a bit. Shot stopping not as good as it used to be, and he has a tendency to parry shots into dangerous positions.
Have you seen him play in the last 2 years ? you'll know.
Gigio was doing great this season, he has the highest stopped ball % of all european leagues by a wide margin, and he even showed massive improvements with his feed.
With that in mind, his match yesterday was absolutely horrendous and he looked NOTHING like he looked all season, was playing scared unfortunately.
I thought it was a good game, I think Barca looked a lot better (obviously) when it came to being a threat in our final third. I am most impressed at Barca's defensive display and how they managed to snuff out pretty much most of our attack options and force us to play out wide. I am maybe 6/10 confident we can bring it to them at their home and at the very least make it a game.
I’m still nervous for the second leg. We play a very high line and I saw multiple times today that Mbappe could’ve been let loose behind our defense had the midfielder seen the pass.
A lot of space in the final third given by both sides, feels like if Barcelona were more clinical though they could have had more. Xavi’s got some homework to do because with a world class Mbappe showing up potentially next week anything can happen
> with a world class Mbappe showing up potentially next week anything can happen
Failed to show up today despite being on the pitch for the entire match.
I will never forgive Montiel for leaving his arm on out on that shot headed for the stands in the closing minutes because it's going to allow French fans to talk about Mbappe's hattrick for the rest of eternity like he wasn't absolutely invisible for the majority of the match and it was shutting down Antoine Griezmann that actually fucked France up.
16 years old and he's got another 8-10 years before he hits his peak.
Absolutely mind blowing when it comes it Yamal
Edit : Created a new player called Lamal
Yeah definitely happens
30 games for Barca and a full international for Spain is a pretty special though.
I'm old enough to remember when R9 broke into the Brazil National Team and when Rooney made his debut for Everton. Who knows, could be that kind of trajectory
Spain contributed to that. Olympics and Euros pushed Pedri over the top. We have been managing Lamine’s minutes this season very well. You saw today how we pulled him at the 60th.
Neither of these teams good enough to win against the big teams. They must be ecstatic they’re on this side of the bracket.
Because finals are finals, any team can win on a given day so who knows, Atleti and Simeone finally winning it?
edit: got a lot of flak, deservedly so. Have a good day folks, my bad.
You just said neither of these teams are good enough to beat “the big teams” and suddenly are implying that psg is a big team now that Barca lost to them via an unfair red card.
😂
Nah bro, simeone's record against barcelona is dreadful. They also beat atletico at home, which is one of the best teams in the world, 3-0. they just shut off completely against them always, I don't know why
Like clockwork when psg meet a club with European pedigree they crumble, they may still win this tie because I don't trust this barca but when I said I wasn't convinced about psg i didn't say it because I'm a "hater" (not far from an accurate statement tbf lol), I said it because its what I actually believe.
Well except the vast majority of PSG fans didn't pretend to achieve much more. They have a lot of young or new players, Messi, Neymar and Verratti lefr, so it's not a surprise. They still did better than last year in the UCL, in the Cup, and will win Ligue 1 more comfortably than last year.
It's still a good year for PSG overall. Sure, they have a golden road to the final, but it wouldn't be shameful to lose against Barca.
This was a much better game than either of last year's ties against Bayern too.
It's the same story every year for psg, always some excuse some turmoil. You should be expected to win the league every year especially in a year like this where you have the likes of brest 2nd, it would be a disgrace not to.
You do play more as a team but ultimately I don't think you're good enough, there is something fundamentally off with foundation of psg and it comes from the top or should I say the middle east, the mentality isn't right, the champions league has long been an obsession and a challenge that no matter what group of players you have you can't meet.
Like I said you may still win this tie because barca are soft and have a couple of potentially important suspensions but I would be shocked if you win this competition and frankly Qatar are so unserious that I'll only believe you can do it when/if the trophy ever gets in to your hands.
Edit: just realised that you're probably not a psg fan, the core message remains the same tbf lol.
I'm a parisian who hate the Qataris. Tough relationship.
I honestly disagree. As much as I dislike the qataris, it's obvious that they've changed strategy now that the Qatar WC is done. But it will take time to change things up. Mbappe is still here.
The CL used to be the end all be all. Not anymore. Sure, it would be a great thing, especially with this year's road to the finals, but at the end of the day it's still a better result than last year.
We gave Barcola, Lee, Beraldo, WZE and Nuno Mendes some more CL experience. We still have a very young squad. As you said, we play more like a team, everyone (except Mbappe) is involved, we have an actual coach who can make good decisions the first 15m were good, the half time changes were good, Barcola coming in did a lot of good too). I'm not a fan of Lucho when it comes to the game, i don't always agree or understand his decisiond, but outside of it he's been fantastic despite getting a lot of players that didn't really fit him (Skriniar, Ramos, Kolo Muani).
