Not when I look at the number of penalties he’s missed over the years which proves that, yes, even he’s human. Otherwise you’re also saying Pep was clueless since Barca didn’t win every trophy available under his watch.
Yeah. Should've been fired quickly, I mean got only 1p from his two first Liga matches, and after round 7, we were on the 4th position.
Joking aside.. has anyone noticed that several long balls from the back line has resulted in goals against both LPB and Rayo? All this building up from the back with 40 passes..
That’s just a glitch in the Matrix. But yeah , if they are going to leave an avenue for Alba to run into let’s do it. But after 2 obvious goals like that, one of which was high profile, I ser teams being more careful . On another note , there is a guy in mid that couldn’t be bothered to track Suarez run. Pretty inexcusable at the beginning of the game. Sometimes the defending in La Liga is pretty awful .
I think we might be missing the point. The main advantage of the short passing game is that it is the best method of defense. The other team isn’t going to score much when they don’t have the ball. If we want to talk about the Madrid game, what about all that short passing football in the first half when Madrid didn’t even muster half a chance for 45 minutes?
Defenders under pressure make mistakes as we saw very clearly, look at our own defence which has made numerous mistakes on long balls. I know Messi is short but a deflection from Suarez or a striker could easily open up. Not saying playing long balls 24/7 but it wouldn't kill you once in a while.
Exactly, that's the philosophy but still one can compile a very loooong movie showing other teams have scored from the 1-2 chances they gotten while Barca has had 80% possession so that philosophy isn't 100%and is it? I still think it's naive relying on that for all eternity.
Pep did win the Helmond! Twice! The first time was in 2009... 29/09/09: UCL-M2 ............................. FC Barcelona 2-0 Dynamo Kiev But they only defended it three times. In fact, it was rather shocking when they lost it... 03/10/09: Primera División J6 .......... FC Barcelona 1-0 Almería 17/10/09: Primera División J7 .......... Valencia 0-0 FC Barcelona 20/10/09: UCL-M3 ............................. FC Barcelona 1-2 Rubin Kazan But when Pep brought the Helmond back a year later he defended it for, what I believe, is the record number of Helmond defenses. 20/10/10: UCL-M3 .............................. FC Barcelona 2-0 FC Kopenhagen 23/10/10: Primera División J8 ........... Real Zaragoza 0-2 FC Barcelona 26/10/10: Copa del Rey 4R1 .............. AD Ceuta 0-2 FC Barcelona 30/10/10: Primera División J9 ........... FC Barcelona 5-0 Sevilla 02/11/10: UCL-M4 .............................. FC Kopenhagen 1-1 FC Barcelona 07/11/10: Primera División J10 ........ Getafe 1-3 FC Barcelona 10/11/10: Copa del Rey 4R2 .............. FC Barcelona 5-1 AD Ceuta 13/11/10: Primera División J11 ......... FC Barcelona 3-1 Villarreal 20/11/10: Primera División J12 ......... Almería 0-8 FC Barcelona 24/11/10: UCL-M5 .............................. Panathinaikos 0-3 FC Barcelona 29/11/10: Primera División J13 ......... FC Barcelona 5-0 Real Madrid 04/12/10: Primera División J14 ......... Osasuna 0-3 FC Barcelona 07/12/10: UCL-M6 .............................. FC Barcelona 2-0 Rubin Kazan 12/12/10: Primera División J15 ......... FC Barcelona 5-0 Real Sociedad 18/12/10: Primera División J16 ......... Espanyol 1-5 FC Barcelona 21/12/10: Copa del Rey 5R1 .............. FC Barcelona 0-0 Athletic Bilbao 02/01/11: Primera División J17 ......... FC Barcelona 2-1 Levante 05/01/11: Copa del Rey 5R2 .............. Athletic Bilbao 1-1 FC Barcelona 08/01/11: Primera División J18 ......... Deportivo 0-4 FC Barcelona 12/01/11: Copa del Rey Qf1 ............... FC Barcelona 5-0 Betis 16/01/11: Primera División J19 ......... FC Barcelona 4-1 Málaga 19/01/11: Copa del Rey Qf2 ............... Betis 3-1 FC Barcelona So yeah, Pep sucked.