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jpmoriarti:
Olmo came on and scored a belter against Espanyol in the 88th minute in that close game and helped give the team all 3 points. Yesterday, it didn't work out for him, as he missed lots of glitch-edge chances but I am not going to crucify him. I am going to support him because he's an excellent footballer. Sometimes things don't just work out.

Yes, with Raphinha things tend to be more straightforward for the team. He's got this aura about him and he definitely scores more than his misses. Coincidentally, the last time he missed a match was against Chelsea and we lost that. Now, 11 match later, he's out again and we lose another match, which we should have won.

I don't want to draw any conclusions just yet but we created way too many chances yesterday to have won comfortably.

Sure, our defence is our weakest point. No single leader there. Everyone of them is as good and as bad as each other. Kounde is the worst. Always looking laboured, slow and uninterested. Curbasi can't win a tackle to save his life. Tuehh

Scoring belter against Espanyol is good but you have to be consistent at this level. If you score against Espanyol, you'll have to sore or create in subsequent games like Racing, Real Madrid, Real Sociaeda etc. Consistency is what I'm talking about and Olmo is nowhere near consistent. Something Raphinha since Flick took over have in abundance.

There's a reason why you're having issues with top 8 finish in UCL and why you immediately dropped points when he was out. To be successful at this level, you need to take your chances and do so consistently. That's how trophies and individual accolades are won.

UncleHaba22:
Madrid are literally winning games by just diving

Barca players will hold the ball even when they are getting kicked
Nawa o

But Flick gambled the match

Fermin and Olmo hasn't worked except they're coming against tired legs

He shoulda started Rashford

That's why they're getting slapped by Barca or any decent team in Europe. If there's a fair refereeing in a game involving Madrid and current Barca, people will stop watching Laliga because I can genuinely see a 6 or 7:1 victory for Barca.

The elclsiaco final where Kounde scored, if the referee was fair Lmao. 3:2? Madrid would've lost that game at least, 6:1. The one that ended 5:2 would've been at least 8:1 or 8:3. I honestly wonder what they're doing over there. Instead of coaching a cohesive team, they're hoping on refs. Laliga nah otu league 😂

jpmoriarti:
If you watched yesterday's game, you will see that Barca created enough chances to win the game comfortably. It is not the absence of Raphinha that caused the team to lose focus and concede immediately they fashioned an equalizer. Yes you make your own luck but I believe we were very unlucky yesterday. Lots of 50-50 decisions went against the team. We hit the bar like 5 times.

And besides, we were going to lose a game after some point. We went 11 games winning run.

Creating enough chances doesn't guarantee wins. what guarantee wins is taking your chances. Olmo missed at least two and dropped yet another stinker but I was surprised he was pushed to the left wing half space and not Feemin who's more industrious.

With Raphinha, Barca would've won 4:1. In my opinion, he's the best player in the world right now. Not just about the goals, he's selfless, works hard, so decisive with assist, goals, leadership. He reminds me of Puyol if Puyol was an attacker. Barca played well but you can't survive at this level if you concede 0.24 secs at the first whistle which was ruled offside then concede seconds after equalising. Eric, Curbasi should look at themselves in the mirror. Terrible.

The referee....gosh 🤮🤮

Ijostwantto:
mardrid go still drop points. They can't win all the 18 matches remaining. Barca too.
But Barca should have higher chance with the rookie coach mardrid go hire.

The coach won't matter much because they have refs. Mbape will trip himself over and get a penalty while Yamal will be killed in the box and given a yellow for diving. What you should worry about isn't Madrid's coach, they're a very weak team but they'll win games because of help. Worry about Barca dropping more points.

Madrid do not need to play well to win games, Barca need to absolutely do everything right in order to win. Check the last el classico and other games involving Madrid even last game Vs Levente.

The refereeing in Spain is one of the reasons I've stopped watching the league and why EPL is too far ahead of Laliga.

jpmoriarti:
How's this offside? This is insane.

If there's a doubt or it's very close, the rule is to favor the attacker. I don't understand why this goal was disallowed.

It's not football, it's Laliga.

If nah Madrid zero chance the goal is cancelled. Make Una manage am like that

Laliga refs are the worst in the world. All they know is to favour Madrid

Una dey try ooo lol

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main24:
We will revisit this quote after 10 to 20 games from Carrick. I might be wrong and he will be the messiah we've been waiting for. But it's too early too judge.
- Infact I am indeed worried he started with a win. I might be wrong, time will tell.

Wetin be this?

