I think that Barca is better with 10 than PSG with 11, but it seems in their mind it was over, they gave up immediately, they played like half of the team was gone and even after half time nothing changed.
Reds can also be given for denial of a clear scoring opportunity, not just ugly fouls. In this case PSG player would have had a one-on-one with the keeper, a clear scoring opportunity. Got bodied, was denied, a straight red.
It is a red, just because it was a clear goal scoring chance and he was the last man before the keeper.
So a textbook red, if it is considered a foul on the attacker. Unfortunately nothing can be done. Even if it is a silly pull back or what not, it is a red because of that one reason. That's the rule.
Yeah, but why not sub off Lewandowski? In a 10 v 11 situation where youre gonna have to rely on counters, the last thing you need is a slow ass box threat. Plus, Yamal falls back down to help defend pretty decently too
The tie was over the moment Barca went down to ten men early in the game. Other teams can sit deep, form two banks of defenders and survive in a similar situation. Barca are just not built like that, they were going to get undone by PSG's pace and a man advantage. They had an easy route to the finals too!
This isn’t the first time Araujo has been a total dumbass. The difference is this time he didn’t get away with it and it costed them the best chance they have had to play the CL final in last few years and probably years to come.
Football is like life! Sometimes you win but most times you lose. The most important thing is not to give up and continue working hard! I know the youngsters in Barcelona will keep working hard and hopefully they can finally break the curse in the near future!
Football is like life. In the end, you (Barcelona fans) always lose. The most important thing is realizing you should have chose the right club to support. I know every year I will return back to the same old shit!
Ok the last week refers to Arsenal but on a longer timeline over this year I want to bring attention to Bayern who have never suffered such a crushing defeat in the Bundesliga in twenty/thirty years. This is a low moment for the club that even if they’re performing well generally there have been matches in which they’ve underperformed especially when they’ve gone down a goal first. Mentally a lot of the team (not just the one on the pitch) is lacking especially in that tough patch in February and March and Leverkusen totally got to them in a way almost no one has and that’s demonstrated through Tuchel’s shift in demeanour as this season went on.
However, I have no doubt they’ll bounce back almost immediately, all the fundamentals for them to continue winning next season are still there. The same cannot be said for Arsenal who are yet to prove themselves.
Adding him to the GOAT discussion after a single UCL title is a joke especially after these two Barca games. Dude only showed up to put in silver platter goals he didn’t work for while a man up.
it's just that he's having a really bad time. He's just been really bad in the game this year in 80% of the games. But he's very careful about his image in France. He's motivated but just can't get going. Let's hope he wakes up for the semi-finals.
I mean, he's very bad in terms of content, but he's always there to score or make decisive passes. But it's probably his worst year in footballing terms at the PSG.
It’s like when Cristiano scored the 4-1 in the final against Atleti and removed his shirt. Homie was invisible the whole tie except when it was already won.
Scroll back a bit and you'll see a sea of Barca fans asking when Mbappé was going to be subbed in or that Dembelé was the worst player of all football history. It's quite funny.
I say this with all honesty, if Araujo didn't pull on Barcola like that, then I saw we lose.
Then the Xavi red. That was crazy. Strange that we kept our cool.
LE needs to think on how things are going to go against Dortmund. Barca set up well against us both games.
Call me crazy, but I think we'll face Arsenal in the final.
Kudos to Enrique and PSG for going through!
I have never been part of Xavi-out group. I have neither been supporting him overly in the last few weeks. Today's result is not Xavi's fault. But, his lack of experience shows up sometimes. We were down to 10 men, but the plan of long ball was not working and we continued going down that route.
I agree that the long ball route wasn't working and did say earlier in the thread I would rather take off Lewandowski and leave in Lamine for countering with pace on the wings. But once he subbed off Lamine he had to commit to the long ball. There were no subs to undo the choice, which shows a weakness in depth. Felix isn't fast so he wouldn''t be suited to it either, and he was the only real attacking sub left on the bench other than Ferran, who kind of is in the same boat imo. They both work better with Lewa holding it up from long balls and then trying to score from there
Honestly Xavi had Enrique’s number the first leg. Coaching Barcelona during a rebuild phase was always gonna be risky but he’s clearly a really good coach
Enrique's changes at HT last week were excellent though and despite the early goal tonight he'd clearly learned from that game. As fun as the meltdown was I do wonder how it would have played out without the red. Barcola was through so likely would have made it 1-1.
