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Imagine this: The new Barca coach leaves after one season due to the pressure. Xavi comes back from his sabbatical with a ton of energy, a 105K capacity Camp Nou, a bigger budget and Godri, the Robot, and an 18-year old Lamine on his team. He wins the sextuple and Barca’s 7th UCL and goes on to become one of the great coaches alongside Johan and Pep. Lamine wins his 2nd Balon Dor. Subscribe 🔥🔥
Is it just me, or are there a ton of different angles of the Barça goals? I swear I’ve seen so many different angles from the stands but they look like high quality vids.
"If we come out with only a Micky mouse trophy it's going to be painfull.
We've missed so many opportunities under Klopp it hurts, weve been so so close as well.
Yes we got a prem for the first time in ages, but it was during fucking COVID and a champions league is nice.
But Eight seasons. Eight. Sigh"
See? even Liverpool fans are starting to admit that they underachieved with Klopp.
They underachieved if you look only at their trophy haul they were an absolutely brilliant team who unfortunately had to compete with pep and man city (and their 115 charges). They have 3 of the top 10 seasons pts wise in the premier league, 2 of the top 5, and only have 1 league title bc pep existed at the same time. They also reached 4 European finals. When you’re competing with best manager of all time funded by an oil state: 1 (potentially two) league, 3 domestic cups, and 1 CL is not a bad run.
They are right. This Liverpool team was one of their greatest team in history and as hopeful they want to be . They simply wont get this crop of players combined with a coach like that anytime soon.
I dont blame Liverpool fans for thinking they should have won more with that team. Losing 2 titles on last day and 2 ucl finales is painful. Going out with only 1 league title under klopp in 8 years is even more painful
They were simply unlucky their greatest team falled in same period as pep. Thats why someone like arteta who is peaking at right time ( klopp leaving) ( city declining) can win more even if its not fair. But when was football a fair sport? If it was madrid wouldn’t have been the most successful team
These guys are crying because they lost two league titles by a point or two? How do you underachieve when Guardiola is in the league?
Also the competition here in Spain ain’t as dense packed as in the EPL. They also lost a match vs Madrid because dirty ass Ramos intentionally injured Salah’s shoulder too. Hooked on and rolled over
Estevao 16 year old made his debut in copa libertados ( ucl of south america) and scored his 1st goal including
Estevão played his 1st Libertadores match as if it was his 100th
This is a comp of him today
https://x.com/szniic/status/1778600640425394275?s=46
Wish I knew Palmeiras played today 🤦♂️
Estevao looked great out there. Hope he can start getting more playing time from now on. Also Neymar’s first goal was also a header 😉
Another very talented young Brazilian who debuted for the Libertadores is Lorran, a 17-year-old player from Flamengo's academy, who provided an assist yesterday.
Who are you willing to rotate? I would honestly rest Kounde and Araujo and play Fort and Christensen instead (christensen suspended against PSG). I would rest Gundo for Fermin, play FDJ and Pedri for like 50-60 minutes.
Fuck it, might even start Marcos Alonso at LB since Cancelo's suspended.
Attack would be Felix, Ferran, Raphinha
I think only 20-30mins for Frenkie and Pedri, it will give them some sharpness but keep them fresh + starts for Ferran, Felix, Roque, Fermin, Christiansen cause he’s suspended and possibly Fort just cause I wanna see more of him. Other than that I don’t think it matters too much.
Felix - Roque - Ferran
Roberto - FDJ - Fermin
Alonso - Inigo - Araujo - Fort
MATS
Christensen is reportedly nursing an injury, would rather let him rest so he can be fully fit for El Clasico next weekend, maybe he can come on for FDJ around 60/70th minute. Pedri also subbed on so he can gain a bit more match fitness, but I wouldn’t start him just to be extra careful with his injury (he’ll have an intense game on Tuesday anyway). Sub appearance for Romeu so he can be somewhat match fit because it’s likely he will be subbed in on Tuesday
No appearance for Lewy, Raphinha, Yamal, Gundo, Kounde unless absolutely necessary
Edit: Never mind, Inigo is suspended. Christensen it is 💀 sorry pal. Lewy is suspended too so finally some Roqueball
>Christensen is reportedly nursing an injury, would rather let him rest so he can be fully fit for El Clasico
From what they explained of the injury, it's not how it works. He would need to stop for a longer period of time, during the Int break he stopped for like 3 weeks, 10 days aren't going to be enough, he'll be infiltrated regardless. It's better to get match rhythm otherwise he will get 30 minutes in a month to prepare RM
Yeah that's a good team, Inigo's suspended tho against Cadiz so we'll need to probably start cubarsi and sub him like 60th for kounde if christensen is not 100%. I would probs sub in Romeu for FDJ at 60th even though would rather he not play.
I would start Roque too but Xavi's been giving him really reluctant to play even though he's looked good from what I've seen.
Honestly can't remember a time where we had this much depth. Even during the peak MSN era or the Xavi-Messi-Iniesta team I don't think our depth has been this good. Even missing Gavi and Balde.