Jamiu nah so Una dey tackle Unaself for here?

raumdeuter:
Dem suppose tie Amorim to a chair and force him to watch this game 20 times

This game and domination could have ended 6-0

Some people said the squad isn't good enough to beat Wolves, Fulham and co

Jamiuokolaa:
The highline tactics killed city today

It could have been 4-0 atleast

I wish it was up to 4 or 5. Tinker man must learn.

Pep is playing high line with poor pressure. That's the hallmark of a finished coach.

Jamiuokolaa:
We really needed to see the team vs low block opposition

Pep made this game easy for us tbh

He played into carrick's hands

It's not about Carrick. Pep is a finished coach. He lost to Amorim when he was Sporting and Amorim is a terrible coach.

Is there time for 1 more goal? I predicted a 4 nil victory.

raumdeuter:
Winner of treble and 4 titles in a row first ever in English football

When we consider that he has won as many epl titles as Chelsea as a football club then we can say he is more important to English football than Chelsea

This man lol...

Belighmam is so bad under pressure. It's crazy!

Pep must learn hard lessons. Tinker man must learn. Two more goals pls

Kimbeast:
300k weekly lol. My bad

I been just dey look you laugh. Guehi collect 120k lol.

abduleez1:
Omo, I think say na only me dey see that guy and I dey wonder wetin Deco dey see. Cos I heard we have scouts at this AFCON.
The guy na rock solid player. Na that guy hold that defence not to crumble from all the Morrocan pressure.

Bassey to Barca defenders if he were to join.

ALEXAPLAYME:
I thought this was fake, I had to check Flashscore to confirm it. These players don't deserve anything good. The fans should please do what is necessary and boo the living daylights out of them.

Madrid going the Manyoo United way.

Ijostwantto:
fraudbappe is one of the reasons he left the useless club.

What Mbape did was extremely bad. Like WTF was that ?? But make Alonso sef getat.

You're always going to be sacked or leave by mutual consent when you start saying things like this after losing to your biggest rival.

Yes the super cup is the smallest but you lost against Barca; your biggest rival and shouldn't be trying to undermine the competition. There are some things you don't say. Just shararp and try to focus on how to improve performance.

Debroslink:
Even AirBere with all his hate watch won't say that FDJ was a ghost last night.

Frankie especially in the second half was on god mode yesterday. It was as if I was watching prime Busi. He dominated the whole midfield and actually outshone my guy Pedri yesterday. I think if he can continue to maintain his position and play like he did, Barca can finally see the best of him. But this is who he was competing against yesterday.

We've seen what Pedri can do and have done. Let's see if he(DJong) can do what he did yesterday in the UCL against a serious UCL contender.

Twale Dejong, he bossed it!

abduleez1:
Lol, you just day call this Cancelo like say e don sure say we don get am. Abi you know wetin I never know?

Attacking teams favour attacking players. Even if prime Puyol is signed, Barca won't stop conceeding goals. What a signing like prime Puyol will do is to reduce the goals conceded from 5 to may be 3. So instead of 5:3 scorelines, you'll be getting like 5:2 or 4:1.

Bottom line be say you'll sha concede and defense won't significantly improve no matter the CB signed because you can't consistently defend well for 90mins by constantly running towards your goal. Inigo the high line king and your best defender was here when Barca was conceding crickets scorelines. So why nt simply attack with Cncelo and win 8:2, 6:2, 7:3?

Cancleo deal is not official but like I said with the Rashford transfer, he's already a Barca player 💯.

Cancleo will be used to service both full back positions and will push them to step up. He's here for 6months with all his experience.

abduleez1:
Everyone knows he's bad this season. It's not even in doubt.
Why you didn't see much agenda for Kounde to be benched is because there's literally no one there. No damn options.

Araujo wey be mad man don spoil the plan already. Eric Garcia was the one to succeed Kounde and help bench him or keep him rested, but since Araujo and his strange bedfellow in Christensen has decided to be ALWAYS UNAVAILABLE, then we're forced to move Garcia to more pressing positions. And leave Kounde to fend for himself.

You also forgot DJ Spinall needs someone to hold his hand in matches should the case whereby Pedro is unavailable, so Garcia has to marshall that position.

So you'd see we're pretty limited. Balde that isn't even half or close to being as bad as Kounde this season gets Gerrard Martin to rest him in matches. So it's a no brainer Kounde woulda been benched if there was the option.

Hector Fort wey dem been try for there na atrocity.
This is the reason why you don't see very aggressive push for Kounde to be benched. There's no replacement in sight for now.

Yeah, I get you. Let's see if Cancelo will give him some competition or may be it's Balde that'll gain from the competitions because both actually need it.

pkasso:
Any word on Frenkie de Jong's performance tonight?

