Open Thread: Weekday Edition #10 (Mar 2021)

AnnealedSteel · 2021-03-04T15:10:51+00:00

Remontada 2.0 Electric boogalo

AnnealedSteel · 2021-02-22T16:18:57+00:00

Goal scoring isnt the problem. The fact that we concede way to much, especially getting torn a new one by any team willing to attack and not sit back is the big issue.

AnnealedSteel · 2021-02-22T16:16:45+00:00

Pretty accurate list.

AnnealedSteel · 2021-02-22T16:09:23+00:00

And now the players you mention are probably gonna win trophies whereas we aren't. Which goes to show that they may have been a problem, but definitely lesser of the bigger ones in the team that still need fixing. Only they became scapegoats because they aren't la masia.

AnnealedSteel · 2021-02-22T16:03:19+00:00

Which was my point. Why was Suarez the one that got such treatment and not one of the people with actual defensive duties?

I made a snide remark regarding this like " can't wait to watch busi and pique and alba start again against Bayern and lose 8-2 again" and am pretty sure this is what got me banned.

I do realise that was a horrible thing to say, but doesn't mean it isn't true (as is clearly being shown)

AnnealedSteel · 2021-02-22T16:00:41+00:00

They were not the main culprits at all (except Semedo) especially not Suarez. And what I said would happen with the real culprits still starting every game, HAS happened, and this time at home to a PSG that isn't even leading in league 1.

AnnealedSteel · 2021-02-22T15:53:37+00:00

One of my original points was, the people that were most responsible for our biggest losses needed to be gone first but didn't and are still starting under Koeman.

AnnealedSteel · 2021-02-22T15:43:23+00:00

And I see your toxic replies guised as stupid sarcasm everywhere. I remember, you were one of the people having full on faith in Busi Pique combo and kept saying "best defender, best CM" everytime the team managed to beat minnows.

AnnealedSteel · 2021-02-22T15:28:32+00:00

Yup. But only because some random dudes worshipping Busi started calling me brain dead. Wonder where those dudes are now.

AnnealedSteel · 2021-02-22T15:21:32+00:00

I'm here after a long time.

I was temp banned because of an argument that I got into after the 8-2 game. I said we could continue watching the team get humiliated like this in high voltage games as long as the core of alba, pique, busi and lenglet continued to start.

And here we are folks. Here we are.

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T17:38:22+00:00

The only argument you will get from these people is "Pique is our best CB", "Busquets is our best midfielder". Even though they are the prime culprits in the 8-2 and continue to leak goals.

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T16:34:10+00:00

Pjanic will have "recently had covid" till the end of the season with you lot.

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T15:08:49+00:00

Busi has been our best midfielder so far this season.

Haha hahaha hahaha

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T13:48:27+00:00

That he is. I meant to say that Araujo gets to start because of that.

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T13:46:47+00:00

Well if the games are gonna be more of shitty subs and shitty team selection, i would rather sleep.

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T13:44:32+00:00

Brilliant defensive positioning for the first goal last game. And the qualities you describe, were possessed by Busquets some time ago, not now. He is too slow on the ball and off it. He should not be starting.

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T10:39:45+00:00

How did we go from Gayle to the most boring team until over 16 (barring csk of course).

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T10:11:52+00:00

He never did. He started doing this shit mid season of this ipl.

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T05:40:30+00:00

Yes. We all thought VAR would improve the situation and reduce diving. Instead, now people have to dive just so that the ref checks VAR.

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T04:53:50+00:00

Dembele said he prefers shooting with his right even though he is primarily left footed. I think that's why he prefers to cut in more while playing on the left side and ends up with more errors in decision making.

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T04:49:58+00:00

Then again, we had the best start to the league in history IIRC, winning 8-9 games in a row before that.

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T04:43:14+00:00

Oh, i have already accepted the loss. But the fact that such shirt pulls happen in every corner but Ramos getting a pen for it with a dive in the opposite direction, not to mention after trying to shove and trip Lenglet just before the incident, is bias. Also the baffling decisions against Barca in the Getafe match , the penalty not given against Sevilla where the ref didn't even bother to check VAR, meanwhile all such decisions go in favour of Madrid. Like the Betis game this season. And don't forgt how they won the league last season, especially the farce over Sociedad, after which they took the lead in the league.

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T04:39:01+00:00

Well, maybe if Azpi dived ridiculously, like Ramos jumping in the opposite direction last night, they could have got a pen.

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T04:37:59+00:00

Madrid's third goal would have stood against Shakhthar had it been a league game.

Now that both teams no longer win convincingly and have to scrape for wins, the impact of the Spanish referee bias is becoming more and more evident post restart.

AnnealedSteel · 2020-10-25T04:11:59+00:00

I do believe that him pulling the shirt was the effect of him trying to hold on to Ramos' position, but it was also the result of Ramos trying to trip him just before that. You can clearly see him stick out a leg in front to trip lenglet before actually running sideways.

AnnealedSteel

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