FC Barcelona vs Real Madrid CF | Copa del Rey final | El Clasico | 16.04.2014 | 21:30 CET

Keep it classy RM fans. If we want to be better than them we must show class. They are the inferior club compared to Real Madrid, therefore, act like we are suppose to beat them.

Lets not sink to their levels of stupidity.

 

Pray that I get classier, classy man.

 

I think its so funny that Bale scored his goal on the same side of the pitch that Ronaldo scored his game deciding header 3 yrs ago. Not only the same side, the same stadium and also the side with all the Barca fans. Also with middle fingers flying in his direction as well. Only thing missing was Pepe's "up yours" gesture to the cules

 

I don't know what hurts more, this whole week of eliminations or the fact that they can't do a thing about it in the transfer window. The fact that both are happening at the same time is enough to see that Barca bandwagon empty real fast.

 

Imagine if we somehow grab La Liga as well Ancelotti will have equalled Mou's hardware total in one season.

 

Now just add an Afro to Pepe in this gif and Bale's face to Ronaldo and we've updated it.

 

I was too interested in their facial expressions.

The chants about Messi were fantastic.

 

I agree. Alves is a twat like the rest of them, but monkey chants?? Really? Quite pathetic from the fans considering what he's done for them.

 

Lol. ******** that shit.

You think the same about guys like Juanito who wore the shirt?

 

Why do you let them bother you? You should be enjoying the team and not let another team take over your daily life. I like to watch RM games and root for them but at the same time, Barcelona as a club, doesn't bother me at all. It seems like you are bothered more by Barcelona than your joy for RM.

My joy from watching RM games exceed anything a Barcelona fan or team can do.

Don't use soccer as an excuse to behave badly.

 

maybe I don't fit with the times, I think players should have some affection for the club and the club and fans should appreciate the team.

 

After the emotions have cleared a bit, I have a question. Do you guys feel we played great?

I sure don't, we parked the bus as if we are a middle of table team or as if this is the 2009 version of Barca. Not to mention our finishing was dreadful largely because of selfishness of DiMaria, Bale and Benz. I'm not sure we'd win if Valdes was between the posts.

 

We played how we did in order to win. Now people are exaggaration a bit. The only thing missing from Barcelona is a reliable defence. If they had that, they wouldn't be in such a mess IMO. It's easy to say this isn't the Barcelona from 2009, but the players are mostly the same.

 

More total shots, more shots on target and of course, more goals. It's not like we were dominated.

 

Also, even in that period of shock after they scored, we were still creating better chances. Di Maria took that shot from the edge of the box when Bale was unmarked. Modric hit the post. They were better after they scored than before, but we were still creating the chances, not them.

 

And that was probably the biggest flaw in our game, we couldn't finish it off. With Ronaldo that may have been different but with him our defense would suffer especially when we consider that the player who replaced him was one of the top performers in the match ( for me personally he was MOTM). So it's not all black and white.

My point is though that if we are to beat Bayern we need to be a lot more clinical and Ronaldo and Bale must help on the defensive end which I'm not confident will happen in the amount we need them to.

 

We were better and the win was completely deserved. No question about it.

 

Yeah you were great.

 

Hang on a minute buddy. You like many other here suggested we should play attack with Isco in the team in a 4-3-3. I don't think that would have worked. Space everywhere.

If it was 4-3-3 I would have gone with Casemiro. Ancelotti fooled us all by playing a defensive 4-4-2. In that formation then yes Isco can play on the wing in a line of 4 but in a midfield 3 I see too many issues there.

Isco had an amazing match so who knows if it would have worked in a 4-3-3. I don't think so. I think the fact that we played 4-4-2 in a defensive counterattacking way is what won us the match. It was a fantastic team performance. This was Ancelotti's moment of the season and he nullified Barca beautifully. I called him tactically inept compared to other managers but on this occasion he proved all the doubters wrong.

 

We easily could have been up 3 or 4 goals with better decisions in the final third, ADM, Bale, Benz and to a lesser degree Isco had opportunities to either score or deliver a better pass which could/should have resulted in a goal. As you said we transitioned very well.

that said barca were not themselves, tata got his team selection all wrong. He should have started with sanchez and pedro but he opted for cesc and neymar. A disinterested messi also was a factor for large sections of the game where if he had been engages we would have struggled much more due to the pressure.

Edit:

wrt to Bayern, I think our pace could help us quite a bit, IMO quick counter attacking football is our only chance. Against Dortmund last week they really struggled with bam bam and Reus coming directly at them with pace but I due think Dortmund is better managed to play a smarter ball into a channel than we are. We'll have to see how it plays out but I see us either knocking 2 or 3 in or struggling to get even one goal.

 

Sorry.

*putting shoes on to go church*

 

We have to play like that (two lines of 4 and counter attack) against team who keep possession. Sorry, that's the way it is. If we have to play counter attacking football against teams like Barca and Bayern so be it. Ancelotti job is to tweak it and fine tune it so we do it with a thing of beauty so to speak.

That way, that will force team who play possession football will force them to think something different and that could work in our favour.