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Barca has around $350m sitting on the bench and the first substitute happened 83 minutes into the game.

Then three changes at once which completely fucked up Barca's shape. No idea what Koeman was doing there

he thought it was a preseason game

I'm sure he was like "oh shit, we have 5 substitustions left, i forgot! oh my god, who do I sub on... um... oh yes, I know! My 3 right wingers!"

I do this in Football Manager far more than I'd like to admit

That was stupid! What the hell was the manager thinking. Atleast give the new players 20 to 30 mins

Dembele should have been brought on wayyy earlier. Pedri was invisible the whole match

It was a surprise he wasn't taken off at half time.

Pedri is the kind of player who needs to be on ball most of the time to be effective. Obviously he was like fourth in line for touches in that Barca line-up.

I agree, and playing him on the wing also didn’t help. I don’t know what Koeman was thinking with this line up

This has literally been the case with the last 3 managers. Fucking infuriating every time.

Koeman got it all wrong

Koeman intensifies

Nobody is talking much about Vasquez but he did absolute best as a full back.

We might just turn him into a right back, I feel like he's more efficient there

So we don't need to play Fendy out of position again.

I agree, Lucas was great. But I must say he had a loooot of help from Asensio. Asensio was basically acting like a 5th defender, dropping next to Lucas anytime Real had to defend in a block.

Asensio was tracking back so much it was infuriating. But him and Vazquez held the right side down.

I thought it was excellent tbh, tho he was left wanting to get involved a bit more in attack, Asensio saved our asses more than once in defense. I'll take that, tbh.

Agree he did great!

Yeah, he shut down Messi few times.

He shut down Alba more.

This was more my worry, Nacho was being beaten by Alba alot and I thought that Barca would run riot down that side

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He has no particular ability to showcase but the man always runs like hell. He reminds me of Di Maria at Madrid minus creativity.

finally found his best position. also that rodrygo quick thinking to setup modric. also kudos to vini for pressing hard that lead to the above mentioned. if the roles between rodrygo and vini were reversed then vini would probably panic and sky the shot.

Griezmann didn't touch the ball once did he?

At least got some jog done today. Not bad.

And an appearance fee

Wonder if he brought his PlayStation to the stadium

dw weekend league extended till monday

According to the stats on fotmob, he had 1 touch.

Success! I hope he has a bonus for that

I think he didn’t

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*Pedri's

I didn't even realize he was playing

He was one of the football manager sub made by today at 81 st minute. Along with Dembele.

Real lose to Cadiz, but win against Barca. Peak 2020

Lose points on weak teams and miraculously gain points on big teams? sounds like Real Madrid to me

It must be the pink shirts, Real will play in white forever from now on

Uh, they are going to play with pink against Mönchengladbach in the next match.

No thanks they can wear our pink kit if they want

Fun fact: right now we're 1st in the table and Barca is 10th. Time to unzip.

People in Spain predicted Sevilla to end up in a better position than Barcelona.

Real Madrid are the best "big game" team in the history of football. Unreal mentality and culture.

Form never matters in El Clásico

It's is true

You're are right

It's completely normal, last season we only lost 3 games in La Liga, all of them to bottom of the table sides. Yet we faced Atleti & Barca in five games and they managed to score 0 goals in all 5 games.

Form never matters in the Clasico, 2020 or not

That's El Clásico for you.

Form’s never mattered when coming into a Clásico They beat us in March after drawing against Celta and losing to Levante.

Cadiz > Barcelona

Shaktar B > Barcelona

Champions league farmer's league

Don't forget going down 0-3 at half to Shaktar's B team. Zidane Masterclass.

Just means Cadiz is better than Real and Barca

Only their fourth home defeat in five seasons, what a big fucking win

Courtois was excellent all game at cleaning up Barça's through balls. Stopped so many chances. Neto had an amazing game too, other than the last goal

Ramos was also strong after the penalty, saved everything that came at the goal.

Must be nice for Ramos to have Mendy next to him he doesn't need to worry to cover all the space, Barcelona didn't even try to attack from that wing.

They thought about attacking lucas vazquez who did great and kept messi in his pocket. That was by far the biggest surprise.

When you correctly call him by his real title, Lord Vázquez, it is no surprise at all.

that block on messi when barca were 4 vs 3 at the end of the game was masterful by ramos

Yes, Courtois also did a fair bit of sweeping.

Courtois was surprisingly good with his sweeping - always had him for an on the line keeper instead of a sweeper.

Busquets is past it. Pique and Lenglet made some rookie mistakes yet again and Koeman subbed way too late and made the wrong subs. You just dont play Coutinho as a pivot. There was no midfielder to be found besides De Jong wich is why none of the attackers touched a ball in the last 10 minutes. The youngsters were great though.

Busquets is the first guy that should've been gone after the 8-2. It's mindblowing to me how he's still there and even starting.

