jonsnow92:
Samu was MOTM yesterday IMO.



The one thing Enrique did right.

d guy strong. umtiti

senorova:
Not to spoil the fun o.

While barca is the obvious favorite to beat Chelsea home and away, the team must (as a matter of fact) not underrate Chelsea.

I remember in 2012. Chelsea were having serious managerial issues after AVB was sacked. Di Mateo who was the stand in coach had no UCL experience as compared to Barca's legendary Guardiola. At the bridge, barca played the whole 90 minutes we all know who won the first leg. With Alexis, Fabregas, and Pedro coming really close...only one goal from drogba was enough.

The pressure of knock out was too much for barca in the second leg. Chelsea somehow managed to knock us out. Especially at this knockout stage in UCL, anything is absolutely possible. The only thing that will fvck barca up is if we go into that match with overconfidence, or lethargy.

Truth is, I won't even be surprised if barca gets knocked out. 1 quick fire goal, bus parked will do the job. All this second half ginger barca likes doing won't work if they fail to convert chances from the first minute.

I don talk my own sha

Lord knows I've preached caution against chelsea on this very thread, I highlighted their strong points and said they might worry us but I never for once believed they would knock us out. I still don't.

See, history doesn't play football, players do. Tactics does. Character does. These are values barca have in abundance. Sometime in November, I said we would end the year unbeaten. Someone reminded me that we hadn't played madrid. According to him, no matter how low madrid sink, they would always be a hard nut to crack. Needless to say, madrid collected 3. Last season, we couldn't get a goal in 2 legs against juventus, this season they collected 3 in the first leg.
Bayern beat us 7-0 over two legs, the next time we met them, we beat them 3-0 in the first leg. History is always there to be broken.

With laliga in the bag, copa in the pipeline, we have the opportunity to rotate our squad and present a very fresh squad for that game. Chelsea on the other hand won't be so lucky, they have very tough league games before and after playing us and seeing as they are still struggling for top 4 and do not have enough quality to adequately rotate, there is a high possibility of presenting a fatigued team.

Like someone earlier said, if barca loses that game, it is because they messed up. The game is ours to lose.

SerVik:

Lord knows I've preached caution against chelsea on this very thread, I highlighted their strong points and said they might worry us but I never for once believed they would knock us out. I still don't.

See, history doesn't play football, players do. Tactics does. Character does. These are values barca have in abundance. Sometime in November, I said we would end the year unbeaten. Someone reminded me that we hadn't played madrid. According to him, no matter how low madrid sink, they would always be a hard nut to crack. Needless to say, madrid collected 3. Last season, we couldn't get a goal in 2 legs against juventus, this season they collected 3 in the first leg.
Bayern beat us 7-0 over two legs, the next time we met them, we beat them 3-0 in the first leg. History is always there to be broken.

With laliga in the bag, copa in the pipeline, we have the opportunity to rotate our squad and present a very fresh squad for that game. Chelsea on the other hand won't be so lucky, they have very tough league games before and after playing us and seeing as they are still struggling for top 4 and do not have enough quality to adequately rotate, there is a high possibility of presenting a fatigued team.

Like someone earlier said, if barca loses that game, it is because they messed up. The game is ours to lose.

I agree with you, that barca are outright favorites. My pouint exactly is that anything is possible in the UCL knock out stages. It is true that players play football and not history. But any establishment cannot move forward without learning from history. 2012 that Chelsea knocked us out, would you say barca didn't have character or Guardiola wasn't tactical enough? As a matter of fact, barca played a 3-4-4 at camp nou in that second leg... Chelsea had a red card, and practically had no tactics except to defend.

My point is this... we know that consistency, team cohesion, form, squad depth will win games. But when it comes to knockout, anything can happen! Football generally can be unpredictable at times...tactics have been known to fail times without number.

Are you now expressly saying that there is zero probability that Chelsea will knock out barca?

Just like it won't surprise me when madshit knock PSG out

jonsnow92:
Samu was MOTM yesterday IMO.



The one thing Enrique did right.

