CdR: Real Sociedad - Barca - 2nd leg

Barcelona line-up (official): Pinto - Alves Pique Mascherano Alba - Xavi Busquets Iniesta - Messi Cesc Pedro #fcblive

Our lineup against City being tested today.

Stay safe Barca's right flank.

 

It's Iniesta on the wing by the way. Not Messi.

Iniesta and Alves showing glimpses of their old self. I like!

I know about our away record against La Real but I've looked it up and didn't know their general home record was this good:

P11 W7 D3 L1 GS 27 GA 7

Less goals conceded at home than Barca and Real Madrid.

La Real have grit.

I think this half was one of the better displays our team had in a while. I guess having an advantage of two goals has pushed La Real to open up.

Mascherano's touch there.

The refereeing of this match compared to Arsenal vs United...

Still don't get why people rate Alba.

Vela

Arsenal must be kicking themselves.

danyjr wrote:The refereeing of this match compared to Arsenal vs United...

Still don't get why people rate Alba.

I thought the ref was decent so far. What did I miss?

I don't mean the quality of refereeing. But in Spain every little challenge on a player is called a foul. Watching the EPL match the refs allow the play to go on with a higher degree of leniency.

1-1

Mascherano blames Song for losing Grease Man.

This stadium is cursed.

Gotta give it to Macaulay Culkin for playing that super pass though.

Masche has lost it. He can only do a great tackle, but he is not reliable at all.

Scoring from this kind of position.

Good result, meh game, no injuries, Messi's goal, that's it.

Next.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:1-1

Mascherano blames Song for losing Grease Man.

Which he was wrong to do, Song was trying to stop the first long pass on the half way line...he cant get from there to the edge of the box faster than the ball can travel.

The Franchise wrote:

BarrileteCosmico wrote:1-1

Mascherano blames Song for losing Grease Man.

Which he was wrong to do, Song was trying to stop the first long pass on the half way line...he cant get from there to the edge of the box faster than the ball can travel.

Yeah, Mascherano is insane, he made another positional mistake in the goal because instead of keeping the line, he first came out to pressure hence he didn't arrive in time back to mark Griezman.
Anyway, not his worst game as he saved a goal with a great tackle on GRiezman.

On the team, I liked our attitude and intensity. We were super intense and everyone run their socks off. Even Cesc looked fast. With this attitude and intensity we can compete with anyone BUT...

... I disliked our organization. We were all over the place, pressing uncoordinately, we have no tools to generate chances from static play, only in counter, and although la Real didn't have many chances they had many counters with superiority that they messed up.

We are mediocre (at most) tactically, and this is Tata's responsibility if the players give their all as they did yesterday.

Real Madrid made a short work out of Atletico, now that RM appears on form, how will you guys approach to the game?

The same as before, Madrid's form should not effect anything we do.

We have to be better than currently, not because Madrid are better, but period we have to be better.

At least the last the games we cant fault effort, that was there.

Missed the match as Arsenal were playing at the same time. Worth watching it all or highlights will do?

RealGunner wrote:Missed the match as Arsenal were playing at the same time. Worth watching it all or highlights will do?

This should do:







If you watch these you don't miss much.

Danke