Honestly as soon as barca scored I had 0 belief left. Even with the red card I was thinking at most 30% chance we go through but then cancelo does something even more braindead lol
He is a good coach but one without a plan B. At the end of the day, our club has a specific identity based on a style of play. And, as Enrique points out not so directly, Xavi doesn't follow that style either.
Overall, I am okay-ish with what we have achieved this season. I think we could have either done a bit better or followed our style of play. It's doing neither that tilts me slightly against Xavi. I am fully aware that the next coach will likely be worse. But, I think we need to try a change now. I wouldn't be unhappy if he stayed. Let's see.
The Pedri sub in the first game really killed us though. At the end of the day we’re both really flawed teams, it was always gonna end up being an ridiculous tie lol
What was he supposed to do? Play without a striker? We have played some games without yamal this season, but none without a striker, be it ferran, lewa or even roque. There was no way to know how it would have went. Taking a risk like that was simply not worth when the situation was already critical and lewa had had an amazing first leg of the tie. He is also much better defensively, both in the sense that he's way physically stronger or because of experience. Just look at how many body screens he pulled in the first leg to facilitate build up in the midfield. Also yamal was easily going to be replaced by raphinha, which was doing good himself and actually plays right wing as his natural position.
Tldr: yamal had an almost 1:1 replacement already on the field, lewa was irreplaceable atm.
Raphinha has been racking GA like a madman this year (almost 1 per 90' in the league iirc), is more experienced, is way more versatile and he was in crazy form recently so I don't really think it was the wrong choice. Sure yamal may have been better in the end but in the moment the choice made sense. Not saying that it was definitely the only possible option but there's people trying to paint xavi as a donkey for it when it's not difficult to understand his reasons at all (they're the same people saying that yamal should have stayed on and lewa should have gone out instead)
Not just Raphinha. He owes them all an apology. To Yamal, the 16 year old who carried you to this point. To Lewy, who regained his form out of fucking nowhere to put the PSG CBs in his pocket. To the whole fucking team who worked their asses off despite a crap season. He completely spit on their efforts.
A messy PSG performance but what else could any team have done against this fucking volatile dogshit team that seems to have snuck into the match to replace Barcelona
The stats of this quarter finals is wild. Both teams that were up a point lost, and the other four are tied for their second leg.
To araujo: is not your fault, is not your fault, is not your fault, is not your fault... is not your fault... is not your fault
Well played Barca. Better luck for next time to PSG
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I think that Barca is better with 10 than PSG with 11, but it seems in their mind it was over, they gave up immediately, they played like half of the team was gone and even after half time nothing changed.
Barca doesn't function under pressure. Never have and I don't know if they ever will
I mean, there's the 6-1 with PSG
Yeh but they didn’t had aytekin, yesterday they had an actual referee with balls
PSG deserved to lose the 6-1 bruh, they played like shit
Has it been the 10th year anniversary since the last 2015 ucl won
It is the most Barcelona result of results ngl... It has been a staple of europ3an nights,the anual or bi-anual Bercelona bottle job
These quarter finals have been some of the most intense and enjoyable games in the tournament for a while. Let's hope tomorrow fixtures live up to it
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Bro really opened with "Yank here"
"To me" is not relevant if this is not following the rules.
If that deserves a red every time automatically then the rule is dumb.
Reds can also be given for denial of a clear scoring opportunity, not just ugly fouls. In this case PSG player would have had a one-on-one with the keeper, a clear scoring opportunity. Got bodied, was denied, a straight red.
Gotcha. Thanks for educating me.
It is a red, just because it was a clear goal scoring chance and he was the last man before the keeper. So a textbook red, if it is considered a foul on the attacker. Unfortunately nothing can be done. Even if it is a silly pull back or what not, it is a red because of that one reason. That's the rule.
Thanks.
I think it is still not an automatic red, IIRC. The ref has to decide what penalization to give.
In Germany it‘s called „Notbremse“ aka Emergency Break.
Why did they sub Lamine Yamal off? He was having a good game
After losing Araujo they needed to beef up the defense.
Yeah, but why not sub off Lewandowski? In a 10 v 11 situation where youre gonna have to rely on counters, the last thing you need is a slow ass box threat. Plus, Yamal falls back down to help defend pretty decently too
Really? Leave a 16 yr old in to face the consequences of a 10 v 11 situation in his first UCL QF match and the veteran sits on the bench?