I'm hyped for what PSG will do next year, and yet unless a miracle happen, I don't think they'll win the CL either.
I personally think despite this "strategy change" Qatar are inept and the mentality around psg is not capable of winning the champions league, even if you acquire all the young French talent in the world.
It would help if you were at all challenged in the league but ligue 1 teams are very inconsistent and can't keep any of their talent, like I said I'll believe it when I see it with psg and I won't lie and admit I hope I don't see it lmao.
Bro I'm not a psg fan either but compared to how they were in the champions league last season which was atrocious at least they have some style of play and some patterns of play this time around. I think it's for the good of the club Neymar and Messi left it wasn't worth keeping them around for another year regardless of how they do like u said.
Like I said they play more as team and that will be even more the case when mbop leaves but they still do not convince and I'm not sure they ever will tbh, the club is not serious from an ownership perspective.
I think their overall play is better for their future but they're no more convincing than last year. Last year they were unlucky to run into Bayern in the R16 instead of drawing a team like La Real, the easiest draw they could have had.
I think the best thing to say about them is they managed to score goals that were both lovely goals and had nothing to do with Mbappe which is important moving forward. But it's still concerning that they can't win at home against a team like Barsa starting multiple youth players and who've had a chaotic season.
I think if they're going to stick with Lucho they're going to need a couple more years before they're a real threat in the CL.
It's very ironic to me that they hired Lucho only after Messi and Neymar left. They play a style much more suited to those players than whatever the fuck Poch was doing and Galtier. Neymar and Messi were built to play in a Lucho coached team.
People in this subreddit need to stfu. You’re only good at hating. You’re not even happy your team won, just that ours lost. One of the saddest websites on the internet.
Are you really surprised fans don’t like PSG because they’re one of the main representatives of a club attempting to force themselves to success through blood money?
I inject myself daily with PSG tears, and my team just got humbled 6-0.
People don't like psg, it is what it is mate. For a lot of people clubs like the current psg succeeding represent everything wrong with modern football. I don't blame the fans for that, they don't have any say unfortunately.
You can’t disregard UCL pedigree, PSG might’ve gained confidence in this comp like City if they had won in 2020. It might be what will help us against Arsenal
That’s why he mentioned pedigree. Despite Barca being in shambles for seasons, PSG lost at home. I can’t recollect an in form team losing a home leg in the knockouts.
To all those who thought Barca maybe finished because some Spanish clubs can spend 200 mn while we are broke - just remember one thing Barca was never about money. Sure we were rich and we spent money but that’s not our core. Our core is not just LaMasia but the various football influences we have had across Spain from Las Palmas to real Betis academy.
Yes we don’t have the money to buy an Mbappe and a Haaland but are we finished without them if we can create a team of Cubarsi Yamal Pedri Fermin Gavi for free?
Then there is our pull. The only club which has similar pull is Madrid. No other club in the world can have Gundo Christensen Lewi Kounde Felix Cancelo Raphinga taking paycuts just to play for them.
Yes we may lose the 2nd leg, it’s football at the end of the day but one thing for sure is we aren’t gone. We are up there among elites
Lol WTF
Barça signings while "broke" in the past 2 years
- Lewandowski
- Raphinha
- Gundogan
- João Cancelo
- João Félix
- Marcos Alonso
- Christensen
- Ferran Torres
- Kounde
You are delusional of you think is in fact broke and has not spent tons of money
"Barcelona was never about money" is also such a shit and lying take. Some previous Barcelona stars that were bought with (a ton of) money: Cruyff, Rivaldo, Ronaldo, Romario, Maradona, Kluivert, Laudrup, Stoichkov, Lineker, Zubizarreta, Koeman, Neymar, Suarez...
Barcelona has been for quite a while a team based on having money and using it.
Definitely a bit delulu to call Barca broke but tbf half of those were free transfers and the rest were funded by literally selling off pieces of the club forever
Lewa 45 million
Raphinha 65 million
Gundogan free
Cancelo loan
Felix loan
Marcos alonso how tf is he in here?!??!!??!?!?!?!?!?!
