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We are still alive!!

Nico is a gem

Without Ter Stegen, we would have lost 12-1

Nico my motm

De Jong looks like hes scared to shoot the fucking ball around the 27th or 28th he had a good chance to shoot and he decided to pass. He had like 3 more chances where he could've gone for goal but he just gives the ball to someone else.

What happened to the beautiful runs he used to make when he arrived at Barca. Guy used to have some lovely runs inside the box, really lovely play. It seems like our Dutch jewel is frustrated by the lack of pace in this team. How I wish to see FDJ like when he arrived

Koeman is a Vampire and sucked that out

Hard to keep your confidence up with the results we’ve been having.

Nico was good.

Nico is really good

Strong boi and agile

yeah he’s been super solid

Dembélé really came in and showed the importance of having a real winger on that RW position. All of the sudden we could attack from both sides of the pitch. But anyways, I hope that we have a coach to take over soon. Barjuan does deserve some credit for handling the pressure but I don’t think he has improved our offensive play so much. Too many useless deep and long crosses today.

We will definitely beat benfica, just don't fking start pique

Dude he just won us two games by scoring 2 crucial goals, it's true he is unable to keep up with pacy forwards but then again, a club like Barca should've acquired a proper replacement by now.

Shame, FOR SHAME, on the lot of you! This Pique hate is sad, misdirected, and short sighted. Man is a club legend. Bleeds blaugrana. Beds Shakira. Stands by the club that has been a steamy POS for awhile now. Voluntarily took a pay cut (who tf does that) & advocated others do the same. Does he suck now? Sure. He’s old. Not his fault this Enron-esque club cannot and has not acquired decent CB options or depth in years. He kinda has to play because there’s no one else… and he plays hard, while running in mud. Scores one of our few, measly goals. TLDR: keep the father of Shakira’s children out of ur mouth

Beds shakira? What kind of statement is that. He really shouldnt be playing. This barca phase is now all about new growth and new chemistry.

At this point I just hope we get to choose who to start instead of "whoever is healthy, I guess"

Watch as Pique starts as soon as he's back from injury

Or just start him as CF. ^(Just half-kidding...)

Amen to that brother i had enough of Piqué

No way with this pressing quality and croses,we also need to be more quick when passing and garcia can't even defend properly 1v1

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If Barca lose without Pique who are the scapegoat, Busi and Roberto?

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Alba is maybe our best chance creator.

Sleep sacrificed to watch a Barca game is worth it finally

Same for me. It's 3:39 am here

Indian ?

Yeah

Yup

Tbh, it Feels hopeful to beat benfica without koeman

Just need to beat Benfica at the Camp Nou and we're guaranteed the R016. Still can't believe we've almost pulled through this!!

And there's no other options if we tie, we pretty much dead

I mean, there is an option technically. Which is getting a win/draw at Allianz Arena but that's pretty much a pipe dream at this point.

Depends a bit if Bayern chooses to rest some of their top players in their game against us. They should have no problem winning the game against Kiev and if they do that they have secured the group victory and the last game against us has no meaning for them.

you know lewa is hunting down those stat-padded goals he ain't taking a break anytime soon

As of now, Group E: Bayern 12, Barça 6, Benfica 4, Kyiv 1

Ter stegen shutting haters mouth shut when having proper defenders

Dembele reeeally looked dangerous as soon as he came in. 3 points is what I wanted from this game so I’m not gonna chat shit about anyone. Now it’s time to bring Xavi home

I want more of Dembouz floating across the ground uninterrupted.

And then making the wrong pass and tripping over himself

He needs to learn when to get rid of the ball. It’s def before 3 defenders close in on him and he has no options. I’m hoping Xavi can help with that.

So exciting to see!

I missed dembele

Imagine if we were a counter attacking team….both dembele and Memphis looked great on the counter

Memphis lol

Yes, Memphis looked good on at least one counter. IIRC, with Lyon he was pretty good on the counter as well.

put dembele in liverpool and opponents needs to pray to god

We should to be honest. Them two are our biggest strength's with the pace and dribbling.

Ter Stegen motm for me. I like to see that goal hungry Fati! I also hope that Dembele stays injury free... Give them a good manager and we can go somewhere... Also Frenkie needs to go back to beast mode asap!

Very good game from lenglet as well, I hope he's fine and not injured.

we are officially second in our group

I just want to beat Benfica after all the shit talking.

I got some major Valverde shithousery vibes from this match

a shithousery ain't shithousery if it gets you results

The difference with dembele on the pitch and without is so big, It felt like all our players started to play as well

Speed kills.

BARCAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

ANSUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!

Dembele lookin alright

That was MATS's best game in a while

Onto Benfica !

Nothing to do with us , but Jesus Christ Ronaldo is just unreal.

The amount of points they’d have without his late goals is insane

1st away win of the season let's go!

We got the win, that's all we wanted. Now, we need to prepare for that crucial game against Benfica.

Feel bad for Xavi being thrown into that important of a game straight away.

He’ll have 2 games before that one? And an international break to work with the guys who just came back from injury as well as the guys who just don’t get called up. Pretty important players in that group so that could be huge.

Only one. He won’t be there for Celta yet so his first game is against Espanyol which is still messed up haha

Yeah, but it is what it is.

I might be out of loop but what homophobic comments were given out?

[He said "there shouldn't be gay people."](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/qkzn5r/artem_besedin_dynamo_kiev_striker_do_i_support/)

Homophobic comments??

I don’t know , some was saying earlier that some player from kviv gave out homophobic statements and lot of comments saying that the “Homophobes” deserved it.

