Instead of trying to play more direct, Tito should not abandon the famous tiki taka. Tiki taka is very important for Barca. Not just as a trademark, but also make the play looks simple yet enjoyable. It helps a lot in our possession, game control, attacking and even defensive tactical of the team. Without tiki taka, Barca will look just as a decent club, with no trademark of play to enjoy while watching.

You obviously didn't enjoy the 5-1 win didn't you?
We had a more direct approach too!

And the Pique and sMasch and joining the attack, that's nothing new.
I love it when Pique goes up.
He's been doing it since 08-09.
Where did the Piquenbauer name came from you think?
Why was he praised so much all this while?
A great defender who is comfortable on the ball and able to bring it out from the back.

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Added on August 31, 2012, 2:47 pmHe has been given many minutes since last season.
He scored 2 goals vs. Leverkussen remember in what was his first CL match or something.
And I bet you missed the R. Sociedad match.
Please download it and come back at me with a Tello review.
He was lightning it up!
Goals and assists.

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Added on August 31, 2012, 2:54 pmWhy do you say that he is turning Barca into a Barca B????

First of all, he never coached Barca B before.
He was just an assistant of Pep.

I'll reserve the rest until I see your explanations.

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Added on August 31, 2012, 3:03 pmHe has been given many minutes since last season.
He scored 2 goals vs. Leverkussen remember in what was his first CL match or something.
And I bet you missed the R. Sociedad match.
Please download it and come back at me with a Tello review.
He was lightning it up!
Goals and assists.


Yes indeed. It was a well deserved win.
They gotta thank VV for that, for helping them have believe.
2 goals down is much tougher than being a 1 goal down.

This false 9 thing has been going on since the CL Final 09 vs. Man Utd.
It is really nothing new.
He is instructed to drop deep to offer offer build up support and do triangles.

I don't really support this because he will have more work to do covering up space to score goals.
But this is the reason why he is the undisputed best football player.
Better than Iniesta, Xavi and Ronaldo.
The amount of work he is doing is unbelievable!
Score, assist, drop deep to build up & control possession, defending.

Those long passes resulted in a Pedro goal in the 1st leg and again at the Bernaboo when Pedro superbly controlled with his left and shot with his right. Almost went in between Iker's legs.

Why do you say that he is turning Barca into a Barca B????

First of all, he never coached Barca B before.
He was just an assistant of Pep.

I'll reserve the rest until I see your explanations.


I also thought that Villa should've come on.
But I guess he is not at that stage yet.
But I still think that Villa would've offered much more threat.

I'm pretty sick of Alexis.
Never convinced about him actually but last year he put in some decent performances.
And he does a lot of tracking back which I really rate highly.

But his finishing is suspect.
He was never a goal scorer actually.
More of a winger/playmaker.

We simply need more goal scorers.
Messi can't do it all.

And I hate his diving!
Such an athletic guy but can't stay on his feet.

It's really unfortunate that Busi get's the dive tag on him because on a couple of dives when you have people who are serial divers like Alexis, Pepe, Di Maria rolling around.

Yeah looking forward to MVP again.
But I dont have high expectations.
Can't expect it to be like 2010-11.
Villa is much older now and came back from a long injury.

My notes on the game.

1) Really gentleman of the players to stay back after the match unlike Madrid players before.
2) It just shows how cool this players are by not losing their heads in the match when they're losing by 2 goals, a man down and not resort to foul play.

This post has been edited by barca96: Aug 31 2012, 03:03 PM

You obviously didn't enjoy the 5-1 win didn't you?
We had a more direct approach too!

Direct approach tactical will only effective towards a weaker opponent, but not to a rival such as Madrid. Furthermore, Tito tactical failed to disable counter attack from Madrid. Referring to the game stats, you can see that they can attack more effectively. The 2 goals from Higuain n Ronaldo were also from their effective counter attack. My point is: it is not wrong to play a more direct approach, but possession of the ball and defensive ability should come first, as this is basic to create more attacking chances hence give more chance to win any game.