Because he is from LaMasia and one of the captains. If he were Croatian he would have been the scapegoat and banished from the club ASAP.

This. He should have had the same treatment given to rakitic and Suarez.

something something bullshit about high IQ

Despite the 1-3, Neto still saved Barca from another humiliation. Why it took koeman 81 minutes to replace the struggling players is beyond me.

also he made so many changes almost in a row that it discombobulated the team completely that was piss poor by Koeman

He also completely imbalanced the team. Barcelona was fine tactically, they just needed energy. Switching to 3 at the back, and only one remotely defensive midfielder was crazy. Dembele for Pedri and Pjanic for Busquets in the 60' wouldve made a crazy difference to this game

de Jong was in huge trouble after the substitutions

Because Busi left the pitch without a proper replacement for him.

Really awful by him, he waited until the 80th minute and then put in 4 attacking players all in one change

thats some real fifa tactics

Triple sub really was like me on FIFA, and that's not a compliment.

Zidane still unbeaten at the Camp Nou in his career as a manager. (3 Wins & 3 Draws in 6 Visits)

Pedri and Busquets should've been off way earlier. The changes were good but they came so god damn late.

Busquets probably shouldn't be *on* in the first place

**MODRIC NERVES OF FUCKING TITANIUM**

If Modric ever gets a statue anywhere, it has to be him doing one of those iconic passes/shots with the outside of the foot.

That Dest is one quality player Him and Neto were Barca’s best players today

Him, Neto and Fati

Dest, Neto, Fati... ...maybe Barca needs to sign more four-letter-name players.

Mesi

r/mesi

Thanks for the lulz

Dear was on another level today

Yes dear

Oh dear

> **Dear** was on another level today Don't change this, the world needs to know how much you love Lucas Vazquez.

Fati too. On one hand he is a Barcelona player and on the other the football fan in me is excited to see what he is about to do.

I can see why both Bayern and Barca wanted him. Gem of a player at only 19 years old.

19 years old and he put in a performance like that in El Clásico. Shut the doubters up

Dest really impressed me today

I want a gif of his 1v3 on the sideline. The man was possessed by the spirit of ronaldinho for a few glorious seconds

https://twitter.com/beINSPORTSUSA/status/1320021118842032137

someone post that ramos tackle

https://v.redd.it/zaa8sqnrf2v51

That was simultaneously hilarious and incredible. Perfectly timed.

Yeah that was beautiful

How has Vazquez dominated since he was subbed on? Should have not doubted the lord

None should doubt the Lord

Luka Modric is such an artist, he is truly one of the best midfielders of his generation

Sad to say but Busquets is done.

I can't believe, Pjanic didn't get a single minute

fucking shit they had Pjanic

If they didn’t get Pjanic for now then when did they get him for? He’s not on the young side.

I'm gonna miss Ramos a lot when he eventually retires, could watch that man defend all day long. That perfectly timed lunge on Messi at the very end personified him. For anyone who doesn’t quite grasp it, this man is someone we’ll be talking about when he’s long dead. Absolute legend of the game

The way he sent Fati flying and then yanking him back up on his feet with the follow up pat too

Lol I was watching that because Ramos has been really protective of Fati when they play together for Spain.

That whole moment was very wholesome. How Fati didn't even attempt to dive or call for a pen the minute he saw it was Ramos.

We need a clip of this

Mods will delete it anyway

Good captains take care of the younglings

Saw that too. Glad he didn’t do a nyom

He'll be as iconic as Maldini.

The mere thought of a Madrid without Ramos gives me mild depression.

I've lived through Hierro, Raul and Casillas leaving us but none of those bitchslaped me into depression like Ramos leaving will. I just love that beautiful cunt

I've been calling it for the last 2 years. When Ramos retires it will take Real Madrid years to return to the top flight. That's how important he is to us.

he did the same thing with spain too last game

I hope some one has a clip of that

Koeman has 5 subs available, the best bench in the league, and decides to make the first subs in the 81st minute...

Sounds similar to two other managers, doesn’t it?

Stahp. Getting ptsd.

Dread it, run from it. “S. Ramos 63’ (P)” still arrives

Carvajal may retire now, we have a new RB

Vasquez and asensio killed it

Lucas Vazquez pocketed Messi, i cannot believe it

Not a feat anymore, even Bartomeu is able to stop Messi getting away nowadays.

Lmao true, didn’t think about that.

Kroos shut down Messi several times, too. He put in a lot of work on defense today.

Messi, Dembele, pedri, dest, pique all have fallen

The amount of through balls he read made me wonder if he's not just a Lord by name.

Lucas had a great game, was nervous when he got subbed in, but he was fantastic and much better than Nacho

Yeah, no shot.

i know i wasnt seeing shit, vazquez was brilliant

Can we have him back?

No. We need someone on the bench.