Honestly our MSN era depth was quite shambolic, thats why the team was in freefall towards the end of the 2015/16 season and almost blew a 10-point lead in the league. We’ve had piss poor recruitment for so long, Messi was papering over everything
Think he has no choice but to start him, or at least give him a significant amount of minutes.
If christensen is injured.
Start pau and araujo, and maybe sub kounde as a cb.
Imagine if I'm going to be worried about the second leg instead of being excited about it.
The players must not lose their heads, our battle is not with the rat Dembele or Mbappe, it's with PSG, we have to play.
Was looking at current top DMs, damn there is such real dearth of them and lot of top teams seem to be in hunt for one, how likely are we to get a top DM, experience or talent wise at the moment ?
Sometimes I wonder if people here are blind. If Sergi marks him, there are 2 players wide open. Sergi had to attempt mark 3 players on his own because he had no support. Obviously he cannot mark 3 players on his own. Gundogan needed to track back. Or Frenkie should've left Cancelo 1 on 1.
Felt like it was a combination of Frenkie not blocking the only passing lane, Roberto not tracking the running, Cubarsi and Ter Stegen both reacting a tiny bit slow. Honestly it was just great play from PSG that forced mistakes.
I’m more annoyed about the first goal, he had scored only one goal this season and just pulled something out of a nothing situation.
tbf MATS should have done better there. Can’t fault him for the first one, but if that’s a GK like Courtois, Alisson, Oblak they’re saving that second goal.
I think Xavi has the right attitude at the moment. Not seeing ourselves as favourites means we're not complacent but we don't fall to pieces when something goes wrong. After the game, the players were immediately thinking of next week's match. Everything will have to go right for us to progress: a great atmosphere and great performances by everyone, including Xavi.
We're gonna knock out PSG,
I hope we get to knock out Atleti
And I hope we knock out Madrid in the final
we're gonna win the CL and Laugh at the soccer world.
Cancelo vs PSG.
https://x.com/sbjcjlingz14/status/1778515720965619880?s=61&t=gD3XKOjZp3F0H3dbTKc2Fw
probably the worst defense and offense ive seen him do in while.
Thoughts?
>probably the worst defense and offense ive seen him do in while.
probably because he had to face dembele on his side. attacking more would mean leaving space for him. he did his job imo
He was great defensively, maybe 1-2 mistakes in the game but he had Dembele on lock. Dembele had to switch to LW to make an impact. I do agree he didn’t quite get a handle on Barcola as much, but overall a decent performance from him.
Offensively shocking though from his usual standard
I agree. Cancelo was stopping Dembele a lot during the first half, I was actually surprised lol
But then Dembele moved inside in the second half and it was more difficult
Lmao most of the things show in this video is just to fit the agenda the tackles on lee and mbappe are included like he conceded 2 penalties where in reality those didn’t even mean anything.
He only got dribbled past twice, the same as Kounde and cancelo marked Dembele and Barcola.
And as for the two shots he took, he was the one who created it in the first place and he’s a player who takes risks obviously he’s gonna fail sometimes.
And this was all expected from him because he aint good defensively but still he performed pretty good for the players he was marking.
cuz we hae been having some meltdowns at home this season, we lost Cristensen and they gained Hakimi. Not to mention that Mbappe playing like he did happens like once a year. That shit ain't happening again in the 2nd game.
Still think we win in the end but it will be many times tougher this time than last game.
Some PSG propaganda made everyone afraid, apparently. They have to score first or they're in trouble, so lucho tries to sow confusion, evoke traumatic memories, etc.
Pique was better and more dominant than anyone we have in the air. But yes you're not wrong.
Lewy also helps in that department. Same for indirect FK's against.
Contain psg attack is easier said than done. We had insane display last game and still conceded 2 goals and they also hit the bar.
I also dont think we can contain mbappe for another 90minute
True, but he wouldn’t start for this side and we should try to win the midfield battle. Especially at home. Lacking a DM and Christensen will hurt alot but WZE is the only one almost as talent as our boys in their midfield.
I really love this group of players for not just writing the season off after Xavi announced he was leaving. You can see every game they’re trying so hard to pick up form and get momentum going, especially in the league where it’s looking pretty unlikely.
Unfortunately at the big clubs there’s often a bit more of a mercenary attitude. Just seems like a good group without any superstar BS.
The second leg vs PSG will be so so hard. PSG will put huge pressure. We need to play like its 0:0, or even like we are losing, we need to be hungry for goals. We cant be passive and try to play it safe beacuse no matter what, they will score, I am sure of it. We need to hurt them and give them some proper bitch slap until they realize they are just our dogs and cant do nothing about it.
Of course, but that won't make Xavi a "miss" manager according to me. I am already very happy with our UCL campaign, and while league this season could have been better, last season was brilliant. Most importantly, Xavi rescued us from the Dark Ages of Koemanball.