And the Pique and sMasch and joining the attack, that's nothing new.
I love it when Pique goes up.
He's been doing it since 08-09.
Where did the Piquenbauer name came from you think?
Why was he praised so much all this while?
A great defender who is comfortable on the ball and able to bring it out from the back.



Can't deny that. But to join the attack while losing control of the game will cause any team dearly. This is what I try to say. During Pep time, it is enjoyable to watch Pique n Masch dribble down the field. No worry at all. Because y?? Because we can easily recover back the ball if we loose it, credit to the great team play and tiki taka.

Look at the game against Osasuna. Statistically we did win the possession. But once we loose the ball, we failed to close spaces (as we play wider and less team play) and cancel their attacking play. This clearly give them more ideas to create attacking chances. Bonus to us that we have the great Messi. Look at how we play during Pep time. Whenever we loose the ball, 3 or 4 player will close down spaces and defend together. I don't see this on Tito tactical approach. It looks worst when we looks like don't know to attack whenever we posses the ball. The Madrid game shows all of Tito weaknesses.

Affelay went on a year loan to schalke.. wish him all d best there.. hope wil perform there pairing wit hutlaar.

Any idea whom gonna leave on free transfer upcoming season? lolz

Bojan spoke that 1 of the player already told him that the guy gonna join Milan later on,not sure when....

some time had pass,but hope u dont mind im replying u now

1)maybe u are right on tello.but still,im not convinced.as much as im not convinced with alexis

2)whatever u said bout alexis,i totally agree.its a no brainer,whether to bring him in,or,pedro.come on.with all his ridiculous diving,its shameful

3)i do think we need central defender.if not to replace puyol and pique,at least as a sub,in case they injured or not.but their time is near.its time to find a new central def

4)eventhough we lost copa del rey,but after 30th minute or so,i think the team's performance was superb.with 10 players,they hold up well.2nd half,macherano was invincible.super accurate long pass.it remind me of busquets during previous champions cup final with man u.pique play well down low,and help alot up high.involve in both defense and attack.valdes also performed well.

5)i also agree,we need more attacking channel/source.its not enough to rely on messi.hopefully when villa is back,things will change.we got enough firepower.jordi alba himself could be a source to create chances or even score.i said this again and again.be like spain during last euro

it's supercup not copa del rey yet

imo, the forward, pedro and messi should starts, and then for another spot is for sanchez or villa, which I prefer villa to get more playing time.

as for defender, puyol can't play all matches, we might see masch-pique combo for most of the time, and puyol to play some of the game, in any case one of them injured, let just hope that bartra will be able to fill in those void. and fontas is still here for a backup.

it's not a matter of getting a cb, but to get a cb that suits with barca style.

lol
sorry.got mixed up alot
pening liao
sorry

yeah.true.but i think,this defend problem been plaguing the team since last season right?

it is, with the void left by abidal, but we now got jordi alba, plus bartra is promoted. he's putting a good show during preseason.

personally i don't think our def is bad, we lost our liga last season due to our away form. unable to score much

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Added on September 3, 2012, 8:00 amimportant win last night against valencia. 1-0 from adriano

This post has been edited by fJok3R: Sep 3 2012, 08:00 AM

Safe win against Valencia, with 1-0 scoreboard.

Check the replay, seem fabregas miss some chances to score, and nice goal from adriano....

anyone watch the game, how did A.song played?

alex song played the full 90 minutes and he did not lose a single ball yesterday

messi scores another freekick against paraguay, damn he's been practising his freekick, ain't he?



villa scores, pedro get a brace, it's been a good week

This post has been edited by fJok3R: Sep 9 2012, 12:38 PM

i think cesc needs to play as a CM and provide some intelligent through ball. if he succeed n doing this, he can be the next xavi.

Who can replace Xavi?

found this in Sport, any idea guys?

how long ago was that? El capitan looked so young.. I would kill to have that jersey..

looks like the jersey in my avatar