smh I can't believe I didn't introduce the people to the infamous GL jinx before I brought them here. What a fatal mistake by me. RIP CL hopes.

RIP Juventus 2014/15 CL campaign.

Both great teams, but Barca has been playing against better competition and has been winning. Wolfsburg, the second place team in the Bundesliga is a pretty poor team by European standards given how Napoli mauled them. You have to give the edge to Barca, but as usual I may be way off the mark.

M99 wrote:Harmonica do you feel that Barca were robbed by the referee and would have won the 7-0 tie if all was right and fair in this world?

ffs plz harmonica do not respond

Fußball wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:lol.

Robben, Ribery, Lewandowski. What would your team look like without the whole of MSN ?

Plus Alaba and Badstuber, literally half of our starting 11 is missing.

Cut this crap. Badstuber missing. LMAO Is Badstuber = Baresi and Benatia = Titus Bramble? There is 0 quality loss there, the opposite in fact. Same with Bernat who is playing a very good season.

Without Robben you lose fire power no doubt but that's about it. Defense and midfield remains strong. Pretty much first choice in fact.

Not even remotely compareable with MSN. MSN = Barca. They score or create 95 % of every single Barca goal. We don't have World Cup golden boot players like Müller as "backup". We have Pedro and Munir.

On full strength this would have been our line-up

Lewa
Ribery Muller Thiago Robben
Alaba Boateng Martinez Benatia Lahm

We are missing half of our starting outfield players with Robben, Ribery, Lewa, Alaba & Martinez missing.

Apart from Robben, Martinez would have been crucial against Barca and Pep created this 3 Man Backline to play Martinez in that libero CB role. Ribery & Lewa are big losses too as is Alaba.
I am going to highlight Bads as I think Benatia is better.

I wonder how would Barca look without 5 top players.

Iniesta Pedro La Masia Player
Xavi Rakitic Masch
Adriano Pique Mathiew Alves


Play that against a full strength Bayern team. Just like Barca don't have replacements for MSN and have a thin squad we have huge dependency on Robbery as well.

Ribery in this season has been one of ours best player when he has played. He has 9 goals and 10 assists in very few minutes. I'd rather loose to Barcelona that play Lewa with a concussion, broken jaw & nose. He will shy away from challenges and would meet a similar fate to Robben when he was rushed.

We will play like Mourinho teams. Stick Muller upfront and defend with everyone else, maybe we can pull a 0-0 draw and hit them on the counter.

Our 3rd Main CB role players are all out -> Martinez(1st Choice), Bads & Alaba (2nd and 3rd Choice). Perhaps we will be freaking Dante in that role or play a midfielder like Alonso or FB like Rafinha.

breva wrote:Both great teams, but Barca has been playing against better competition and has been winning. Wolfsburg, the second place team in the Bundesliga is a pretty poor team by European standards given how Napoli mauled them. You have to give the edge to Barca, but as usual
I may be way off the mark.

You're off the mark. And Wolfsburg have beaten Bayern too and convincingly. This X beats Y so Y is bad is an idiotic logic with GL posters use because they have don't have the intelligence to analyze complex situation. I agree on the fact that currently Bayern have no competition in BL & Athletico & Real are much better than any BL teams. But personally I feel bar the top 6-7 odd rest La Liga team are BL Division 2 Level as they don't press the opponent, give up and the level is very poor in the bottom half of the team where Barca will have a cakewalk against most teams.

Robben's a massive out but Suarez...

Footyfan wrote:

On full strength this would have been our line-up

Lewa
Ribery Muller Thiago Robben
Alaba Boateng Martinez Benatia Lahm

If this was going to be your lineup against Barca you should be happy about your injuries.

Fußball wrote:

Footyfan wrote:

On full strength this would have been our line-up

Lewa
Ribery Muller Thiago Robben
Alaba Boateng Martinez Benatia Lahm

If this was going to be your lineup against Barca you should be happy about your injuries.

Why I feel we could have given you guys another humiliation like last time even considering how awesome MSN is. I don't rate any of your guys bar MSN & the DM(Masch or Biscuits) highly. I always wanted a full strength Barca match anyways.

Its not only now that we have so many injuries that I feel it would have easier to get Juventus.

Footyfan wrote:

Fußball wrote:

Footyfan wrote:

On full strength this would have been our line-up

Lewa
Ribery Muller Thiago Robben
Alaba Boateng Martinez Benatia Lahm

If this was going to be your lineup against Barca you should be happy about your injuries.

Why I feel we could have given you guys another humiliation like last time even considering how awesome MSN is. I don't rate any of your guys bar MSN & the DM(Masch or Biscuits) highly. I always wanted a full strength Barca match anyways.

Its not only now that we have so many injuries that I feel it would have easier to get Juventus.

You do not rate Piquenbauer, Bartresi, and Albadini ?

Footyfan wrote:
Why

Because this isn't Cringedesliga where you line up in midfield with Müller () and the guy who ran away from Barca because he couldn't get into the starting XI and dominate the game like that. Although I totally understand your wrong perception of your team's capabilities. I guess I'd be the same if Barca were to compete against Padderborn and Wolfsburg all year.

Fußball wrote:

Footyfan wrote:
Why

Because this isn't Cringedesliga where you line up in midfield with Müller () and the guy who ran away from Barca because he couldn't get into the starting XI and dominate the game like that. Although I totally understand your wrong perception of your team's capabilities. I guess I'd be the same if Barca were to compete against Padderborn and Wolfsburg all year.

