The perverse writer of football created his first diabolic evening for the season and decided for diversity Barcelona and Real Madrid not to be couplings in exquisiteness, but solidarity in its mediocrity. The spectacle of Barca at Butarque offered Dante paintings, and Madrid collapsed in Seville only two hours after the blunder of the tragedy;also without greatness, also without excuses.
Just as the moose had gone to sleep in shock, they received an unexpected oxygen bomb from their eternal rival. The Catalan team, however, will do well not to be tempted by this circle of emotions because it crashes in itself at the worst game in the Ernesto Valverde era; a coach who came up with a dazzling image of an unexpected, as difficult to swallow a defeat. A defeat, which showed the ugly face of the champions who refused after the game to congratulate the modest but deserved opponents.
Because the title of this game is the Leader lost by the queer -;news wit h surreal notes and without any justification. The development of the game via career of messi made it even more unbelievable:Leganes turned the champion after an early goal by Philippe Coutinho after a magnificent play by Lionel Messi and after a beam. Then began the free fall of a team whose fuse turned out like never before in La Liga with Valverde on the bench.
Last year there were many opinions about Barca`s game, but there was a consensus on the solidity of the team. Now only six rounds were needed to break it (7 goals were scored in the period - as was only allowed in the 18th round last season), on which basis the double was won.
From Butarque`s disaster, the whole protection in a bundle comes tainted, starting with a Gerard Pique, who has surely made the most infantile mistake in his career illustrating his dubious mental state at the moment. Pique, however, was only a pa rt of the overall turmoil, which also saw Samuel Umtiti, who had come back from the World Cup, and Thomas Vermaelen, apparently suffering from the coach`s incomprehensible decision to let him back;where its defects are very manifest. What is your best striker in the world after having the weakest protection from the La Liga title?!
Undoubtedly, Valverde is guilty of what happened. Once again, I turned my lineup without success, once again had to fix it on the move, once again showed a lack of ambition and courage, once again did not see how the change to 1-4-3-3 did not have the same effect as 1-4-4-2 and once again his shifts did not work:he was confined to changing players in the same position and did not bring his team to a double hit. Warning, because this is the first serious warning that something is not working properly!
In Sevilla, however, Madrid, although he learned the news from Butarque, inexplicably like his eternal rival, went on a strol l and, as last year, Julen Lopetegui as Zinedine Zidane could not find a response to the enemy system 1-3-5-2, except to build its mirror - with Lucas Vazquez and Marcello as back wings and three central defenders.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Messi and Suarez made the entire team wait for training
There is definitely a tension in Barcelona after a shocking drop in the Champions League. Today, Ernesto Valverde`s boys had a training session before tomorrow`s meeting with Valencia. AS`s electronic edition circulated a curious video before the job. It shows how all the players have gone to the training ground, and Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez are waiting for three minutes.
The Argentinean and the Uruguayan appear late and thoughtful faces. See video from the event at the blagranas sports center.
The Argentinean and the Uruguayan appear late and thoughtful faces. See video from the event at the blagranas sports center.
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Neymar continues to be offered to Barca, they say in Catalonia
Neymar regrets his transfer from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain a year ago. So several times he has offered himself to return to the Catalans, Mundo Deportivo says. According to the local edition of the Brazilian, he misses Barca, especially Lionel Messi, as well as the city`s life and the size of the club. The team leadership initially responded to these trials with cool and great distancing. The misfortune of Neymar, his firm silence in the days before the payment of his clause, and the shock that he had left behind in the club were still causing pain.
However, the position of the club has changed recently and a possible return of the attacker, depending on several important aspects, is now perceived as a real opportunity. An option that is known to be very difficult, but not impossible. At least according to the leaders of Barcelona.
A year after his arrival in the PSG, he was missing from the podiums of the big individual prizes, dropped out early in the Champions League, and has recently remained in the shadow of 19-year-old talent of the Parisians, Kylian Mbappe. With every passing match analyzed by biography of messi in League 1 his motivation for play is smaller. Opponents fool him and often provoke him, knowing he will get angry and get trapped. Meanwhile, Neymar has maintained contacts with a number of his former teammates in Barcelona.
Interestingly, since he has passed to the French champion, the 26-year-old player is continuously linked to a transfer to the bloodstream of the Catalan Real Madrid, believing he is one of the top players in the list of wanted players by Florentino Perez.