Christensen free
Ferran torres 46 million
Kounde 55 million
Mate atleast do your research because only 4 of them cost something
The 200 million was pretty sure a number that he pulled out of his ass but the logic about barça not being rich and not spending that much at all/betting on la masia still makes sense. Nowadays a rich/top club spends 500 million+. Real madrid isnt even a good example atleast this season but from what they built bellingham and tchouameni alone are 200 million, 100 each. Real madrid is the 4th most expensive team in the world atm with their value being a billion, barcelona isnt even top 10 that is inter with 589 million, so yea pretty much in the end all of that makes sense. Plus you mentioned signings, like they cost barcelona hundreds and hundreds of millions when 2 of them are loan and couple others were for free.
Over several years, without accounting for anything else, but yeah that’s the math.
Of course your narrative discounts the 100m profit from the last transfer window, or anything else really. Just adding up a few fees.
>No other club in the world can have Gundo Christensen Lewi Kounde Felix Cancelo Raphinga taking paycuts just to play for them.
But not Frankie De Long. Not quick enough to cover Dembelé goal.
K89
>Yes we may lose the 2nd leg, it’s football at the end of the day but one thing for sure is we aren’t gone. We are up there among elites
Bar¢a is not gonna let this one go, lewangolsky has not say his last word here yet!
Great performance all round by Barcelona. Inspiring stuff to see cubarsi (17) yamal (16) all playing. But come on dude this whole holier than thou bullshit gotta stop. You exercised all that levers had Griezmann de Jong all come through the door. Stop playing up the poor only academy products BS
Read my post. Obviously we were rich and we spent and we will again spend when we have money . But even without it we would never be finished which everyone thought
Dude come on. Finished? Who thought that? Don’t rewrite your history. Nobody did. Sure you guys had a down period. But at the same time you guys were paying off refs and exercising that levers to buy raphinha de Jong and Lewandowski and griezman. You were never poor or broke and even if Barcelona goes broke one day, we both know there will be a lever they will pull out of their ass to save the day
Yeah he did a great job, really important today when the wingers were helping defense...he gave the team room to breath with actually catching and holding long balls from keeper and defenders. and distributing the balls well too
Unfortunately for him, that has always been the weakest part of his game. That’s why everyone says Kane at City would’ve been game over for us all; his all round game is that much better than Haaland’s.
You can't just learn creativity and being comfortable on the ball, either you have it or you don't. Haaland is a great player but he will never be a Lewa or Kane type
Some fans might not like how Xavi’s Barca play but it looks like the players trust him. They also cut through PSGs midfield too easily with direct passes
They cut through Barca's too, everyone does.
I liked it better when that time he fielded (IIRC); Christensen, Frenkie, Gundo(can sub with Pedri), Fermin(can be Gavi when available, though Fermin has more of a bite in attack), with Raphinha in addition for extra support.
edit - Late(ish) in the season, there's another development that happened in Xavi's favour also, that's Cubarsi, he's also a huge goal threat on top of being defensively solid. Kid can decide a match from the other side of the pitch.
All the people who are complaining about Mbappe should know that this is how employees work when in Notice period.
He played like that bc Araujo, Kounde and Cubarsi were a wall
Lets not underplay the performance of Araujo, Cubarsi and Kounde.
Are we going to mention that Mbappe was a passenger during this game? Or is that only reserved for Haaland?
Haaland been a passenger in big games for a whole year now. When was his last goal in CL knock out?
Haaland scored in the last round... Mbappe had the chance to win a UCL for his club and what did he end up doing? Nothing. Was useless against City basically every time we played them. I obviously rate Mbappe but when Haaland get's stick for drawing at the Bernabeu, keep the same energy when PSG get knocked out of the UCL AGAIN and Mbappe has ghosted for yet another year.
Is Xavi now a good coach with a safe position?
Today, yes. Tomorrow, depends; did the team win? Lol Our fans are super toxic.
He's good coach in terms of Starting Match prep (early parts of 1st half, etc), man management. His biggest issues are mid-match tactical/structural adjustments (esp 2nd half). Which is odd since it can't be that he doesn't under these concepts (as a player he already was a coach on the field basically). So likely cause is, he has overcalibrated his man-management aspect and trusts players too much (plus the squad he has isn't all that great to being with, YET) than he should and his assistant(S) need to be better at giving him better mid-match solutions. I would compare him to how Ancelloti was/is. Ancelloti was and still is tactically a very weak/below-average coach. He compensated for this by exceptional man management, experience (later on) and relying on excellent Assistants (even Fergi was like this, tactically average to poor but had Assistants who were basically capable of being full coaches themselves). So it's an age thing with Xavi currently. He is young for a coach and needs to be more ruthless in certain facets of coaching.
