It was THE WORST game of Barca I have seen in the last 3 years.

Barca came in the game with 4 - 1 lead, wanted to play slow and safe. And turned into a COMPLETE clueless team. They didn't know whether to attack or all out aggressive defend, it was painful game to watch

Roma was exceptional, every single player. Especially the coach, while Valverde was completely clueless and slow. Barca suffered the ENTIRE time without ANY reflection.

Suffered 16 shots and about double the number of dangerous attack until 85 mins (WHAATTTT)??? Messi and Suarez were complete cut off up-front . Busquet seemed not FIT. And NOT a single tactical change was given.

I said it again and said it now, Barca does not have the squad to become champ. They just dont. Thanks to Messi they pull through hard time. Compare to team like Real who the whole squad is really DEEP!

I dont want to bash a coach because of 1 game, but seriously without Messi, Barca is just like a mid-table team.

It was THE WORST game of Barca I have seen in the last 3 years.

Barca came in the game with 4 - 1 lead, wanted to play slow and safe. And turned into a COMPLETE clueless team. They didn't know whether to attack or all out aggressive defend, it was painful game to watch

Roma was exceptional, every single player. Especially the coach, while Valverde was completely clueless and slow. Barca suffered the ENTIRE time without ANY reflection.

Suffered 16 shots and about double the number of dangerous attack until 85 mins (WHAATTTT)??? Messi and Suarez were complete cut off up-front . Busquet seemed not FIT. And NOT a single tactical change was given.

I said it again and said it now, Barca does not have the squad to become champ. They just dont. Thanks to Messi they pull through hard time. Compare to team like Real who the whole squad is really DEEP!

I dont want to bash a coach because of 1 game, but last game showed how important a great coach is in time of bad.

And seriously without Messi, Barca is just like a mid-table team.

It was THE WORST game of Barca I have seen in the last 3 years.

Barca came in the game with 4 - 1 lead, wanted to play slow and safe. And turned into a COMPLETE clueless team. They didn't know whether to attack or all out aggressive defend, it was painful game to watch

Roma was exceptional, every single player. Especially the coach, while Valverde was completely clueless and slow. Barca suffered the ENTIRE time without ANY reflection.

Suffered 16 shots and about double the number of dangerous attack until 85 mins (WHAATTTT)??? Messi and Suarez were complete cut off up-front . Busquet seemed not FIT. And NOT a single tactical change was given.

I said it again and said it now, Barca does not have the squad to become champ. They just dont. Thanks to Messi they pull through hard time. Compare to team like Real who the whole squad is really DEEP!

I dont want to bash a coach because of 1 game, but last game showed how important a great coach is in time of bad.

@lio: you were right, Barca players looked clueless and slow. That's on their credit too.

And seriously without Messi, Barca is just like a mid-table team.

Impressive to hear so much praise for Eusebio Di Francesco, Roma manager. He's a pretty good manage as seen with his time at Sassuolo but his Roma side is not the best there ever was, he is still very close to both Inter and Lazio (actually behind them on goal difference) and far behind Napoli. Will be hoping to see more of him in the future, at 48 year old, this guy got a long career ahead of him.

LMAO!

What a fantastic last 7-10 days for me!

Guardiola, yet again, gets found and dumped out at the start of the business end of a Champions League season. It's been what, 7-8 years now since Guardiola did well in CL? Despite the ridiculous amount of $$ spent teach year, not a single year did any one of his requests been ignored or unfulfilled by his club. Both at Bayern and City. Constantly showing the World that my long held belief (which I wasn't shy about sharing) that Guardiola is a pretender who's won all his reputation and success not due to some revolutionary genius that many and media claim that he is - but because he got lucky to have been handed a core of players consisting of a world beating Spanish dynasty. Even if tiki_taka was a manager of that team, he'd win trebles and wow the planet. I will consider it a wasted opportunity that there wasn't a truly revolutionary manager coaching that team.. I mean imagine what a truly great manager could've done with that side?