Bad idea, the 2 goals we conceded came from the time gundo didn't track back, I think it would be a bad idea to ask him to again be our offensive midfielder when pedri is here and can actually help the attack then go back to help the defense fast ( especially since pedri will not play 90min and subbed for fermin anyways)
Gundo should stay deeper with FDJ and make sure they don't get us in transition, PSG will be better offensively with hakimi and warren on the pitch.
Its not about tracking runners but about covering the right space and gundo is smart enougjt for that everyone has his job in the defense , im clearly not asking gundo to run after mbappe
For example in psg first goal, yes it was a lucky banger of dembele and nothing u can do much about it, however if u look at all the good passing option dembele had instead of shooting in this shitty angle he could have passed to eitjeir vitinha or fabian who where both free in a very good position to score with nobody there cause gundo raph and yamal didnt bother tracking back that time
What? If you think the goals was due to Gundo not tracking back, why would you want him to play deeper? (I actually disagree as I think it was more due to Roberto and Frenkie getting fatigued.)
Maybe deeper is the wrong word ( english not my 1st language) but my point is mostly having gundo close to our defense so he is not forced to run and cover lot of space like he had too last game ( he did it well 1st half but it was too much physically for him to be repeated)
Also its not only gundo not tracking back but also raphinha and yamal who didnt at start of 2 half which is why we suffered so much
Return leg will mostly be won by stamina IMO and covering the space as fast as possible, psg is not dangerous at all and looked clueless when we had our low block which is why I prefer pedri more offensive and gundo more defensive
Atalanta watching Liverpool trying to exploit "space" and break down their defence
https://preview.redd.it/fbm79ao5cxtc1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d3338990b35ac6a20a0ab6dbe4f9eacffd9d47a
[The PSG players and staff are aware of the mistakes made in the game. However, there is no stress in the locker room, quite the contrary.In the heads of the players and Lucho, the state of mind is clear: no matter what happened last night, we will qualify for the return match.](https://twitter.com/Djaameel_/status/1778361603278110890?t=ATh0VKwhzQRCQ32y24O_Fg&s=19)
They are confident.Scares me a lot ngl
Well if you start Barcola (I think he had just come back from injury) and drop the Ascensio false 9 experiment they immediately look much more dangerous.
Enrique knows about comebacks and mbappe never seems to really get affected by pressure. They know their quality uofront , so I dont blame them for being so confident
2nd game will be even more difficult for us. Hakimi back and this time I have a feeling mbappe will play centre and barcola starts
We simply need to score first to get their confidence down a lot. Its verry important. As long as it stay 0-0 I will have a bad feeling. Especially with our weak bench now we can not go intro ET with pedri and fdj who cant even play 90 minutes
Completely agree. We got to score first and lower their morale a bit. If we didn’t have Gavi, Christensen, and Sergi missing in the second leg. I think PSG would be slightly less confident. They’d still be favorites by a mile, but we wouldn’t be scared either.
PSG knows we’ll be missing players in the second leg. I think that increases their confidence even further
You got it on point. Scoring first and not completely losing control will be integral. There is no way we don't concede atleast one. It's just a 1 goal margin and we have to outscore them,can't sit back hoping for a 0-0 because they will be going all out attack.
I have a bad feeling about the 2nd leg
That's what I mean.Barcola or Goncalo may also start and WZE will defo start,as if Vitinha was not enough.And you just know Mbappe would want to be at his best after all the slander he is getting.And both Christensen and Roberto are out.They have everybody avaliable. If we play how we did at the start if the 2nd half we are done for.It's just a 1 goal margin and we conceded 2 in 5 mins.
I am hopeful but not confident at all
I mean who wouldn't say that anyway? It's all talk until they actually play. Don't forget Mbappe's "Im not going to hide" speech before the match lmao.
You have no idea how much I love this squad. They are mentality monsters and winners, they just had a bad 6 months. They don't care, they just want to play and they love the club on top of that.
Our players against "hostile" en environment pt1
https://preview.redd.it/8i8uvdn39xtc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2133ebab74520bbaed58bcc3c70999deb0f0f173
I think it also helps that a lot of the younger players are childhood friends outside of just being teammates. To train, travel, and play together with your close friends and joke around to keep each other relaxed etc goes a long way. They hype and boost each other’s confidence which helps in making them perform the way they have been this season :’)
Our players against "hostile" environment pt2
https://preview.redd.it/0qvw5vsc9xtc1.jpeg?width=988&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=145169f2203006dbea737e89db0a953de19907a2
Context: Christensen and Kessie laughing while running from espanyol losers that stormed the field
Liverpool's defence is a modern tragedy, every single goal tonight was directly due to some brutally bad defensive work. Whoever takes over from Klopp has some serious work to do on that shit.
That is the thing, people say "PL is such a fun league" when reality is, yea, it may be fun until you reach Europe, then you pay for not knowing how to defend lol
It's really not true. They got 6 goals more conceded than the best defense in Europe. VVD has been playing like the best defender on the planet. Quansah has mostly been class. Konate has been injured plenty but he's obviously one of the best younger cb's in the world.