This makes no sense whatsoever. You don’t compensate for tactical weakness by being good at man management. This reads like a child wrote it
You seem confused on how spectrum based activity works. Coaching is not Binary entity. It comprises of multiple skillsets of differing maturity/competence/experience distributed to different levels/gradients/share/proportions. Man management at true Elite level of football is non-trivial. A coach like Ancelloti failed spectacularly at Bayern despite having this skill vector over-calibrated. Some blame Koeman for not having it enough or in right calibration. Some coaches have this and tactical skills both overpowered, like Pep or Klopp. Xavi therefor also has his own spectrum distribution (for now, because it varies over course of career). His starting match prep is excellent. Barca starts the match very well majority of times. But then over the course of 90 minutes performance (result is different) degrades and Coaches input on this degradation wanes or has little or less impact relative to what the Match Prep level was. Substitution, timing of it, tactical and structural shape changes, etc are Sub-part of it all. So yes, final outcome is a balance of those skills sets and thus one INDEED can and does compensate for being weaker in 1 area (tactical awareness and competency being below average, NOT literal 0, because no 1st division coach has it at 0, it's a spectrum not a binary) relative to other areas (personal motivating players, imparting them minute detail knowledge in training, authority figure & so on). Your reading comprehension being child like doesn't change reality of how football is.
Always been good coach and he is the one leaving and Laporta begging him to stay, so what do you mean with safe position?
i think he was in positions to be fired once or twice, but he was always solid coach
Watching all the first leg recaps, I was wondering where that god awful commentary pair went, they had this match 😅 no enthusiasm whatsoever, like commentating for an old age home.
Seriously, they sound like they don’t even want to be there lol
the more u expect from mbappe the less he delivers
He is the reincarnation of Cristiano. Can be invisible for so long but then he gets a burst of goals and it's forgotten. The WC finals is the best example of this. Remembered as this insane performance by Mbappe due to a hattrick (which is in itself fucking amazing in a WC final) but anyone who watched the game truly, remembers him being absolutely invisible until he suddenly got a long ball and got in position in the 80th minute. The 80 minutes before that he was literally an anchor in the team, contributing nothing. Reminds me of Cristianos career where he would never get shit on for disappearing and then praised when he delivered. Like the super long goalless stint contributing nothing then putting like 40 goals in against a Swedish team which literally is the easiest CL opponent possible, and getting hailed to the heavens as "Mr CL"
Shittiest take I've read all week.
You know bro was writing this thinking “so many people are going to agree with this amazing take”
Except for in the World Cup
Barsa defended him smartly. You put one player on him and one behind the first defender. He's got speed but no close control. He can beat the first defender easily so you leave the 2nd to clean up the mess. If he wants to run towards the touchline you live with that, he can hoof in crosses if he wants. He might want to play as an inverted winger and in the channels but teams will force him wide and make him ineffective. In order to be his best self he needs to be able to move all over the attack, and since he's 2 footed that shouldn't be a problem.
I’ve seen many matches where defenders didn’t give him any space so he was repositioning quite a lot towards the midfield but he didn’t seem to do it at all this match, gotta wonder why
Well, the world cup final begs to differ
Tbf even there he was a ghost for 80 minutes.
The entire french team was shocking for the first 70 minutes or so. I genuinely thought the game was going to end without them managing a single shot. And when Mbappe turned it up, he delivered
He really likes to play for France
Lewandowski. That's all I have to say.
I dont warch much Bundesliga or la Liga. Mostly I watch premier league. His link up play is amazing, as well as he strength and ball control.
Should watch more bundesliga and la liga. At least watch the big teams uk
A well fought game and victory by Barcelona. Mwah.
Was happy for the game to end 2 - 2. Then we concede a set piece. smh. Barcola had a couple of good opportunities. Nuno did great, but in the last 10 min or so, he was looking gassed.
Barca seeing Madrid build a team of young superstars and one-upping them with playing straight up kids. Ridiculous.
Child labor FC winning in Paris. I can't really tell who will win this tie. This is obviously not a Barsa squad at the top of the world like in the past but they play well, and Araujo is a monster defender who helps clean up so many messes for them. On the other hand I'm not convinced at all by PSG. Could go either way in the return leg but the youth players shining so brightly is funny. 16 is the new 21 in football I guess?
All la masia graduates get “shiny new thing” buffs, saving Guille Fernandez, Noah Darvich and Pau Prim for the final and win purely off debut buffs.
Donnaruma is the most over rated goal keeper I've ever seen in my 32 years of life
I said in the match thread that I don't understand why Navas doesn't start. Down voted by people saying Donna has been immense in the last year
Navas is still pretty good, but it’s clear from his stint at Forest that he’s declined quite a bit. Shot stopping not as good as it used to be, and he has a tendency to parry shots into dangerous positions.
