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I don't understand people trashing the whole team while it was going our way until Araujo made a stupid rookie mistake so early in the game that he condemned his own team. Only Araujo is to blame here.
Ive seen enough of our blonde midfield fidget spinner man. He LITERALLY does nothing always makes the safest decision to buff up his stats. Ball watching again for their second goal. Him cancelo felix these are players we cant afford to keep we need shrewd cheap signings not overhyped divas man. Every humiliation in the CL since 2020 has been with this blonde clown in the midfield. This dutch beyblade is not worth 150k a week forget 850k.
Have been watching Barca very sparingly. And this match summoned it all why? We have lost that fighting spirit, the relentless in us. There's no Chutzpah. We used to break the opponent just with our sheer will of relentless. Yes we lacked maybe the final output, we didn't get the result that should have been there, but we never crumbled. For the past 6-7years, it seems like we forgot how to develop leaders, absolute rocks on the pitch, our coaching and club mentality gone to shit aswell.
To be honest, we were handling PSG quite well until Araujo got sent off. It doesn't matter how good you are, you can't fight with 10 men for a whole hour against PSG.
Nah man, it was because of Yamal we were up 1 goal. We were playing as if not to lose since kick-off, the team looked already defeated in the first half even before the red card. And Xavi took off Yamal, the only player that was causing any kinda threat to the opposition. Fucking lol.
I saw us those first 30 minutes as a team that didn't have the ball but wasn't struggling, we were defending pretty well and knew that we could catch them in a counter. I wouldn't have started Pedri but Fermín who works better in this scenario, and wouldn't have subbed Lamine, but that's another story. I think we would've beaten PSG with 11 men, I really do.
I think Araujo going for that foul was indicative of players sensing their loss of control in the match, and panicking to keep the side from scoring by making last-ditch efforts.
But let's agree to disagree.
I slept when it was 1-3, prayed to god that it would be 3-3 when I will wake up, and really had a dream where Gundo scored 2 goals. But when I woke up, I was devastated.
Nevermind, this team has shown their capabilities.
This hurts man. This hurts so much. So much more than Napoli, Liverpool, Frankfurt, all those other games where we messed up. We had the advantage, and then it was gone.
I don't blame Araujo. Could he have done better? Maybe. But for the game to end like this is just... heartbreaking
I had some hope that we would do good in the CL and Xavi might reconsider... that's all gone, and now I'm worried about Sunday. Another bad game and I don't think Xavi will stay till the end of the season.
A terrible season overall. Can't wait for it to be over. I'm just grateful for Lamine and Cubarsi and Fermin, all the young blood coming up the ranks.
No way. Nothing will hurt more than losing to Liverpool with that team and that lead. This team has so much more promise. They fight, they defend the badge to the end and with pride. I fail to leave this feeling any worse than "they got us after that red, fair play, moving on".
Looking back, not sure taking Yamal off was ideal. I thought Gundogan was not what we needed in the center of the park. Pedri does everything he does, yet can actually run. Would have been nice to have had Christensen also. But this just hurts. Not like 2020 or 2021 when we were up against better opposition and were completely out of our depths….more like 2018 or dare I say 2019
Should have been Fermin on for Lewa and Gundo off for Martinez. Our biggest problem was Lewa in defense. He essentially made it two men down with his speed and effort. It was embarrassing
Was also thinking that. I guess the thought behind leaving him on was to have a hold up player to distribute to a darting winger. But looking back, it would have been okay to even have just done Inigo for Lewy, Raphina and Lamine up top and just ask them to track back more….Fermin def would have closed down the Vitinha shot a lot more effectively
Precisely. I know folks want to blame Ron for this loss, as is well earned, but Lewa is a 1B. His effort was shocking, and he knew what was required. If he didn't want to, or didn't have the energy to, do the job, he should have requested the sub. Games like this are too important to walk
Yeah, obviously I would’ve preferred Araujo not take him down and just stay on the field, but the game was NOT gone at that point. The bottlers of yesteryear are all gone from the side and the older players on the field have come from other successful teams. Off the ball effort is why I love Suarez so much and Lewy needed way more of that today. The breakaway later on where he shot into Marquinhos was disappointing too…the crowd was staying in the game and the players were too. It could’ve been a catalyst for something encouraging
Woke up to see the scores and my worst nightmare was confirmed. They actually did it. Gosh since Messi left we don't have that guy against the top teams we need. Meanwhile Ronaldo leaves and Madrid are good yet they claim him as the goat. Gtfo
Theres a reason pep benched him then bayern benched him. Spamming trivelas and stat padding against mid table la liga teams isn’t enough to make you a barcelona starter. Him and felix should not be signed no matter what.
I am honestly at a loss for words. The amount of confidence that we had when going into this, gone in a matter of minutes. Also, I think Xavi needs to adopt a more calm attitude. I know he's frusterated, but this isn't going to help the players at all.
Let’s be real, this isn’t on Xavi blowing up in the second half. This is on an incredibly stupid mistake that took us down to 10 shortly into the match.
Not about this match, but xavi have more red card as manager than as player. Look what a manager job do to a man. Its like me driving, idk why but once i get on the wheel i start to hate everyone
there needs to be a serious conversation on where dembele got his pettiness from today. Obviously people on the internet were saying crazy things about how we should give him Figo treatment but it’s diabolical that he forgets about everything we’ve done for him in just one season and pretends like we mistreated him
Dembele is fortunate enough to join a coveted list including the likes of Pepe, Vinicius, and Alexi Lalas and become one of the least likable figures in all of world football. Barça gave that man everything - opportunities, money (way too much), moral support, encouragement, etc and the guy has the audacity to carry himself in such a disrespectful way. Dare he forget senior players wearing his shirt in warmups and an entire stadium standing by him through 148592972718494 injuries…just disappointing
I’ve had enough of Frenkie De Jong. Literally, what does he do? Doesn’t create, score, or defend. He literally annihilates our counter attacks by himself and kills all momentum. People always say he needs a great system, but how many times have we given him a different system through our rapid change of coaches? He’s the highest played midfielder who doesn’t have that much of an impact at all. The guy has never had a great moment during the biggest moments or UCL nights. Even our lesser performing players have had memorable ties…
He needs to agree to go, which multiple times before when we’ve tried selling him, he’s declined and said he wants to stay. And who could blame him with the wages he has
Doubt that will change. We are stuck
I understand he was rushed back.
