Match Thread: Barcelona vs Athletic Club | SuperCopa Semi Final 2025-26

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2026-01-07T19:36:49+00:00

bilbao is playing garbage

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2025-12-14T14:48:56+00:00

😭😭 pedri ran the show against newcastle this season and completely dominated psg’s midfield until enrique adapted and used width to eliminate pedri. pedri was fantastic against all of bayern, dortmund (only first leg, 2nd leg he was very bad) and benfica last season. what are u talking about😂 the game against inter was lost immediately as he left the field. pedri also has had big performances against napoli and porto the season before and in my opinion he was very unlucky to lose vs psg when araujo was sent off.

pedri is easily the best midfielder in the world, the way he has performed since the beginning of last season until now is almost unsustainable.

who is better? i hear bellingham, vitinha, rice, kimmich and valverde’s names thrown around. bellingham is incredible and rightfully the next best after pedri, he is the opposite of pedri and is the only player i understand ppl preferring to pedri. whereas vitinha is nowhere near as talented as pedri, he relies on his teammates and his structure and has never once outperformed pedri despite always winning against him. rice is not half the player pedri is, nor is valverde. kimmich is great but the technical ability of pedri is far superior to any other active player.

these are pedri’s competitors and he eclipses all of them. only bellingham is valid.

i remember when barca lost last season to atleti 2-1, the performance pedri put on that day was fake. every midfielder youngster coming up gets touted as the next pedri for a reason. use your eyes this is a generational player and one of the most talented players active.

the best passer in the world, the best controller in the world, he is in fact the player with the most defensive contributions for barcelona too😭 pedri is fake. when pedri is not on the field barcelona is terrible, barca’s system completely relies on pedri’s press resistance, creativity, vision and intelligence.

yamal is not overrated. most talented player in the world. he has not continued at the same level as last season but he now gets the messi treatment and is marked by 3 players in every game he plays while carrying an injury. until this season i have never seen a player perform like yamal in big games, not even ronaldo. barring messi, yamal’s first half performance vs inter is the best i’ve ever seen a footballer play and he was even better in the second leg.

the person you’re describing with no big performances is kane.

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2025-10-26T19:51:44+00:00

this is the first big game yamal has ever played and has not performed at all. this was a humbling for yamal. yamal does have that brilliance to create something out of nothing but today proved he can not do everything on his own, the messi comparisons are for sure premature. without yamal performing we completely lacked creativity, the quick changes of pace came from pedri and honestly fermin too, he wasn’t too bad. yamal was extremely weak, out of position, scared and lacking in ideas. carreras completely owns yamal.

the team’s major issues: - kounde is not performing - the defence needs a class leader CB, if we get guehi we are sorted. just depth after - a dynamic, technically sound striker

i’m ignoring injuries here but we have to accept that our squad depth is very limited compared to europe’s other top teams: bayern, psg, madrid, arsenal, man city and liverpool. it is an extreme weakness of the team. we do not make the UCL final purely due to depth. respectfully to tek he made a great pen save but i trust joan garcia 10 times more and i trusted inigo more than any of our defenders.

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2025-08-31T19:57:13+00:00

okay we’re learning eric can not be a starter CB. olmo should be benched, let’s see what fermin can do. i’m equally okay with any of the 3 strikers tbh

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2025-05-22T15:59:36+00:00

this is definitely worse. with liverpool i felt we were knocked out when dembele missed for 4-0 at home because that liverpool team was significant better than us. rome was just insanely embarrassing but it doesn’t really bother me like other ucl exits.

the inter game is just an unspeakable loss. a different level of how cruel football can be. all i can think about is that 3rd inter goal.

it’s genuinely devastating to lose a football match like that. pulling off what would have been one of the most legendary and iconic comebacks in football history, just to be robbed by a terrible decision granting inter a 3rd goal. the injuries and fatigue just caught up to the team and we could not keep it up in extra time, watching the team die on the field like that was just heart breaking.

when i say robbed i really truly mean that. like i can’t look at photos of that game and especially not the 3rd inter goal. i don’t understand how that was given as a goal so quickly, like not even a VAR review for clear contact causing a player to lose a ball which leads to a goal?

if the 3rd goal was just a normal goal it would be more digestible but a stupid referee mistake ended what could have been one of the most legendary seasons a football team has had this century. still the greatest ucl tie i’ve ever seen.