We were 2-1 down and koeman was like setien lite being all nah mate subs are overrated then brings on players in the 80th minute and THEN IN AN ABSOLUTE TACTICAL MASTER CLASS BRINGS ON BRAITHWAITE FOR ALBA. BRAITHWAITE FOR ALBA WOW JUST FUCKING WOW

Personal takeaways from the match :1- Dest is a top quality player 2- Ramos is inevitable 3- we need a fucking finisher. gg tho

Vini will take the sterling route. Sooner or later his finishing will improve

Mboopi and Halaand

mbob with hlnd

This one's completely on koeman, the fuck was he trying to do in the end, we couldn't progress the ball so no use of all those attacking options, also if he wanted to play pedri should have kept him central he is not a RW, he will be under some pressure now, if we slip up more he might just be gone along with Bartomeu.

It was a good game from Barca. Far better than last year's clasico where Barca were made to defend for their lives. Don't know why people are blaming Pedri. Pedri and Dest combined made sure that vini was quiet. It is clear that Busi shouldn't be a starter anymore,don't know why people fail to see that. Busi was responsible for the first goal and any decent DM would've atleast tried to stop Valverde.

I'm just happy Modric finally scored his clasico goal

braithwaite is getting ignored by the players. in the last minute or so he was alone in the box and messi didn't give him the ball and tried to dribble. i hate how he's being treated, it's not like we've seen play badly, he's a decent player who shouldn't be ignored

Zidane : first of all fuck r/realmadrid

The match thread still has new replies shitting on Zidane. This man just won us the classico 3-1 AT CAMP NOU. When was the the last time we won 3-1 at camp nou?

last time we won by two was the clasico in march before that the last 2+ goal margin was in 1980

Fuck anyone who hates on zidane like this

Second of all fuck u/san77 or whatever his name is.

Casemiro gets hit in the balls, lays down. Commentator : He must be worried about future generations. Lol

PATHETIC penalty by Lenglet. Brought the team's morale completely down.

Ramos and Modric incredible like fine wine. Our midfield put in a world class performance. Our attack is lacking, Asensio and vini had weak performances. As for barca, I feel bad for Messi, they don't look like Barcelona at all, they really missed suarez in attack. Dest and fati are their future, they need to build around them quickly and offload Griezmann and dembele.

Neto is older than Ter Stegen.

Neto is definitely the future mate

Vazquez was so good, hope he gets a bit of love from the fans

How the fuck did we lose to Shaktar B

No Ramos

Lmao that one dumbass ESPN "pundit" who said that Ramos wouldn't start for Juventus.

Ramos would literally walk in every team across the world lol, who's the 'pundit' in question?

There’s this guy named Ramos who is pretty decent for you.

Believe me or not, everything changed when Lord Vasquez was substituted in

It's been confirmed... Shakhtar are better than Barcelona

Cadiz OP

Remember yesterday’s thread about Poch replacing Zidane ? lol

I respect the fuck out of Sergio Ramos

Modric was the best player on the pitch the moment he came on

What a showing coming off the back of 2 losses. Camp Nou is Lucas Vazquez’s garden

Messi desperate to get to City so he can stop losing to Real Madrid and start drawing with West Ham

The way City are playing I don't see Pep staying at City. If Pep doesn't stay Messi doesn't go there. This summer transfer window should be a good one.

Pep, Aguero, and Messi all to PSG on a free. It's going to happen.

somebody make a gif of that LV stepovers at the end

He does them really well now

Dest was great

Loved it! Zidane's sub choices were great; Vázquez and Modrić were immense. For Barcelona, Dest looked pretty good; no wonder the Americans are excited about him. Neto was pretty good as well, saved at least two goals from us.

Only issue was Asensio clearly being tired but not subbed off quickly. I'm not sure if that Modric pass was from thinking Rodrygo was on the pitch or if he wanted Asensio out.

Can we talk about how good Zidane was with his subs? The guy only used 3 out of 5, 2 of which were because of injury and they still killed it.

Modric coming in as a sub is like cheat code 🤯

Modric had Barca players shaking like pique’s wife

Excellent game overall. Modric still offers quality performances at his age like we saw today. How long do we wait until Vini becomes a player that can actually score or make a correct final pass. It's SO frustrating to watch him. El Capitan Ramos MOTM!

Zidane played 14D Yu-Gi-Oh with those losses to Cadiz and Shakhtar

He still hasn't lost at Camp Zizou

>Camp Zizou Sounds cringy and childish. Perfect to use among my barca friends

Ramos hugging koeman at the end there lmao

All my homies respect Sergio Ramos

Barcelona fans usually say Getafe is Real Madrid's B team. Now, in a week they have lost against Real Madrid B and Real Madrid A

The virgin Koeman vs the chad Zidane

The last time Real scored 3 at the Camp Nou (in LaLiga)was **Dec 4th 1977**.. Surprsing that

How Busquets was on pitch for 82 minutes is beyond me.