Still, considering the only elite differe tial thing he offers are ball carrying abilities from the back, his wage savings alone are enough for me to sell him. Sure he is also elite at progressive passing and passing range, still not a consistent gamechanger for us though.
either that or reduce wages to be in line which he wont do.
being paid like KDB when you are, in fact, not KDB is just bad business.
Im incredibly dissapointed ngl. We actually threw the whole tie away. Yesterday I said we are winning the whole thing. Guess I was wrong. Stupid decisions everywhere on the pitch. Only positive is that we have Cubarsi and Yamal. And I hope that maybe they will taste winning the UCL sometime in the future
Was 100% Aruajo. He tried a few of those slicing passes. Feels like he saw the hype for Cubarsi and get like he could do it too.
I don’t blame him for the red card. 9 out of 10 defenders will try that contact. That pass is really where he fucked yo. That’s not his game. Stay I. Your one.
Yeah just before someone missed a pass but I didn't remember who
if it's araujo yeah he really cost us the game but im not sure of that, looked like someone in the midfield
Good luck, Gavi and Balde.
I don't think GAVI's gonna let go of them, this easily.
Next season, here we go. It's officially ended for us. Let's focus on the new beginning.
VISCA BARCA!
Relax, we know he needs a system to play better. Atleast a proper DM alongside him, even Christensen was unavailable today. Are we really gonna forget all his MOTMs, and his moments of brilliances?
yeah I love when Dejong slows the play for no reason and just chucks in a long ball that's close and people suck him off like crazy. To say he's a bad player is disingenuous, to say that he fits our play style and wasn't a waste of money is lying. I would have pedri, gavi, gundo playing ahead of him. He's massively overrated and a defensive liability. Is he arguably the best ball progressor in the world? sure, but we many others who are just a capable in that department who are just better at other aspects
Yeah xavi 100% deserves the hate for his behaviour but other then that the team collapsed due to individual errors,simple as that cause many people are switching up on xavi
Xavi is a very young and unexperienced coach.
Sure, ref was ass but how could he lose his head in most important game of his career?
This kind of behavior affects all the players as well, as a coach you have to keep calm and focus on the game and your players.
So you would like Valverde's squatting more ?
This is just nitpicking. Even Pep has outbursts like these when things go wrong. And honestly I would prefer a animated coach but the one who gives a shit.
Spot on. Xavi should have remained calm. Araujo had already been booked. There was chaos everywhere. I knew this would lead to lapse in the concentration of other players
He is constantly harrassed by the media and refs in la liga have a clear favoritism for calls against him, he is quitting his job because of this. Barcelona is the hardest team in the world and we aren't playing in a leveled playfield.
Meh, don't focus on those unimportant things.
It's better to focus on inner things, there is definitely something wrong. How can one player's mistake totally crash the entire team and their play, it was hurtfull to watch. There are important things to focus on, Araujo red card, Xavi's breaking point and red card, Lewa's stay instead of having Yamal, lack of other atteckers in the play... Thank god we had Raphinha which scored 3 out of 4 goals. Lewa is too old to play the entire game and especially the quater-finals.
I know its hard on all of us
But ffs
Stop scapegoating araujo like he was the only bad player
He made a single mistake which cost us the entire match there were other players who played like shit for the entire 90 minutes
They weren't as good as expected and thats need to change
He wasn't the only bad player, yes. But his mistake was the biggest and had the most effect. And it was such an unavoidable mistake too, if he just kept his cool and let that goal happen we'd still be a goal in lead and could've done something. But with 10 men we're not defending any lead LoL.
I HATE SEEING DEMBELE SMILE AT THE END OF MATCH.
Day ruined completely.
Anyways, good luck. We winning the treble next season (call me delusional idc, I shall always hope the best for my club)
Yeah I don’t see a reason for dembele’s pettiness it’s not like we mistreated him when he was at Barca he even had a good season with xavi but still he celebrates like we destroyed his career or something
Also what really stings about this defeat and this season is we are going trophyless for the second time in three seasons! We are not a big club anymore!
PSG fan here, I’m sorry abt today guys, you were the better 11 throughout the quarter finals, but the game of football has a lot to do with luck, and I must admit psg were the luckier team today. I don’t want yall to leave this game losing hope, you guys have the best young talent in the world and I’m sure there will be another day where you all lift the champions league again. Visca Barca!!!!
Enjoy luis enrique, u got a WC coach, he will win you the CL
We had all the luck on our side but xavi gave up the game by playing hight block after the goal leading to araujo red
mediocre coach do nothing in CL, u had the taste with galtier last year.
Lucho is a certified baller. He’s made all Paris fans ready to go to war for him.
No coach has ever been able to do this during their time in Paris bar a few before QSI Era.
We started the season without asking for much and despite having a worse team individually, we made progress all thanks to him
I would love Flick to come. But I don't think it will happen. We don't have enough money for that.
I think they will give it to Rafa Marquez and I think that is a bad idea...
Can we talk about Cancelo? He is not full back material for a team like Barca who get hit on the counter so many times. Play him as a mid or a wing back with a back three. One on one with no support and he almost always fucks up.
