spursandbarca
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Pique and xavi have to play sat even if not 100% fit. Can see a 0-0.
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CornerPinDreamer
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Real have lost the league, if they lose the CL will Ancelotti be gone?
hmmm..
hmmm..
yawa
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Real have lost the league, if they lose the CL will Ancelotti be gone?
hmmm..
Yup and then off to Man U he goes, we get fdb or poch and LVG ends up looking like a nob. That's how I see it.
jonathanhotspur
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Anyone watching this?
Amo
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Yep, I think most of the discussion can be found in the La Liga or Fa Cup thread.
jonathanhotspur
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Atletico have come out all guns blazing after HT. Deserved equalizer.
jonathanhotspur
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Messi not in this game at all. Is he burnt out?
yawa
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They play well for 4 mins and deserve to equalise? Barca should have gone in more than 1-0 up knowing their defence is so crap.
SteveH
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He has looked disinterested for the last couple of months
mpickard2087
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I hear the Barca fans applauded Atletico on their win, classy if true.
I see Tata Martino is already out the door, presume Luis Enrique is next to get a go at the job?
I see Tata Martino is already out the door, presume Luis Enrique is next to get a go at the job?
beats1
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They clapped Atletico and the team after the win, I think they are just happy its not Real
Bus-Conductor
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I was at the game, the gave them a standing ovation, and if I understood right they even sang their name ( I may be wrong they may have been saying something that sounds like "atleti").
Bus-Conductor
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It's the way he's being played and the other team selections of Martino, they are really daft. They play Alexis (a No.9) as a wide right attacker, they play Messi (an inverted right striker) as a kind of false 9 and the pea brained Pedro as a inverted left attacker. The three of them trip over each other's feet. Messi is no longer able to look for little pockets out wide to pick the ball up and drift and junk infield pulling people out of position and creating little gaps in the opposition defence as he does it for others to run into as he's always getting the ball with his back to goal or around the D with players up his arse.
Iniesta has lost his partner in creative crime of late (Xavi) and Martino's players aren't continually in motion like Pep's players were, where there were always three options for the man on the ball there is now one at best, sometimes players are standing on the ball waiting for moves - unheard of under Pep.
The desire to compress the opposition into the final third is still there but many of the facets that made it pay off are lacking. The team selections, the tactics and coaching are just not right, and the system is wheezing.
Syn_13
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Sounds like they need a Sherwood to me.
Bus-Conductor
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I think they've just had one.
jonathanhotspur
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Apparently he's off to manage Argentina next! Martino, that is.
Syn_13
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Don't be silly. Martino knew who his players were and never wore a gilet.
Bus-Conductor
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He doesn't seem to know that Messi's not a No.9 and that Pedro's a pea brained hamster.
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