jonsnow92:
Iniesta is a nairalander I'm sure..He delivered a masterclass the moment I typed that.

Haha


Chelsea fans are thinking of including him on their prayer list.

snowstormm:
I want to state our defence was purious today....na God save us dat those alaves no sabi score


unbeaten run continue....next stop valencia

Was partly due to the full backs being less effective, both Digne and semedo didn't put in a good shift, we lacked organization in midfield with no biscuits on the pitch

Messi always d Messiah

RoyalBlak007:
MY POST MATCH ANALYSIS


Semendo- Dude needs to learn how to make forward runs..Run into space bruh . Make decisive passes..

Umtiti-Calm as always.Had a nice game..Needs to up his speed and aerial ability

Digne- [Thank goodness for alba]

Rakitic-Too relaxed or should I say "Too slow" in tight situations.

Coutinho-Was He instructed not to shoot the ball Had a couple of chances to shoot. Caresses the ball for abit too long..Always looking to play in Messi

Suarez-Outiside the box he might be sluggish, but once he's within the 18'

Messi-Manmarked by wakaso but still... delivered a masterclass

Iniesta-Amazing

Ur analysis is 100% accurate to me .
Both Semedo and Digne didn't really do well on the flanks until Alba and Roberto came in.

EV sure needs a way to integrate Phil without playing him on the right.

Watched Phil's highlights and was really impressed albeit it is evident that playing from the RW or RM is limiting his creativity and general input. EV just needs to do the needful ASAP.

dmcdad:
EV sure needs a way to integrate Phil without playing him on the right.

Watched Phil's highlights and was really impressed albeit it is evident that playing from the RW or RM is limiting his creativity and general input. EV just needs to do the needful ASAP.

It's either he plays

Coutinho and messi

Or

Coutinho and iniesta

Or

Iniesta and messi


Using the three of them wouldn't work

haymekus:

It's either he plays
Coutinho and messi
Or
Coutinho and iniesta
Or
Iniesta and messi

Using the three of them wouldn't work

yeah... let's use more of Coutinho in LA Liga & cdr

haymekus:


It's either he plays

Coutinho and messi

Or

Coutinho and iniesta

Or

Iniesta and messi


Using the three of them wouldn't work

Coutinho can play with Iniesta, all EV needs to do is have Suarez at CF and Messi on the RWF. Coutinho should play as LWF until Dembele is back or LCM when Iniesta isn't available.

As i dey switch to match, Messi scored a nice free kick, what a sweet feeling. 3POINTS.

patrickmuf:
Coutinho can play with Iniesta, all EV needs to do is have Suarez at CF and Messi on the RWF. Coutinho should play as LWF until Dembele is back or LCM when Iniesta isn't available.

Your right, when i saw the line up...I was expecting something of such, surprised to see him shifted to RWF.

But it seem at a point he was playing a free role , inter-switching to the left flank also.

Respect for Alaves , they are well organized defensively.

eyoniggar:
As i dey switch to match, Messi scored a nice free kick, what a sweet feeling. 3POINTS.

Gbosa @eyonigger (the man wey open this barca thread) how is you?

Abeg can u open a country, I go like move.

Too many creative players on the field of play and maybe fatigue from the Thursday game can be said to have caused the team's performance yesterday. There was little or no bite in attack. Plus P. Coutinho was clinging to the ball quite needlessly, something reminiscent of Neymar JNR.

More so, playing J. Paulinho as a CMF is suicidal. Against the big guns, the team would suffer. He plays better offensively as he lacks the creative comportment to organise things in the middle. He was exposed time and again and were it a very confident team, D. Alaves should have gotten up to 3 goals from the several counters they launched.

Overal, i think EV has done a good job so far and has proven to be a tactically sound coach who reads games and time his subs properly. He discovered there was great difficulty with penetrating from the middle and then instructed the players to play through the left flank most especially. That unarguably was why he kept Emperor Iniesta, removed L. Digne, brought on J. Alba to torment that flank. Then S. Roberto (a better offensive player) for N.Semedo the tactically efficient man.

I hope we just stay unbeaten till the end.

Mehn nobody is talking about how we felt busquets absence

Barca needs to start searching for busquets replacement asap

Guys are over reacting i think.

It wasn't a bad game.