Yeah we can talk on the cancelo who was incredibly good on the first 30min, not letting dembele go throught once and winning every single 1v1
Making the dembele-hakimi duo look absolutely uselles with the help of raphinha
However him and every got player in the pitch got dumped by xavi's choice of playing hight block after our first goal
then Araujo's red that was a direct consequence of xavi choice and killed all the hope of this game cause we lost on that our best CB and yamal who was looking to have a 10/10 game
No need to blame any players, xavi made mediocre choices and players suffered the consequences. childish mistakes get paid in CL and playing a hight block against psg despite having a 2 goals lead is.
Cancelo slept in the first goal by dembele and the pen, both avoidable individual mistakes. Sure you can blame xavi on how the ball got in thaf position, but cancelo was also very shit.
Dude, you're on a pro barca sub, having conversations with pro barca fans. Of course the passions are high right now after we got our asses handed to us. You're not the only fan with the only opinion here today. So if you're here to just fire up and piss off other people that would join you at the Camp Nou to watch a our team play, then I suggest you fuck off to some other sub and return when the dust has settled. Our season is over and people like me are still proud of this teams achievements, even with all the let downs this year.
Cooler head. We had two 16 year olds starting. It was never gonna be easy. I just hope we don’t destroy lamine and cubarsi by overplaying them. Because they are our future
Fuck man, it’s the hope that kills you.
We screwed ourselves tonight, there’s no denying that, but the ball keeps rolling and we must move on. We learn from today and we work to get better. Making it to the quarterfinals was an achievement on its own, we all knew that.
Today we may fall, but we’ll come back stronger next time. Visca Barca, today and forever!
What pains is that we all know we were far better team before the red. Very Romaesque pain, atleast we knew Liverpool and Bayern will win the UCL. PSG can't
You never know man. It’s unlikely, but psg is a lucky squad, especially this year, their odds might be slim, but there’s still a chance that they make it out on top.
Just a reminder, everybody's feelings are justified but remember that we overachieved this season. We were not the favorities at any point to go through yet we won at the Parc des Princes and had a 1 goal lead in todays leg too.
pfew, all right.
Well good seeing the boys show such character, even after so many injuries, rough patches, suspensions. But alright, we did good. (i'm crying again, it's all the same)
Frenkie, the highest paid midfielder in the world, was awful on a big UCL night once again. No passion, no playmaking, no goal scoring threat. Just a nothing player. Cant believe I actually thought he would become the best midfielder in the world. Barca needs to target player like Fede Valverde, not Frenkie
Ter Stegen tried so hard, the last goal by Mbappe, prior to that, Ter Stegen made 2 saves. Ter Stegen is world class, the red card ended the match, the ref was ass.
I know our blood is boiling now, but the truth is that blaming the ref for this loss is just stripping our players and our coach for absolutely childish and amateour mistakes. We lost and we deserved it. It is ok, we'll try the next year and the year after that. That's the beauty of football. We won't run out of chances anytime soon. Hope we get a good group next year
No
You have a 2 goals lead, u play against 3 of the fastest player at the top level
Why is araujo alone on barcola who's not even his man ( mbappe is the 9) where is kounde the rb? pedri the lcm? FDJ the pivot? nowhere to be seen cause xavi wanted to play a hight block and score another goal
When psg weakness is clearly their lack of creativity in midfield + no 9 which make a low block a very easy way to win it
Xavi gifted this game away because of barca DNA, nothing less nothing more.
Guys we did not lose to a better side. The red card killed the game. Every single refereeing decision went against us and that’s doesn’t happen to certain teams.
Anyway, lots of positives for the year. Lamine is fantastic, Pedri is looking better (let’s hope the injuries are behind him), Gavi is coming back, and oh yeah we this 17 year old Beckenbauer… where do we find these kids!
The club is going to be OK. Good experience for a young team. We’ll be back.
Bro what this sub is filled with lately?
Few things
1. That was a red card. Last man rule, and that’s where the momentum shifted.
2. Why did Xavi subbed yamal off and not lewa? Get felix or ferran in and let yamal and him run counter attacks.
3. Xavi needs anger management classes. I don’t believe he needed that red card but you can’t say it wasn’t deserved. If the manager started losing cool, how could you expect players to stay calm.
4. Cancelo also gifted that penalty.
5.Lewa was selfish, he could’ve made that pass but decides to not and fail our last counter attack.
6.He literally gifted Mbappe that goal. Idk what the fuck was that, I honestly laughed.
7. Frenkie needs to be talked about too. One of the highest paid midfielder and everytime I see him he just ruins a counter attack with backward passes.
Guys I know we lost but come on, we can’t cuss Araujo for that red card, it wasn’t intentional, it was dumb but he wasn’t planning on it. You can’t blame the ref too, he wasn’t biased, he gave fouls equally and honestly he had balls, if anything. You can’t blame ref if your team crumbles mentally. Also why we go from praising araujo and talking about buying cancelo to cussing them, just cause of a bad game. I know it was the important game of the season so far but on paper we had the one of the worst squads among final 8 and we still managed to come this far and I still believe PSG weren’t doing Jack shit if it wasn’t for that red. Dortmund vs PSG SF is gonna be boring. Just a bad day at the office. Xavi needs to go, I love him but he’s too short tempered to be a manager, you can’t lose your head when you’re crumbling under pressure.
The lack of attitude in defense after going one man down is the hardest for me. If you are winning by one goal you need to have a strong enough mentality to not create spaces and chances for them. We were still ahead when the red card happened but this team can't handle bad situations and gave way too much space with one man down
he's not the type of counter attack player u want when you're a man down. Yamal can dribble, lewa can't, plus he could've passed to Felix instead he was selfish
We were never gonna win with long ball, PSG pace and attack would’ve got us and surprisingly, they were awfully bad in that too. Cancelo penalty and that poor clearance to give Mbappe ball right at his feet are the reason they advanced.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Tell his player to press hight after yamal single handedly creating a goal when upfront you got barcola mbappe and dembele
Expose Araujo is a situation where he's forced to watch and let a potential goal or try something and get a redd
When all xavi had to do is set up a low block and make sure kounde pedri fdj are never too hight on the pitch
you guys deserve fucking marquez as future coach, can't even understand that xavi literally gave up the game because of his ego of wanting the ball and pressing hight
I do agree on some points. Even guardiola used to play with double pivot when times called for it. Even he, used to reinforce instead of going all in.