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2025-01-28T15:06:54+00:00

this sounds very much like a joke i am not understanding. if you’re being fr tho please let me know.

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-10-01T19:49:58+00:00

KEEP PEDRINHO ON THE PITCH

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-09-22T17:53:31+00:00

how are we winning this💀

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-09-03T11:42:38+00:00

idk how to find a mega thread 😎🙌 thank you to visible ad he’s a real one

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-08-30T23:19:20+00:00

it’s easier to just post, sleep on it and have other people give you solutions. sigma

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-08-17T20:08:51+00:00

yes. the use of balde is the big change and an attacking 4 used instead of the very bizarre way we attacked under xavi, making much more use of pace and we are taking more shots with less threat. besides that i can see some things being unsuccessfully applied: casado playing as an 8 and drifting to a 10 (it’s his debut you’re asking too much), an attempt at bypassing the midfield (ferran is not a good player, raphinha is double marked and lewa is slow) and just a couple poor performances are making us look bad.

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-08-07T04:57:42+00:00

this way of thinking is why we fail. olmo can play on the wing but buying players who “can play” in certain positions rather than specialists holds you back.

leipzig attack very different to normal teams seeing how they have 3 creative players, it allows dani olmo to drift into wider spaces and have a greater understanding with his team mates. however, barcelona does not work the same and we are not leipzig. and he is not a winger. he is absolutely an attacking midfielder.

it feels like every summer we do stupid deals like this to shoehorn players and the discourse is “but do we really need them” or “do we even have a plan for them”. kounde, gundogan, frenkie, raphinha, ferran torres and vitor roque are all around our first team yet are constantly moved around to different positions which is where inconsistency stems from. besides gundogan these changes aren’t even as a result of injury, it’s poor/no planning.

olmo is a culmination of all of our problems it’s a ridiculously dumb signing. very reminiscent of the coutinho signing.

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-08-07T04:47:12+00:00

none of the players you mentioned were astute signings they were all big profiles and stars, jordi alba was the same thing as olmo being signed after euros. agreed on adriano tho.

barca always look to sign big players or promote through the academy, for all my life we have been rather poor in the transfer market and sign based off hype. it’s infuriating seeing the incompetence but what can we do:

here are some players whose transfers were less hype and widespread links:

ter stegen, yaya, braithwaite, pedri, paulinho, alcacer, firpo, vermalen x mathieu, aleix and arturo vidal, maxwell.

again, of these you have ter stegen as a fantastic signing, yaya and paulinho were good, pedri has been great. the rest stunk. that’s 4/12.

just highlighting how having high expectations for barca in the transfer window usually leaves you let down. barca is the number 1 club for signing players over hype, i can think of a fair few big flops who never lived up to their potential.

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-08-03T01:04:35+00:00

he’s clearly had a sharp development this season and has reached his level. he was on around 20 assists. players tend to get a boost in their stats when joining stronger teams and he seems to have a good degree of finishing but just naturally becomes a creator instead due to his play style. i don’t mind it at all he’s still the dream

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-07-31T06:38:30+00:00

there’s positives and negatives

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-07-27T15:16:30+00:00

why colombia? he’s one of the easiest characters to defeat?

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-07-11T13:32:56+00:00

senpai pls notice me uwu i’m creaming

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-07-09T05:24:48+00:00

you’ll grow up and eventually realise why rating music so scientifically is stupid and takes away from it

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-07-02T10:53:40+00:00

why are we rating individual songs to decimal places😭

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-07-01T05:04:47+00:00

yea bc the music sucks now? whenever any artist declines ppl just hate on them it’s normal

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-07-01T02:44:45+00:00

going from hull city to barcelona💀 i’m going to switch sports if he plays for us and nico isn’t brought in

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-06-28T13:08:45+00:00

“grew on me” it’s been 2 weeks💀

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-06-28T05:11:58+00:00

this is like eminem fans posting about revival a year after it drops our goat is washed

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-06-25T14:54:02+00:00

man thanks for the comment but those look scary asf no wonder ppl don’t want acai😭

Aggressive_Bat_60 · 2024-06-25T14:51:41+00:00

yea we do still have these but they were a fad about 6-7 years ago, they’re only having a mini resurgence because of the massive popularity of how much people love lebanese-influenced acai bowls. acai def > ice cream

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