If you follow Lucho's formation this whole season, you will come up with the conclusion that he is using outdated formation from the late 50s developed by the Hungarians 4-2-4 that can turn into 4-3-3 off the ball. A curved line in the front and another curved line in the back. the ball keeps circulating from the sides, not the midfield. Because of a weak middle, much of the defending will be left to the back four. The defenders should look to passing the ball as quick as possible to the RB/LB or forwards to exploit their numeric advantage. This formation evolved into the 4-3-3 with more emphasis on the midfield.
You know Lucho (currently) is an clueless idiot so what you except, no one understands his rotation policy except for him or his dog that most likely picks out the starting lineups. Who else would play a DM as CB and a CB as RB while resting Craperto and Pique.. I guess he has a divine master plan and were too stupid to understand.
the thing is even if you rest players ... we have plenty of good decent players from Barca B who can play in those positions ( was really impressed with Marlon and have not seen any RB from barca B yet ) but our genius coach would rather play someone out of position than bring someone from there
Camp Nou attendance 98,485 Sat 3 Dec Real Madrid 16:15 96,457 Wed 19 Oct Manchester City (UCL) 20:45 89,421 Wed 21 Sept Atlético Madrid 22:00 83,884 Sat 4 Feb Athletic Bilbao 16:15 83,553 Sat 15 Oct Deportivo La Coruña 16:15 83,439 Sat 19 Nov Màlaga 16:15 82,914 Sat 29 Oct Granada 20:45 81,480 Sat 14 Jan Las Palmas 16:15 79,370 Sun 18 Dec Espanyol 20:45 74,237 Sat 10 Sept Alavés 20:30 73,290 Tue 13 Sept Celtic (UCL) 20:45 72,334 Wed 10 Aug Sampdoria (Gamper) 20:30 71,803 Wed 17 Aug Sevilla (Supercopa) 23:00 71,455 Wed 11 Jan Athletic Bilbao (Copa) 21:15 67,734 Tue 7 Feb Atlético Madrid (Copa) 21:00 67,157 Tue 6 Dec Mönchengladbach (UCL) 20:45 65,731 Sat 20 Aug Betis 18:15 64,025 Wed 21 Dec Hércules (Copa) 22:00 63,378 Sun 19 Feb Leganés 20:45 58,560 Thur 26 Jan Real Sociedad (Copa) 21:15 56,605 Wed 1 Mar Sporting Gijón 19:30
I dunno. Midweek against one of the bottom 3 teams. Not too surprising that they would draw about 10,000 less than a normal CL group-stage match.
Nice to see Paco score. Good offensive effort, even if it's only Sporting. If they hadn't sacked Abelardo, I'd say go easy on them.
Neymar with an amazing Freekick , Messi should give more to him to take , now can lucho please rest him as well ?
It's not the one match; it's the three lines I showed -- the last three in the list. The fact that when you look at that long list, it looks like tapering as the season goes on. A Wednesday night match against Atletico in September drew 89k; a Wednesday night match against Atletico (and a semi-final at that) in February drew 68k.