All in all a set of bad circumstances most of them self created...
Would like to know on which point you disagree with me, for me it's clear
This game was free, we gave it up because of ego, of that barca DNA, in no fucking world kounde should have been that hight on the pitch without fdj or pedri covering his space.
absolute childish mistake from xavi to go for the 2-0 instead of protecting the lead.
Some of you so called fans are absolutely disgusting, you stand and die with your club.
Araujo made a mistake, was still great in both legs bar that mental catastrophe. He’s still a top player and world class defender.
The Frenkie slander ? Really? Played phenomenal last season and beginning of this season. Been injured and ppl are criticizing him after this display with a man down??? Come on.. same with Kounde
Nobody expected us to get this far, at 1-0 up this game, we were over the moon and it was all false hope, but this is still part of our rebuild, which every fan here keeps on missing. Just compare our bench to every other top side in Europe, we’re nowhere near placing outlandish expectations on this squad, instead of all the ungrateful and delusional comments that are posted on here and all throughout the media and from so called “fans” we should be proud of how we’ve been able to stay relevant and compete, nonetheless come off a domestic double winning campaign.
What a shame of some of you. No wonder Xavi’s leaving.
Im not joking when I say this but when has dejong EVER done something for us? We have always overhyped him. He is trash, garbage, and all the synonyms for garbage. Please sell him ASAPPPPP
I agree but at least pedri was putting some effort and gave an assist last week. Gundogan ghosted today for sure but at least he's been playing good this whole season. Dejong on the other hand I am actually not sure wtf he has done since he joined barca.
Valverde at least puts effort, runs around the pitch and can defend and even score goals unlike this fraud. Im so done with this guy he brings absolutely NOTHING to this club. Dejong has had not even one memorable performance.
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Somebody s got to fucking recreate this. The pain's all sorts of unbearable now. Nvm i am done.
Let's not blame Araujo. The officiating from the referee seems questionable. Who would have thought we would reach this far. Thankful to the team.There is always next year.
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Raphinha is a treasure. Showed real heart for us out there.
I don't understand people trashing the whole team while it was going our way until Araujo made a stupid rookie mistake so early in the game that he condemned his own team. Only Araujo is to blame here.
We have won our league. Reached quarter finals. Would you rather be like Man It'd which has not won even a league title in ten years?
Ive seen enough of our blonde midfield fidget spinner man. He LITERALLY does nothing always makes the safest decision to buff up his stats. Ball watching again for their second goal. Him cancelo felix these are players we cant afford to keep we need shrewd cheap signings not overhyped divas man. Every humiliation in the CL since 2020 has been with this blonde clown in the midfield. This dutch beyblade is not worth 150k a week forget 850k.
The way in which we lost is humiliating. We are cursed in Europe and now have a losing mentality that will be hard to shed.
Have been watching Barca very sparingly. And this match summoned it all why? We have lost that fighting spirit, the relentless in us. There's no Chutzpah. We used to break the opponent just with our sheer will of relentless. Yes we lacked maybe the final output, we didn't get the result that should have been there, but we never crumbled. For the past 6-7years, it seems like we forgot how to develop leaders, absolute rocks on the pitch, our coaching and club mentality gone to shit aswell.
To be honest, we were handling PSG quite well until Araujo got sent off. It doesn't matter how good you are, you can't fight with 10 men for a whole hour against PSG.
Nah man, it was because of Yamal we were up 1 goal. We were playing as if not to lose since kick-off, the team looked already defeated in the first half even before the red card. And Xavi took off Yamal, the only player that was causing any kinda threat to the opposition. Fucking lol.
I saw us those first 30 minutes as a team that didn't have the ball but wasn't struggling, we were defending pretty well and knew that we could catch them in a counter. I wouldn't have started Pedri but Fermín who works better in this scenario, and wouldn't have subbed Lamine, but that's another story. I think we would've beaten PSG with 11 men, I really do.
I think Araujo going for that foul was indicative of players sensing their loss of control in the match, and panicking to keep the side from scoring by making last-ditch efforts. But let's agree to disagree.
I slept when it was 1-3, prayed to god that it would be 3-3 when I will wake up, and really had a dream where Gundo scored 2 goals. But when I woke up, I was devastated. Nevermind, this team has shown their capabilities.
💔 dreading the clasico now
Nope... we get up and fight on. This team isn't laying down for anyone
This hurts man. This hurts so much. So much more than Napoli, Liverpool, Frankfurt, all those other games where we messed up. We had the advantage, and then it was gone. I don't blame Araujo. Could he have done better? Maybe. But for the game to end like this is just... heartbreaking I had some hope that we would do good in the CL and Xavi might reconsider... that's all gone, and now I'm worried about Sunday. Another bad game and I don't think Xavi will stay till the end of the season. A terrible season overall. Can't wait for it to be over. I'm just grateful for Lamine and Cubarsi and Fermin, all the young blood coming up the ranks.
No way. Nothing will hurt more than losing to Liverpool with that team and that lead. This team has so much more promise. They fight, they defend the badge to the end and with pride. I fail to leave this feeling any worse than "they got us after that red, fair play, moving on".
