Match Day Thread

[danyjr]

Barcelona vs Eibar

Eibar starting line-up (4-2-3-1): Yoel; Capa, Dos Santos, Lejeune, Luna; Escalante, Dani Garcia; Pedro Leon, Adrian, Inui; Enrich.
Eibar substitutes: Galvez, Rivera, Pena, Fran Rico, Nano, Dorrio, Areitio.

Barcelona starting line-up (4-3-3): Ter Stegen; Sergi Roberto, Umtiti, Mathieu, Alba; Rakitic, Busquets, Turan; Messi, Suarez, Neymar.
Barcelona substitutes: Pique, Denis, Cillessen, Alcacer, Digne, Andre Gomes, Aleix Vidal.

[danyjr]

Denis Suárez is no wonderful player, but still so much better than Gomes. He actually does something. Great goal btw

PS: Alba is so shit.

[BarrileteCosmico]

That looked too easy. Messi spots Suarez on the right and passes it to him, runs in a straight line unmarked at all, gets the ball back and scores. Eibar what are you doing?

[BarrileteCosmico]

Alba getting destroyed by Pedro ****ing Leon

[BarrileteCosmico]

Lovely retention and finishing by Suarez. 3-0 and the game is done.

[danyjr]

Eibar played well up until the goal. I like their style but they really did not have enough quality to hurt Barcelona.

[BarrileteCosmico]

They haven't done much this 2nd half except for the offside goal. I gather they were better in the first half but I didn't catch that.

Neymar just got robbed of a goal because of a wrongly called offside.

[windkick]

Denis with another nice goal and performance. IDK why Lucho kept waisting his time with Gomes and wouldn't give Denis or Rafinha game time back when Iniesta was injured. Seems everytime Denis or Rafinha play they make a clear difference. Take today for example, Gomes gave the ball away in a bad position and we got scored on. Also seems like with Busq's out, the starting line up in regular league matches will be Pique/Umtit and CB with Masch at DM - I kinda don't mind that at all tbh. Have Iniesta/Rakitic in CM with Denis off the bench and that's pretty damn solid imo until Busq gets back. I trust Umtiti way more at CB and Masch way more at DM than CB so this current set up makes sense to me.

[BarcaLearning]

Mascherano was also at fault for the goal though, he was in the CB position when Gomez lost the ball and had no idea what to do, he actually should have held his position instead he tried to rush back to his DM position and got caught half way in between. Mascherano is good on his day and I guess is a compliment to Pique, but hes just too liable so hopefully Umtiti continue to improve and cement the position.

[BarrileteCosmico]

anyone watch this? match was at 6 am for me

I suppose people in China got to enjoy it...

[BarcaLearning]

Missed it celebrating the Chinese New Year Trying to catch up on football as usual in the am hours, used to it

[windkick]

What a joke of a non call on the PK + the disallowed goal. That ball was like a full foot past the line. How in the world was that not called a goal

[windkick]

This section is officially at an all time low

What happened to everyone? Is there another forum somewhere that is better to post on?

[BarrileteCosmico]

not sure, for whatever reason people have moved to talking about our matches in the general section. Personally for me it's tough to catch any games not on the weekends, don't mind so much for the Cup but it sucks for the CL.

[Harmonica]

I used to avoid this place for the deluded posters, but as they are long gone it seems I don't hate this section anymore.

Most Barca posts happen in barcaforum anyway.

[Myesyats]

The beautiful section where a person can find out about the state of their mental health. Why go to a doctor if Jiopsi has the magical power of judgement which allows him to detect such illnesses with no education in that field whatsoever.

You're lucky though, there's a lot of SJWs on this board, you can't say anything negative about anything, therefore I would be very careful when throwing around such offensive words because a couple of tears might be shed.

[Harmonica]

What can I say, I'm an oak.

[Harmonica]

Barca line-up vs Alavés:

Ter Stegen
Aleix, Umtiti, Mathieu, Digne
Rakitic, Busquets, Gomes
Messi, Suarez, Neymar

[Harmonica]

Defender pushes clearly Neymar off the ball, no foul, Umtiti does the exact same second after, yellow. Guess who's going to list of Real Madrid referees?

Time stamp 6 minutes.

[Harmonica]

Clos Gómez is the name of this Real Madrid referee.

[Harmonica]

Son of Diego Costa on the bench.

[Harmonica]

Neymar what are you doing?

[Harmonica]

Messi going through 10 player wall lmao.

[Harmonica]

Stegen denying 1on1.

[Harmonica]

Refs are really attacking Neymar and Messi currently in the league. Defenders can do anything against them in dangerous position, then they try to hide it end of the game giving pointless cards.

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