PBP: FC Barcelona v Manchester United | UEFA CL - Quarterfinal - 2nd Leg | 16 April 2019 [R]

In last 10 years, we beat MU 10-1 in CL.

 

He only watched the first 3 minutes.

 

He was doing really well before his injury though .. it’s not the first time he’s showed his class ...

 

That could have been a witty comment had there not been for #118

Unlucky bud

Why not try posting something relevant or remotely interesting rather than trying to appear clever ( and failing miserably ).

 

You probably missed my post about him in this same thread prior to the one you quoted.

 

That’s fair enough then ..

 

Well, this post didn’t age well.

 

Manchester United have always been our victim lmfao. The worst L was handed to them by Romario and Stoichkov LOL. Ferguson kinda wanted Utd to play like us ever since then.

 

This is almost Pepe-on-Dani Alves-ish. Not just penalty but also red card.

 

I cannot recall the last time this happened!



Camp Nou attendance

96,708 Tue 16 Apr Manchester United (UCL) 21:00
93,265 Sun 28 Oct Real Madrid 16:15 <<<------------------------- Liga Clasico is NOT the highest attended match of the season!
92,795 Sat 30 Mar Espanyol 16:15
92,453 Sat 6 Apr Atlético Madrid 20:45
92,346 Wed 13 Mar Olympique Lyon (UCL) 21:00
92,008 Wed 6 Feb Real Madrid (Copa) 21:00
88,712 Sat 20 Oct Sevilla 20:45
86,290 Wed 24 Oct Internazionale (UCL) 21:00
83,174 Sun 11 Nov Betis 16:15
78,686 Sat 22 Dec Celta 18:30
78,015 Sat 29 Sept Athletic Bilbao 16:15
76,789 Sat 2 Feb Valencia 18:15
76,398 Wed 5 Dec Cultural Leonesa (Copa) 21:30
76,055 Sun 23 Sept Girona 20:45
74,158 Sat 9 Mar Rayo Vallecano 18:30
73,462 Tue 18 Sept PSV Eindhoven (UCL) 18:55
73,003 Sun 2 Dec Villarreal 18:30
71,057 Sun 2 Sept Huesca 18:30
71,039 Sun 13 Jan Eibar 18:30
70,089 Wed 15 Aug Boca Juniors (Gamper) 18:15
69,961 Tue 11 Dec Tottenham (UCL) 21:00
67,435 Sat 16 Feb Real Valladolid 20:45
58,050 Wed 30 Jan Sevilla (Copa) 21:30
52,356 Sat 18 Aug Alavés 22:15
50,670 Sun 20 Jan Leganés 20:45
42,838 Thur 17 Jan Levante (Copa) 21:30

 

Honestly, I saw no improvement in his game. He scored a great goal but his general play was very poor. Mis-passes, slow in attack and slow in defence. When Suarez is having a bad game, which is very often these days, we can’t have Coutinho playing as the third forward as this basically means Messi is our only attack.

We need Dembele in the starting spot, and I pray that Coutinho’s curler won’t convince EV to start him over Dembele.

 

What about that horrendous tackle on Suarez late on as he drove into the box ? He was taken out and grabbed the ball as he fell then the ref gave a handball against Suarez !!

 

It’s still relevant though

 

Na he lost the ball once or twice but he looked very lively and great fast feet .. the interplay with Messi and Alba was very promising.. after his goal his confidence returned

 

That was truly bizarre, I think the refs were instructed to help ManU in both legs, which spells trouble in the rest of the tournament. ManU escaped a red and a penalty, and it seemed that the teams had completely different rules, like when pushing people off the ball. People aren't talking it much, but I think this was one of the most horribly biased ties I've seen. In the end the ref was like daring Barca players to take yellows from complaints.

 

.,. and yet their fans just complain that our players dive all the time

I still don’t understand why Smalling wasn’t banned retrospectively for that assault on Messi in the home leg - he’d spent the previous days bragging how he was gonna ‘handle’ him easily ..

 

CL semi-final spot, good job.

As for meeting (assumedly) Liverpool, it's going to be tricky obviously. At the moment, I kinda think there are three teams above the rest - us, City, Pool - and it's difficult to make significant differences between them. When they meet, it can turn out that on that day, one team clearly beats the other, but pre-match odds when those meet, I'd see them about equals. So could go either way.

 

Fred got really lucky. On the zoomed in shot, Fred gets the ball just before he nails Raki's ankle. Brych was right to give the penalty initially because it was so quick, and of course right to overturn. Good officiaiting all-around, and this is why we have VAR.

 

Liverpool are not quite as ruthless as last season, but certainly have it in them. Salah and Mane will be huge concerns. Semedo will be a key player against Mane's speed.

What you can't allow against Liverpool is for Robertson and Alexander-Arnold to arrive on the overlaps. You are toast if that happens as that means Mane and Salah are in the box.

 

I get why people see it like that, but I think that sort of thinking overestimates them.

Yes they can press, are smart, effective and so on. I did rank them in top three in the world, equal to City and us. You'd expect CL semifinalists to be good.

But are we to think we don't have strengths, Pool having no weaknesses? I don't know. 50-50 sounds fair to me.