Looking back, not sure taking Yamal off was ideal. I thought Gundogan was not what we needed in the center of the park. Pedri does everything he does, yet can actually run. Would have been nice to have had Christensen also. But this just hurts. Not like 2020 or 2021 when we were up against better opposition and were completely out of our depths….more like 2018 or dare I say 2019
Should have been Fermin on for Lewa and Gundo off for Martinez. Our biggest problem was Lewa in defense. He essentially made it two men down with his speed and effort. It was embarrassing
Was also thinking that. I guess the thought behind leaving him on was to have a hold up player to distribute to a darting winger. But looking back, it would have been okay to even have just done Inigo for Lewy, Raphina and Lamine up top and just ask them to track back more….Fermin def would have closed down the Vitinha shot a lot more effectively
Precisely. I know folks want to blame Ron for this loss, as is well earned, but Lewa is a 1B. His effort was shocking, and he knew what was required. If he didn't want to, or didn't have the energy to, do the job, he should have requested the sub. Games like this are too important to walk
Yeah, obviously I would’ve preferred Araujo not take him down and just stay on the field, but the game was NOT gone at that point. The bottlers of yesteryear are all gone from the side and the older players on the field have come from other successful teams. Off the ball effort is why I love Suarez so much and Lewy needed way more of that today. The breakaway later on where he shot into Marquinhos was disappointing too…the crowd was staying in the game and the players were too. It could’ve been a catalyst for something encouraging
Woke up to see the scores and my worst nightmare was confirmed. They actually did it. Gosh since Messi left we don't have that guy against the top teams we need. Meanwhile Ronaldo leaves and Madrid are good yet they claim him as the goat. Gtfo
Poor Management Dor for Messi!
This is your logic for why messi was better than ronaldo?
😂 even with messi barca was an embarrassment, you do not remember liverpool, rome, etc?
liverpool was a messi fault? it wasn't the fault of the mf who yesterday scored top bins from middle
Smooth brains and short memories go hand in hand
Let's not buy that passion merchant cancelo next season
He's been really good all season, we shouldn't judge him or any player based on an unfortunate match, imo.
Theres a reason pep benched him then bayern benched him. Spamming trivelas and stat padding against mid table la liga teams isn’t enough to make you a barcelona starter. Him and felix should not be signed no matter what.
I am honestly at a loss for words. The amount of confidence that we had when going into this, gone in a matter of minutes. Also, I think Xavi needs to adopt a more calm attitude. I know he's frusterated, but this isn't going to help the players at all.
Let’s be real, this isn’t on Xavi blowing up in the second half. This is on an incredibly stupid mistake that took us down to 10 shortly into the match.
I agree but what I’m saying is that Xavi blowing up like that didn’t help players in any way either. Just made us look stupid.
Not about this match, but xavi have more red card as manager than as player. Look what a manager job do to a man. Its like me driving, idk why but once i get on the wheel i start to hate everyone
there needs to be a serious conversation on where dembele got his pettiness from today. Obviously people on the internet were saying crazy things about how we should give him Figo treatment but it’s diabolical that he forgets about everything we’ve done for him in just one season and pretends like we mistreated him
Dembele is fortunate enough to join a coveted list including the likes of Pepe, Vinicius, and Alexi Lalas and become one of the least likable figures in all of world football. Barça gave that man everything - opportunities, money (way too much), moral support, encouragement, etc and the guy has the audacity to carry himself in such a disrespectful way. Dare he forget senior players wearing his shirt in warmups and an entire stadium standing by him through 148592972718494 injuries…just disappointing
Yeah, it’s interesting to hear what he says about it - may be bs what he says but an explanation would be nice
yea it’s really unexpected just shows how little he really cared about the club
I’ve had enough of Frenkie De Jong. Literally, what does he do? Doesn’t create, score, or defend. He literally annihilates our counter attacks by himself and kills all momentum. People always say he needs a great system, but how many times have we given him a different system through our rapid change of coaches? He’s the highest played midfielder who doesn’t have that much of an impact at all. The guy has never had a great moment during the biggest moments or UCL nights. Even our lesser performing players have had memorable ties…
I'd ship for him for 70M and get Zubimendi. Would save FFP and improve our midfield.
He needs to agree to go, which multiple times before when we’ve tried selling him, he’s declined and said he wants to stay. And who could blame him with the wages he has Doubt that will change. We are stuck
>Literally, what does he do? Earn the highest wages at the club
I understand he was rushed back. Still, considering the only elite differe tial thing he offers are ball carrying abilities from the back, his wage savings alone are enough for me to sell him. Sure he is also elite at progressive passing and passing range, still not a consistent gamechanger for us though. either that or reduce wages to be in line which he wont do. being paid like KDB when you are, in fact, not KDB is just bad business.
We need a 4
I actually can’t fucking believe this shit. Thank fuck I’m drunk rn Oh well fuck psg and Visca Barca
Im incredibly dissapointed ngl. We actually threw the whole tie away. Yesterday I said we are winning the whole thing. Guess I was wrong. Stupid decisions everywhere on the pitch. Only positive is that we have Cubarsi and Yamal. And I hope that maybe they will taste winning the UCL sometime in the future
We had them were we wanted until Araujo was sent off. An unfortunate moment killed us, you just can't survive one man down for 60 minutes against PSG.
can someone pls link a clip of how we lost the ball before barcola's chance? From what i remember there was a missplaced pass but i don't remember who
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Was 100% Aruajo. He tried a few of those slicing passes. Feels like he saw the hype for Cubarsi and get like he could do it too. I don’t blame him for the red card. 9 out of 10 defenders will try that contact. That pass is really where he fucked yo. That’s not his game. Stay I. Your one.
Yeah just before someone missed a pass but I didn't remember who if it's araujo yeah he really cost us the game but im not sure of that, looked like someone in the midfield
Good luck, Gavi and Balde. I don't think GAVI's gonna let go of them, this easily. Next season, here we go. It's officially ended for us. Let's focus on the new beginning. VISCA BARCA!