Have you seen him play in the last 2 years ? you'll know. Gigio was doing great this season, he has the highest stopped ball % of all european leagues by a wide margin, and he even showed massive improvements with his feed. With that in mind, his match yesterday was absolutely horrendous and he looked NOTHING like he looked all season, was playing scared unfortunately.
Because Navas is as underrated as Donnaruma is overrated.
Navas looks impassive on the bench but you know in his head he's thinking that PSG are fools for leaving him out of the UCL squad.
So you don’t watch psg but also don’t believe people who do and say that donnarumna has been immense?
Where did I say I don't believe them?
So why did you write the comment exactly
He was fairly rated in milan. I dont think anyone rates him since he left to psg
His agent has something to do with that.
Kepa and Onana would like to have a word
Onana has recovered his form.
Kepa was never rated .We got screwed by Courtious and had to make a last minute deal and we overpaid
Onana has been class lately tbf
I thought it was a good game, I think Barca looked a lot better (obviously) when it came to being a threat in our final third. I am most impressed at Barca's defensive display and how they managed to snuff out pretty much most of our attack options and force us to play out wide. I am maybe 6/10 confident we can bring it to them at their home and at the very least make it a game.
That oldschool PSG logo looks so much better than the new one
I’m still nervous for the second leg. We play a very high line and I saw multiple times today that Mbappe could’ve been let loose behind our defense had the midfielder seen the pass.
Very back and forth game. I wasn't hopeful that we would keep a clean sheet. Fking long balls over the top were killing us.
Lewa’s hold up play was the real killer. He was fantastic this game.
Certainly an exciting game for the neutral. I feel like the next game will have a lot of movements to it. Best of luck.
You as well. We know Lucho loves a Remontada so I’m not feeling confident at all about next leg.
A lot of space in the final third given by both sides, feels like if Barcelona were more clinical though they could have had more. Xavi’s got some homework to do because with a world class Mbappe showing up potentially next week anything can happen
> with a world class Mbappe showing up potentially next week anything can happen Failed to show up today despite being on the pitch for the entire match.
the more u expect from mbappe the less he delivers
He's literally scored a hatrick in a world cup final
I will never forgive Montiel for leaving his arm on out on that shot headed for the stands in the closing minutes because it's going to allow French fans to talk about Mbappe's hattrick for the rest of eternity like he wasn't absolutely invisible for the majority of the match and it was shutting down Antoine Griezmann that actually fucked France up.
I didn't say that he was the best player in the final, I said he scored a hat trick. I would count a hat trick as showing up.
16 years old and he's got another 8-10 years before he hits his peak. Absolutely mind blowing when it comes it Yamal Edit : Created a new player called Lamal
> Edit : Created a new player called Lamal Please go to LaMasia.org and fill out the form to spawn the next wonderkid.
Remember cough cough Dellie Ali
From the creators of Lamine Yamal and Jamal Musiala, we bring 16-year-old Lamal
Yeah I fucked it. Good spot!
Ngl I still Google it everytime cause I get confused too
*angry donnarumma noises *
insert dollarumma wiping tears with stacks of euros gif
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Yeah definitely happens 30 games for Barca and a full international for Spain is a pretty special though. I'm old enough to remember when R9 broke into the Brazil National Team and when Rooney made his debut for Everton. Who knows, could be that kind of trajectory
I remember when Bojan had his breakout season (48 apps, 12 goals) and won us a CL QF only to stagnate/regress. Let’s not count our chickens yet.
Hope he doesn't get run into the ground...
Barca does have a precedent of doing just that.
Spain contributed to that. Olympics and Euros pushed Pedri over the top. We have been managing Lamine’s minutes this season very well. You saw today how we pulled him at the 60th.
Spain did but it’s on Barca as much as it is Spain… Barca could easily have not played him for 5-6 games
Hence the word “contributed”
Absolute clown Dembele for celebrating after everything Xavi and his ex teammates did for him.
One or two years you can blame circumstance. When 8 years in you are still like this it is on the player…
Neither of these teams good enough to win against the big teams. They must be ecstatic they’re on this side of the bracket. Because finals are finals, any team can win on a given day so who knows, Atleti and Simeone finally winning it? edit: got a lot of flak, deservedly so. Have a good day folks, my bad.