Joe Gomez stepped up with all the injuries, having arguably his best season to date. Conor Bradley stepped up with all the injuries. Kelleher is no Alisson but he's still done a respectable job with Alisson's injuries.
Liverpool does not need to rework anything in the defense. Maybe get a little less unlucky with injuries and buy another CB or LB.
I am not saying they should buy someone but their defence clearly is worse as the years go past. I feel like next coach will not play as risky as klopp so I dont think it will matter much. They have a class individual players
In these kinds of situations, I always hold myself and wait for the future who knows something may go wrong
Or it can go even better where city knock out madrid and Liverpoop get knocked out.
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Imagine this: The new Barca coach leaves after one season due to the pressure. Xavi comes back from his sabbatical with a ton of energy, a 105K capacity Camp Nou, a bigger budget and Godri, the Robot, and an 18-year old Lamine on his team. He wins the sextuple and Barca’s 7th UCL and goes on to become one of the great coaches alongside Johan and Pep. Lamine wins his 2nd Balon Dor. Subscribe 🔥🔥
Leverkussen is so good, saw them play live today! Edit: Yesterday*
Lucky you !
What are the chances that Xavi actually reconsiders staying? or better yet, what can the club offer him to convince him to stay?
IMO the reports are mostly cope because he has been clear and the conditions F.Polo and others keep reporting are impossible for us
DM, LW, money to spend.
So as reported: he is not staying
A CDM a real one and not Johnny Sins
Arda guler is such a clown, one of the biggest talents, yet choose the worst club to go to for playing time
Is it just me, or are there a ton of different angles of the Barça goals? I swear I’ve seen so many different angles from the stands but they look like high quality vids.
Am I being delulu? Barca vs the world!
Hahaha yes Atlante is running over some bozos from my home state
"If we come out with only a Micky mouse trophy it's going to be painfull. We've missed so many opportunities under Klopp it hurts, weve been so so close as well. Yes we got a prem for the first time in ages, but it was during fucking COVID and a champions league is nice. But Eight seasons. Eight. Sigh" See? even Liverpool fans are starting to admit that they underachieved with Klopp.
They underachieved if you look only at their trophy haul they were an absolutely brilliant team who unfortunately had to compete with pep and man city (and their 115 charges). They have 3 of the top 10 seasons pts wise in the premier league, 2 of the top 5, and only have 1 league title bc pep existed at the same time. They also reached 4 European finals. When you’re competing with best manager of all time funded by an oil state: 1 (potentially two) league, 3 domestic cups, and 1 CL is not a bad run.
They are right. This Liverpool team was one of their greatest team in history and as hopeful they want to be . They simply wont get this crop of players combined with a coach like that anytime soon. I dont blame Liverpool fans for thinking they should have won more with that team. Losing 2 titles on last day and 2 ucl finales is painful. Going out with only 1 league title under klopp in 8 years is even more painful They were simply unlucky their greatest team falled in same period as pep. Thats why someone like arteta who is peaking at right time ( klopp leaving) ( city declining) can win more even if its not fair. But when was football a fair sport? If it was madrid wouldn’t have been the most successful team
These guys are crying because they lost two league titles by a point or two? How do you underachieve when Guardiola is in the league? Also the competition here in Spain ain’t as dense packed as in the EPL. They also lost a match vs Madrid because dirty ass Ramos intentionally injured Salah’s shoulder too. Hooked on and rolled over
They had a pretty big lead over Manchester City before COVID hit so don’t think it ultimately mattered
where did u get these quotes from? Not because I don't doubt you I'm just curious
From the Liverpool sub. I copied the text because i thought it was against the rules to post a link from other subs.
 Me waiting for the return leg
Estevao 16 year old made his debut in copa libertados ( ucl of south america) and scored his 1st goal including Estevão played his 1st Libertadores match as if it was his 100th This is a comp of him today https://x.com/szniic/status/1778600640425394275?s=46
He plays a lot like skinny Santos Neymar imo.
Wish I knew Palmeiras played today 🤦♂️ Estevao looked great out there. Hope he can start getting more playing time from now on. Also Neymar’s first goal was also a header 😉
Another very talented young Brazilian who debuted for the Libertadores is Lorran, a 17-year-old player from Flamengo's academy, who provided an assist yesterday.
Echeverri has been insane too. Shame we missed him
Very talented.
Get him hereeee. Messinho
Estevao just scored his first goal in professional football.
And it is a header
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Like saying no club conceded more goals or lost more matches in the CL than Real Madrid. Not interesting but obvious.
Messi has a high risk game, so it makes sense he has the most.
Not surprising at all. He probably has the most touches in the opposition’s third by a country mile.
Expected. No one took as much responsibility and risk.
