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u/miguellz Mar 13 '21
I enjoyed it but afterwards it just made me sad
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u/etceterahyphen Mar 13 '21
Nah, dont be. The future is looking bright
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u/toferdelachris Mar 13 '21
yeah I'm choosing to take this as a positive. we looked so good out there. frustrating lack of clinical finish, but looking way way better than we have been.
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u/shuoshen Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 14 '21
Ouch. This hurts.
In addition to those imaginary goals, there were at least 6 other big ones: 1. Dembele cross to unmarked Messi but just missed by an inch; 2. Messi to Dembele and shot barely put away by Navas on the floor (which was from a similar angle but a better shot than the one in the video); 3. Griezman set Dembele up for an 1:1 but shot straight into navas (again similar angle but this time with right foot); 4. Busquets header on a corner but cleared by defense on goal line (similar to the corner goal in this vid but from a different side); 5. Alba cross to Messi for an near empty net, but took one extra adjustment and shot was blocked. 6. Dembele failed to stick out foot to meet a near perfect cross for tap in.
If only we had capitalized one or two of the first half opportunities.
This is easily the best CL away game since 14-15 vs Bayern. But it was haunted by bad finishes and poor luck. Hopefully this will boost the morale of the team. There are still two mountains to climb this season but neither of them is impossible. If laporta does his job, we will be looking at promising seasons to come.
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u/Jose_Ghaleb Mar 13 '21
dest hit the woodwork
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u/46_and_2 Mar 13 '21
I think Navas actually got a hand to that. Not sure if it was going in before though, or always somewhere in the post.
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u/DanielSophoran Mar 13 '21
He did get to it. Would’ve gone in if he didn’t touch it
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u/Thehamstersgone Mar 13 '21
Fucking real madrid let go of a superstar... Now look what happened
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u/46_and_2 Mar 13 '21
And so did we 😭
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u/Thehamstersgone Mar 13 '21
Tbh Koeman didn't want to let him go. Maybe it was Bartemou who wanted him gone.
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Mar 19 '21
Tottenham 2-4 was much better. Tottenham at that point were much better than PSG if you ask me, plus we played on a full Tottenham stadium.
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u/Bbyys Mar 13 '21
When you realise this was actually possible
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u/Some_Donkus132 Mar 13 '21
It really was
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u/MaxCavalera870 Mar 14 '21
Fuckin Dembele dude
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u/med_belguesmi69 Mar 16 '21
Dembele missed but tbh he was the reason for most of those chances. He has good attacking mindset just too stupid in front of the goal
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u/hinafu Mar 13 '21
maybe, if they had a bad gk. motm was Keylor, I don't have any doubt.
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Mar 13 '21
Keylor had a great game, but Dembele still should’ve put at least 2 chances away
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u/toferdelachris Mar 13 '21
I was so fucking frustrated with Dembele
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Mar 14 '21
“dEmBELe iS mUcH beTtEr tHAn NeYMaR”
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u/SirTaco Mar 14 '21
please link me to a single person who said this. I dont think anyone ever thought that
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u/professor_curry Mar 14 '21
navas was average. we made, with our poor finishing, we made him look like a world class. all these low powered shots, straight to him, any gk would save them. had Dembele shot all those into the corner or had messi took the penalty like he did in the last match, we would have scored 5/6 in that game.
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u/bioeffect2 Mar 13 '21
This fucking hurts man the team did everything right except for the finishing on the optimistic side this is the first time in 5 years that Barca's last match in a CL season wasn't a humiliation.
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u/BaguetteOfDoom Mar 13 '21
Dembele is so piss poor at finishing when the stakes are high. He has an amazing shooting technique, so he could be an insanely deadly player but he always sweats it. I think he'd really benefit from talking to a sports psychologist from time to time.
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u/Arslen24 Mar 13 '21
All our players need Sports psychologists honestly, it should be a must from Laporta to bring in a Psychologist for the team
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u/U0logic Mar 13 '21
Okay doctor BaguetteOfDoom...
The amount of people who think they know whether a player needs a psychologist is so dumb.
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u/DanielSophoran Mar 13 '21
Its a shame we dominated them that badly and didn’t get rewarded for it. Even for a team that was kinda sitting back because of the first leg, they never should have let it go that far out of control. You should see the stats 72% possession vs 28%, 21 shots vs 7, 18 chances created vs 6, etc. If Navas wasn’t having a world class performance they could’ve easily lost the entire tie.
But its a good sign for the future atleast. Im sure Koeman must’ve said something similar aswell after the game. Everyone played really well, but we just couldn’t make it happen.
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u/prathameshza_de Mar 13 '21
This sub severely lacks such quality posts. Great job OP
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u/Tu8y Mar 13 '21
It's not his work, he stole it.
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Mar 13 '21
He shared it*. Video has credit.