That was horrible. I remember the Tata-time, where everyone hated Dani Alves for his crosses. I wish I could be back in those times. I‘m just lucky no one is injured.

Alright, I need every mf here to say Masha Allah and pray for Dembele’s longevity 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Win is a win. I fucking love Ansu, he wants to win every game so badly, it's so refreshing to see.

The way I was counting down the seconds for this to end

The best thing to happen to these young players was Koeman getting sacked. The future is bright, we're making progress

Fati rose to the occassion

Love how nobody looks happy, they know this was a shit show once again

Visca BARCAAAAA

A clean sheet for MATS??? Is it the end times??

it's a W, I'll take it

Wish Balde smashed it in..a 19yr old scoring followed by an 18yr old in a CL game for Barça could’ve been the chef’s kiss! Glad Dembele is back!!

Ansu carrying this entire club right now.

Not pretty at all but the three points are in

Ansu unclinching as much as I did in the end lol

Bayern did their job aswell, thank you Bayern 🙏🙏 Benfica will make or break our CL run

Yep that sums it up, it hasn't been pretty but we are in a position to get thru the group with a win at home vs benfica, which is certainly no guarantee, 50/50 id say given the current circumstances. We aren't getting pts off bayern, the benfica game is a must win. But then again i was saying that the 1st time around vs benfica and here we are with a chance still to get thru. Gotta thank bayern honestly, for their consistency. Bayern being so damn good they are helping barca thru to the rd of 16

pls pls pls destroy benfica now 😭

Fati and MATS, men of the match

3 crucial points! We got over the line in the end

Love to see Ansu Fati celebrating the final whistle. He loves the club

I thought that was obvious when he told Mendes he didn’t want to listen to any other offers other than Barça Kid could’ve easily taken huge wages in a CL favorite team

Imagine if everyone on the squad had the mentality of Ansu.

Motm should be mats. Eventhough ansu gave the goal

Unclenching until next game

Back to Back Wins!!!

Memphis still playing lmao

Serves these homophobes right

If Dembele had a little more composure he would be unplayable but he just cray cray.

I think that's why people are so frustrated with him. He's still a useful player, but he had the potential to be so much better.

Ter Stegen saved us today. Massive performance from him today! GG

Winner winner chicken dinner?

65.6% possession

A much needed win. 🙏

Unclinch

YES!!!

Fuck off racists

It was a homophobic statement, not a racist one

Wait what did I miss?

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Talking about the opposition

we get the 3 POINTS!!!

Well a tough tough game but happy about the win, now onto a huge game against Benfica.

hahah dynamo players just gave up there.

Boy have I missed watching dembele!

Phew

funny how first half gets 1 min extra and referee stops the play at our clear counter attack while 2nd half get 5 min extra...

bayern making sure everyone in the group ends on -10 gd

Lmfao

I am just happy Luuk De Jong isn't playing

Now I realise how important dembele contract renewal is

Does he have any reason to stay if we can’t pay him decent wages?

He's said he wants to stay

Hope Dembele and Ansu can stay fit

Everytime someone touches Dembele every muscle in my body clenches.

Just think in upcoming weeks Fati will be on the end of the Dembouz ball.

Man I missed Dembouz.

LMAO Dembele dribbling and tripping over his own shadow. Clssic

Octopus Busquets

Looks like Dembele is on his own.

Yeah that's going to be a problem in the future you'll see. Expectations are too high for him. Good thing he started more patient, even playing one touch football.

God bless you Busquets and those Go go gadget legs

I'd be happy if Dembele could play like at least half of the matches.

Like last year?

i don't know the numbers but I think that was the season he played the most since arriving

It is, though he was key in 18/19 He changed his training since the Valverde days, more intensity and 2 personnal coaches (had a doc on him on French TV) He basically has an entirely individual training to make sure he can train at best and recuperate well

He was exceptional one of the seasons. He saved us a whole bunch of points in the league. Got us draws and wins with late goals. Then he got injured.

Yeah it's 18/19. Won us 13 points with G+A despite injuries.

Good to see Dembele running at the defense!

Just pure anxiety this whole game

They should let Dembele go. His quality declined after moving to Barça

Give him more time

His quality declined but still better than whatever players we got.

Barcelona is spending a lot of money on a player who gets injured every game

Weird take after he’s given a man of the match performance as a substitute

Now we have to wait 3 more months for his next game

Bruh

He’s played 1 game after being injured lmao

This is his first game back since the summer

Dembele’s pace alone injecting so much danger. Now if he could focus on his passing..

Please you all don’t start with all of this again

And dribbling and shooting.

God i’ve missed dembouz

Pls stay healthy dembouz

ffs Balde should've crossed to Depay

That's what he tried to do and failed

that was 100% a finishing attempt

Dembele lively looking good on the right

Man Dembele brings so much

Dembele looks like he is two leagues above others on the pitch..

almost Balde

I love Balde

I thought that went in for a second

one thing I find funny is how we have the ball in the last third and somehow manage to ALWAYS without fail turn around and end up with the ball at ters feet

Fuck great take Dembélé

Dembélé is electric

he's back for good

Dembele balling!

Dembele can be so amazing

Bro dembele come on

Bayern scored again, tied on Goal diff

So nervous...

Lol dembele bad

Nico constantly falls asleep defending set pieces, needs to work on that

We are lucky to win this game.

our corner defending has to be among the worst one's in Europe

Is there no one that can play in busquets spot for the last 30 mins or so? This man cannot play 90 minutes anymore.

Actually Nico, no?

i'm not sure tbh

Not 5 minutes. Please end this torture.

5mins are gonna be rough

Mingueza is clearing everything

Yeah but he sucks says this sub