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jpmoriarti:
Messi playing poorly so far. Lots of misplaced passes already.

Easily dispossessed... Not misplaced passes.

Payporte:
2-1 psg to win

Omoh. PayPorte... Kai.

donstan18:
Alright, he won it outside the pitch.

Now Show me the EPL trophy Gerard won outside the pitch.

Allow this man to rest, please...

Rastaramsey:
WTF man.... I am beginning to agree....
Ronaldo is useless without scoring.... The painful part is now that he will now be forming senior man upon the rubbish wey he dey play....

You have seen the light

This picture is one of the many mysteries from our last match that keeps bugging me. Imagine that despite Alba delivering a beautiful cross that led to Pedri's goal but couldn't advance into the box despite this amount of space.

Kloppo:
Offensive abilities dey important

You club could have had 3ucl's rather the scummies

This is solid.
Damn!!!

jpmoriarti:
Chaiii


What is this?

It's not only Akara, it's fried yam.

Google translate doing what it does.

Kilishihunter:
Against Valencia, the most likely defence will be: Alba, Eric, Mingueza, Dest.

— @sport https:///AqaB13oCeO

Eze Jisos were akara

What is this, Kilishi?


Hahahha

ThierryJay:
He's better as a winger biko, it would be criminal to waste that searing pace in a defensive role. I know you'd probably talk about the Canadian leftback for Bayern, but Bayern can afford him as a left back cos they already have other speedsters occupying the left wing role.

Adama has a reputation of poor finishing, yet his end product is miles ahead of Dembouz, what does that tell us about Dembele's quality?

I agree.

There's an ongoing debate on Facebook about whether we should train Adama to be a full-back since his finishing is poor or whether the team's gaffer should work on his weakness and improve him as a winger.

What do y'all think, guys?

cliqtips:
Barca now lacks midfielders that can give final passes to strikers.

Just look at when Auba came in, one can count several touches he had.

I don't think we are lacking creative midfielders... What I think is wrong with us is the inability of the forwards to make open runs. The only person capable of doing that is Adama and if you look at it well, you'd notice that we chose to play through Gavi's position and isolate Adama so that they get overwhelmed when we eventually go through Traore's position. But it just didn't work because we lacked that connecting midfielder in Pedri and Busi yesterday. Both were just off.

Kilishihunter:
CB, LB, RB, DM the whole backline has to be overhauled, Garcia hasn't really put on great shifts, We got Araujo from Barca b, xavi and his coaches should also look within and see if there's any gem there we can use to temporarily patch things up till summer, Mika marmol and Diego almeida are there,We are still 4th but just by Goal difference since the rest won

There are quite some guys from the B-side but I just don't want them getting in for now. We can't deal with childish defensive mistakes like this. Let's get a proven defender(s) and train up Nico and FDJ for the DM shift, please.

OhBritannia:
Bosquet is not a problem trust me.
This same Bosquet is easily the best player in the Spanish national team.
His teammates in Barcelona are the problem.
Apart from Messi, Neymar and Suarez during MSN, bosquet is easily one of the best players in Barcelona.

Yes i know he is old which is a fact but did you watch the Euro cup which Italy won?
Busquet was the best player in Spain and one of the best in the whole tournament.

Bosquet is not the problem trust me.

Busquests has a got some things in him but he's still as sluggish as ever, even in the Spanish NT. His covering has always been Llorente ( playing as a RB and cover-up CM just as Dani did against ATM), and Pedri. Once these ones are off from the center, it's easy to break through Sergie

Debroslink:
Dembele shone today just because Alex Vidal was extremely tired. Gavi really worked on that Vidal guy. If Dembele had started the match when everyone was fresh, he would play rubbish.

Of course. Only a blind man would not see how solid Gavi was on the left-wing. But I think he played more as an extra midfielder than an attacker which is why he couldn't connect with the other forwards. The Ferran I know before would have dropped back for him to move forward but that one was completely off it today.

Kilishihunter:
He hasn't had much joy in the past few weeks, Let him enjoy
On to serious matters The more xavi lingers and wines with the old guard the more he puts himself in trouble, try FDJ or a defender in the pivot role, It's just bad that there's no current replacement for Alba, The board better prioritize the Defense and DM role even above a striker as soon as the season finishes and stop all this nonsense Catalan tax

I agree. We need reliable CBs. I don't know how Araujo would fare in coming weeks but we need a defender that's equally aware and fast at the same time. I don't know what Eric's strength is anymore because I just cannot bring myself to understand him.

abduleez1:
Na back of TV that one dey watch.
Person wey almost all him crosses dey connect. I even dey call am cross merchant sef during the game.