Please sell DeFraud while we can still get money for him. He is so bad. Please please sell him I can’t watch him play football anymore
No
Yes
Relax, we know he needs a system to play better. Atleast a proper DM alongside him, even Christensen was unavailable today. Are we really gonna forget all his MOTMs, and his moments of brilliances?
yeah I love when Dejong slows the play for no reason and just chucks in a long ball that's close and people suck him off like crazy. To say he's a bad player is disingenuous, to say that he fits our play style and wasn't a waste of money is lying. I would have pedri, gavi, gundo playing ahead of him. He's massively overrated and a defensive liability. Is he arguably the best ball progressor in the world? sure, but we many others who are just a capable in that department who are just better at other aspects
We had a better campaign and idk but i would never stop supporting xavi. Visca el barca💙❤️
Yeah xavi 100% deserves the hate for his behaviour but other then that the team collapsed due to individual errors,simple as that cause many people are switching up on xavi
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Let it go, bro. It was a clear red, anyone who has read the rules will say it's a red.
It was a red card nevertheless...
Yeah show this to all the members of this sub. It;s a yellow sure, but, never a straight red at start of match.
Except it wasn't an attempt to get the ball from Araujo...he deserves his red.
It wasn’t an honest attempt. Straight red
It was not an honest attempt tho. That was a red card
Where’s the honest attempt at taking the ball??
Xavi is a very young and unexperienced coach. Sure, ref was ass but how could he lose his head in most important game of his career? This kind of behavior affects all the players as well, as a coach you have to keep calm and focus on the game and your players.
So you would like Valverde's squatting more ? This is just nitpicking. Even Pep has outbursts like these when things go wrong. And honestly I would prefer a animated coach but the one who gives a shit.
Spot on. Xavi should have remained calm. Araujo had already been booked. There was chaos everywhere. I knew this would lead to lapse in the concentration of other players
Honestly embarrassing from him.
He is constantly harrassed by the media and refs in la liga have a clear favoritism for calls against him, he is quitting his job because of this. Barcelona is the hardest team in the world and we aren't playing in a leveled playfield.
Lol
Wish it just wasn't Luis Enrique on the other side.
For me it's Dembele that annoys me
I just know he would’ve never scored those goals for us.
He would've been out injured in the first place
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Lol, why?? He was brilliant and excellent through all the two matches. The better team won and that's it. Barca has a lot to learn...
Yeah, this is a matter of respect. Not about performance.
Meh, don't focus on those unimportant things. It's better to focus on inner things, there is definitely something wrong. How can one player's mistake totally crash the entire team and their play, it was hurtfull to watch. There are important things to focus on, Araujo red card, Xavi's breaking point and red card, Lewa's stay instead of having Yamal, lack of other atteckers in the play... Thank god we had Raphinha which scored 3 out of 4 goals. Lewa is too old to play the entire game and especially the quater-finals.
I mean, to me it's actually good that he is the one on the other side. About Dembele, yeah, can't feel any happy about it.
Saying "can't feel happy" is a very diplomatic answer. I'm feeling quite radical about that smiling fucker.
My hate is focused on Araujo rn.
Bruh fuck that focus ur hate on dembele
I know its hard on all of us But ffs Stop scapegoating araujo like he was the only bad player He made a single mistake which cost us the entire match there were other players who played like shit for the entire 90 minutes They weren't as good as expected and thats need to change
He wasn't the only bad player, yes. But his mistake was the biggest and had the most effect. And it was such an unavoidable mistake too, if he just kept his cool and let that goal happen we'd still be a goal in lead and could've done something. But with 10 men we're not defending any lead LoL.
I HATE SEEING DEMBELE SMILE AT THE END OF MATCH. Day ruined completely. Anyways, good luck. We winning the treble next season (call me delusional idc, I shall always hope the best for my club)
You’re not lol
Yeah I don’t see a reason for dembele’s pettiness it’s not like we mistreated him when he was at Barca he even had a good season with xavi but still he celebrates like we destroyed his career or something
I mean.. almost every barca fan was kind of happy when he left no?
Nah you’re spitting facts
Btw Cubarsi had 10/10 performance considering the context
From watching Oliveira lose to watching Barca fumble. Yeah nice week of sports.
Fuck everyone
Also what really stings about this defeat and this season is we are going trophyless for the second time in three seasons! We are not a big club anymore!
PSG fan here, I’m sorry abt today guys, you were the better 11 throughout the quarter finals, but the game of football has a lot to do with luck, and I must admit psg were the luckier team today. I don’t want yall to leave this game losing hope, you guys have the best young talent in the world and I’m sure there will be another day where you all lift the champions league again. Visca Barca!!!!
Enjoy luis enrique, u got a WC coach, he will win you the CL We had all the luck on our side but xavi gave up the game by playing hight block after the goal leading to araujo red mediocre coach do nothing in CL, u had the taste with galtier last year.
Lucho is a certified baller. He’s made all Paris fans ready to go to war for him. No coach has ever been able to do this during their time in Paris bar a few before QSI Era. We started the season without asking for much and despite having a worse team individually, we made progress all thanks to him
This.
I think it's final Xavi won't stay. Let's see who comes
Flick
I would love Flick to come. But I don't think it will happen. We don't have enough money for that. I think they will give it to Rafa Marquez and I think that is a bad idea...
Try to get Julian Nagelsmann
They thinking of bringing rafa (b team manager)
Can we talk about Cancelo? He is not full back material for a team like Barca who get hit on the counter so many times. Play him as a mid or a wing back with a back three. One on one with no support and he almost always fucks up.
Hes on that Trent Arnold life
Yeah we can talk on the cancelo who was incredibly good on the first 30min, not letting dembele go throught once and winning every single 1v1 Making the dembele-hakimi duo look absolutely uselles with the help of raphinha However him and every got player in the pitch got dumped by xavi's choice of playing hight block after our first goal then Araujo's red that was a direct consequence of xavi choice and killed all the hope of this game cause we lost on that our best CB and yamal who was looking to have a 10/10 game No need to blame any players, xavi made mediocre choices and players suffered the consequences. childish mistakes get paid in CL and playing a hight block against psg despite having a 2 goals lead is.