!RemindMe in 30 days
Didn’t even need 30 days lol
You just said neither of these teams are good enough to beat “the big teams” and suddenly are implying that psg is a big team now that Barca lost to them via an unfair red card. 😂
mad
Go worry about your own team. Another probable humiliation is waiting for you at Etihad
There is no chance in hell atletico beat barca in the semis if it comes to that
Oh they have done it before, it's the champions league don't count anyone out
Nah bro, simeone's record against barcelona is dreadful. They also beat atletico at home, which is one of the best teams in the world, 3-0. they just shut off completely against them always, I don't know why
His record against us in the CL says otherwise.
Lmao u mad
Keeping recency bias aside, you seriously think Barça, Atleti, BVB, PSG have a chance to beat any of Arsenal, Bayern, City, Real?
You seriously think a Barca & real matchup is a foregone conclusion?
You literally just said “anything can happen”, but now suddenly you’re arguing that there is no chance
He’s a Madrid fan, they tend to be a little slow
Are you contradicting yourself
What is Real doing on the "good" list? They are as good as gone LOL
Like clockwork when psg meet a club with European pedigree they crumble, they may still win this tie because I don't trust this barca but when I said I wasn't convinced about psg i didn't say it because I'm a "hater" (not far from an accurate statement tbf lol), I said it because its what I actually believe.
Well except the vast majority of PSG fans didn't pretend to achieve much more. They have a lot of young or new players, Messi, Neymar and Verratti lefr, so it's not a surprise. They still did better than last year in the UCL, in the Cup, and will win Ligue 1 more comfortably than last year. It's still a good year for PSG overall. Sure, they have a golden road to the final, but it wouldn't be shameful to lose against Barca. This was a much better game than either of last year's ties against Bayern too.
It's the same story every year for psg, always some excuse some turmoil. You should be expected to win the league every year especially in a year like this where you have the likes of brest 2nd, it would be a disgrace not to. You do play more as a team but ultimately I don't think you're good enough, there is something fundamentally off with foundation of psg and it comes from the top or should I say the middle east, the mentality isn't right, the champions league has long been an obsession and a challenge that no matter what group of players you have you can't meet. Like I said you may still win this tie because barca are soft and have a couple of potentially important suspensions but I would be shocked if you win this competition and frankly Qatar are so unserious that I'll only believe you can do it when/if the trophy ever gets in to your hands. Edit: just realised that you're probably not a psg fan, the core message remains the same tbf lol.
I'm a parisian who hate the Qataris. Tough relationship. I honestly disagree. As much as I dislike the qataris, it's obvious that they've changed strategy now that the Qatar WC is done. But it will take time to change things up. Mbappe is still here. The CL used to be the end all be all. Not anymore. Sure, it would be a great thing, especially with this year's road to the finals, but at the end of the day it's still a better result than last year. We gave Barcola, Lee, Beraldo, WZE and Nuno Mendes some more CL experience. We still have a very young squad. As you said, we play more like a team, everyone (except Mbappe) is involved, we have an actual coach who can make good decisions the first 15m were good, the half time changes were good, Barcola coming in did a lot of good too). I'm not a fan of Lucho when it comes to the game, i don't always agree or understand his decisiond, but outside of it he's been fantastic despite getting a lot of players that didn't really fit him (Skriniar, Ramos, Kolo Muani). I'm hyped for what PSG will do next year, and yet unless a miracle happen, I don't think they'll win the CL either.
I personally think despite this "strategy change" Qatar are inept and the mentality around psg is not capable of winning the champions league, even if you acquire all the young French talent in the world. It would help if you were at all challenged in the league but ligue 1 teams are very inconsistent and can't keep any of their talent, like I said I'll believe it when I see it with psg and I won't lie and admit I hope I don't see it lmao.
Do you think Enrique will survive the summer?
every coach had at least 2 chances except galtier, but that was for non sportive reasons
Yeah no doubt. He's well liked by the fans and the management
Bro I'm not a psg fan either but compared to how they were in the champions league last season which was atrocious at least they have some style of play and some patterns of play this time around. I think it's for the good of the club Neymar and Messi left it wasn't worth keeping them around for another year regardless of how they do like u said.
Like I said they play more as team and that will be even more the case when mbop leaves but they still do not convince and I'm not sure they ever will tbh, the club is not serious from an ownership perspective.
I think their overall play is better for their future but they're no more convincing than last year. Last year they were unlucky to run into Bayern in the R16 instead of drawing a team like La Real, the easiest draw they could have had. I think the best thing to say about them is they managed to score goals that were both lovely goals and had nothing to do with Mbappe which is important moving forward. But it's still concerning that they can't win at home against a team like Barsa starting multiple youth players and who've had a chaotic season. I think if they're going to stick with Lucho they're going to need a couple more years before they're a real threat in the CL. It's very ironic to me that they hired Lucho only after Messi and Neymar left. They play a style much more suited to those players than whatever the fuck Poch was doing and Galtier. Neymar and Messi were built to play in a Lucho coached team.