However, the position of the club has changed recently and a possible return of the attacker, depending on several important aspects, is now perceived as a real opportunity. An option that is known to be very difficult, but not impossible. At least according to the leaders of Barcelona.
A year after his arrival in the PSG, he was missing from the podiums of the big individual prizes, dropped out early in the Champions League, and has recently remained in the shadow of 19-year-old talent of the Parisians, Kylian Mbappe. With every passing match analyzed by biography of messi in League 1 his motivation for play is smaller. Opponents fool him and often provoke him, knowing he will get angry and get trapped. Meanwhile, Neymar has maintained contacts with a number of his former teammates in Barcelona.
Interestingly, since he has passed to the French champion, the 26-year-old player is continuously linked to a transfer to the bloodstream of the Catalan Real Madrid, believing he is one of the top players in the list of wanted players by Florentino Perez.
Friday, November 30, 2018
The 'Fitzmagic' ended, the first loss for Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay recorded their first loss for the season, retreating at home at Pittsburgh`s home of 27:30. Corsairs did not score in the second half, but the 20-point lag behind was too much to catch up.
Ryan Fitzpatrick, replacing a third consecutive week of penalty, Jameis Winston, has been a complete disaster to the break. The 'Fitzmagic' dropped touchdown in the middle of the first quarter for 7:0, but the next 23 points were in Pittsburgh`s assets. During that time, Fitzpatrick threw three interceptions, the last one of which Bud Buddri returned to the Tampa Bay end, and in addition Chris Godwin lost a fool deep into the half of the hosts.
Corsairs cut the gap to three points 5:43 minutes before the end of Bodwind`s touchdowns and Mike Evans, but they did not see the ball in their possession. Pittsburgh has eaten the rest of the time and scored their first season victory. Ben Roethlisberger finished with 30 out of 38 for 353 yards and three touch downs, and while Fitzpatrick for the third consecutive week passed the 400 yard limit (30 out of 50 for 411), the Tampa Bay land game via buy us football predictions practically did not exist.
Corsairs (2-1) visit Chicago on Sunday, and the main question this week is who will own the quarterback? Also on Sunday, in a prize match at Heinz Pittsburgh (1-1-1) take Baltimore.
Ryan Fitzpatrick, replacing a third consecutive week of penalty, Jameis Winston, has been a complete disaster to the break. The 'Fitzmagic' dropped touchdown in the middle of the first quarter for 7:0, but the next 23 points were in Pittsburgh`s assets. During that time, Fitzpatrick threw three interceptions, the last one of which Bud Buddri returned to the Tampa Bay end, and in addition Chris Godwin lost a fool deep into the half of the hosts.
Corsairs cut the gap to three points 5:43 minutes before the end of Bodwind`s touchdowns and Mike Evans, but they did not see the ball in their possession. Pittsburgh has eaten the rest of the time and scored their first season victory. Ben Roethlisberger finished with 30 out of 38 for 353 yards and three touch downs, and while Fitzpatrick for the third consecutive week passed the 400 yard limit (30 out of 50 for 411), the Tampa Bay land game via buy us football predictions practically did not exist.
Corsairs (2-1) visit Chicago on Sunday, and the main question this week is who will own the quarterback? Also on Sunday, in a prize match at Heinz Pittsburgh (1-1-1) take Baltimore.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Between doubts about VAR and the doubts about Valverde
The Barcelona's match against Girona will be remembered as the first one in which the VAR system served not to help the Spanish professional football judge, but to confuse it. Clement Lenglet`s 1:0 elbow kick in the 36th minute did not result adviced by biography of messi in any protests from the players` side, and the Chief Referee Gil Manzano would obviously not have shown a red card if he had not been consulted with the video guitar leaders with Del Cerro Grande.
Yes, surely the French defender, Barca`s first player, was in contact with the rival, but he was just as surely did it without purpose. Even if the injured Pere Pons showed honesty, and after the end of the match, he was astonished that there was nothing dangerous and that he even thought he had made a violation of the situation. It is entirely logical for Barca`s decision to appeal the red card and hope it is canceled by the Spanish Football Fed eration`s Race Committee at the upcoming disciplinary board meeting.
This huge failure serves to raise the question of a more detailed examination of the VAR phenomenal system: it is not enough just to see what is happening on the pitch and to interpret it correctly. And maybe Gil Manzano, who has driven out three Camp Nou blues out of 2015, is not the right person for that.
