This evening at 7 pm bt,
Barcelona plays the twelveth game of the season against Getafe.
Barcelona plays the twelveth game of the season against Getafe.
Read a preview of the game here.
Barcelona squad list:
Valdés, Pinto, Jorquera, Alves, Márquez, Piqué, Puyol, Cáceres, Sylvinho, Xavi, Touré, Busquets, Keita, Víctor Sánchez, Gudjohnsen, Hleb, Messi, Eto'o, Bojan, Henry, Pedro
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Valdés Valdes
official:
Alves
Piqué Pique
Puyol
Sylvinho
Keita
Touré
Xavi
Bojan
Eto'o
Hleb
Hey Pep,
U've got mail, couldn't wait anyway - were too curious myself! :)
and the experimentation continues...
0-1 at half time. Without Messi and Iniesta this team loses a lot. Come on!!!
fuc*.... such a bad game... barca is nothing without messi. that's disturbing!!! we just had about 5 chances within 94 minutes.
hope messi will be back very soon. and i hope that pep will stop rotating with that level. sylvinho, hleb, bojan, pique, ...
eto is useless without messi he is nothing no wonder we wanted to get rid of him
I really hate unfaithful fans once the team lose or draw they start to Critisze in a very aggressive way . and most of them dont know what a constructive critiszem is !they doubt the team . we still have strong match's ahead of us . which i think will show the true power of barca.
wait and see and mark my words the next few games barca will play super . watch...
yh i agree barca will show their true power and play super but with messi but the count on messi to much. eto is not as good when he is playin with messi
I think we really need 2 signing in january..we need a bakup for leo messi..a similar player that play like leo messi..i will like barca to go for zarate or di maria,arshavin...when we get one of these listed then we can always rest messi then when important matches like getafe sevilla realmaldrid villareal valencia then we use messi..and when summer come..i will like us to sign benzema and sell henry promote gai assulin as backup for iniesta then we sell gudjohnson then buy hernanes or rakitic or diego..we also need a keeper that we be treating victor valdes because to me the lack of the second keeper that is not there make valdes relax alot in the post...we need asenjo to come and put treat on him.Please ramzi help me out if am wrong with what i said... barca4life freeman
Pep, you just got an urgent missed call :)
I must say that some fans in here so called fans are not really ones, or they r ronaldinho made fans( as kids love him riight), I loved the barca way of approaching the game it was Pep's fault for displacing Bojan he couldnt find the rythm of the game, also hleb should have played in the midfield or not at all. But what i think the key point of drawing in this match was that xavi was not performing at all as we r used to. And thats the reason why etoo couldnt do anything
- With a Bojan, a Hleb, and a Xavi not having their day what can he do he can not fly folks he is a football player. the game was okey sometimes we have to draw not possible to win every game if we would have been a little more lucky as we hit 2 times the bar we could have won but whan can u do let see.
I applaud the efforts made by the players today but once again our inability to convert without our star players is a glaring weakness. We need more depth; a decisive player who can make the difference when Messi and Iniesta arent available. Regardless of what Guardiola or anyone else says, the reliance on Messi hasn't gone anywhere. Hleb should have been a replacement for Gudjohnsen, not Deco.
all we need is a super sub ,whats a shame is they had so few attacks ,and i think the team wasnt ready mentally for the game they looked lost in the first quarter ...
alarm bells are ringing..
Arshavin in Jan. Get him in as a super sub!!
It's obvious now that the team can't play without Leo so it's essential to
buy a talented winger who can give us more options when Leo can't play.
I think Arshavin would be the best choice since he's a Barca fan and
wouldn't mind sitting on the bench.
Last night's result wasn't a matter of luck, the team couldn't create and
wasn't able to press the opponent.
yes we really need a backup for messi. maybe the player must be more than just a backup. we need a second world class striker like aguero. the result would be: our game is not as much focused on messi as it is now. if iniesta, messi and xavi are playing and if they are performing well, eto'o job is to make goals out of the many assists. but if these key player aren't available and/or performing well, eto'o tries to fall back and to retrieve the ball from the midfield. the result is: less chances and less goals.
so we really need one or two more players for the attack. barca looked very harmful yesterday. so if messi is not available or if he's not doing a good job... we're just a normal club...
harmful => harmless
sorry :)
And what can i say about Pepe's line ups? Using Bojan instead
of Henry in a game where Iniesta and Messi aren't available?
I don't like Henry but his presence in the field is much heavier
than Bojan's and is also a insult for him to be Bojan's sub. If Pepe
doesn't like Henry then he should sell him and get rid of his huge salary.
No cause for alarm bells yet!! Every team would stuggle without the "defence unlocker" messi on the right, Iniesta on the right.
Man.U without R7 isnt that wow
Lvpool witout steve.G isnt wow
MADrid without Robinho is S**t
Arsenal without Cesc is Zero
Chelsea without Lamps is not d same
the list of BIG clubs is endless. Every team WOULD struggle without their most influential player(s). I am not opposing great subs like Asharvin, but its very strange people are asking questions already.
The team would even draw/lose some games with Iniesta, Messi on the pitch. What would you guys do then?
Eto without Messi isnt the same.. NO PROVIDER.
Messi without Eto aint same too.. cos no converter. simple!!
If we need Messi to win teams like
Getafe then we should be worried...
Without messi, Barca is less dynamic. In addition, facing opponents like Getafe who would like to pack at the center, the usual playing style of Barca cannot be used.
Barca should change the playing style when facing this kind of opponents. Barca can no longer play short killer passing through the center. That is why Xavi's killer passing did not work and opponents keep intercepting the ball.
Barca needs to play more direct football, crossing more. Some say buying Arshavin can solve the problems. Arshavin have 2 excellent abilities. One is dribbling; the other is crossing. Dribbling won't work in this situation as the center is already fully packed by opponents but his crossing will help.
However, Barca is already full of players who can provide excellent crossing like Alves, Iniesta, Xavi, Helb, etc. It is not necessary to buy another player to provide this. What barca needs is headers (tall, strong strikers). This should be Barca first priority.
What do u think, Ramzi and others?
just one correction noubarca.
ManU with or without R7 is the same.
the guy disappeared against aston villa again. he's just a bigmouth that should NOT be taken seriously. he gets owned all the time when there is a good defender. R7 takes overratedness to an extra level.
but its true for the other teams. we cannot blame barca for not delivering without messi. every team needs a hero. i bet if pique's header had gone in people would not have complained.
lets face it we got unlucky and valdes got too comfortable. it happens.
ITS JUST A WAKE UP CALL. everything is fine.
henry could have done better. maybe thats where arshavin or di maria or aguero could fit.
but seriously we played without iniesta and messi. so its ok not to unlock defences wen they play full defense. we seen that before.
this is wer i think pique will have a huge impact. next time his header will go in!
Dont worry everybody. villareal lost. valencia drew. so its not catastrophic. madrid won but we can laugh at that victory. they didnt win. they "managed" to win somehow.
now theres lisbon. am sure barca will rise again.
we crush everything for several weeks then we get a wakeup call..
then we destroy again...
thats how we roll man..
FORZA BARCA!!!
The problem Josep is that all the teams who want to win trophies pack their centres now not only the smaller ones.We all saw how Man Utd played against us last year.
Barca right now has only 2 original "crossers" Messi and Iniesta and when they aren't around we all've seen the results.Alves is a second crossing option and Hleb doesn't seem to fit there.We need a talented winger and Arshavin is one of them..
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