matchday let's fkn go! place your bets lads! will we go with the traditional 9 defenders formation or will Spalletti opt for the 10-0-0 formation?
Bad enough the wingers are all mediocre at best, but the way Pedri, Busquets, and Jong bossed that midfield was concerning. Demme and Ruiz were chasing ghosts all match long, and the back four were all trash. Also, please stop playing Elmas on the right, and let Insigne fly to Toronto earlier than planned.
The most worrying this is that we should have lost 12-1 over the two legs. We shouldn't be 12-1 worse than any team. We only created 1 goal-scoring chance over the two legs, which Zielinski scored. We only scored yesterday due to a bad penalty call (Osimhen let his foot hit Ter Stegen, and the next goal was just a bs mistake by FCB) Spalletti can still redeem himself by winning the scudetto, but I'm afraid he'll mess up what started well. Politano and Ounas should be our only options on the RW, and fck me I can't believe I'm gonna say this but: Lozano and Elmas should have the LW and Insigne can fk off to the stance
Barcelona looked very beatable to me. Galatasaray, who are languishing midtable in Turkey, almost beat Barcelona at the Camp Nou, and came away instead with a deserved draw. The mistake with Spalletti was he gave them too much credit and we allowed them to dominate our midfield and wings more than we should have. We shouldn't have approached Barcelona with so much fear, but that's what we did.
Frankfurt were winning 0-3 over Barcelona at the Nou Camp at one stage. They weren't afraid of them. They allowed men to get forward and they won well because of it.