Alavez got the early goal and put 10 men behind the ball.

With such pattern the team needed patience to break them down.

Busquets or no Busquets it would still have gone that way.

I would say rather, that the master stroke was bringing in Alba and Roberto to expand the attack.

The same Buscuit that will be eaten raw in february.

Valverde: “There are times when the ball goes in and the goal isn't given and sometimes handballs happen. I see it with my team, however I believe the handball is involuntary. I asked Umtiti but aside from cutting off his hand, I don't know what else could be done.”

Thug life

modextus:
Valverde: “There are times when the ball goes in and the goal isn't given and sometimes handballs happen. I see it with my team, however I believe the handball is involuntary. I asked Umtiti but aside from cutting off his hand, I don't know what else could be done.”

Thug life

Those guys are fools

Wakaso fouled messi in d box shortly after we scored and we didn't get a penalty

We scored against Valencia yet d ref disallowed d goal


To hell with their opinions

patrickmuf:
Coutinho can play with Iniesta, all EV needs to do is have Suarez at CF and Messi on the RWF. Coutinho should play as LWF until Dembele is back or LCM when Iniesta isn't available.

Using messi as a RWF is a bad idea cus he ain't gonna track back to carry out defensive duties


It's better he plays upfront with suarez,

tesppidd:
Guys are over reacting i think.

It wasn't a bad game.

Alavez got the early goal and put 10 men behind the ball.

With such pattern the team needed patience to break them down.

Busquets or no Busquets it would still have gone that way.

I would say rather, that the master stroke was bringing in Alba and Roberto to expand the attack.

The emboldened is spot on.

Malaga are getting relegated this term.

From helping madrid win the league in the last day of last season to getting down.

ClumsyFlimsy:
Mehn nobody is talking about how we felt busquets absence


Barca needs to start searching for busquets replacement asap

Nobody can replace busquets. He is the best DM of his generation and probably of all time. He is the most important player in the team after messi.

haymekus:


Using messi as a RWF is a bad idea cus he ain't gonna track back to carry out defensive duties


It's better he plays upfront with suarez,

Same RWF messi that orchestrated a treble in 2015

Olamyyde:

Same RWF messi that orchestrated a treble in 2015

Use your brain kid!!!


Messi is almost 31 and no longer a 28 years old player


You don't expect him to keep running up and down the pitch like he did in his early playing days

haymekus:



Use your brain kid!!!


Messi is almost 31 and no longer a 28 years old player


You don't expect him to keep running up and down the pitch like he did in his early playing days

show me how much messi was tracking back in 2015 before u throw puny insults

Deulofeu joins Watford on Loan.



Bye Bye.


Wish you Luck.

Coutinho should not play any rwf, he n iniesta should not be on the pitch at same time it'll unbalance the team. Ev should maintain 442 with messi joining suarez in attack cos i cant trust suarez 100% to lead that attack alone (he has lost pace cos of age n is an awful passer). Finally, paulinho cant play cm or dm for barca, the niqqa should always join the attack n track back 2 bully players, that's the only way he's useful; niqqa can't run a midfield. Ev deserves praise despite working with the worst barca board in recent times.

Alexis Sanchez announcement video was watched 20 million times in the first 24 hours. #Alexis7 become the world's most-used Twitter hashtag, whilst the announcement was bigger & more viewed than Neymar’s move to PSG.

Yahoo1:
Alexis Sanchez announcement video was watched 20 million times in the first 24 hours. #Alexis7 become the world's most-used Twitter hashtag, whilst the announcement was bigger & more viewed than Neymar’s move to PSG.

Because Man United is way way bigger than psg in history, fanbase and they they are the richest club in the world...

it's impressive don't get me wrong but it's not that surprising either...

Yahoo1:
Alexis Sanchez announcement video was watched 20 million times in the first 24 hours. #Alexis7 become the world's most-used Twitter hashtag, whilst the announcement was bigger & more viewed than Neymar’s move to PSG.

Because Man United is way way bigger than psg in terms of history, fanbase and they are the richest club in the world...

it's impressive don't get me wrong but it's not that surprising either...

OlaBa:


Because Man United is way way bigger than psg in term of history, fanbase and they they are the richest club in the world...

it's impressive don't get me wrong but it's not that surprising either...

Well said.

Xavi simons

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