FC Barcelona - Valencia CF

Official starting lineup:

Never seen a worse Valencia squad than this in my entire life. There's a huge lack of creativity in their midfield.

Keep Feghouli and Bernat shut and Los Che will be kept quiet.

Hoping for a 10-0 scoreline.

lmao What a goal.

Messi is suffering from not scoring, i think.... others are trying to pass him.....
thats 13th league goal from Alexis...very impressive

Valdes at that corner.

Another horror show. Only Messi playing well, everybody else needs to up their game. I've never seen so many blocked shots that Messi has in the last 4-5 games, Valencia has 3-4 players covering him all the time. Yet other players can't use the space left, at all.

Drawing against this Valencia.

Harmonica wrote:Another horror show. Only Messi playing well, everybody else needs to up their game. I've never seen so many blocked shots that Messi has in the last 4-5 games, Valencia has 3-4 players covering him all the time. Yet other players can't use the space left, at all.

WAT

If we draw (or god forbid even lose) to this Valencia team

Should be up by 1 or 2 though. I'm thinking we'll end up winning 2-1 or 3-1. Absolute horrorshow defending at the back for their goal

Something's wrong with our defensive transition. Once our initial press is breached the centerbacks are totally exposed. Everyone bar Pedro and Alexis is tremendously lazy. They just don't work hard to go back in shape. Valencia midfielders hold the ball for ages in midfield - still half the team is infront of the ball and not getting behind.

And what is it with the half empty stadium? It's Saturday afternoon against Valencia. Stadium looks about half full. WTF?!

This is a joke.

  Tata Martino and lol fans, lets make Messi worse and everybody else stat padding. It'll make the team great. You can forget league with this team, the quality of these players is hilarious, I would change them with B-players instantly for the rest of the season.

Messi to miss the penal.

An absolute joke.

We will get raped by city if we play like this. Also, the league is officially over if we don't win this game.

What are they doing lmao

Messi stop dropping deep you *bleep*

Messi's first touch is really off, as is Busquet's for that matter.

League over in February. At least we made Pedro, Alexis and Fabregas stat padding? That's something to be proud, right? Am I right?

I am somehow glad that *bleep* alba is off. He and Alves should not play together whenever we face even remotely threatening team.

eelir wrote:I am somehow glad that *bleep* alba is off. He and Alves should not play together whenever we face even remotely threatening team.

You can add Xavi-Fabregas to that. These players should go home shamed.

No balance whatsoever...we are so vulnerable on the counter. Abidal used to form a three-man back-line every time Dani Alves would push up. Now we have Alba and Alves pushing up at the same time, leaving Pique and the one and only Mascherano to fend for themselves. Buquests doesn't drop back either. Instead, we have Messi dropping to midfield, which unnecessarily clogs up the centre + minimizes our goal-scoring threat.

Yeah, Manchester City are going to crush us à la Bayern Munich if we don't get our sh*t together.