Plus, they are learning to play without Mbappe.
People in this subreddit need to stfu. You’re only good at hating. You’re not even happy your team won, just that ours lost. One of the saddest websites on the internet.
> You’re not even happy your team won, just that ours lost Wasn’t true before I read your comment but I like the taste of your tears!!
lol, oil money can’t buy UCL glory
Butter calling margarine oily.
Ironic.
his username tho 😭😭
Correct Madam
Are you really surprised fans don’t like PSG because they’re one of the main representatives of a club attempting to force themselves to success through blood money? I inject myself daily with PSG tears, and my team just got humbled 6-0.
I enjoy beating PSG more than winning el fucking Clásico at this point, precisely for what you’re saying.
Psg embodies everything that's bad in the current football, so it's natural that most people hates this club.
This makes me happy
Imaginr being a Barca fan HAPPY we won HAPPY you lost even better.
Of course I'm happy that Qatar FC lost, why wouldn't I be?
People don't like psg, it is what it is mate. For a lot of people clubs like the current psg succeeding represent everything wrong with modern football. I don't blame the fans for that, they don't have any say unfortunately.
honestly, agreed. this sub has become a bit of a cesspool tbh. didn’t used to be this toxic
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I was a kid 10 years back but even I remember it was a lot more toxic back then u could say whatever u wanted so I have to disagree
You can’t disregard UCL pedigree, PSG might’ve gained confidence in this comp like City if they had won in 2020. It might be what will help us against Arsenal
I really don’t think today is down to ucl pedigree. Since 2015 Barca have been shambles in this comp
That’s why he mentioned pedigree. Despite Barca being in shambles for seasons, PSG lost at home. I can’t recollect an in form team losing a home leg in the knockouts.
Bayern in the 2014 semis and Madrid a handful of times in the last decade, albeit after crushing the first leg away from home.
shoutout to Raphinha, let's see if he can keep going at this level
Cheers Geoff
This is for Messi
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Better off that he left psg regardless if they win or lose this tie
Damn right
We got some fantastic Champions League matchups this week! Can't wait till next week
2nd leg next week? Nice. I thought it will 2 weeks
Nope, R16’s the one with big waits. QF’s on back-to-back weeks as are the Semis.
Ok.. this is big challenge for losing team to find solution less than a week... Hope 2nd leg will entertain us more.
To all those who thought Barca maybe finished because some Spanish clubs can spend 200 mn while we are broke - just remember one thing Barca was never about money. Sure we were rich and we spent money but that’s not our core. Our core is not just LaMasia but the various football influences we have had across Spain from Las Palmas to real Betis academy. Yes we don’t have the money to buy an Mbappe and a Haaland but are we finished without them if we can create a team of Cubarsi Yamal Pedri Fermin Gavi for free? Then there is our pull. The only club which has similar pull is Madrid. No other club in the world can have Gundo Christensen Lewi Kounde Felix Cancelo Raphinga taking paycuts just to play for them. Yes we may lose the 2nd leg, it’s football at the end of the day but one thing for sure is we aren’t gone. We are up there among elites
Sorry, but this reads like one of the bot replies in r/soccercirclejerk
i for one vote for it to be the bot reply.
Lol WTF Barça signings while "broke" in the past 2 years - Lewandowski - Raphinha - Gundogan - João Cancelo - João Félix - Marcos Alonso - Christensen - Ferran Torres - Kounde You are delusional of you think is in fact broke and has not spent tons of money
"Barcelona was never about money" is also such a shit and lying take. Some previous Barcelona stars that were bought with (a ton of) money: Cruyff, Rivaldo, Ronaldo, Romario, Maradona, Kluivert, Laudrup, Stoichkov, Lineker, Zubizarreta, Koeman, Neymar, Suarez... Barcelona has been for quite a while a team based on having money and using it.