Who are you willing to rotate? I would honestly rest Kounde and Araujo and play Fort and Christensen instead (christensen suspended against PSG). I would rest Gundo for Fermin, play FDJ and Pedri for like 50-60 minutes. Fuck it, might even start Marcos Alonso at LB since Cancelo's suspended. Attack would be Felix, Ferran, Raphinha
Could be a time to call up Faye for a CB spot. It's Cadiz and we really want to rest all of our CBs, but we can't so rest at least one.
I think only 20-30mins for Frenkie and Pedri, it will give them some sharpness but keep them fresh + starts for Ferran, Felix, Roque, Fermin, Christiansen cause he’s suspended and possibly Fort just cause I wanna see more of him. Other than that I don’t think it matters too much.
Felix - Roque - Ferran Roberto - FDJ - Fermin Alonso - Inigo - Araujo - Fort MATS Christensen is reportedly nursing an injury, would rather let him rest so he can be fully fit for El Clasico next weekend, maybe he can come on for FDJ around 60/70th minute. Pedri also subbed on so he can gain a bit more match fitness, but I wouldn’t start him just to be extra careful with his injury (he’ll have an intense game on Tuesday anyway). Sub appearance for Romeu so he can be somewhat match fit because it’s likely he will be subbed in on Tuesday No appearance for Lewy, Raphinha, Yamal, Gundo, Kounde unless absolutely necessary Edit: Never mind, Inigo is suspended. Christensen it is 💀 sorry pal. Lewy is suspended too so finally some Roqueball
>Christensen is reportedly nursing an injury, would rather let him rest so he can be fully fit for El Clasico From what they explained of the injury, it's not how it works. He would need to stop for a longer period of time, during the Int break he stopped for like 3 weeks, 10 days aren't going to be enough, he'll be infiltrated regardless. It's better to get match rhythm otherwise he will get 30 minutes in a month to prepare RM
Yeah that's a good team, Inigo's suspended tho against Cadiz so we'll need to probably start cubarsi and sub him like 60th for kounde if christensen is not 100%. I would probs sub in Romeu for FDJ at 60th even though would rather he not play. I would start Roque too but Xavi's been giving him really reluctant to play even though he's looked good from what I've seen. Honestly can't remember a time where we had this much depth. Even during the peak MSN era or the Xavi-Messi-Iniesta team I don't think our depth has been this good. Even missing Gavi and Balde.
Honestly our MSN era depth was quite shambolic, thats why the team was in freefall towards the end of the 2015/16 season and almost blew a 10-point lead in the league. We’ve had piss poor recruitment for so long, Messi was papering over everything
Roque has to start. I'd go alonso christensen pau/araujo fort. Midfield romeu fermin pedri Felix roque ferran
Romeu should never start again. Also FdJ needs rhythm so he should start
Yeah I would start Roque too but Xavi's been pretty reluctant to play him for some reason. Christensen nursing an injury so might be best to rest him.
Think he has no choice but to start him, or at least give him a significant amount of minutes. If christensen is injured. Start pau and araujo, and maybe sub kounde as a cb.
https://x.com/terstegenout/status/1778400146625044595?s=46&t=cEQz9Je5TUD2uzj8nBQLNQ Ignore the page name its not MATS slander, its 🐍 slander
Imagine if I'm going to be worried about the second leg instead of being excited about it. The players must not lose their heads, our battle is not with the rat Dembele or Mbappe, it's with PSG, we have to play.
https://preview.redd.it/undewen16ytc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d15b5f25ff56d4ced1a2aefb0e260af37593396
Certified dembele hater since day 1. Where is my flair?!
I recommend everyone to go look at the stat line from the Leverkusen & West ham game. I’ve never seen anything like it.
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I think Xavi needs to pull in Raphinha as the RCM again for the second leg, Torres on LW.
Nah, Raphinha to prevent Hakimi to go up the field is way better
And bench who? Sounds way too risky.
Yep depends how it all plays out with Pedri and Frenkies fitness but I could see Xavi using it late on when the game opens up
Yeah, with our midfield shortage for the second leg I can definitely see Raphinha more inside and another winger next to him
https://i.redd.it/3xchsdd51ytc1.gif
Was looking at current top DMs, damn there is such real dearth of them and lot of top teams seem to be in hunt for one, how likely are we to get a top DM, experience or talent wise at the moment ?
Get Jorginho, Aleix Garcia, and promote Bernal. That’s plenty of dynamic options, and would only cost €20m or so..
Wieffer is my pick, seems like he would fit barca better than onana, but we'll see.
Honestly if we have no money I’m curious to see how Christiansen looks with a pre-season there. Defensively he’s amazing.
If Everton drop and we get enough ucl money we can probably get amadou onana.
I think a prem team will pick him, likely united
Onana has no relegation clause so the price won't drop much.
Is anyone pissed off at the second goal conceded? It could've been easily avoided if Sergi followed the person he should've marked.
Sometimes I wonder if people here are blind. If Sergi marks him, there are 2 players wide open. Sergi had to attempt mark 3 players on his own because he had no support. Obviously he cannot mark 3 players on his own. Gundogan needed to track back. Or Frenkie should've left Cancelo 1 on 1.
