LPB tears shall be delicious to us! LPB cries shall be a glorious sound to Culer ears!!! Oh, I can wait to drink in their agony over on the LPB boards!
Get out the popcorn for LPB's next game at the Toiletbeul on Saturday. The socios are braying for Flo's head on a pike. It's looking like 2006 all over again when Flo was forced to resign at the end of a Galactico reign that delivered very little.
It's almost too obvious why Arbeloa insists on a worldclass #6 DM to his tactical philosophy. If you have forwards who don't press at all, then it falls on the midfield. The departure of Makélélé to Chelsea in 2003 was widely cited as the beginning of the end for the Galacticos, as there was no one else to do the ball-winning dirty work for Beckham, Zidane, R9, Owen, Robinho, et al. Remember Thomas Gravesen? LOL. This time around, no one's stepped into the shoes of Kroos and Modric, so it's looking like they are gonna have a bad time this season.
Two crazy things about the sole #6 idea: 1. There are very few Busquets out there in the footballing world. Its freaking HARD to find one. 2. To pull off a "single pivot" system, pretty much all the teams that did so played a lot of "juego de posicion" types of systems. (Think Pep's or Enrique's Barca, or Pep's Citeh.) Now, its incredibly valuable, if a club is lucky enough to find a Busquets-type, because it frees others to do more attacking. But I doubt LPB have that type of guy in their roster. I also can't envision the entitled types at LPB playing a lot of "juego de posicion," and having Vini/Mbappe/Bellingham play in defined, set positions. TL/DR: Arbeloa's system may be cute for their cantera, but I can't see it working in La Liga, with those players. He'll probably revert to "Individual Effort FC" systems.
I heard Albacete kept 7 of their starters on the bench because they thought they would lose anyways and they wanted to concentrate on the league to avoid relegation , LPB lost to Albacetes bench
Also, Etta Eyong from Levante doesn't look convincing to my eye. I'm not seeing a Barça level player in him.
They will probably get a goal at some point here ... but yeah, they look atrocious so far. Vini still getting booed when he touches the ball.
Meh, a PK should be a 90% chance of a goal. Its a free throw in basketball. So, whatever a GK does to try to make a save is fair play.
And there's their second. Levante wiltered after the PK. Again, I was hoping to see something, ANYTHING out of Eyong, and nope. Here's a chance for him to make himself, I dunno, €100MM by doing something @ LPB, and nada. Dunno who thought he has any sort of quality, or the level to be Cule, TBH.
He shuffled so much to the right that he left the other side wide open for Mbappe to just roll the ball. Looked obvious from the front angle.
Maybe. But Mbappe is right footed, and a more natural placement for a PK is across his body, and to his left/the GK's right. Its a reasonable guess for a GK to take. I never criticize a GK for allowing a PK goal, because its a 90% probability. The player that should be ridiculed is the moron who dove in to give LPB the game. Half of defense is being goalside and inside your man. If he stays on his feet, its probably still 0-0 right now.
Not criticizing him guessing that side ... just how early he showed that's where he was gonna go. He didn't hide it at all.
I guess. I still wouldn't call the GK "a clown," while not absolutely ripping the stupid defender. That goal is 100% on the defender, not at all on the GK. Just stay on your freakin' feet, stay goalside and inside, and it'll ~98% not be a goal allowed. If Mbappe beats YOU the defender, AND the GK from that position, well, congratulations to him; Mbappe would have then made an absolute world class goal out of nothing. But as a defender, you can't turn a ~2% chance for a goal allowed into a 90% one. And, Barça defenders also need to learn that bit of math as well.
No doubt. And some of Barça's defenders have done the same idiotic thing. (Not just Araujo, thinking of Cubarsi and others.) I often wonder if teams and players work on basic concepts of defending nowadays. It seems like we see those sorts of idiotic dive ins on a weekly basis across the game, even at a top level like La Liga.
Just saw the replay, and you're 100% correct. That guy was trying to do the "Emi Martinez" thing, but he doesn't have Martinez's mobility.
If he did that staying in the middle it'd be fine. But he made it too obvious by not staying centered. The camera from behind Mbappe showed well how much of his left side he left open. That was my point. The movement is fine if you execute it well. I don't have anything against that tactic.
More PK drama at the AFCON final, and so fun after a crazy long VAR delay, Senegal protests, and crowd trouble, only to see LPBer Brahim Diaz attempt a lame panenka in the dying minutes... whichj the Senegal keeper casually collected LOL I won't ruin the rest of it.
the worst panenka i have ever seen , why even use it here and against Mendy who saved that type before and him taking pk's with his right while being mostly a left footed player is another thing i don't get