Adiwana:
I really hate our casual approach to some games and should really be killing off games to make life much easier for us.Our away games in the champions league this season has really lacked that spark.This was identical to the Lyon game only that we scored today.If we injected half as much energy we used in playing teams like Betis and Levante away from home,we should have really dealt with this Man utd.This Man utd side were so poor and only good player they had today was Mctominay.Dude was winning duels and putting in tackles.Pogba couldnt even pass the ball to save his life and Young was crossing like a player playing for under 12.Nice game again by Semedo was really dribbling the entire game.Best match so far by Lenglet.Good overrall performance but we should really be bringing our A game away from home if we are to win this champions league

well, it's not just this season. We are usually better at home, and it stretches back to the Pep era.

I wish we could be more impressive away, but then what I want the most is to go all the way to win the UCL. So I don't mind that we performed so poorly that Man Utd could not get a shot on target in their own home.

brandon180:
I don't think valverde went to old Trafford to win.
Btw these Ajax boys are surprising me

serious? You've not watched any of their games? Those boys are on fire. The Madrid win wasn't a fluke.

Too bad many of them would be snatched by other clubs in the summer transfer.

Sigh!! What if during the semi final against Liverpool, we play home first? This away trend is worrisome to an extent.

homesteady:
Sigh!! What if during the semi final against Liverpool, we play home first? This away trend is worrisome to an extent.

we will play home first.

When we get to that bridge we'd cross it. I'm pretty sure we'd lift this UCL trophy. For now, let's focus on slaughtering Man Utd in the Camp Nou next week.

My opinion. As much as we can blame our away form for the sheet show we put up, part of the blame goes to EV also. After 3 mins and United hadn't touched the ball, I became a little bit uneasy. And by 30 minutes, the game play was obvious.

Get a goal, and keep hold of the ball.

Reason why every player played a back pass today. Everyone of them. No spark in the attack. If one or two players are guilty, it would be different, but everyone was. Even Messi wasn't playing with ginger. It could only mean one thing.


Conservative football


And I confirmed that when he brought on Roberto and Vidal at 60 minutes. He was totally shutting the doors down.

Holding the ball without attacking is an awful football. Arsenal played it, and a lot of us condemned it.


90 minutes, 3 shots on target.


807 passes made, 731 completed. A whopping 91% accuracy. You don't get 90% accuracy playing forward passes, a player maybe, not a team.

We won, I'm happy. But our performance, which I'm sure is an instruction from the coach, was an eyesore.

Guys be sensible. It could easily have been 2 or 3. Suarez missed a good chance and Roberto messed up 2 good buildups by being hesitant.

Game plan was spot on to me. Deny United possession, do not leave room to be exposed on the counter... do not chase a game that doesn't need to be chased is what I say!

RuuDie:
Guys be sensible. It could easily have been 2 or 3. Suarez missed a good chance and Roberto messed up 2 good buildups by being hesitant.

Game plan was spot on to me. Deny United possession, do not leave room to be exposed on the counter... do not chase a game that doesn't need to be chased is what I say!

If we scored I'd have agreed with you but we didn't. It was an own goal. If we were leading by a two-goal margin I'd have agreed with you but we weren't. This was a _shit-show and it's going to be our undoing in this competition.


It's really sad. A complete _shit-show.

RuuDie:
Guys be sensible. It could easily have been 2 or 3. Suarez missed a good chance and Roberto messed up 2 good buildups by being hesitant.

Game plan was spot on to me. Deny United possession, do not leave room to be exposed on the counter... do not chase a game that doesn't need to be chased is what I say!

Beside Busquets, Suarez Was the most maddening player on the pitch tonight. Dude kept playing nonsense.

Sidenote: someone on here said the midfield was stabilised when Vidal came on.

I just dey laugh...
Barca won yet fans still not happy...
Dang! Standard fecking high!!

If United had been the team that got the scrappy win, sure they and their media would bombard the space!!


ManU no follow abeg!
We no be mate!!

mcdreeezy:


If we scored I'd have agreed with you but we didn't. It was an own goal. If we were leading by a two-goal margin I'd have agreed with you but we weren't. This was a _shit-show and it's going to be our undoing in this competition.


It's really sad. A complete _shit-show.

I think I understand this. We have become so used to Barcelona winning that just any win becomes boring. We want to totally dominate, and it's easy to think we have always demolished everyone home and away.

Remember how we lost 2 - 0 away to Milan years back? Or 3 - 0 away to Juve 2 years ago? Or 4 - 0 away to PSG? Those weren't under conservative coaches.

Madrid didn't win their UCL titles by beating everyone with a two-goal margin. Many times they were shitty and just managed to scale through with the odd goal, sometimes a lucky dying minute penalty or an offside not caught. Today, no one remembers all that. Sometimes just know how to win ugly or boring.