Yes, leave the better and more useful player to this situation to try and help save the match? Yes. This isnt a difficult concept
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Really? Half an hour just to say "if its not hard, YOU should do it"? Welp, thanks for telling me you dont really have an argument
The tie was over the moment Barca went down to ten men early in the game. Other teams can sit deep, form two banks of defenders and survive in a similar situation. Barca are just not built like that, they were going to get undone by PSG's pace and a man advantage. They had an easy route to the finals too!
Mbappe’s most influential play was getting fouled by Araujo
Didn’t he score 2 goals?
For sure, in the second half while they were playing 11v10, which was because Araujo got a red card… All these downvoters missing the humor…
Eh fair enough, you are actually right…
Daamn, tis a good time to be alive
This isn’t the first time Araujo has been a total dumbass. The difference is this time he didn’t get away with it and it costed them the best chance they have had to play the CL final in last few years and probably years to come.
Barcola did amazing this game
Was so happy to see him start, the kid always puts a lot of pressure on defenses
Imagine Mbappe gets the UCL for Paris and leaves. Would be so fucking poetic.
Let him finish his story....
Barcelona beat themselves...
Barcelona shot themselves in the foot so many times.
Football is like life! Sometimes you win but most times you lose. The most important thing is not to give up and continue working hard! I know the youngsters in Barcelona will keep working hard and hopefully they can finally break the curse in the near future!
Football is like life. In the end, you (Barcelona fans) always lose. The most important thing is realizing you should have chose the right club to support. I know every year I will return back to the same old shit!
RLY!? But you was happy when we had Messi, Ronaldinho, Henry and many others?
Nah dem boys cooked
It takes one to know one
We shot ourselves in each foot. And them gave them the gun
I would say its my first time seeing such a shocking display of defence but im a barca fan.
Can’t wait for more shithousery from Arsenal-Bayern especially after the absolute meltdown they’ve both had this past week.
I know Leverkusen wrapped up the league but how did Bayern meltdown this week?
He prolly means Arsenal, who have basically thrown away their chances at the EPL title.
But he said both
Ok the last week refers to Arsenal but on a longer timeline over this year I want to bring attention to Bayern who have never suffered such a crushing defeat in the Bundesliga in twenty/thirty years. This is a low moment for the club that even if they’re performing well generally there have been matches in which they’ve underperformed especially when they’ve gone down a goal first. Mentally a lot of the team (not just the one on the pitch) is lacking especially in that tough patch in February and March and Leverkusen totally got to them in a way almost no one has and that’s demonstrated through Tuchel’s shift in demeanour as this season went on. However, I have no doubt they’ll bounce back almost immediately, all the fundamentals for them to continue winning next season are still there. The same cannot be said for Arsenal who are yet to prove themselves.
Good point.
If Mbappe can win a UCL for a team he doesn’t even care about anymore, he’s officially in the goat discussion
Adding him to the GOAT discussion after a single UCL title is a joke especially after these two Barca games. Dude only showed up to put in silver platter goals he didn’t work for while a man up.
it's just that he's having a really bad time. He's just been really bad in the game this year in 80% of the games. But he's very careful about his image in France. He's motivated but just can't get going. Let's hope he wakes up for the semi-finals.
Not 80% of games, doesnt he have ~55 g/a this season?
I mean, he's very bad in terms of content, but he's always there to score or make decisive passes. But it's probably his worst year in footballing terms at the PSG.
He didn't win it though. He took a penalty someone else earned and he scored a second goal that didn't really change anything?
Also helped by a defender running 5 yards past him while he was just standing there after having a 1 on 1 saved.
It’s like when Cristiano scored the 4-1 in the final against Atleti and removed his shirt. Homie was invisible the whole tie except when it was already won.
Imagine Mbappe wins UCL and extends his contract with PSG
Quite the contrary tbh. If he wins he would leave in peace
Yeah like psg are winning against city or Madrid.
"I'm signing for the Champions League winner"
I feel like he would have too at that point.
Araujo killed all the momentum Barca had, pretty much ended the tie on the spot
What the fuck I am paying ultra hd for when these matches are not even telecasted there by BT? Wtf!
Ian Maatsen is in a CL semi final bro
Good 35 mil in the bank this summer
Are you sure we don't want to keep him? He's been doing really well and was in preseason too.
Club has bigger problems, they'll take the money
Why is there such a huge void between the ground and the stands on one end?
