Just watching the highlights of the Barca game LDJ missed a real sitter on 10mins
Koeman looks like a man on his way to the gallows in his post match interview. He knows what’s coming.
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The main question is when will it happen? Now or this weekend?
I think after atleti match. As it’s an international break then.
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Ope, guess I should avoid this thread until I get caught up! Already saw one spoiler!
Can they even afford to sack him and hire someone else?
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If you ever wanted a reason why getting rid of LDJ was a great idea (not that we needed one). Watch the highlights of the Barca Benfica game. As Brain says, wow. He missed what 3 absolute sitters. Which 2 were basically open goals.
If he had put them away, they probably wouldn’t have lost that game.
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Vlahovic man… too good.
Hope Villareal get back in it. Some laliga pride, and i´m not a Juve fan.
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I remember some shendm quote he isn´t close to youssef´s level. I thought it was funny then, but its even more funny now 
Sorry shendm
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Villareal is a pleasure to watch, how they play together and their passing. And how they give it all to create chances.
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Yeah I feel for them. They play great football but unfortunately are a bit naive at times in both boxes that costs them matches. They play great football though which is great on the eye.
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Atleast they try to play for the win, and you can´t excuse them for it. They play forward, force well and could have scored 2-3 goals as well. Which unfortunately they didn´t. The risk indeed is that Juve scores 2 more and its over. But They TRY.
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Yeah true. I admire their philosophy and they create lots of opportunities. I believe they could be doing better than they are with a bit more luck.
The problem they have is they do miss a lot of chances and they aren’t as great defensively. On their day though they can give anyone a game and are great to watch going forward.
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I took the bait on considering certain players amazing, especially strikers, but I won’t do that mistake ever again. Now a player has to actually prove himself in big matches against big clubs in order for me to consider them amazing.
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You want them to keep 4 man back at own half. And throw in crosses to 1 man in the box. No they are dedicated as a team, to attack and score.
I really hope they’ll manage to do something in this tie and go through. It’ll be extremely difficult against Juve (regardless of their overall form this season, they’re still a top club) but not impossible.
Without the away goal rule, conceding at home is not that big of a deal anymore.
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We can certainly learn from them in the attacking sense. Funny enough they can learn from us in defence. If we had their attacking qualities or dare I say it :poop: attacking philosophy we’d be much better off. Whereas they lack our defensive qualities.
We need both clubs to trade their strengths with each other haha.
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Our defense has been a massive sinkhole lately. But it went unpunished. That Lope fiasco vs Espanyol was the worst organized defensive play i´ve seen.
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I agree we didn’t defend as well against Espanyol but overall we have the best defence in the league which is very impressive. Bono has played a role in that too but still a good team effort by us. I think we have like a record number of clean sheets for last couple of seasons. I will admit we got some luck with teams missing chances but still overall it’s been solid.
We usually can be relied on in that department but the attack and especially quick counter attacks where we need to take more risks needs a lot of work. Hopefully we solve this in the future but we will see.
100% agreed. Play players in their fcking best position, stop duct taping all this shit. We talked about this before. Moving DC, Moving Kounde, Moving Rekik or whatever. I´m tired of this as well.
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Yeah good point. I’m not sure what lope will do for the derby as we without kounde and rekik.
I think we might see carlos with Gudelj again. To be fair Gudelj has been more effective at centre back than midfield.
At right back I hope to see Navas but he may not be ready for a game of that magnitude so tecatito might slot there. Then probably acuna at left back.
I agree we need a settled back 4 but to be fair to lope we have had a lot of unsettlement with injuries, covid, players away on international duty which defo has complicated things.
I do hope when we get our players back though we can settle on a similar back 4 for most games. Playing Thursday and Sunday though again will make things tricky for us with injury risk and fatigue though.
I feel he’s had to rotate but I agree we have to be careful not to over do it.
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