Gratitude to the board n the technical committee in charge of recruitment then.. Shrewd acquisition... Now let's increase his buyout to 200m

senorova:



I agree with you, that barca are outright favorites. My pouint exactly is that anything is possible in the UCL knock out stages. It is true that players play football and not history. But any establishment cannot move forward without learning from history. 2012 that Chelsea knocked us out, would you say barca didn't have character or Guardiola wasn't tactical enough? As a matter of fact, barca played a 3-4-4 at camp nou in that second leg... Chelsea had a red card, and practically had no tactics except to defend.

My point is this... we know that consistency, team cohesion, form, squad depth will win games. But when it comes to knockout, anything can happen! Football generally can be unpredictable at times...tactics have been known to fail times without number.

Are you now expressly saying that there is zero probability that Chelsea will knock out barca?

You have a point, anything can happen in football, but my money is on barca to progress, and it'd be my pick ten times over.

I think I agree with senorova. It's a knockout tie, therefore anything's possible.


But while I think we should give them their respect, it's still a two-legged tie and I don't think they can beat us in a two-legged tie.


And I know Messi will score a brace in one of those games. I don't know why I'm so sure, but I know. And you know what they say.



If you know, you know.

Come February 20th







Barcelona with rip Chelsea to shreds





Mark my words

The good thing is that EV doesn’t underrate any team unlike our former coach Luis. Two leg encounters are always difficult in UCL but Chelsea team of today CANNOT win Barça.

tesppidd:
lol

The loss to espanyol broke my spirit.

Shiit happens... Espanyol's game is a derby, plus you know how hateful they are when playing us. Other teams can beat them with over 3 goals but not Barça. They'd rather die. Idiotic club.

obiorathesubtle:



I'm happy..

Back to shape..

Because there's no showboating Brazilian in the squad.
.

Raumdeuter

Dembele returns to training.

Yahoo1:
Dembele returns to training.

Will he play tomorrow or before ucl?
I don't know how our superstars are gonna line up together? One costly player has to sit b dat

New here..... Mes que Un club

Eibar Vs Sevilla

who's watching?
4goals in 30mins??

Good to see Umtiti getting the recognition he deserves...

http://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2018/02/02/5a7454ade5fdea24678b45cc.html

Coutinho14:
New here..... Mes que Un club

bienvenu!!!!!!!

Merci

biomustry:

Will he play tomorrow or before ucl?
I don't know how our superstars are gonna line up together? One costly player has to sit b dat

No...he is not in the match squad. but by next week.

I wonder when we will see yerry mina play.


I really want to access that guy because at the moment; I don't fancy him even though I haven't really watched him aside YouTube vids.


I just don't feel the guy
He doesn't seem like Barca material to me.


He is similar to defenders like varane, smalling etc and I personally don't like such lanky defenders




Guys what's ur take on the mina fellow

ClumsyFlimsy:
I wonder when we will see yerry mina play.


I really want to access that guy because at the moment; I don't fancy him even though I haven't really watched him aside YouTube vids.


I just don't feel the guy
He doesn't seem like Barca material to me.


He is similar to defenders like varane, smalling etc and I personally don't like such lanky defenders




Guys what's ur take on the mina fellow

He's a pretty good defender if you ask me. He's like a faster version of G. Pique; skillful on the ball and with the ability to work the ball from defence. He'd play with time.

Neymar 350 career goals at 25 wow. This boy is already a legend.

Neymar1095:
Neymar 350 career goals at 25 wow. This boy is already a legend.

Zombi twita, wetyn happun to ur City 2day?

ctuagent007:


Zombi twita, wetyn happun to ur City 2day?

What language is this? French or Spanish .

These are the facts. Messi has been dispossessed this season more than Neymar. Burn haters burn........ Best player in the world.

Neymar ending people career something Messi can only dream of.

He's back again..Just stay Injury Free abi kilode gan.

Neymar1095:
These are the facts. Messi has been dispossessed this season more than Neymar. Burn haters burn........ Best player in the world.

lol u knw wen d best player is playing everyone wants to get hold of him even as far as touching his jersey, so he gets dispossessed most times... a nonentity of a player doesn't get dispossessed cause they know he's toothless

levante carrying out the great commision

hope they hold out

Mehn this Levante dey ball o.