No serious coach will play busquets against a team like Bilbao, make we Dey watch sha..

ThierryJay:


You can say that again. I love when players apply sense in their play and Ferran's decision making has been top notch unlike that Raphailure.

Raphailure

jpmoriarti:
Get Pedri out of your fucckking mouth

Lol Mr delusional
Assuming we drew, you would have said we played well and it’s not easy to win at Santiago.

jpmoriarti:
At this point, anyone is an upgrade to Busquet's atrocious performances in big game. Toni Kroos of all people outran Busquets to pass the ball for the first goal. Busquets couldn't even foul him. It is so saddening.

Eric Garcia, Busquets, Raphinha and Dembele were our worst performers today. They let the team and themselves down with a very below par performance.

Add pedri to your list, wasn’t impressed with him at all.

Garcia don cause penalty

Kilishihunter:
We no dey play anything, just freakin tossed around
This one pass all time low

Pass to lewadowski or pass to dembele..
P.S I think we hyped pedri too early..

GrammarNazi1:

This is the player that some senior members here said we don't have a replacement for.

Nobody can be as bad as Busquests, though.

Busquets is the one holding that midfield back, and dem still Dey beg am to renew.

Itsrm:
Xavi needs to bring in Raphinha and Kounde in this match. We can still salvage something from it. Great game so far

Na play be this?

Gallardo part ways with river plate

BlaqFaze:
I believe i can fly

This goal shocked the whole stadium, moments later he almost scored an own goal.

Xavi fit use the same line up against Madrid
You wan turn pedri and gavi to another iniesta and xavi like say na by force. Another coach will try to experiment with a midfield of kessie, fdj and pedri but NO! The midfield must be Spanish. To top it off we no get better wingers, just chaotic ones.
And season still long, anyways let’s see what happens this Sunday.
What we need is an unbiased, experienced coach wey no go Dey tolerate rubbish. You don’t play well, you sit on the bench. Because we have a very good squad.

I swear inter first goal still Dey muzz me, pique has to go abeg, he should go and take care of his club.

Terrible defensive display, costing us again.

Xavi should remove Alonso na

OhBritannia:
No Messi, no PSG.

Without Messi, PSG is just another Manchester united.

One of the reasons I don’t want Messi to come back, let’s not go back to square 1.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
zero creativity from d midfield.
even lewandoski don dey disppear 4 match.

Midfield no Dey work, wingers don Dey mumu
God Abeg..

Terrible performance
MAT man of the match for me..

But how is that not a penalty?

Man I really wish we got Bernardo, baba Dey ball..

Culer:
forget the dead left wing, the honest truth is that dembele isn't good enough, or isn't of the required level. He shits his pants when he's needed most. Take a look at vardrid and their run towards the UCL final last season, even with some modric genius here and there, their plan was "get the ball as fast as possible to vini and let him work his magic alongside benzema". And it was always effective. That can never work with dembele, he'll fail terribly and it's shown time and time again. Imagine attempting 24 crosses and just 4 were successful. If you cross cross tire say e no work you no go try another thing?. Dembele most times play like a brainless robot programmed to do one thing continuously, it's my problem with him. When raphinha switched to the right we could see that he immediately created our best chance of the game. Imagine if he had more time there! And that's solely on Xavi– not switching up things earlier enough.
I'm still optimistic Sha, we can make it out of the group.

Bro no worry, dembele good. His problem is psychological, make e go hire person to help am.

teeshet:
you dey use gotv?

No sir

Kilishihunter:
If you can't believe in your own team despite the various difficulties of the past years plus current ones, I please advice you culers to find a team you can believe in and will give you joy 24/7 x 100% of the time, it's as simple as that
Even if we go that europa again most of us will still be here supporting the team so what's the point?

Make we sha no go Europa
I rewatched our match against inter, nothing wey those people play, they just defended well.
If we play well, and take our chances we go flog them. I just wish Memphis was fit, him and balde on that left wing would cause problems.
In fact sef we can win our remaining three games. But if xavi Bleep up again next week, he will be under pressure. Culers no Dey waste time.

ThierryJay:
Barca's play under Xavi has been too heavily dependent on wing-play. Yes it may have worked in Liga pushing us to the top but when we face more physically savvy opponents like Bayern & Inter, our wingers are rendered sterile.

Xavi has to create a balance so we can find alternatives. Barca used to be a team that was dangerous through the middle, now it's almost non existent. He needs to leverage on Pedri, Gavi & FDJ to improve our central attacking play at least so we wont be as predictable as we currently are with Dembele and Raphina. At least before, it was the UCL latter stages where we stumble. Now we are struggling in group stages. Something needs to change drastically.

That our midfield no be am, gavi still doesn’t know when to release the ball, no be everything be marking. There was an instance against inter where he had a chance to release dembele with just one pass but he wanted to continue driving and then he was tackled. Pedri and fdj suppose Dey handle that our midfield. We have no creativity and that’s why we depend on the wing(dembele)

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Omo psg don Dey play ball sha, haven’t watched them this season.

Kilishihunter:

So would you have given them cash to buy players? Same you will drag the club hunchos for not doing anything and trying to turn us to the next "forgotten side", We've not even played the second leg yet and Europa, Europa shouts are just flooding here especially from culers more than other club fans, Wait for next week until we don't have a chance again na

I think this conclusion from most culers is because of the coach and his unwillingness to be flexible, baba fit use the same line up next week, recycle possession, ball to dembele, who will start spamming crosses and hope someone gets on one and scores.
P.S I thought Alonso used to be a good crosser of the ball during his time in Chelsea, abi him forget him left leg for there?

OhBritannia:
You guys are getting this thing wrong.

Our problem is not the players, our problem is xavi.

Have you seen Raphinha plays for Brazil?
If dembele was not good, i remember even Guadiola wanted him during the opening of the last transfer Window.

Number 1, Dembele is more effective when you sub him in the second half, because of his pace and dribble he brings to the game, the defenders of our opponent would have already been tired.

Why is xavi using Raphinha in the wrong position?

How do you expect Lewadoski to function when Raphinha is not in his position and we don't have a mildfiel?

The players are not the problem, The problem Is xavi.

He wants to be Guadiola by all means possible, overthinking nonsense.

Someone should go and tell him that there can be only one Guadiola on earth as there can be only one Messi and only one Ronaldinho.

If he doesn't come up with his own plans and tactic then he should leave the club.
How can you be losing one goals to zero and you still play the same tactic that made your opponent scored you?

Any good coach should know how to change tactic and formation in the Middle of the game.

Xavi need to win a trophy for barca lamasia first before he can be considered as a first team coach.

Since Luis Enrique left Barcelona, all the coaches we have been signing have Always been out of desperation.

God bless you brother..
He over thinks, and he can be very stubborn.
If we falter next week, he is definitely going to be under pressure.

I don talk am and I go talk am again, that midfield no be am, zero creativity, predictable play.
Just recycling passes and then give it to dembele to try and create something, same thing that happened when Messi was with us.
I am really happy Alonso’s contract is just for a year, because man’s useless.
Anyways, we can beat this inter next week, if we play well.

Omo Alonso no sabi cross ball oo
Ahh.

This bellerin go be liability finally..
Whether balde go fit play right back..

Me I don’t understand the injured players were all fine, what happened? Na araujo own Dey shock me pass less than a minute? And then he is out for 6-7 weeks?
Something doesn’t add up..

Dembouz left with some discomfort but report says it isn’t too serious