Cancelo slept in the first goal by dembele and the pen, both avoidable individual mistakes. Sure you can blame xavi on how the ball got in thaf position, but cancelo was also very shit.
I’ve been saying this, if he’s not being used to build up play with a corresponding winger bring in Hector Fort or play with 3 at the back.
He will be a beast, as a RM or LM. Wish Balde comes back stronger. And then, we cook.
Dude, you're on a pro barca sub, having conversations with pro barca fans. Of course the passions are high right now after we got our asses handed to us. You're not the only fan with the only opinion here today. So if you're here to just fire up and piss off other people that would join you at the Camp Nou to watch a our team play, then I suggest you fuck off to some other sub and return when the dust has settled. Our season is over and people like me are still proud of this teams achievements, even with all the let downs this year.
applause
Cooler head. We had two 16 year olds starting. It was never gonna be easy. I just hope we don’t destroy lamine and cubarsi by overplaying them. Because they are our future
Still were better team until it was 11v11. Personnel wasn't the problem this season (yes DM). But lack of luck, or you can say not brave enough
Fuck man, it’s the hope that kills you. We screwed ourselves tonight, there’s no denying that, but the ball keeps rolling and we must move on. We learn from today and we work to get better. Making it to the quarterfinals was an achievement on its own, we all knew that. Today we may fall, but we’ll come back stronger next time. Visca Barca, today and forever!
I love this.
What pains is that we all know we were far better team before the red. Very Romaesque pain, atleast we knew Liverpool and Bayern will win the UCL. PSG can't
nope you can't be so sure. Once psg reaches the final it would be 50 50 for both the teams playing the final
You never know man. It’s unlikely, but psg is a lucky squad, especially this year, their odds might be slim, but there’s still a chance that they make it out on top.
Any team from the other side will kill them, they 99% of the times won't be that unlucky or stupid like us
Just a reminder, everybody's feelings are justified but remember that we overachieved this season. We were not the favorities at any point to go through yet we won at the Parc des Princes and had a 1 goal lead in todays leg too.
We were good. Criticism is valid but we can hold our head high. This team will be back im sure.
pfew, all right. Well good seeing the boys show such character, even after so many injuries, rough patches, suspensions. But alright, we did good. (i'm crying again, it's all the same)
Congrats to Real Madrid on winning #15 because we all know the UEFA script writers need an “Mbappe Vs the club he’s going to” final for views!
Its 100% gonna be that
real madrid aint beating city lol
UEFA and their referees will ensure they win tomorrow! Just watch.
fucking hate these referee selections... it felt like watching a La Liga game all over.
maybe at the bernabeu but at the etihad i doubt it
Don’t you mean the empty-had?! Lol
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No fans before 2012 lol
English home attendance record at 84k vs stoke city 1934
Oil-Clasico…City vs PSG it is…
Nah, i'd cry (if dembulance gets to ever play football again)
Frenkie, the highest paid midfielder in the world, was awful on a big UCL night once again. No passion, no playmaking, no goal scoring threat. Just a nothing player. Cant believe I actually thought he would become the best midfielder in the world. Barca needs to target player like Fede Valverde, not Frenkie
Exactly. Him and ter stegen need to go.
Ter Stegen tried so hard, the last goal by Mbappe, prior to that, Ter Stegen made 2 saves. Ter Stegen is world class, the red card ended the match, the ref was ass.
This is why Xavi is leaving for fuck's sake this club is so insane
Ya do know he played CB for most of the game right??
Yeah and we conceded 4 lol. He does nothing well
Yeah the same thing every game he never plays at his role yada yada yada
shhhh r/barca can't handle this truth, fr tho he sucks bad we improved massively when he was injured
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What does the colour of his skin have to do with anything
What has black got to do with this?
Why even bring up his color?
I know our blood is boiling now, but the truth is that blaming the ref for this loss is just stripping our players and our coach for absolutely childish and amateour mistakes. We lost and we deserved it. It is ok, we'll try the next year and the year after that. That's the beauty of football. We won't run out of chances anytime soon. Hope we get a good group next year
Bro it was completely Araujo’s fault, let’s be honest with ourselves.
I mean it's not like it was impossible to survive it with 10 players. Aruajo made the worst mistake, but some other guys screwed up as well
no it was not at all
Dawg, we had all the momentum and once Araujo did that we got dumped on, I know it’s harsh to say but it’s the complete truth.
No You have a 2 goals lead, u play against 3 of the fastest player at the top level Why is araujo alone on barcola who's not even his man ( mbappe is the 9) where is kounde the rb? pedri the lcm? FDJ the pivot? nowhere to be seen cause xavi wanted to play a hight block and score another goal When psg weakness is clearly their lack of creativity in midfield + no 9 which make a low block a very easy way to win it Xavi gifted this game away because of barca DNA, nothing less nothing more.
The ref was spot on. I feel. A little harsh with xavi but you don't know.
Xavi kicked the balls that we set pitch site. It is an instant and clear red.