Dembele just enter game occupy space. Gavi remaining there sef woulda been more effective asides fatigue.

I no too blame Dembouz because him go dom day rusty small. But his football driving spree was noticeable and would have held off Vidal more if he was brought in earlier. My problem now is why e no sabi cross or have any visible end product yet.

OhBritannia:
If not that Barcelona has fallen from the top.
Players like gavi, Eric Garcia, Pedri, luk de jong, Torres, nico add no business being in our starting Eleven.
They are Copa dey Rey products and not laliga and champions league product.
The teams mates of Adama traore failed him tonight, he is clearly a class above all these over hyped indomie players.
Even Dembele that entered in second half shows that he is high class above all of them excluding Adama.
There are four players that can get into the first team of Manchester City or PSG or Bayern Munich And they are Dembele, Adama traore, Frank de jong and Busquet.
The rest players are products of Newcastle united and xavi should stop playing this nonsense card on players like gavi and the rest.
By now he should have his steady and normal first eleven which are untouchable except maybe he wants to rest them to avoid injury.
Dembele, Adama and Aubumayang and Frank de jong should be untouchable and unchangeable, they must start every match From now on.
It's not even negotiable, these is how you build a formidable team like MSN.

You have started with your some of your ridiculous rants again.

So there's every loneliness that we'll see Dejong as a CB in our next feature?


Lol, simply lol.


I'll take that over playing Oscar anyway.

abduleez1:
The person I'll blame for this useless result would be XAVI... Baba deey mad.

Why the fvvk won't he remove Busquets after this atrocious performance. Removes De Jong then refuse to bring in Nico earlier to shore up the middle.

I'll say this sentiments and favouritism will be the death of Xavi in Barcelona.

The friendship between Busq amd Xavi might cost our gaffer im the long run. He should start making some tough calls and not just sit down to absolve every past they had. Bench this man and play someone faster please.

sotall:
Which beautiful cross?

Most of his last touches are waste!

Adama last touches, wasteful?

Please re-watch the match again.

We are still in the top-4.

So rest you trolling atrocity of a human!!

Debroslink:
That shouldn't exonerate him from his shambolic displays since Mascherano left.

I'll tell it to anyone that cares to hear that Pique has been fair since Xavi's arrival and all these calls for his head is only because we feel he has exhausted his cards. Today was just another bad day for him and let's take it in good fate since even younger Eric was woeful

cliqtips:
He is not a top 9.

The coach is just doing wrong selections favoring his countrymen.

Emerick is there to start and use Fran as a winger.

Bench Gavi

I agree with you about the favoritism part, partially.

But the only reason why I am against Gavi is his reluctance to release key passes immediately. This should have been addressed already by bringing in Auba and playing Ferran on the wings or better still, remove Ferran for Dembele.

Debroslink:
When 55m is spent on you, you should get the ball rolling and not using age as an excuse. This is Barcelona.

Since he came, isn't this the first bad match he's had? Suddenly, we should accept that he's a failure.

C'mon

Nawa for most of us here sef. This blame game should be channeled to the likes of Eric, Busquets, and Xavi for removing Gavi so late in the game. FDJ was clearly not it and his withdrawal was well understood.

Give Aubamayeng time already. This is his second game and he's playing from the bench sef.

Debroslink:
Ferran Torres is a waste of space. 55m wasted.

I beg to differ. That boy is young and is already playing a top 9 for a team like ours already... It's not going to be easy..



If there's anything I'll bless Koeman for doing, it's gonna be the inclusion of Luuk De Jong and the emergence of Pedri.

sotall:
Who is that mumu center back that dashed Espanyol that second goal?

Eric Garcia

Luuuk De Jong!!!!

jonsnow92:
Ter Stegen go face 2 shots
Gbam
2 goals.

German Maduka Okoye

It'll be unfair to blame MATS solely for that second goal

This Eric seem to be so average.


C'mon... We are wasting our own time.

Jordi Alba abeg na

Which style of greeting Pedri and Gavi day do now?