Ozkar:
I think I understand this. We have become so used to Barcelona winning that just any win becomes boring. We want to totally dominate, and it's easy to think we have always demolished everyone home and away.

Remember how we lost 2 - 0 away to Milan years back? Or 3 - 0 away to Juve 2 years ago? Or 4 - 0 away to PSG? Those weren't under conservative coaches.

Madrid didn't win their UCL titles by beating everyone with a two-goal margin. Many times they were shitty and just managed to scale through with the odd goal, sometimes a lucky dying minute penalty or an offside not caught. Today, no one remembers all that. Sometimes just know how to win ugly or boring.

However you might want to put it, Barca need to improve in their away games if they want to win the competition. If we played a team with unforgiving forwards, it would have been a different outcome trust me. Remember that we did not score. We're just fortunate to win the game tonight.

I feel like it's time I stopped watching Barca knockout games away from home in the UCL cuz they only put in a good shift at the Camp Nou.


Sometimes I wonder how we did it back in 2014/15 when we beat City home and away in the round of 16, PSG home and away in the quarterfinals and then we put in a really good shift in the 2nd leg against Bayern to lose 3-2 at the Allianz Arena after beating them 3-0 at the Camp Nou in the first leg.

I wonder.

funkyjms:
I just dey laugh...
Barca won yet fans still not happy...
Dang! Standard fecking high!!

If United had been the team that got the scrappy win, sure they and their media would bombard the space!!


ManU no follow abeg!
We no be mate!!

they would have trolled Barca and Messi to the ends of the world

mcdreeezy:


If we scored I'd have agreed with you but we didn't. It was an own goal. If we were leading by a two-goal margin I'd have agreed with you but we weren't. This was a _shit-show and it's going to be our undoing in this competition.

It's really sad. A complete _shit-show.

Well. Brace yourself because Barca might win this UCL playing even worse than this... I wonder if you are gonna ask that they return the cup if this happens

mcdreeezy:


However you might want to put it, Barca need to improve in their away games if they want to win the competition. If we played a team with unforgiving forwards, it would have been a different outcome trust me. Remember that we did not score. We're just fortunate to win the game tonight.

I feel like it's time I stopped watching Barca knockout games away from home in the UCL cuz they only put in a good shift at the Camp Nou.


Sometimes I wonder how we did it back in 2014/15 when we beat City home and away in the round of 16, PSG home and away in the quarterfinals and then we put in a really good shift to draw with Bayern 2-2 at the Allianz Arena after beating them 3-0 at the Camp Nou in the first leg.

I wonder.

yes we won away games in 2015. A goal difference (like today) away to City and 2 away to PSG, but no we didn't draw Bayern. We actually lost 3 - 2 at the Allianz but won on aggregate and went on to win the competition.

If that away loss to Bayern had knocked us out of the competition, you'd have remembered it.

To put it in perspective, we are the only team left in the UCL that have not lost a game. Also we are the only away team in the quarter finals that won this first leg.

mcdreeezy:


If we scored I'd have agreed with you but we didn't. It was an own goal.

It's really sad. A complete _shit-show.

I just had to go back and read this again... like, for real!?

Ozkar:
serious? You've not watched any of their games? Those boys are on fire. The Madrid win wasn't a fluke.

Too bad many of them would be snatched by other clubs in the summer transfer.

That is the thing about these lesser clubs, they have no real ambition when it comes to winning trophies. Money is their ambition. In the end, money will win the day.

Forgive me for shitting on you throughout the beginning of the season sir

Since the beginning of 2019, you have been the most consistent world class player after messi at barca.

Another ludicrous performance against manutd...MOTM hands down.

I don't think I've ever seen rakitic as invisible in any match as yesterday. I even saw lukaku more times than him

Alba has been playing shit for the past 3 games, i don't know if it is rest that he needs.

Busquets was horrible, he has been abysmal this season. Thank God de jong is coming.

I don't see any reason why coutinho should start at this club again either in midfield or attack.

Roberto is an incredibly average player.

Suarez was NEPA as usual in the UCL. In the league he might go 1-5 games OFF and 1-2 games ON but he has gone 2 years OFF in the ucl.

RuuDie:
On the flipside... Barca did the "minimum required". They were professional, comtrolled possession as much as they could and defended well.
To me, this is Barca on 2nd or 3rd gear. This is all that they needed to do.

simple..

mcdreeezy:


However you might want to put it, Barca need to improve in their away games if they want to win the competition. If we played a team with unforgiving forwards, it would have been a different outcome trust me. Remember that we did not score. We're just fortunate to win the game tonight.

I feel like it's time I stopped watching Barca knockout games away from home in the UCL cuz they only put in a good shift at the Camp Nou.


