Barca needs to rediscover good football


Atletico de Madrid are through to the Champions League semi final because their defence held out brilliantly, they were magificent in attack, have a solid team spirit, and a manager that has motivated team and fans and is a good tactician.

FC Barcelona by contrast lacked all these qualities and were justly beaten on the night. But this not an end of  an era. Barca remains a team with quality players although psychologically it is finding it hard to not take its own  past success for granted.

It has a real problem of dependenacy on Messi. When Messi has a non-existant game, the team struggles to click. It doesn´t help if stars like Iniesta and Xavi have off nights too.

Barca is missing a decent goalkeepere, and a coach that has the necessary management skills and tactical imagination to take Barca to the great level it can still achieve.

It is also a club that continues to be disracted and overshadowed by politics and poor corporate management.

Barca need to stop believing it is  that more thana club, and show some humility. It needs to rediscover the meaning of good football.

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Comments

  1. DavidM says:

    I basically agree, Tata has tasted the european bouquet, he knows now where abouts is Valladolid and Granada, he has found out how hard is to play vs catenaccio’s team and deal with thousands of journalists and interests. I think that in the motto more than a team we need to become at less a team and also we should be more humble on the offices and with a human touch, ya se sabe que un español cuando se sube a un tamburete se marea. With all my pitiness I think we should choice between have a messi or a team.

  2. Captain Terry says:

    In 1 week, all is lost. But I have been saying here in your blog for the last 2 years, the era ended with the Chelsea defeat and Pep’s cowardly exit. The team and system needed an overhaul then, did you really believe it would go on for ever?!

    Time to rebuild, new manager, players exit and new plan. It was a good few years, the star shone brightly. And please drop the “More than a club” as it is painful seeing you trying to live up to that with the endemic corruption within the institution.

    The defeat last night says it all: RIP Barça 2009 – 20013

  3. Captain Terry says:

    Barça AND Bayern need to re discover football, as ticky-tacky anti-football is now dead and buried.

    Real Madrid were awesome last night!! And yet AGAIN Pep has no Plan B. “Fiel a mis ideas”…he said, well his ideas are now history.

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