In modern football, such decisions have a huge impact, especially in today`s La Liga, where absolutely all become more and more professionals, there are more and better coaches, better methodology, better static positions, better players. In such an environment you play with a lesser person, and for 2/3 of the game, it is an extremely aggravating presentation, if your name is Barcelona and if your opponent is called Girona and you are staying at a stadium like Camp Nou. If it`s getting harder to win any match in 11 football players, your task becomes even harder with 10. With a number of downsides you can build the same strong attacks, but you`re much more vulnerable toand the error field is greatly reduced.
Yes, not everything happened to Barca is due to the referee's decisions, because first of all it must be admitted that it was an ambitious, super-well and well-built team of Girona headed by the ubiquitous Portu and Cristian Stuwani;a great top scorer who bounced two supergolls and demonstrated the weakness of the champions` defense all night (five hits in the first five rounds). The match also showed Barca`s two faces:offensive efficacy, with Lionel Messi once again on the one hand, and on the other hand the uncertainty of the entire line of defense and the apparent inconsistency of the midfielder in the absence of Ivan Rakitic.
It was this weakness that led coach Ernesto Valverde to replace Ousmane Dembele for Samuel Umtiti at 1:1, sending a message to his boys to be more restrained in the game. But the club DNA is just the opposite of such a negativity: to show courage and boldness when obstacles and difficulties appear on the road.
Yes, surely the French defender, Barca`s first player, was in contact with the rival, but he was just as surely did it without purpose. Even if the injured Pere Pons showed honesty, and after the end of the match, he was astonished that there was nothing dangerous and that he even thought he had made a violation of the situation. It is entirely logical for Barca`s decision to appeal the red card and hope it is canceled by the Spanish Football Fed eration`s Race Committee at the upcoming disciplinary board meeting.
This huge failure serves to raise the question of a more detailed examination of the VAR phenomenal system: it is not enough just to see what is happening on the pitch and to interpret it correctly. And maybe Gil Manzano, who has driven out three Camp Nou blues out of 2015, is not the right person for that.
In modern football, such decisions have a huge impact, especially in today`s La Liga, where absolutely all become more and more professionals, there are more and better coaches, better methodology, better static positions, better players. In such an environment you play with a lesser person, and for 2/3 of the game, it is an extremely aggravating presentation, if your name is Barcelona and if your opponent is called Girona and you are staying at a stadium like Camp Nou. If it`s getting harder to win any match in 11 football players, your task becomes even harder with 10. With a number of downsides you can build the same strong attacks, but you`re much more vulnerable toand the error field is greatly reduced.
Yes, not everything happened to Barca is due to the referee's decisions, because first of all it must be admitted that it was an ambitious, super-well and well-built team of Girona headed by the ubiquitous Portu and Cristian Stuwani;a great top scorer who bounced two supergolls and demonstrated the weakness of the champions` defense all night (five hits in the first five rounds). The match also showed Barca`s two faces:offensive efficacy, with Lionel Messi once again on the one hand, and on the other hand the uncertainty of the entire line of defense and the apparent inconsistency of the midfielder in the absence of Ivan Rakitic.
It was this weakness that led coach Ernesto Valverde to replace Ousmane Dembele for Samuel Umtiti at 1:1, sending a message to his boys to be more restrained in the game. But the club DNA is just the opposite of such a negativity: to show courage and boldness when obstacles and difficulties appear on the road.
Monday, October 22, 2018
The 'Rakitician symptom' as an alarm in Barca
It is not easy to combine the different interests between the management, the coach and the players who are now playing in Barca. The leadership would have done well, and especially urgently needed, to reduce the wage bill in the club`s budget, which as a ratio to turnover already exceeds 80% after the renewal of the team leaders` contracts headed by Lionel Messi. The ten, whose contract has been revised for eight times since 2003, has made the constant improvement in the quality of the lineup conditional, a circumstance that obliges expensive investing in football players such as Philippe Coutinho. The senior coach is not inclined to tolerate more unplanned departures after Neymar`s escape and separation from Andres Iniesta. And there is no player in the squad to better symbolize this sophisticated situation by Ivan Rakitic.