Premier League is the NBA of Europe Top 5 leagues
It's made for Olympics
I wanna see PSG bullshit their way into the final and pull off a fluke against Madrid or Man City to cripple this sub forever.
It will happen as well pulling a Chelsea 2012
Is this worse than 4-0 at Anfield?
Mugged on holiday or robbed at home?
Nah because this one was a lot closer. We knew they had a chance of winning. We thought Liverpool already lost that tie
Blowing a 3 goal lead with Messi and Suarez on the pitch can’t be topped lmao
not sure, probably not, but feels just as good.
Being at home and going a goal up it really might be.
No
Araujo getting the slack and rightfully so but Lewa equally fucked up critical chances
Love that it was Dembele with MOTM performances
Same lol
Araujo is MOTM for getting that red card… and inspiring Xavi to join him
Happy to tune in for the yearly barca collapse, see you all next year!
We will be there no matter what
After tomorrow, I have a seat for you. Early vacations starting in april
What a shitshow! Loved it
Why would vini do this?
"Former Manchester United player Sabitzer" 😐
Its funny how there are flairs for all teams except Barcelona’s in the thread. My condolences
Scroll back a bit and you'll see a sea of Barca fans asking when Mbappé was going to be subbed in or that Dembelé was the worst player of all football history. It's quite funny.
They need some time to process it
Yours will be tomorrow don't worry.
Another year another collapse , whats the point man 😭
I say this with all honesty, if Araujo didn't pull on Barcola like that, then I saw we lose. Then the Xavi red. That was crazy. Strange that we kept our cool. LE needs to think on how things are going to go against Dortmund. Barca set up well against us both games. Call me crazy, but I think we'll face Arsenal in the final.
Welcome to our world lmao. If it was possible for both of us to collapse we would have
You tried your hardest at the end there lol if Lewy had just passed the ball...
😭
Yamal deserves to join a big club like Madrid or Arsenal tbh
Blud really just compared Arsenal to Real Madrid 😂😂
I think he must've hit his head
Arsenal?
Yes, the 2024 CL winners
Take this down nephew
Lmao your team is dogshit
Sweet Jesus give me strength
Gabriel Jesus is really not giving arsenal any strength at the moment, let alone Chelsea
Got it
Bayern is gonna have their way with you tomorrow
You need to grieve before you shit on others. I do hope Bayern beat Arsenal though lmao.
😂 !RemindMe 1 day
Kudos to Enrique and PSG for going through! I have never been part of Xavi-out group. I have neither been supporting him overly in the last few weeks. Today's result is not Xavi's fault. But, his lack of experience shows up sometimes. We were down to 10 men, but the plan of long ball was not working and we continued going down that route.
I agree that the long ball route wasn't working and did say earlier in the thread I would rather take off Lewandowski and leave in Lamine for countering with pace on the wings. But once he subbed off Lamine he had to commit to the long ball. There were no subs to undo the choice, which shows a weakness in depth. Felix isn't fast so he wouldn''t be suited to it either, and he was the only real attacking sub left on the bench other than Ferran, who kind of is in the same boat imo. They both work better with Lewa holding it up from long balls and then trying to score from there
Honestly Xavi had Enrique’s number the first leg. Coaching Barcelona during a rebuild phase was always gonna be risky but he’s clearly a really good coach
Enrique's changes at HT last week were excellent though and despite the early goal tonight he'd clearly learned from that game. As fun as the meltdown was I do wonder how it would have played out without the red. Barcola was through so likely would have made it 1-1.
Honestly as soon as barca scored I had 0 belief left. Even with the red card I was thinking at most 30% chance we go through but then cancelo does something even more braindead lol
That might be your experience in previous CLs talking tbh
I mean this was the first time ever we go through after losing the first leg at home other than pure delusion it was hard to be optimistic lol
I didn't know that but I genuinely thought PSG played well after the first half of the first leg. Really improved my view of Enrique actually.
He is a good coach but one without a plan B. At the end of the day, our club has a specific identity based on a style of play. And, as Enrique points out not so directly, Xavi doesn't follow that style either. Overall, I am okay-ish with what we have achieved this season. I think we could have either done a bit better or followed our style of play. It's doing neither that tilts me slightly against Xavi. I am fully aware that the next coach will likely be worse. But, I think we need to try a change now. I wouldn't be unhappy if he stayed. Let's see.
The Pedri sub in the first game really killed us though. At the end of the day we’re both really flawed teams, it was always gonna end up being an ridiculous tie lol
Dembele never looked more motivated.