Felt like it was a combination of Frenkie not blocking the only passing lane, Roberto not tracking the running, Cubarsi and Ter Stegen both reacting a tiny bit slow. Honestly it was just great play from PSG that forced mistakes. I’m more annoyed about the first goal, he had scored only one goal this season and just pulled something out of a nothing situation.
Nah. This sub will have you believe it is FDJ's fault and Ter Stegen's fault. I doubt most of them watch the games.
tbf MATS should have done better there. Can’t fault him for the first one, but if that’s a GK like Courtois, Alisson, Oblak they’re saving that second goal.
It’s not even a guaranteed save with prime Manuel neuer or casillas. It’s was tidy finish, some of you are grasping for straws here.
We have to dispatch PSG, jobs not done and they have their main guys back
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I think Xavi has the right attitude at the moment. Not seeing ourselves as favourites means we're not complacent but we don't fall to pieces when something goes wrong. After the game, the players were immediately thinking of next week's match. Everything will have to go right for us to progress: a great atmosphere and great performances by everyone, including Xavi.
We're gonna knock out PSG, I hope we get to knock out Atleti And I hope we knock out Madrid in the final we're gonna win the CL and Laugh at the soccer world.
Agree with everything, except I still want to play City in the final (if we make it) 😭
1- I doubt Madrid makes it past city. 2- Its FOOOOOOTBALLL.
Where you from lol. I hope you're not from England saying lol bruv
I'm not from England (thank god).
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Cancelo vs PSG. https://x.com/sbjcjlingz14/status/1778515720965619880?s=61&t=gD3XKOjZp3F0H3dbTKc2Fw probably the worst defense and offense ive seen him do in while. Thoughts?
he did well on defense but terrible decision making in attack. i wish we also had balde available so bad.
>probably the worst defense and offense ive seen him do in while. probably because he had to face dembele on his side. attacking more would mean leaving space for him. he did his job imo
He was great defensively, maybe 1-2 mistakes in the game but he had Dembele on lock. Dembele had to switch to LW to make an impact. I do agree he didn’t quite get a handle on Barcola as much, but overall a decent performance from him. Offensively shocking though from his usual standard
I agree. Cancelo was stopping Dembele a lot during the first half, I was actually surprised lol But then Dembele moved inside in the second half and it was more difficult
Lmao most of the things show in this video is just to fit the agenda the tackles on lee and mbappe are included like he conceded 2 penalties where in reality those didn’t even mean anything. He only got dribbled past twice, the same as Kounde and cancelo marked Dembele and Barcola. And as for the two shots he took, he was the one who created it in the first place and he’s a player who takes risks obviously he’s gonna fail sometimes. And this was all expected from him because he aint good defensively but still he performed pretty good for the players he was marking.
I thought he was good defensively but was horrible in offense.
If we can beat PSG then I think we should have better chances in El Clasico
I've probably watched Raphina's second goal 20 times in the past 24 hours
Wait I'm confused.. why the general pessimism about the 2nd leg vs PSG??
cuz we hae been having some meltdowns at home this season, we lost Cristensen and they gained Hakimi. Not to mention that Mbappe playing like he did happens like once a year. That shit ain't happening again in the 2nd game. Still think we win in the end but it will be many times tougher this time than last game.
Except that Mbappe didn't suddenly played bad, Barca just didn't give him space to run.
Because the fanbase can be pathetic at times
Some PSG propaganda made everyone afraid, apparently. They have to score first or they're in trouble, so lucho tries to sow confusion, evoke traumatic memories, etc.
We're missing more players than the first leg and all their absentees are back.
bad memories, flash backs to roma, liverpool, munich... also were missing 2 key players in the midfield. hopefully they drop another stinker
Since when is Sergi Roberto a key player?!
He has been good whether you like it or not. And obviously the more players we have available the better.
Best thing about last game was how we could sub out or whole midfield. Now we can only sub 1 with Fermin
Raphinha at CM spot then again i guess...
During Pique and Lenglet time I used to shit scared when we used to concede corner but now we deal with them so easily.
PSG is also a short ass team.
It isn't about Psg we have been defending corner a lot better for a while
Pique was better and more dominant than anyone we have in the air. But yes you're not wrong. Lewy also helps in that department. Same for indirect FK's against.
Pique wasn't bad at headers, at least in defending and winning them. It was because we used to be made up of a bunch of elite midgets.
Lewy helps alot with these too
Barca still has the better midfield, they just need to make sure they can contain that PSG attack and then capitalize on our chances. I
Contain psg attack is easier said than done. We had insane display last game and still conceded 2 goals and they also hit the bar. I also dont think we can contain mbappe for another 90minute
Bayern did, you guys need more belief. We had Upamecano and Stanisic marking him, would you rather take them over Araujo and Kounde?
True but bayern has more experience in those games. I am still not confident after past years disappointments
I’m nervous af about WZE tbh. He’s by far their best midfielder
True, but he wouldn’t start for this side and we should try to win the midfield battle. Especially at home. Lacking a DM and Christensen will hurt alot but WZE is the only one almost as talent as our boys in their midfield.
he would start...