Thiago is the Messi of midfielders, skill & talent wise. He will go down as one of the greatest ever if he keeps his head sorted and stays injury free. There is not a guy in Barcelona who can match him in midfield. Its good he left for us anyways because he is too good for Barca and Barca does not deserve a guy like this.

Besides Muller is always playing that CAM/2nd ST role. We won against Barca with this team except Thiago stars in place of Schweni. This is how the team will line up in defense, in 3-4-3.

In attack we will see Javi playing the libero role, more as a Pseudo DM and Muller playing 2nd ST pressing Biscuits -

Lewa
Ribery Muller Robben
Thiago
Javi
Alaba Boa Benatia Lahm

There is no use debating this as the players are injured. Best of luck to anyways

Valkyrja wrote:

Footyfan wrote:

Fußball wrote:


If this was going to be your lineup against Barca you should be happy about your injuries.

Why I feel we could have given you guys another humiliation like last time even considering how awesome MSN is. I don't rate any of your guys bar MSN & the DM(Masch or Biscuits) highly. I always wanted a full strength Barca match anyways.

Its not only now that we have so many injuries that I feel it would have easier to get Juventus.

You do not rate Piquenbauer, Bartresi, and Albadini ?

No and neither Cafulves as well. The CB's are atleast but the FB's don't have any idea how to defend

@Fußball
I'd like to see Barca if they'd have to play against Paderborn on their freshly harvested potato field

Thiago's contribution to Barca in a nutshell. I'm happy he's found his level in Bundesliga though. Must be great playing at U21 level that he's accustomed to week in week out. Not surprising that he looks like Messi there either.

Fußball wrote:

Fake gif. Gegenpressing was clearly invented in 2013 by a German bulb manufacturer: Don Osramus Juppus Kloppus Heynckelimus.

Messi of midfielders? We didn't deserve him? Lol ok

Fußball wrote:

Thiago's contribution to Barca in a nutshell. I'm happy he's found his level in Bundesliga though. Must be great playing at U21 level that he's accustomed to week in week out. Not surprising that he looks like Messi there either.

I don't care what he did @ Barca. I have seen him play & unfortunately for Barca he is going to enclipse Xavi & Iniesta. There is a reason Messi named his son Thiago"lol. He wishes his child to be like Thiago lol.

Footyfan wrote:I don't care what he did @ Barca. I have seen him play & unfortunately for Barca he is going to enclipse Xavi & Iniesta. There is a reason Messi named his son Thiago"lol. He wishes his child to be like Thiago lol.

Hyperbole........? or you're joking?

Footyfan wrote:

Fußball wrote:

Footyfan wrote:
Why

Because this isn't Cringedesliga where you line up in midfield with Müller () and the guy who ran away from Barca because he couldn't get into the starting XI and dominate the game like that. Although I totally understand your wrong perception of your team's capabilities. I guess I'd be the same if Barca were to compete against Padderborn and Wolfsburg all year.

Thiago is the Messi of midfielders, skill & talent wise. He will go down as one of the greatest ever if he keeps his head sorted and stays injury free. There is not a guy in Barcelona who can match him in midfield. Its good he left for us anyways because he is too good for Barca and Barca does not deserve a guy like this.

Besides Muller is always playing that CAM/2nd ST role. We won against Barca with this team except Thiago stars in place of Schweni. This is how the team will line up in defense, in 3-4-3.

In attack we will see Javi playing the libero role, more as a Pseudo DM and Muller playing 2nd ST pressing Biscuits -

Lewa
Ribery Muller Robben
Thiago
Javi
Alaba Boa Benatia Lahm

There is no use debating this as the players are injured. Best of luck to anyways

Fußball wrote:

Thiago's contribution to Barca in a nutshell. I'm happy he's found his level in Bundesliga though. Must be great playing at U21 level that he's accustomed to week in week out. Not surprising that he looks like Messi there either.

Footyfan wrote:

Fußball wrote:

Thiago's contribution to Barca in a nutshell. I'm happy he's found his level in Bundesliga though. Must be great playing at U21 level that he's accustomed to week in week out. Not surprising that he looks like Messi there either.

I don't care what he did @ Barca. I have seen him play & unfortunately for Barca he is going to enclipse Xavi & Iniesta. There is a reason Messi named his son Thiago"lol. He wishes his child to be like Thiago lol.

Nah. Footyfan is 95% right with everything IMO.

Both of them are nuts tbh.

Thiago is the new Zidane/Gulit hybrid.
Other than that I love Madrid fans making fun of our defense while the goals against in la liga are 19 vs 30.
Stay safe

I agree with footyfan, too. Bayern got this, even with their C team. Have you seen Messi (the real one, not the one of the midfielders who is better than the real one) against Neuer on 1235 occassions so far?

billy_gr wrote:Thiago is the new Zidane/Gulit hybrid.
Other than that I love Madrid fans making fun of our defense while the goals against in la liga are 19 vs 30.
Stay safe

Barca's defense hasn't even been a problem as far as i can tell since Alba and Alves have actually started playing like professional footballers.

Sure you could do with a stable partner for Pique but the midfield and it's inability to control and leaving loads of space is a much bigger problem.