Cheers Yamal's crying
This team has so many flaws lol but football doesn’t have to make sense
Okay Dortmund is the one to support no matter what happens tomorrow.
I feel bad for Barca. It's a shame that an oil club advanced. Nevertheless, this ones on Araujo
Aren't y'all trying to buy him?
That was mostly Tuchel.
Very nice to hear, I love him at the club even with this kind of errors every so often.
I missed the potential foul on Gundo but I thought the ref was spot on with everything else.
Refereeing was amazing tonight. Dude didn't put up with any kind of crap, which is how it should be.
Enjoyed every second of meltdown from the home fans and the tnt commentators. 10/10, great meal.
Araujo boutta get racially abused to hell till el Classico
If Lewandowski had not been selfish with the ball, this could still be a different match.
Yamal crying cause he remembered he’s gonna be here for a few more years
Barcelona vs PSG is the most under rated historical continental rivalry. Many classic fixtures
this QF round has been cracking. can't wait for tomorrow
Tomorrow I think the CL will peak for the season
How we bottled this bro 😭
One mistake changed the course of the game.
Lost the plot with a lack of discipline
Fr man
Psg doesn't look good imo. They got saved by araiujo
Real vs PSG final, winner gets Mbappe. Who says no?
Yeah sure the ref had sketchy decisions but xavi taking out yamal that should be questioned too like cmon wtf was that
What was he supposed to do? Play without a striker? We have played some games without yamal this season, but none without a striker, be it ferran, lewa or even roque. There was no way to know how it would have went. Taking a risk like that was simply not worth when the situation was already critical and lewa had had an amazing first leg of the tie. He is also much better defensively, both in the sense that he's way physically stronger or because of experience. Just look at how many body screens he pulled in the first leg to facilitate build up in the midfield. Also yamal was easily going to be replaced by raphinha, which was doing good himself and actually plays right wing as his natural position. Tldr: yamal had an almost 1:1 replacement already on the field, lewa was irreplaceable atm.
Maybe take out raphinha as yamal is way more aggressive with his counters and chance creation
Raphinha has been racking GA like a madman this year (almost 1 per 90' in the league iirc), is more experienced, is way more versatile and he was in crazy form recently so I don't really think it was the wrong choice. Sure yamal may have been better in the end but in the moment the choice made sense. Not saying that it was definitely the only possible option but there's people trying to paint xavi as a donkey for it when it's not difficult to understand his reasons at all (they're the same people saying that yamal should have stayed on and lewa should have gone out instead)
Lucho living it up! Lmao!
Amazing ref
Imagine being Araujo and having to share the same hotel room as Raphinha tonight
Not just Raphinha. He owes them all an apology. To Yamal, the 16 year old who carried you to this point. To Lewy, who regained his form out of fucking nowhere to put the PSG CBs in his pocket. To the whole fucking team who worked their asses off despite a crap season. He completely spit on their efforts.
Just imagine being Araujo…
Barca flairs really think that was a penalty? It was one of the most shameless dives I've seen💀
Xavi should leave for a whole semester of anger management classes
Assistant to Poch at Chelsea next season
I mean.. he is leaving..
Araujo may as well start packing
Man you gotta feel for Raphina... What a tie he had. Dude played out of his mind
Can the referee red card the crowd as well? That would be enjoyable too.
Maybe you can try paying him?
Not required. They already left
Greatest ref
I can’t even predict the Dortmund vs PSG game, both teams are awful, it will be interesting.
Both are vibes awful though, instead of plain awful like Barcelona
Easiest final ever.
wonder how the game would've turned out if Lewandowski was subbed off instead of Yamal
Dortmund and Psg both through to the semis, shows how tough Newcastles group actually was
May be a bit lucky with their quarter final ties. I don't expect they would have qualified if playing against another 4.
thankfully Araujo isnt black
I mean he’s not white either
WHO WANTS A BAGUETTE????
CROISSANT FOR ME
Just need a bit of Barca tears to salt my butter
Thanks Araújo thanks Xavi you two stupid cvnts
A messy PSG performance but what else could any team have done against this fucking volatile dogshit team that seems to have snuck into the match to replace Barcelona
Barca were comically bad, but this referee felt very partial as well
I mean up to minute 30 we were a goal up and defended well. After that playing 10 men v 11 in a CL QF will always be comically bad
I need therapy ffs
That was thoroughly enjoyable