He did well 😃👍

abduleez1:
Dey play. Left to me. Stegen for don leave my club since 2020.

abduleez1:
. you're basing Cancelo being better than Kounde on a single match "he mark Vini" na.

The same useless Cancelo I watched for a while season? You must be joking.

Kounde is miles better than anything Cancelo ever did at Barca. This is Kounde's first bad season since he became a Barca player so stop the sensationalism.

Kounde was arguably our best defender few seasons ago and was a very competent CB. Even better than Araujo. The only issue was Christensen came and was equally very good and we badly needed someone in the RB role which Kounde adapted to. Araujo was good in the CB too, so naturally we moved the person more competent at RB which was Kounde amongst the centre backs. That's the only reason Kounde is at RB.

Yamal came and they blended so well it was hard to implement changes because Yamal's performance dropped anytime Kounde was absent.

Not that he's bad in CB and moved to RB like you're trying to say.
When Kounde dey hot, Cubarsi no fit smell that CB position.

No p. But you're going completely off the convo sha. He's been bad and I'm saying he should be dropped. The idea is not to drop him forever but just to give him the idea that his position is not guaranteed even though it is or could be.

Watch Rodrigo then and current Rodrigo that's what I'm talking about. As a Laigia follower, I know Kounde very well. He was the defensive leader when Sevilla had the best defense in Laliga so I know him very well. Not too long ago we wanted him as well at Chelsea before he chose Barca. But we can't deny he's been bad and needs to get back to his level.

typicalgamer:
1 game against vini
1 game and there’s other factors that lead to that

Same vini that was non existent against Paris ??

Same way we signed amrabat because he marked mbappe in World Cup 2022

No wahala Watin concern me before I be barca fan ? No

Make I they go suffer with my manure United

👍 👍

I dey tell you ooo...we just dey contribute as football fans, nothing more, nothing less.

Kilishihunter:
Your guy FDJ pulled on a midfield masterclass today

Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

He did well to be honest but even Sasa Luckic and Sanderberg of Fulham will win a midfield battle that involves Bellingham doing actual midfield work and then a bum like Camavinga add Tchomeni as CB and you're asking for too much trouble walahi.

Wait till you play Dortmund, Marseille, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Bayern in UCL away from home and tag me at full time 🙏

abduleez1:
Lmao, na one match wey Cancelo play with Vini na him you use am judge Kounde.

So Cancelo plays Vini for the whole 38 league matches?
The same useless Cancelo wey play for my team? Abi na another one.

As useless as you call Kounde there's no way in hell I'm exchanging him for Cancelo. Na attacking flair I wan chop.
You know what they call fluke performance? Vini wey no good this season?

Alves is like Cancelo but I know you'll say otherwise. Both are better playing on the front foot. Play Alves under a defensive coach like Xavi and you'll see how he'll suffer. They both play same style just that Alves was coordinating his play with the goat player and goat manager.

Na Baba, Kounde has been bad. Leave Vini out for now. And Vinnie can only play Kounde twice. If they meet in cups then maximum 4 times a season not 38. Kounde has been poor almost all season against quality teams.

But Baba, he should continue starting. I have no issues with this.

typicalgamer:
It seems some of you have the memory range of an orange 🍊

Why was cancelo let go in the first place if he was that good ?

Kounde compliments Lamal like no right back ever can it’s seems you don’t know what you have sha

Your memory is like that of warthog abi. Kounde is busy giving away goals games after games after games. Cancelo had same Vini on lock not quite long.

It's Barca's and Flick's biz if he's benched wetin concern me. I just dey air my views as a football fan. Go and get your facts right. Cancelo left Barca because of financial issues not because he couldn't defend. The guy is not as bad as painted. Far better than current Kounde as a RB!!!

drisham:
Make dem no sign abeg


If dem give this hansi flick tools he go too dominate

Long may they remain broke and tebas dumb rules limit them 🙏😂

Amen!!!

Flick dey try ooo. Eric Garcia and Curbasi starting and winning games Kai

andrewbaba44:
Cancelo wey we Dey call useless defender made vini useless at the CWC when Madrid played al hilal

Vini wey every Laliga defender don clock ,about 18 games he hasn’t scored ,but the moment he saw kounde he turn Messi

Kounde is not it man lol 😂😂. I was just laughing through out the game sha. I wanted Madrid to win so bad. Chai.

abduleez1:
This is what it means to have a top tier shot stoppper as a goal keeper.

I remember when I was saying sometime last season that I don't see Szcezsny as that top tier keeper to save your blushes when it matters most. And people dey come for my head. Una dey see say the difference is clear.

Being simply better than Ter Stegen doesn't cut it for me, as anyone decent is better than him currently.

See as you burn your captain. But people said he wasn't a problem nah