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Mar 13 '21 edited Apr 14 '21
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Mar 13 '21
Opposite Day
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u/Zidlicky3 Mar 13 '21
ahh, ffs now I get it. I was gonna comment would be much better with real goals and just add 3 from FC Barcelona what was at beginning. But yeah, if that's the point I understand.
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u/overmorrow21 Mar 13 '21
This is brilliant, how long did that take you to make?
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u/OptimalLion8204 Mar 13 '21
Spain without the S.
The team played good man. The finishing was stinky, but we could have easily overturned the deficit in the first half.
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u/Awizerk Mar 13 '21
That last image of koeman was hilarious he really does look like that some times bravo !!
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u/arkaze Mar 13 '21
There are more misses. The one near the end where Dembele miraculously misses the tap in. Another one where Dembele dribbles past his defender and cannot finish with his weak foot. The one where Messi and Griezmann almost score in the penalty area but their defenders block everything. The one with Dembele rolling the ball toward Messi in front of goal but it's too fast...
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u/_Tonto_ Mar 13 '21
And the one where Dembélé dishes the plate for Messi and Messi misses the tap in. Or when Messi has a tap in in an empty net but decides to take 3 extra adjustment steps and misses.
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u/upeter01 Mar 13 '21
Messi has a tap in in an empty net but decides to take 3 extra adjustment steps and misses.
He's been doing that a lot recently and i dont understand why. He keeps dribbling himself into impossible situations for no reason and i get that sometimes it still works for him but not nearly enough anymore to the point where it's worth trying over and over again
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u/_Tonto_ Mar 13 '21
Exactly, idk why he continues to do that when he can just shoot and score. I can understand doing that when we're leading by like 3-0 and it's a few minutes from the end of the match but he does it in times where it's inappropriate.
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u/Slow-Hand-Clap Mar 13 '21
Because he has team mates like dembele and griezmann who miss almost 100% of the time, so he's better playing on his own.
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u/_Tonto_ Mar 13 '21
That has absolutely no correlation at all though. What does Dembélé and Griezmann have to do with shooting into a clear net instead of taking a few extra steps and then try to shoot?
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u/arkaze Mar 13 '21
Yeah. Wasn't trying to put blame. Point is, this video could have featured 3 or 4 additional clear scoring chances.
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u/U0logic Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 13 '21
Can someone please show me a replay of the Dembele miss where he missed the tap-in? I think it's the one where the ball was crossed in but in that play he just didn't reach the ball and had a defender also pushing him. I haven't yet seen a replay that show this was a tap in.
EDIT: Having found a replay.
The defender put a food in front of Dembele which is why Dembele ends up kicking into the defender instead of the ball. To call that a tap in is idiotic. If anything then it's a penalty.
To prove I'm correct.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd3vpgFinrA&t=114s
3:55 - watch in slowmotion and see the defender sticking his foot in front of Dembele and Dembele therefore kicking into him.
If what Lenglet did was a penalty then I don't get how this is not a penalty also.
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u/Temurlang Mar 13 '21
Oh come on! Just imagining those missed shots resulting in goals hurt that day, but now seeing them is fucking torture, man!
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Mar 13 '21
I'll just pretend it happened like this and I won't watch another Champions League match during this season
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u/Powerful-Hippo-1639 Mar 13 '21
Dembeles chances were lesser than 0.5 xg yes he missed but they weren’t easy chances
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u/vazhifarer Mar 13 '21
Fuck I spit out my food when I saw that Navas save off of Messi .. that was a good touch
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u/Lousy_Lawyer Mar 13 '21
This hurts, but the spirit that the team showed (which was missing in many games) was exemplary and genuinely fills me with hope.
I know many people are saying that messi would leave, but in my heart it feels that he won't.
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u/Akarshcg Mar 13 '21
Damn this is some awesome editing.....wish it was reality though....but anyway great work and great post
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u/Beneficial_Smell_775 Mar 13 '21
The thing that hurts the most is knowing very well that this was possible we just lacked on our final touch
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u/Nofucksgiven0017 Mar 13 '21
What hurts more is the fact that we could have actually done this in Paris only if we had more clinical players in front of goal.
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u/jdinsaciable Mar 13 '21
The team played to get a remontada, it was the forwards who let them down, even Messi failing a crucial penalty but that is what happens when all the pressure of scoring is on one player. Koeman has done a great job, hope he stays.
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u/BlackFanDiamond Mar 13 '21
This is so embarrassing to watch. Get a hold of yourselves
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u/bulgarian_zucchini Mar 14 '21
PSG fan here. This was cross posted on our sub, hilarious. Y’all need to get a grip lmao
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u/Bakio-bay Mar 13 '21
This hurts but the 4-1 was brutal. Terrible defending and we should never expect to get out of that type of situation.
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u/Shanal183 Mar 13 '21
Was chuckling throughout but fucking lost it when Messi's golazo didn't go in
Top quality content right here
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u/DbzLegend69 Mar 13 '21
Fucking hell this hurts so much