Which goes to show how high the expectations and standards are there when we have been celebrating 4th place finish because it was an improvement over 7th we had the season before. They were in as deep a crisis as we are currently in back around 2003 and then again in 2008 when we knocked them out of CL after a run of poor performances from their team. They crawled their way back amongst the best within months/couple of years.
UEFA Super Cup - Barcelona vs Sevilla (7:45PM BST Kick Off)
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Which goes to show how high the expectations and standards are there when we have been celebrating 4th place finish because it was an improvement over 7th we had the season before. They were in as deep a crisis as we are currently in back around 2003 and then again in 2008 when we knocked them out of CL after a run of poor performances from their team. They crawled their way back amongst the best within months/couple of years.
hah same as mine. Cheers mate.It doesnt.
it ends with IN
I don't know why anyone would say that, he brings a totally different dimension with the way he makes perfectly timed runs into the box when the defense is occupied with either Suarez or Messi. I didn't think they could really get better when they had Xavi, Iniesta, Eto etc in prime but those two changed that attack for the better.
Put Immobile and Konoplyanka on and just run the ball forward..
Match against Atletico, which kind of was the turning point of the season.
Their expectations are much higher but it also helps to have a much more talented team and a better transfer strategy.
Really eager to see what Konoplyanka can do. Apparently he wants to play for Barca one day(according to his dad) so must be eager to impress.
Yeah, it's strange. Anyone who actually saw him at Sevilla would know better.
Having one of the best players of all time on your team helps in that regard.
They still had some of the best players in the world though and a brilliant academy. We don't have a single world class player now except DDG.
They paid very high money over the same time too, Neymar with all the shady money included was around the same as Bale, Suarez was a big money acquisition, Rakitic & Mathieu came for a good price but they also spent on duds like Vermaelen, Song etc. They were lucky all the big money signings worked out unlike Di Maria for us.
If I werent lazy I'd find some of those posts.
Here you go.
4-1 suarez
is so hard to play against a team that recovers the ball in 2 seconds
is so hard to play against a team that recovers the ball in 2 seconds
Barca are great but this is seriously pathetic from Sevilla. What a joke from a defensive POV
I think Barca are planning to be hard to beat this year.
4-1, Suarez. Too easy.
Tremoulinas wtf was that.
Suarez makes up for this earlier miss.
True but if you took Messi out they wuld still be great IMO. He runs the team though so it's hard to say obviously but the focus on improving the team is very strong there - see Neymar, Suarez or even Ibrahimovic transfers.
Don't they sort of have a shit transfer record?
Barca are great but this is seriously pathetic from Sevilla. What a joke from a defensive POV
I guess it doesn't help they are missing a good number of defensive players and have to play Krychowiak there. He is a poor defender.
That's not luck at all. They put their big money signings in the best conditions to perform and that wasn't truly the case with ADM (a risk taking player playing under a very conservative manager and team). We bought Di Maria for the sake of it without even properly thinking if he could work in LVG's system. That was a stupid buy all things considered.
"krohn Dehli" he doesnt sound like a footballer, more lika a theorem or an algorithm
In recent years, they bought well (Neymar, Alba, Rakitic, Ter Stegen/Bravo, Suarez), better than a few seasons ago that's for sure.
I think it sounds like a beer.
I just don't get it. Why do Sevilla insist on playing it out from the back when Barca have 6-7 players well high up in their area? Sometimes, however much you wan't to play nice football, you just have to go long. Park the bus (when the ball is in your area, you can assign some players to press in opposition area) and hit them on the counter, a nice long ball, 3v3 in Barca's area and they can hurt them. Btw, i hate long balls.
Average I'd say. They managed to bring back Pique, Alba and Fabregas (not a success) and build a mainstay of the team with players like Eto'o, Alves or currently Neymar and Suarez but they've also signed Chygrynskyi, Hleb and Song.
reyes scores, great goal
Sevilla pull a goal back 4-2.
4-2.
You should buy from us rather than Madrid. Just check recent records: ADM + Ozil vs Cesc + Alexis.
Pay us good money for Pedro, send in another 10m
There you go, quick transition, 4v4, opportunity to score.
Oh Jose.
Sevilla can definitely do better than this. Don't get me wrong take nothing away from Barca they are simply a level above most teams but you'd have to question the fitness of some of Sevilla's players after the mass salmonella poisoning. Adil Rami for instance also got salmonella but he's playing.
Yeah fair point, they haven't been shy in setting high standards in the transfer market.