I just wonder how long, and how many multi-million dollar contracts he'll get to sign in his life-time simply because he got 'lucky'. We won't know for some time still, I bet.

City gets knocked out, which of course followed the amazing performance of Real in Turin.

It was made all the more sweeter considering the team that lost in that same stadium, a year ago, and by what score-line. Who got completely nullified, and who completely destroyed them. :D

I thought it could not get better than this.

But than, wait a minute, wait a minute...

Barca gets knocked out by Roma, of all teams!! The team that just two years ago lost 4-0 to Real Madrid at the same stage while cules were screaming their heads off that Real was getting a cake-walk to the final!

Ecstacy. Just so so so good.. these last 10 days have been for me.

Let us hope that today, Real Madrid finishes the job and advances to the semi finals. That will be the perfect ending, the cherry on top of a cake.

LMAO!

What a fantastic last 7-10 days for me!

Guardiola, yet again, gets found and dumped out at the start of the business end of a Champions League season. It's been what, 7-8 years now since Guardiola did well in CL? Despite the ridiculous amount of $$ spent teach year, not a single year did any one of his requests been ignored or unfulfilled by his club. Both at Bayern and City. Constantly showing the World that my long held belief (which I wasn't shy about sharing) that Guardiola is a pretender who's won all his reputation and success not due to some revolutionary genius that many and media claim that he is - but because he got lucky to have been handed a core of players consisting of a world beating Spanish dynasty. Even if tiki_taka was a manager of that team, he'd win trebles and wow the planet. I will consider it a wasted opportunity that there wasn't a truly revolutionary manager coaching that team.. I mean imagine what a truly great manager could've done with that side?

I just wonder how long, and how many multi-million dollar contracts he'll get to sign in his life-time simply because he got 'lucky'. We won't know for some time still, I bet.

City gets knocked out, which of course followed the amazing performance of Real in Turin.

It was made all the more sweeter considering the team that lost in that same stadium, a year ago, and by what score-line. Who got completely nullified, and who completely destroyed them. :D

I thought it could not get better than this.

But than, wait a minute, wait a minute...

Barca gets knocked out by Roma, of all teams!! The team that just two years ago lost 4-0 to Real Madrid at the same stage while cules were screaming their heads off that Real was getting a cake-walk to the final!

Ecstacy. Just so so so good.. these last 10 days have been for me.

Let us hope that today, Real Madrid finishes the job and advances to the semi finals. That will be the perfect ending, the cherry on top of a cake.

BTW: Had so so much more to say in regards to each one of these events but I don't wanna bore anyone. The way these events unfolded, it felt like.. retribution.

Clearly you're new here so I'll try to be take it easy but considering the overall tone of my comment along with clearly stating that this is a long held belief, to say that I'm using "one loss" to hate on Guardiola is such an elementary conclusion, a most basic accusation that was copied and learned without actually even understanding how it came or would come to be to begin with.

I never needed a game like this to come my conckuss regarding Guardiola. There have already been so, so many events that could be brought up as examples of Guardiolas clear lack of managerial or coaching ability. At least not of such level as to be so revered.

Even as a manager of Barcelona, despite having a squad of so much talent, a team that was clearly a level above all others for a number of years, he did not manage to successfully defend a CL crown - that should have been a harbinger of what was to come. Taking over Hyneckes treble winning squad, his team got demolished following 3 years in a row by Spanish teams in CL. Winning Bundes with Bayern is not enough to be considered successful. They literally have no challenger for the league. He's already spent so much at City, bought so many top level players and this year, the EPL crown is the first trophy he had won since leaving Barca that could be considered as earmed and worthy of respect. That's the only thing he's done after Barca.

There have been maany managers who have done so much more ..with less.

You really do not want to know what I think of people who consider Guardiola to be anything more than average.

Anyway, you sound like a Brit with that typical blown up over-confidence in the ability of EPL teams, and in your case it's Liverpool.