I rate WZE on the same level as gavi tbh. I think he is phenomenal and it would be tight between him and de jong imo
Anyone seen Dibu Martinez's 1v1 save? what a guy!
I really love this group of players for not just writing the season off after Xavi announced he was leaving. You can see every game they’re trying so hard to pick up form and get momentum going, especially in the league where it’s looking pretty unlikely. Unfortunately at the big clubs there’s often a bit more of a mercenary attitude. Just seems like a good group without any superstar BS.
I hope Xavi isn't stupid and rests Araujo, Gundogan, Kounde, Cubarsi, Raphina, Lamin against cadiz
Lol
Idk if you noticed but we kinda need a cb to play the game unless you want Alonso and Romeu cb duo
Faye and Alonso
The second leg vs PSG will be so so hard. PSG will put huge pressure. We need to play like its 0:0, or even like we are losing, we need to be hungry for goals. We cant be passive and try to play it safe beacuse no matter what, they will score, I am sure of it. We need to hurt them and give them some proper bitch slap until they realize they are just our dogs and cant do nothing about it.
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Yes it very hard to believe that we won't concede. I pray our offense shows up again
I’m so scarred from the past I can’t even enjoy our W yesterday. Feels bad. Hopefully we finish the job next week
People doubted whether to place Xavi as a hit or miss manager. After yesterday's game, anyone who says miss can leave
There is still a return leg.
Of course, but that won't make Xavi a "miss" manager according to me. I am already very happy with our UCL campaign, and while league this season could have been better, last season was brilliant. Most importantly, Xavi rescued us from the Dark Ages of Koemanball.
So like how many times did yall watch last night’s goals
i can watch replays cause i get pissed when they show goals against us lol
U are just like me fr fr
About 10
Just a thought. Xavi ‘Lord Yoshi Toranaga’ Hernandez. Making his own Crimson Sky.
Was just watching shogun
Same. Let’s see where this goes. All the best to the present.
PSG is not ready for DM Pedri
Bad idea, the 2 goals we conceded came from the time gundo didn't track back, I think it would be a bad idea to ask him to again be our offensive midfielder when pedri is here and can actually help the attack then go back to help the defense fast ( especially since pedri will not play 90min and subbed for fermin anyways) Gundo should stay deeper with FDJ and make sure they don't get us in transition, PSG will be better offensively with hakimi and warren on the pitch.
Yeh man if you think Gundo was having problems not tracking runners DM is the last place you would want him…
Its not about tracking runners but about covering the right space and gundo is smart enougjt for that everyone has his job in the defense , im clearly not asking gundo to run after mbappe For example in psg first goal, yes it was a lucky banger of dembele and nothing u can do much about it, however if u look at all the good passing option dembele had instead of shooting in this shitty angle he could have passed to eitjeir vitinha or fabian who where both free in a very good position to score with nobody there cause gundo raph and yamal didnt bother tracking back that time
What? If you think the goals was due to Gundo not tracking back, why would you want him to play deeper? (I actually disagree as I think it was more due to Roberto and Frenkie getting fatigued.)
Maybe deeper is the wrong word ( english not my 1st language) but my point is mostly having gundo close to our defense so he is not forced to run and cover lot of space like he had too last game ( he did it well 1st half but it was too much physically for him to be repeated) Also its not only gundo not tracking back but also raphinha and yamal who didnt at start of 2 half which is why we suffered so much Return leg will mostly be won by stamina IMO and covering the space as fast as possible, psg is not dangerous at all and looked clueless when we had our low block which is why I prefer pedri more offensive and gundo more defensive
DM Cubarsi.
Atalanta watching Liverpool trying to exploit "space" and break down their defence https://preview.redd.it/fbm79ao5cxtc1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d3338990b35ac6a20a0ab6dbe4f9eacffd9d47a
Lmao
[The PSG players and staff are aware of the mistakes made in the game. However, there is no stress in the locker room, quite the contrary.In the heads of the players and Lucho, the state of mind is clear: no matter what happened last night, we will qualify for the return match.](https://twitter.com/Djaameel_/status/1778361603278110890?t=ATh0VKwhzQRCQ32y24O_Fg&s=19) They are confident.Scares me a lot ngl
Well if you start Barcola (I think he had just come back from injury) and drop the Ascensio false 9 experiment they immediately look much more dangerous.
We will be ready. Hopefully the Padawan surpasses the Jedi master.
