The College Dropout

35 year old full back. Emergency signing in Burn the skipper. But yes as you say the gulf in quality is crazy.

It is like. There was always a good chance we run out of legs and belief playing like that. Could’ve threw in the white flag earlier too

Love the bloke. Always had a chance of being blown out by these.

Exactly this. It was Anthony Yarde-Esque. Going into the game I thought we needed to keep it tight until the last 20 minutes where we only needed 1 goal to equalise or something. Keep it tight, preserve some energy. But we went blow for blow. The 3rd goal took the wind out of our sails and they ran it up. Had we gone in 2-1 up maybe it’s a less embarrassing story at the end. But the 1v1 for 90 minutes was likely to end up embarrassing at points. btw the only way we could ever compete with Barca now is if we somehow ended up with a worlds best academy. The gap in wages is gigantic.

Obviously. He’s our leader and best player.

Bit gutted to end up with a lasting. Good effort though.

Aye so am I.

Trippier was bad throughout imo. Whole teams arse dropped out at HT. The goal deflated us but we continued with the same approach and they destroyed us.

Yes.

Tonali top 3 for midfielders too.

Did our CEO make it to any of these matches?

They also clocked our press better. The Fermin goal Lewa drags Burn out. And then Fermin drops deep then sprints the length of the pitch, Tonali doesn’t have enough left in the tank to track him. Goal.

Osula’s energy has helped us a lot here.

Aye. It’s an ugly end to what has been a great campaign.

This I agree with. The penalty and set pieces were bad.

We knew that last week

It’s naive to think the same tactics would work at Nou Camp. We don’t have the quality or stamina to get it off

Wish Barca would declare. These want to keep scoring.

It’s 7 and I’m scared for us. Ita so often. 4 vs 4.

The high press was always going to lead to mistakes and tiredness

For 60 minutes we defended super high and aggressive often 1v1 with lys of green behind us. Yamal, Lewa, Raphinha , Fermin are going to cook us when they keep turning us. ita the set piece goals I’m disappointed with and the pen. The open play ones will happen.

Yeh so we don’t concede 10.

Player so many minutes.

Don’t think they’ve played like the best team in the world at all. back 5 needed. Close up shop.

Was it Fermin that did the same? We don’t deserve to have conceded 6. Howe needs to go to a back 5. Hearts and legs have gone. Need to abandon the press.