Honestly.. I hope Real doesn't get Liverpool either, that is if they go through (and down 2-0 at half time, it's worrying). I hope Liverpool gets Roma while Real does battle with Bayern. Because that is the ONLY WAY a team we haven't recently seen in a final will make it there. I would prefer something new this year, and I wouldn't mind if Real doesn't make it. Already a two-time winner..

But Liverpool is an average team on a spectacular run but they're no match for any one of the elite top 3 (Real, Bayern, Barca)

@the_bald_genius

Clearly you're new here so I'll try to be take it easy but considering the overall tone of my comment along with clearly stating that this is a long held belief, to say that I'm using "one loss" to hate on Guardiola is such an elementary conclusion, a most basic accusation that was copied and learned without actually even understanding how it came or would come to be to begin with.

I never needed a game like this to come my conckuss regarding Guardiola. There have already been so, so many events that could be brought up as examples of Guardiolas clear lack of managerial or coaching ability. At least not of such level as to be so revered.

Even as a manager of Barcelona, despite having a squad of so much talent, a team that was clearly a level above all others for a number of years, he did not manage to successfully defend a CL crown - that should have been a harbinger of what was to come. Taking over Hyneckes treble winning squad, his team got demolished following 3 years in a row by Spanish teams in CL. Winning Bundes with Bayern is not enough to be considered successful. They literally have no challenger for the league. He's already spent so much at City, bought so many top level players and this year, the EPL crown is the first trophy he had won since leaving Barca that could be considered as earmed and worthy of respect. That's the only thing he's done after Barca.

There have been maany managers who have done so much more ..with less.

You really do not want to know what I think of people who consider Guardiola to be anything more than average.

Anyway, you sound like a Brit with that typical blown up over-confidence in the ability of EPL teams, and in your case it's Liverpool.

Honestly.. I hope Real doesn't get Liverpool either, that is if they go through (and down 2-0 at half time, it's worrying). I hope Liverpool gets Roma while Real does battle with Bayern. Because that is the ONLY WAY a team we haven't recently seen in a final will make it there. I would prefer something new this year, and I wouldn't mind if Real doesn't make it. Already a two-time winner..

But Liverpool is an average team on a spectacular run but they're no match for any one of the elite top 3 (Real, Bayern, Barca)

@the_bald_genius

Clearly you're new here so I'll try to be take it easy but considering the overall tone of my comment along with clearly stating that this is a long held belief, to say that I'm using "one loss" to hate on Guardiola is such an elementary conclusion, a most basic accusation that was copied and learned without actually even understanding how it came or would come to be to begin with.

I never needed a game like this to come my conclusion regarding Guardiola. There have already been so, so many events that could be brought up as examples of Guardiolas clear lack of managerial or coaching ability. At least not of such level as to be so revered.

Even as a manager of Barcelona, despite having a squad of so much talent, a team that was clearly a level above all others for a number of years, he did not manage to successfully defend a CL crown - that should have been a harbinger of what was to come. Taking over Hyneckes treble winning squad, his team got demolished following 3 years in a row by Spanish teams in CL. Winning Bundes with Bayern is not enough to be considered successful. They literally have no challenger for the league. He's already spent so much at City, bought so many top level players and this year, the EPL crown is the first trophy he had won since leaving Barca that could be considered as earmed and worthy of respect. That's the only thing he's done after Barca.

There have been maany managers who have done so much more ..with less.

You really do not want to know what I think of people who consider Guardiola to be anything more than average.

Anyway, you sound like a Brit with that typical blown up over-confidence in the ability of EPL teams, and in your case it's Liverpool.

Honestly.. I hope Real doesn't get Liverpool either, that is if they go through (and down 2-0 at half time, it's worrying). I hope Liverpool gets Roma while Real does battle with Bayern. Because that is the ONLY WAY a team we haven't recently seen in a final will make it there. I would prefer something new this year, and I wouldn't mind if Real doesn't make it. Already a two-time winner..

But Liverpool is an average team on a spectacular run but they're no match for any one of the elite top 3 (Real, Bayern, Barca)