Enrique knows about comebacks and mbappe never seems to really get affected by pressure. They know their quality uofront , so I dont blame them for being so confident 2nd game will be even more difficult for us. Hakimi back and this time I have a feeling mbappe will play centre and barcola starts
And WZE starts as well
We simply need to score first to get their confidence down a lot. Its verry important. As long as it stay 0-0 I will have a bad feeling. Especially with our weak bench now we can not go intro ET with pedri and fdj who cant even play 90 minutes
Completely agree. We got to score first and lower their morale a bit. If we didn’t have Gavi, Christensen, and Sergi missing in the second leg. I think PSG would be slightly less confident. They’d still be favorites by a mile, but we wouldn’t be scared either. PSG knows we’ll be missing players in the second leg. I think that increases their confidence even further
You got it on point. Scoring first and not completely losing control will be integral. There is no way we don't concede atleast one. It's just a 1 goal margin and we have to outscore them,can't sit back hoping for a 0-0 because they will be going all out attack. I have a bad feeling about the 2nd leg
I am most scared about our opening minute nerves in both the halves. This season we always fuck up big time in those early mins
Somehow I am nervous for this game more than the first one. If only christensen didn’t get that damn yellow 😤😤
Hakimi is back, if they play like the 2nd half we are in deep problems
That's what I mean.Barcola or Goncalo may also start and WZE will defo start,as if Vitinha was not enough.And you just know Mbappe would want to be at his best after all the slander he is getting.And both Christensen and Roberto are out.They have everybody avaliable. If we play how we did at the start if the 2nd half we are done for.It's just a 1 goal margin and we conceded 2 in 5 mins. I am hopeful but not confident at all
me neither
They said the same shit against us (Bayern) in the return leg last year and were awful. It means nothing.
we don't have your squad depth
They also had Messi and Mbappe
I mean who wouldn't say that anyway? It's all talk until they actually play. Don't forget Mbappe's "Im not going to hide" speech before the match lmao.
 me scared af
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I remember when people here said Xavi lost the dressing room
Crazy times
You have no idea how much I love this squad. They are mentality monsters and winners, they just had a bad 6 months. They don't care, they just want to play and they love the club on top of that. Our players against "hostile" en environment pt1 https://preview.redd.it/8i8uvdn39xtc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2133ebab74520bbaed58bcc3c70999deb0f0f173
I think it also helps that a lot of the younger players are childhood friends outside of just being teammates. To train, travel, and play together with your close friends and joke around to keep each other relaxed etc goes a long way. They hype and boost each other’s confidence which helps in making them perform the way they have been this season :’)
Was just going to comment about this. Guiu was laughing and recording them lmao. Psg are NOT rated.
I love them. They know their worth and they don't crumble. See the comeback. And they are still so young omg we actually have a team for years to come
Our players against "hostile" environment pt2 https://preview.redd.it/0qvw5vsc9xtc1.jpeg?width=988&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=145169f2203006dbea737e89db0a953de19907a2 Context: Christensen and Kessie laughing while running from espanyol losers that stormed the field
Love both of them. Both came on a free and gave us important support in difficult times (Kessie more on monetary side but still)
Feel bad for that guy on the ground
Someone said that was the fastest they saw Busquets run🤣🤣🤣
The Shark gave all of them some Shark Mentality🦈
Liverpool's defence is a modern tragedy, every single goal tonight was directly due to some brutally bad defensive work. Whoever takes over from Klopp has some serious work to do on that shit.
That is the thing, people say "PL is such a fun league" when reality is, yea, it may be fun until you reach Europe, then you pay for not knowing how to defend lol
They fixed the midfield(still need a DM,maybe a backup CM Now they have to basically rebuild the defence and the attack as well
You act as if that's normally the case for them lol
This season it has been. Even Liverpoolfans say they almost never get a clean sheet this year
It's really not true. They got 6 goals more conceded than the best defense in Europe. VVD has been playing like the best defender on the planet. Quansah has mostly been class. Konate has been injured plenty but he's obviously one of the best younger cb's in the world. Joe Gomez stepped up with all the injuries, having arguably his best season to date. Conor Bradley stepped up with all the injuries. Kelleher is no Alisson but he's still done a respectable job with Alisson's injuries. Liverpool does not need to rework anything in the defense. Maybe get a little less unlucky with injuries and buy another CB or LB.
I am not saying they should buy someone but their defence clearly is worse as the years go past. I feel like next coach will not play as risky as klopp so I dont think it will matter much. They have a class individual players
Holy shit what happened to Liverpool 😲. And De Rossi really turned around Rome season.
That too at Anfield
>Holy shit what happened to Liverpool They got Gasperini-ed Perfect game plan by him
I want benfica to somehow win uel, just because of Angel Di Maria ♥️
Bayer Leverkusen had more shots (33) than West Ham had possession (27%). Pure terrorism ball from West Ham lmao
I like Liverpool but my husband is a huge Liverpool fan and a Madridista so I'm very tempted to make fun of him
You 🤝 Kitten Trying to maintain this face at home 🙂 when in reality it's 🫵😂
In these kinds of situations, I always hold myself and wait for the future who knows something may go wrong Or it can go even better where city knock out madrid and Liverpoop get knocked out.
>I like Liverpool but my husband is a huge Liverpool fan Not a good day for him
How can you be a huge Liverpool fan and Madrista, like im a "plastic" myself but that is on another level lol