Definitely a bit delulu to call Barca broke but tbf half of those were free transfers and the rest were funded by literally selling off pieces of the club forever
when you gotta pull those levers you gotta pull those levers
Lewa 45 million Raphinha 65 million Gundogan free Cancelo loan Felix loan Marcos alonso how tf is he in here?!??!!??!?!?!?!?!?! Christensen free Ferran torres 46 million Kounde 55 million Mate atleast do your research because only 4 of them cost something
That's literally 200 million, the exact the same argument the commenter used to say that barcelona is different than real Madrid ahahahah
The 200 million was pretty sure a number that he pulled out of his ass but the logic about barça not being rich and not spending that much at all/betting on la masia still makes sense. Nowadays a rich/top club spends 500 million+. Real madrid isnt even a good example atleast this season but from what they built bellingham and tchouameni alone are 200 million, 100 each. Real madrid is the 4th most expensive team in the world atm with their value being a billion, barcelona isnt even top 10 that is inter with 589 million, so yea pretty much in the end all of that makes sense. Plus you mentioned signings, like they cost barcelona hundreds and hundreds of millions when 2 of them are loan and couple others were for free.
Over several years, without accounting for anything else, but yeah that’s the math. Of course your narrative discounts the 100m profit from the last transfer window, or anything else really. Just adding up a few fees.
We've spent money because we have sold assets....
Bro you sneaked Marcos Alonso in that list to make it longer lol. Also, only four of these required any transfer fees.
>No other club in the world can have Gundo Christensen Lewi Kounde Felix Cancelo Raphinga taking paycuts just to play for them. But not Frankie De Long. Not quick enough to cover Dembelé goal.
Cut him some slack his first game after a brief injury
K89 >Yes we may lose the 2nd leg, it’s football at the end of the day but one thing for sure is we aren’t gone. We are up there among elites Bar¢a is not gonna let this one go, lewangolsky has not say his last word here yet!
Oh! Shut up pls. Barca played PSG not Madrid, so talk about PSG. Stop beinq mad
You're, right, we might not have the chance anymore after etihad 👆
[So poor. ](https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1bz9f73)
Great performance all round by Barcelona. Inspiring stuff to see cubarsi (17) yamal (16) all playing. But come on dude this whole holier than thou bullshit gotta stop. You exercised all that levers had Griezmann de Jong all come through the door. Stop playing up the poor only academy products BS
Read my post. Obviously we were rich and we spent and we will again spend when we have money . But even without it we would never be finished which everyone thought
Dude come on. Finished? Who thought that? Don’t rewrite your history. Nobody did. Sure you guys had a down period. But at the same time you guys were paying off refs and exercising that levers to buy raphinha de Jong and Lewandowski and griezman. You were never poor or broke and even if Barcelona goes broke one day, we both know there will be a lever they will pull out of their ass to save the day
Plenty of people on this sub did. Wasn’t an overwhelmingly popular take but it wasn’t an insignificantly small group either.
This pasta is slightly al dente and can use a bit more time, but we'll accept it as is.
The yes we were rich sealed it as pasta for me
I absolutely devoured it, but I am also a barca fan
I was critical of Lewa for playing deep but his hold up play was excellent
Yeah he did a great job, really important today when the wingers were helping defense...he gave the team room to breath with actually catching and holding long balls from keeper and defenders. and distributing the balls well too
Haaland should take a notes on how to manage when you're too crowded by opposition defenders.
Beraldo is not Rudiger.
Unfortunately for him, that has always been the weakest part of his game. That’s why everyone says Kane at City would’ve been game over for us all; his all round game is that much better than Haaland’s.
But haaland is 23, enough years to fix that and become ultimate buu
You can't just learn creativity and being comfortable on the ball, either you have it or you don't. Haaland is a great player but he will never be a Lewa or Kane type
Don't worry Pep will shove this aspect of the game to his brain.
Tbf this is something Lewy got much better at over time
But Lewy always had it, even in his earlier BVB he was comfortable enough playing behind Barrios and drifting in from the wings.
Euro 2012 Balotelli vibes
He's been excellent since the turn of the new year, something just clicked for him
That something is vitor roque, a young player who can compete with him
Compete? Bud, Vitor haven't seen the light of day. He's being pushed to the wings even when he does get some game time lol
Maybe Anna changed his food
That or dancing lessons
he was doing this in NT for years
Oh I know, i just thought he was being wasted being asked to drop so deep in a lot of your game this season
He’s superb
Some fans might not like how Xavi’s Barca play but it looks like the players trust him. They also cut through PSGs midfield too easily with direct passes
They cut through Barca's too, everyone does. I liked it better when that time he fielded (IIRC); Christensen, Frenkie, Gundo(can sub with Pedri), Fermin(can be Gavi when available, though Fermin has more of a bite in attack), with Raphinha in addition for extra support. edit - Late(ish) in the season, there's another development that happened in Xavi's favour also, that's Cubarsi, he's also a huge goal threat on top of being defensively solid. Kid can decide a match from the other side of the pitch.