Sometimes I wonder how we did it back in 2014/15 when we beat City home and away in the round of 16, PSG home and away in the quarterfinals and then we put in a really good shift to draw with Bayern 2-2 at the Allianz Arena after beating them 3-0 at the Camp Nou in the first leg.

I wonder.

We lost at the Allianz arena 3-2.

Olamyyde:
I don't think I've ever seen rakitic as invisible in any match as yesterday. I even saw lukaku more times than him

Alba has been playing shit for the past 3 games, i don't know if it is rest that he needs.

Busquets was horrible, he has been abysmal this season. Thank God de jong is coming.

I don't see any reason why coutinho should start at this club again either in midfield or attack.

Roberto is an incredibly average player.

Suarez was NEPA as usual in the UCL. In the league he might go 1-5 games OFF and 1-2 games ON but he has gone 2 years OFF in the ucl.

Bro, considering every other Barcelona players performance last night, Coutinho was ok. Coutinho's last two games have been pretty solid, not bad and not spectacular (except some flashes)

Olamyyde:
Forgive me for shitting on you throughout the beginning of the season sir

Since the beginning of 2019, you have been the most consistent world class player after messi at barca.

Another ludicrous performance against manutd...MOTM hands down.

MOTM for me also.

Those that were lookong for a 3-0 win yesterday must have thought Man U suddenly became Fulham or Wolves.

I didnt get the 2-1 win I desired.
But the 1-0 is okay even though not comfortable.

Only Ruudie understands football on this thread. Others are just kids with an annoying, misguided sense of entitlement.
Whoever told them they could go to Old Trafford to dominate games and put on a world class show, is even more deluded than them.
Can we remember the last time Barcelona won UCL quater final away game?
This is champions league! !! Nobody cares how you won!!!
Thank you Velverde for being pragmatic, knowing what needs to be done. All his substitutions were spot-on.

jpmoriarti:
Only Ruudie understands football on this thread. Others are just kids with an annoying, misguided sense of entitlement.
Whoever told them they could go to Old Trafford to dominate games and put on a world class show, is even more deluded than them.
Can we remember the last time Barcelona won UCL quater final away game?
This is champions league! !! Nobody cares how you won!!!
Thank you Velverde for being pragmatic, knowing what needs to be done. All his substitutions were spot-on.

Thank you jare. Enough said.

Some fans here are very funny and have been spoilt, in fact some on here started watching football during pep's era.

For history sake this is the sixth time in the club’s history that FC Barcelona won an away leg in the Champions League quarterfinals. In the last eleven times since 2009 in the Champions League quarters, FC Barcelona has won three times.

Even under the Magnificent Pep, away games are extremely difficult talk less of a team like United, I dare say it that under another manager we would have drawn or conceeded a goal when United had that spell of brief pressure.

This was a masterclass from EV and the team, they got the freaking job done.

RuuDie:


I just had to go back and read this again... like, for real!?

as if own goal is not goal again, as if Shaw picked the ball in our half, sprinted the length of the pitch, nutmegged Smalling and placed De Gea. Since its own goal, maybe we will write UEFA that we dont want the goal again...
This thread has some funny, confused people

Even Isomerizm my man nor Debroslink are not complaining the way some people are complaining on this thread. Did we want Barca to win at Old Trafford? YES! Did we want a 1 - 0 win? No, but we restricted Man utd to no shots on target, and they virtually didn't even touch ball and their 'star' player Pogba was anonymous(as usual).
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Guardiola has coached Barca, Bayern and now Man city, in all those teams playing away in UCL was a damn huge challenge, yet we play away, not concede a goal and we win and people are complaining that we were poor. Its like you people dont know how we concede more than 90% of goals we've conceded, COUNTER ATTACKS, and we made sure that didn't happen

We had a below par game though.

The Atletico's match over the weekend took it toll on us.

Kudos to Man United for keeping the GOAT at bay.

we go again !!!!

Upnepaa:
We had a below par game though.


The Atletico's match over the weekend took it toll on us.


Kudos to Man United for keeping the GOAT at bay.


we go again !!!!

I doubt if they kept him at bay. I feel, the players didn't really want to over-chase the game. You could see the absence of energy on the pitch yesterday. Second leg, I hope Suarez don't play the nonsense he played yesterday. Then there will be Dembele.

Messi should be rested against Huesca Saturday.


Smalling Smelling had been talking all week about stopping Messi,

Obviously he had his own ideas on how to achieve that.

Do I like the display... Absolutely no!
Do I like the result... Fvcking YES!!

what's wrong with busquet... Raki was anonymous.
Let's bury them at Nou Camp next week.

I don't like EV conservative approach. From the 60mins we needed Malcom not Roberto.