It was Muller because my name was Raumdeuterz, it really wasn’t that deep.
OH NO!! If I made my avatar a complete waste of our time like yours, would it make me a top fan too?
I know what you’ll say. You’re insane but you’re predictably insane.
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It was Muller because my name was Raumdeuterz, it really wasn’t that deep.
OH NO!! If I made my avatar a complete waste of our time like yours, would it make me a top fan too?
I know what you’ll say. You’re insane but you’re predictably insane.
Jesus wept, our attacking play last night was bloody atrocious. 2 goals from open play against a half strength Norwegian team, with our brilliant crowd atmosphere. Our coaching staff are useless and our front 3 are poor. Do t excited when we get a corner, when do we ever score from one, hardly ever. Most dangerous player at a corner is Romero. What does that say for Richy and Solanke.
The CL prize is nothing more than a bonus for me. I just want to celebrate winning something for the first time in ages.
I’m still not sure who we’ll play if we get there. I think there’s still something to happen in the other game.
You have no idea what I'll say but the fact that you feel the need to preemptively diminish this club winning a European trophy, just in case I say what you are terrified I'll say...that is predictably insane, mate.
The overload they had in midfield because kulusevski vacated Maddison’s midfield area. It was a stupid sub. We said in the ground at the time the answer was to bring Sarr on.
No I absolutely do. You're gagging to say it already.
It's nothing to do with diminishing it - it's accepting it for what it is. Most sensible people on here can admit its low in terms of quality but an awesome opportunity to win something.
You & others on the other hand want to big up the likes of Richy for heading it across vs Norwegian farmers, or Ange for achieving it. Ange can fuck off. It's a club victory if we manage it, not a him victory. He shouldn't even still fucking be here.
The modern Barca story and style of play is fascinating.
Yes their midfielders and attackers are better than ours but if you look at their star youngsters, most of them have only made it due to the huge financial mess Barca found themselves in. They chucked them in at the deep end, several looked like they would drown but 1-2 seasons later and they have half a dozen quality/world class kids in the team. For reference:
- Balde - 21 - value €59.6m
- Cubrasi - 18 - value €71.5m
- Casado - 21 - value €29.4m
- Gavi - 20 - value €73.5m
- Fermin Lopez - 21 - value €50.3m
- Pedri - 22 - value €124.2m
- Yamal - 17 - value €199.1m
Barca have a combination of experience and a shed load of quality youngsters. They play a high line, attack as a team and then flood back to bail out their defence.
They play a similar style to early Ange tactics but the major difference is they:
a) play as a team
b) they’re all comfortable with the ball at their feet
c) when in possession and high up the pitch you can still see clear distinctive positions from defence, through to midfield and attack
Whereas if you look at the Ange version we’ve gaping holes everywhere. The Flick version has proven to be successful but we can’t apply it with our current squad as it’s far from compatible.
I agree. My trophy rankings (as in, order of what I'd like us to win, rather than difficulty to win):
CL, PL, EL, FA, CC, ECL, AC*
*Audi Cup
It wasn’t that bad. Unlike most games where we look toothless, there was a clear plan in the first half. Defence splitting long balls, Richi providing aerial support etc
This worked well, not great but well. 2 nil up at half time with Bodo only having one half chance just before the break.
However, we did have several counter attacks that failed to deliver a chance never mind an outcome. From that aspect it wasn’t good enough. You need to be clinical and especially against a team we’re expected to beat comfortably. Kill them in the first leg, be professional in the second.
Taking Richarlison off at half time was bizarre though as Tel isn’t as much of a threat as Odobert and Johnson, well he either scores or does bugger all. The sub changed the dynamic of the game and not for the better. We lost a presence and a clear threat in the penalty area.
The last 30 we created next to nothing… there’s a difference between seeing out a game and completely taking your foot off the gas.
Overall it finished 3-1 and it was a comfortable victory (barring a few jitters at the end) but did we make the most of the opportunity to in effect finish the tie, no we didn’t.
Ange seems to have fucked up again with his subs? Richie would have been absolutely desperate for a goal last night. Should have kept him on. And brought on Sarr.
The proper substitute would gave been Odebert for Johnson.
Barca dominates almost every team they meet - averaging around 70 % of possession - so it's limited how direct they can play as most teams park the "bus", so they're still reliant on recycling the ball in MF and in front of the parked "bus".
He may still even get into the team as a player
I would wank myself silly if this happened.
I think that would have made sense at that point.
Just because they 'dominate' it doesn't mean they're playing Tika Taka.
There's a distinctive difference to how Flick plays and how quick they get the ball forward compared to how Pep played with Barcelona, no-one has played like that since Pep and he doesn't even play it anymore.
Flick is an incredibly direct coach , he was the same at Bayern - the reason his teams dominate matches because they normally win the ball high up and keep teams hemmed in - Ange preaches the same philosophy.
The difference between the styles is that Flick likes to keep one full back wide whilst the other one underlaps whilst Ange likes both his full backs to underlap but the principes are the same...both coaches like to use the half way line as an extra defender and use attacking with the ball as a way as defending, both like to engage a high press, both are direct and get the ball forward and take risks.
Flick is obviously a better and more experienced coach than Ange.
not sure how i feel about this. icon of the game and one of the greatest ever midfielders. what actually happened at barca? why did he leave?
anyone better that the fat clown of course, but i think glasner is the one for us now.