The Croatian, bought from Sevilla four years ago against a stiff amount of 18 million and bonuses of 4 million euros, is bound to Barca by June 30, 2021. He was important to Luis Enrique and was invaluable for Ernesto Valverde, and now Paris Saint-Germain wants to buy him at the insistence of his new coach, Thomas Tuchel. The problem is that the French club does not want to pay the EUR 125 million penalty for its cessation, as it has to handle very carefully the Financial Fairplay rules after the brutal investment for Neymar and Kylian Mbappe last summer. In any case, the offer is tempting for the Barcelona leadership, so the club goes down to journalists to write and talk that at the age of 30, the midfielder has an exclusive offer from the Parisians.
Rabiot's own preference is to stay on Camp Nou, against which he asks for his financial conditions to be revised, although he is fully aware that his salary is no way even close to that offered by PSG. This situation is no exception, because to a similar extent it also occurs with Sergio Busquets, also asking for a higher salary (the penalty for termi nating his contract is of 200 million euros) and also wanted by Parisians. The purchasing power of the club analyzed by messi awards with the President Nasser Al-Khelaifi contrasts with the financial weakness of the institution managed by Jose Maria Bartomeu. The leadership does not forget that the reform proposed and accepted by them will involve the resignation of the whole government if the accounts are not released;that is exactly what led to the attacks and then the overthrow of Joan Laporta and his headquarters.
The operation Rakitic on the other hand would explain the possible attraction of Adrien Rabiot because blagranas need a midfielder and the Frenchman is one of the best options on the market along with Frenkie de Jong of Ajax. The priority, in any case, is not to exacerbate the financial weakness of the summer because the net transfer balance is over EUR 4 million, after the very surpri se outgoing transfers, for example Paulinho. Camp Nou keeps on talking about opportunities on the market, so the sales option to the concessions - the last example is with Rafinha.
The Croatian, bought from Sevilla four years ago against a stiff amount of 18 million and bonuses of 4 million euros, is bound to Barca by June 30, 2021. He was important to Luis Enrique and was invaluable for Ernesto Valverde, and now Paris Saint-Germain wants to buy him at the insistence of his new coach, Thomas Tuchel. The problem is that the French club does not want to pay the EUR 125 million penalty for its cessation, as it has to handle very carefully the Financial Fairplay rules after the brutal investment for Neymar and Kylian Mbappe last summer. In any case, the offer is tempting for the Barcelona leadership, so the club goes down to journalists to write and talk that at the age of 30, the midfielder has an exclusive offer from the Parisians.
Rabiot's own preference is to stay on Camp Nou, against which he asks for his financial conditions to be revised, although he is fully aware that his salary is no way even close to that offered by PSG. This situation is no exception, because to a similar extent it also occurs with Sergio Busquets, also asking for a higher salary (the penalty for termi nating his contract is of 200 million euros) and also wanted by Parisians. The purchasing power of the club analyzed by messi awards with the President Nasser Al-Khelaifi contrasts with the financial weakness of the institution managed by Jose Maria Bartomeu. The leadership does not forget that the reform proposed and accepted by them will involve the resignation of the whole government if the accounts are not released;that is exactly what led to the attacks and then the overthrow of Joan Laporta and his headquarters.
The operation Rakitic on the other hand would explain the possible attraction of Adrien Rabiot because blagranas need a midfielder and the Frenchman is one of the best options on the market along with Frenkie de Jong of Ajax. The priority, in any case, is not to exacerbate the financial weakness of the summer because the net transfer balance is over EUR 4 million, after the very surpri se outgoing transfers, for example Paulinho. Camp Nou keeps on talking about opportunities on the market, so the sales option to the concessions - the last example is with Rafinha.
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Neymar took pictures of Messi and promised news
The Brazilian superstar of Paris Saint-Germain Neymar posted on Twitter and Instagram a photo of his language and posed for Barcelona`s Argentine player Lionel Messi. They were teammates at Camp Nou less than a year ago, but last summer the Brazilian went into the PSG for a record 222 million euros.
'When I and my friend Messi get together, great things happen! I`ll tell you more soon, be ready!' , says Neymar`s message to the picture.
The 26-year-old Neymar is recovering from an injury and in the meantime he stops speculation about his football career as some media send him to Real Madrid and others write about the possibility of the South American returning to Barca from the new season.
'When I and my friend Messi get together, great things happen! I`ll tell you more soon, be ready!' , says Neymar`s message to the picture.
The 26-year-old Neymar is recovering from an injury and in the meantime he stops speculation about his football career as some media send him to Real Madrid and others write about the possibility of the South American returning to Barca from the new season.
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