Barca and flick should learn how to see off games – like this weekends game against Sevilla don’t need to play good, just win – it’s the end of the season, structure doesn’t matter much in the league unless it’s against Madrid or atletico
War_Freak on
Next month basically a decider for League title… We face tough opponents like AM, RM, CELTA, GETAFE.
Need to make sure squad rotation and keep star players fatigue free as much as possible.
Forsaken-External-30 on
Very true mainly we lack squad depth.. specially in defence and striker situation sucks lol
justinmali13 on
I think the last two games could also be Flick trying to manage the games with minimal effort to reduce injuries. Saving the teams legs for bigger games
mouadmo on
Brotha EVERY single european team that competes for everything is tired.. it’s the norm, only the ones putting the extra effort are to be rewarded, or those who have a 12th player on their XI.
Tennis_Freak99 on
Flick needs to show more trust in Roony. Yamal shouldn’t start every league match
the-d23 on
Flick’s biggest flaw as a coach is his unwillingness to rotate. How many times have we seen this season Barça be up three or more goals with 30 minutes left to play and yet we still see Pedri, Yamal, Raphinha or Balde/Kounde play all 90 or only get taken out close to the 90 minute mark? Our starters are exhausted and the reason is that they’ve played too many minutes where subs should’ve been on the pitch instead.
Just to give a few examples:
02/22: Barça goes up 2-0 against relegation side Levante that’s barely crossed the halfway line all game. Regardless, Lamine plays until ‘88, Raphinha (in his second game back from injury) Frenkie, Eric, Kounde all play the full 90.
02/07: Barça go up 2-0 against Mallorca in the 61st minute, by this point the game was fully dominated by Barça after a tougher first half. Lamine doesn’t come out until ‘78, Eric, Kounde, Balde play the full 90.
01/25: Barça go up 2-0 in the 57th minute against Oviedo, the worst team in the league. Lamine plays until ‘79, Frenkie, Eric, Cubarsi all play the full 90.
12/06: Barça go up 5-1 against Betis in the 59th minute. Lamine plays the full 90, Roony gets taken out in the 68th minute as he’s having the best game of his career, Kounde and Cubarsi play the full 90.
Then we wonder why for the last two years now by the time March comes our squad starts falling apart with injuries. No other top team overplays their starters like we do. We already have four players cross the 3000 minute mark and twelve cross the 2000 mark, PSG has two and seven respectively, Madrid have four (one goalkeeper) and nine, even Arsenal who have played four more matches than us this season have four players (one goalkeeper) that have crossed 3000 and ten 2000.
struggleisreal123321 on
We keep complaining about squad depth but keep playing Yamal, pedri every game. Roony isn’t getting any minutes. It seems like flick has been told by decko/board to play Yamal every match.
aulixindragonz34 on
We wouldve rested starters if madrid didnt keep getting satanic goals in the 90+ minutes to barely win their games.
Aromatic_Goal_1922 on
I hope we start Rooney and Rashford this weekend in place of Lamine and Rapha to give them some rest. Same with Pedri.
10 Comments
Barca and flick should learn how to see off games – like this weekends game against Sevilla don’t need to play good, just win – it’s the end of the season, structure doesn’t matter much in the league unless it’s against Madrid or atletico
Next month basically a decider for League title… We face tough opponents like AM, RM, CELTA, GETAFE.
Need to make sure squad rotation and keep star players fatigue free as much as possible.
Very true mainly we lack squad depth.. specially in defence and striker situation sucks lol
I think the last two games could also be Flick trying to manage the games with minimal effort to reduce injuries. Saving the teams legs for bigger games
Brotha EVERY single european team that competes for everything is tired.. it’s the norm, only the ones putting the extra effort are to be rewarded, or those who have a 12th player on their XI.
Flick needs to show more trust in Roony. Yamal shouldn’t start every league match
Flick’s biggest flaw as a coach is his unwillingness to rotate. How many times have we seen this season Barça be up three or more goals with 30 minutes left to play and yet we still see Pedri, Yamal, Raphinha or Balde/Kounde play all 90 or only get taken out close to the 90 minute mark? Our starters are exhausted and the reason is that they’ve played too many minutes where subs should’ve been on the pitch instead.
Just to give a few examples:
02/22: Barça goes up 2-0 against relegation side Levante that’s barely crossed the halfway line all game. Regardless, Lamine plays until ‘88, Raphinha (in his second game back from injury) Frenkie, Eric, Kounde all play the full 90.
02/07: Barça go up 2-0 against Mallorca in the 61st minute, by this point the game was fully dominated by Barça after a tougher first half. Lamine doesn’t come out until ‘78, Eric, Kounde, Balde play the full 90.
01/25: Barça go up 2-0 in the 57th minute against Oviedo, the worst team in the league. Lamine plays until ‘79, Frenkie, Eric, Cubarsi all play the full 90.
12/06: Barça go up 5-1 against Betis in the 59th minute. Lamine plays the full 90, Roony gets taken out in the 68th minute as he’s having the best game of his career, Kounde and Cubarsi play the full 90.
Then we wonder why for the last two years now by the time March comes our squad starts falling apart with injuries. No other top team overplays their starters like we do. We already have four players cross the 3000 minute mark and twelve cross the 2000 mark, PSG has two and seven respectively, Madrid have four (one goalkeeper) and nine, even Arsenal who have played four more matches than us this season have four players (one goalkeeper) that have crossed 3000 and ten 2000.
We keep complaining about squad depth but keep playing Yamal, pedri every game. Roony isn’t getting any minutes. It seems like flick has been told by decko/board to play Yamal every match.
We wouldve rested starters if madrid didnt keep getting satanic goals in the 90+ minutes to barely win their games.
I hope we start Rooney and Rashford this weekend in place of Lamine and Rapha to give them some rest. Same with Pedri.