EPTI re-watched the game highlights and it's funny how it looks like Barça completely dominated the game. Liverpool got themselves a ton of good situations but didn't create many good chances. Every time Salah or Mané got the ball I was scared, and they won almost all their 1on1s but in the end they only had 1 good chance each.
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WillyWanker
France1915 Posts
I re-watched the game highlights and it's funny how it looks like Barça completely dominated the game. Liverpool got themselves a ton of good situations but didn't create many good chances. Every time Salah or Mané got the ball I was scared, and they won almost all their 1on1s but in the end they only had 1 good chance each. | ||
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whistleboss
151 Posts
Liverpool will never have the strenght to pull this one back, as they have been and still are playing tiring matches in their league. Hoping at least the final is a good match with fair calls for both sides. The effect a foul or a card have in a match is underrated and often ignored by the regular peeps, that's what they take advantage of. Also other calls that if happened to one side in the start would have been called, but for the other not, is pretty sad. | ||
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sharkie
Austria18418 Posts
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WillyWanker
France1915 Posts
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haitike
Spain2713 Posts
On May 02 2019 08:19 Faruko wrote: I do think Dembele & Coutinho are on their way out Not the worst players in the world by any means, but Barcelona could do much better than those 2, they'll maybe show a much better performance on other teams but as of today, in Barcelona, they are not worthy of their place in this team. I think Dembele will stay. he had some good moments and goals this season and he is still young. But probably Coutinho will be out, he is playing with no energy and fans are tired of him. | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51490 Posts
Saurez really roughed up the back 4 though, getting into the heads of everyone being Suarez so fair play to him on that. Clearly was no love lost there. Other than that the only other Barca player who played extremely well was Ter Stegen because he seems to have evolved such a cool head now on top of arguably being the best keeper on the planet right now. Feel a bit sad for Scouse but then i don't because they have been able to keep their best players on the pitch all season long and now its catching up with them. No Keita, no Arnold, no Firminho and their team is just way weaker. Having an amazing first 11 only takes you so far in this game now due to how much physical requirements are needed. Their is a reason Messi is "back to his best" one might say, because he has played the least amount of games ever in a long time. Ronaldo was the same, basically was "afk" for the first 6 months of a season on Madrid's last few champs league wins. | ||
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Malinor
Germany4727 Posts
On May 02 2019 06:55 haitike wrote: I had to say it but Vidal was an awesome transfer for a good price this summer. Bayern shipped Kroos to Madrid a few years back. Now they shipped Vidal to Barcelona. Both times I felt they let the wrong players go and it surely looks that way. | ||
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WillyWanker
France1915 Posts
I don't think there's much to be said about Liverpool's player choices. Like Klopp said at the end, they had a great performance but they go back home with a 3-0. They were better than Barça overall... With Firminho they'd have one less midfielder, maybe they wouldn't have dominated that much. Arnold wouldn't have stopped Alba (and Salah didn't need him to win the right side duels), and they were better without Keita in the 2nd half. Tough game to analyze as a coach haha | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51490 Posts
Another season goes and another trophy-less season for Klopp and Liverpool. | ||
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WillyWanker
France1915 Posts
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51490 Posts
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sharkie
Austria18418 Posts
They pretty much confined barca most of the game and created several clear cut chances. Who could do that without saying it was a fluke. | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51490 Posts
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WillyWanker
France1915 Posts
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haitike
Spain2713 Posts
It is so weird for me when the best part of the Barcelona is the defense, haha. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18008 Posts
On May 02 2019 19:31 WillyWanker wrote: Barça defended well, with a lot of people in the box. It's hard for everybody to break this kind of defense. Years ago people were saying a bus is a counter to Barça's tiki-taka, they need a plan B blah blah. Turns out, it's a counter to anything if done well. They aren't playing tiki-taka at all anymore? Barça is still a team that likes to have the ball, but they are far more composed when they don't. You don't really see Barça with 80% ball control anymore. | ||
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WillyWanker
France1915 Posts
In a way it's understandable given how demanding that system was and how much older the players are now. But they should try to rejuvenate the team instead of adapting their playstyle. Hopefully next year with de Jong + Arthur it'll be different. | ||
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Espers
United Kingdom606 Posts
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clusen
Germany8702 Posts
On May 02 2019 16:45 Malinor wrote: Bayern shipped Kroos to Madrid a few years back. Now they shipped Vidal to Barcelona. Both times I felt they let the wrong players go and it surely looks that way. They would have kept Vidal if they knew beforehand that Tolisso would get injured by Volland on the second day of the season and not play another minute. € I don't mean that Volland intentionally injured him, just happened in a 1on1 between those 2 | ||
Liquid`Drone
Norway28674 Posts
Honestly I think this year's ballon d'or is the least debatable for like.. almost a decade? Like last year modric got a total of 753 out of a possible 1056 points. (176 journalists giving 1-6 points to different players.) Before that Ronaldo won with 946. Going back before that they have a different calculation system so you can't compare but like.. I can't understand Messi getting much less than 1050 points this year. There really aren't any other candidates. | ||
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