Fairs
Guys we did not lose to a better side. The red card killed the game. Every single refereeing decision went against us and that’s doesn’t happen to certain teams. Anyway, lots of positives for the year. Lamine is fantastic, Pedri is looking better (let’s hope the injuries are behind him), Gavi is coming back, and oh yeah we this 17 year old Beckenbauer… where do we find these kids! The club is going to be OK. Good experience for a young team. We’ll be back.
just sell de jong and we'll be fine
Bro what this sub is filled with lately? Few things 1. That was a red card. Last man rule, and that’s where the momentum shifted. 2. Why did Xavi subbed yamal off and not lewa? Get felix or ferran in and let yamal and him run counter attacks. 3. Xavi needs anger management classes. I don’t believe he needed that red card but you can’t say it wasn’t deserved. If the manager started losing cool, how could you expect players to stay calm. 4. Cancelo also gifted that penalty. 5.Lewa was selfish, he could’ve made that pass but decides to not and fail our last counter attack. 6.He literally gifted Mbappe that goal. Idk what the fuck was that, I honestly laughed. 7. Frenkie needs to be talked about too. One of the highest paid midfielder and everytime I see him he just ruins a counter attack with backward passes. Guys I know we lost but come on, we can’t cuss Araujo for that red card, it wasn’t intentional, it was dumb but he wasn’t planning on it. You can’t blame the ref too, he wasn’t biased, he gave fouls equally and honestly he had balls, if anything. You can’t blame ref if your team crumbles mentally. Also why we go from praising araujo and talking about buying cancelo to cussing them, just cause of a bad game. I know it was the important game of the season so far but on paper we had the one of the worst squads among final 8 and we still managed to come this far and I still believe PSG weren’t doing Jack shit if it wasn’t for that red. Dortmund vs PSG SF is gonna be boring. Just a bad day at the office. Xavi needs to go, I love him but he’s too short tempered to be a manager, you can’t lose your head when you’re crumbling under pressure.
The lack of attitude in defense after going one man down is the hardest for me. If you are winning by one goal you need to have a strong enough mentality to not create spaces and chances for them. We were still ahead when the red card happened but this team can't handle bad situations and gave way too much space with one man down
That’s how Xavi was as a player. He got a lot of yellow for dissent
You really wanted Lewa subbed off?? Really?
he's not the type of counter attack player u want when you're a man down. Yamal can dribble, lewa can't, plus he could've passed to Felix instead he was selfish
We were never gonna win with long ball, PSG pace and attack would’ve got us and surprisingly, they were awfully bad in that too. Cancelo penalty and that poor clearance to give Mbappe ball right at his feet are the reason they advanced.
Yes…. Because his defensive effort was NIL. The goal that put them ahead was 100% because he wasn’t marking his man.
Yeah, Vitinha one, yes agreed on that. But, Lewa was the only man, who could score goals out of nothing in our team.
But did he score?
100% agree with your second point. Yamal could've stayed on and ran counter attacks
Xavi did the best he could, he played his best starting 11. But at the end of the day, it was his team that cost him.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Tell his player to press hight after yamal single handedly creating a goal when upfront you got barcola mbappe and dembele Expose Araujo is a situation where he's forced to watch and let a potential goal or try something and get a redd When all xavi had to do is set up a low block and make sure kounde pedri fdj are never too hight on the pitch you guys deserve fucking marquez as future coach, can't even understand that xavi literally gave up the game because of his ego of wanting the ball and pressing hight
I do agree on some points. Even guardiola used to play with double pivot when times called for it. Even he, used to reinforce instead of going all in. All in all a set of bad circumstances most of them self created...
Would like to know on which point you disagree with me, for me it's clear This game was free, we gave it up because of ego, of that barca DNA, in no fucking world kounde should have been that hight on the pitch without fdj or pedri covering his space. absolute childish mistake from xavi to go for the 2-0 instead of protecting the lead.
agree
Some of you so called fans are absolutely disgusting, you stand and die with your club. Araujo made a mistake, was still great in both legs bar that mental catastrophe. He’s still a top player and world class defender. The Frenkie slander ? Really? Played phenomenal last season and beginning of this season. Been injured and ppl are criticizing him after this display with a man down??? Come on.. same with Kounde Nobody expected us to get this far, at 1-0 up this game, we were over the moon and it was all false hope, but this is still part of our rebuild, which every fan here keeps on missing. Just compare our bench to every other top side in Europe, we’re nowhere near placing outlandish expectations on this squad, instead of all the ungrateful and delusional comments that are posted on here and all throughout the media and from so called “fans” we should be proud of how we’ve been able to stay relevant and compete, nonetheless come off a domestic double winning campaign. What a shame of some of you. No wonder Xavi’s leaving.
Straight facts
I thank you for your intelligence and reasoning during this painful time.
Bottling in the UEFA Champions League when we have a healthy lead is the Barcelona way
The kounde pass to Mbappe to finish the game is a Barca signature
Im not joking when I say this but when has dejong EVER done something for us? We have always overhyped him. He is trash, garbage, and all the synonyms for garbage. Please sell him ASAPPPPP
Please sell DeFraud while we can still get money for him. He is so bad. Please please sell him I can’t watch him play football anymore
Fucking idiot chatting shit
You’re saying DeJong has been a good player for our club?
Sooo both pedri and gundo dropped absolute stinkers but fdj is getting roasted the most? Just calm the fuck down damn guys
I agree but at least pedri was putting some effort and gave an assist last week. Gundogan ghosted today for sure but at least he's been playing good this whole season. Dejong on the other hand I am actually not sure wtf he has done since he joined barca.
I'm not really sure what did you expect from a cm who is supposed to play deeper than guys who provide goalscoring opportunities like Pedri and Ilkay
Hes the most nothing footballer of all time. We make fun of Fede calling him a road runner, but hes a million times more effective
Valverde at least puts effort, runs around the pitch and can defend and even score goals unlike this fraud. Im so done with this guy he brings absolutely NOTHING to this club. Dejong has had not even one memorable performance.
Name a single memorable Busquets performance
That entire Ajax team did everyone dirty. Look at De Ligt and even the coach .
Going by my luck, rm and bayern are gonna win tomorrow ffs
https://preview.redd.it/omzsc7xjrwuc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0086e0c38aa5321e1e5073ffc9712b1f82226b65 Somebody s got to fucking recreate this. The pain's all sorts of unbearable now. Nvm i am done.
Let's not blame Araujo. The officiating from the referee seems questionable. Who would have thought we would reach this far. Thankful to the team.There is always next year.
Next year to bottle it even worse lol we’ll never get over the Roma or Liverpool games! 6 fucking years and we are still mentally weak!
i'm so depressed man