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Without Raphinha, Barcelona does not stand a chance against elite level teams. His presence on the field demands attention and creates a nightmare scenario for the opposing teams in terms of defensive strategy. This prevents opponents from transitioning into counters with the same intensity and numbers that we saw today. If Barcelona is suddenly less effective in their front line, then we get cherry picked to death and a Barcelona without Raphinha does not represent the same quality up front. You could see in the way that Athletic came out to play. How often do you see an AM that pins their ears back and comes after an opponent? Very rarely is the answer, unless they absolutely need it. They’re just not that type of team. Coach Flick misplayed his hand. Once the second goal went in, we should’ve been in damage control hoping for a better result at home. Now the tie is over and we stand little to no chance of going through to the final. Huge mistake. What a shame, we made Athletic look like a much better team than they really are. Today Barcelona looked like boys playing against men. Both physical and mentally unprepared. They were completely outplayed when it counted. If you disagree, then explain how Joan Garcia allowed that goal to start the unraveling?
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I don’t want to blame yamal for it but why this season yamal is ghosting in. Every big game last season we used to wait for every big game cuz he literally played in them really well and showed his quality now idk why he’s been like shit against any lb who doesn’t play in the second division or religation spot
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We looked so lost today, don’t know what casado was doing and didn’t see lewa on the pitch at all when he got subbed on. Easily could have avoided the red card and hopefully we can do something special back home. Ik I’ll get downvoted for saying this
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I called it, some fools on here thought Lookman wasn’t a problem. We don’t really face fast AND strong players like that. Usually one or the other. Lookman + Greizeman that’s elite speed, shiftiness and strength coupled with great D. We need a safety mode for the highline, and I don’t think we need the smartest defenders just a stronger/speedier bench. We need to sign some Afcon defenders bro. This Barca D ain’t grown men yet Hansi! Stop playing in their face! All good though this team needs to learn how to get back in the fight to be great so good lesson.
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No raphinha no party, without raph we got no intensity on the defensive end…
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I hope I don’t see Balde start next season. He has no impact on both offense and defense.
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He can run really really fast though lol
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Not fast enough to catch Juliano though. They run offense on our left side most of the time.
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I have yet to see a manager so protected by the Barca fandom Like Flick is lmao Not even pep was so Protected by the fans. Its never his fault for this fandom its always the players lmao. Bro has been coaching this team for 2 years and not a single improvement on the defensive front. He is a great offensive coach do not get me wrong but when it comes to defending he is not that guy im sorry. We cannot press our defensive tactics rely only on Offside trap and not defending. Other Teams play high line yet they dont get destroyed like we do. Its simple the problem has never been the High Line but the fact that we are relying on setting the opposition offside instead of actually defending. We can buy all the defenders in the world but unless we change that , the result will be the same.
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It’s not a flick thing. If you truly watch the games. It really isn’t
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The fact that we cannot press to save our lives is not a Flick Thing, or the fact that after 2 years we still concede the same goals.
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lololol
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We’ve to talk about game management and tactics. Flick’s era has been a disaster for us defensively. It’s one thing to be out-coached once, it’s another thing to concede the exact same type of goals for two seasons in a row and not make changes let alone 4 exact same goals in less than 45 minutes. The suicidal high line was figured out towards end of season last season. Flick has to implement a new defensive scheme. Kounde’s overlapping runs are so useless, defenders literally stick with Yamal and let Kounde run offside coz he can’t beat his man 1v1. This is also stalling Yamal’s growth.
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We should just try our best and focus on la liga and chmpsleague i dont think we are gonna make it except Raphina Pedri Rashica are back on time
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With the defense that we have it is impossible to win the champions league, except if flick decides (I don’t think) to stop with this line much too high, for me it’s only there league that we have left because all the other teams are much too bad.
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Its always a gamble
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Yes, you can score 4 goals in the second leg. Thing is not to let them score.
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That’s what I was thinking, scoring 4 goals is possible but not cashing that I don’t think.
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Why does Rooney go totally unutilized? I never get it
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Terrible performance but man that pitch is horrendous. So many players slipped . Also that VAR decision, surely if it took that long they couldnt find substantial evidence to overturn the goal
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Let’s not look for an excuse, the real problem is our defensive line much too high and flick it seems everyone understands it except him.
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Life’s hitting atm
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I’m yet to see Fermin have a good game without scoring. When he’s not scoring he puts up stinkers
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He’s the ultimate mid table team farmer
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This is the positive about losing. Nobody will say this when we win
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We live in a GA era where a player can have a stinker, pop up with a goal and all of a sudden they’re the next best thing. Fermin’s best qualities are he has a good shot on him and a good eye for goal, other than that he’s just an okay player.
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I think he’s also got a good first touch into space
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he’s a coin flip as a starter
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I guess we needed this. We are nowhere near winning the UCL.
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Imma say it….this might be a blessing in disguise. But it cost us the copa del Rey. But if this wakes up Barca to change defensive strategy for champions league. We have 2 weeks until we play again in the CL.
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Pathetic
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Exactly what has Casado done to have been starting this game ahead of Bernal?? Why was Ferran not subbed off when Lewa came on?? So many tactical questions on this game it’s as if Flick just expected this to be a walkover
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Maybe he thought this game would be too aggressive for Bernal. It was a mistake.
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Now we need to score at least 6 goals at home to get through because Atleti will score atleast 1 more.
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No away goals rule in the copa del rey, so even with a 4 goal win we can go through on penalties, i don’t trust us with penalties tho
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Yeah but we both know Atleti is going to score atleast our ground, and we can’t afford going to penalties because we are shit at them so we’ll need to score atleast 6
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I don’t think there’s any way we’re putting past 6 against 12 atleti players putting their life on the line to defend those goals
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Literally got the flashbacks of 2-8 😭😭
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How can you get the same exact goal scored on you for a season and a half almost every game and you let it happen anyways lol like atleast if you’re gonna get scored on anyway figure out new ways its always the same fucking goal
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I wake up for work and this is the first thing I see, absolute disasterclass. I’m hoping they pull off a 2017 with what happened vs PSG in the UCL, but maybe that’s copium
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look at the bright side, work will be better than the performance we’ve seen
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So Ferran Torres with zéro passes completed and one red card provoked played 90min but Roony didn’t even warm up.
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So did flick sub in Bernal or roony
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take a wild guess
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No
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everybody’s slipping and everybody’s missing passes… weird referee decisions… i just don’t understand why flick didn’t put a midfielder in to help frenkie. he subbed casado for lewandowski? even at halftime no bernal? how can you control games when the players can’t even hold the ball without getting pressed and panicking… honestly this is a joke. it’s just pass the ball to lamine and pray something happens. everything’s so predictable, even the defense is laughable…
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we had tons of control, what we lacked was ground coverage and goals…frenkie was at blame for two goals at the very least
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