The last round v Real
Unfortunately its part of the way Pep plays and its always going to be that way...its a sacrifice and a weakness of the system.
He needs defenders who are all great in one vs one, quick, good tacklers - but also requires them to bevery good on the ball as well -these are extremely hard to find.
Bernardo's form dropped off a cliff when the media mauled him. Orchestrated campaign designed to destroy him psychologically.I’ve not seen much evidence of Bernardos energy and desire this season. We know it’s in his locker but it’s been missing for months.
Next year is a clean slate for him though and hopefully he’ll get back to his best.
The García thing really didn’t bother me one way or another.
While we would all rather go down playing the flowing, fast high pressing game that has brought us trophy success, Pep's unusual selections normally confound everyone with comprehensive wins. But for some weird individual errors, straightforward chance misses an inexplicable miss and being screwed by VAR, we still win that game. Win and it's a tactical masterclass. Nothing Pep can do about those things.at the very least let us go out trying to do what we do
While we would all rather go down playing the flowing, fast high pressing game that has brought us trophy success, Pep's unusual selections normally confound everyone with comprehensive wins. But for some weird individual errors, straightforward chance misses an inexplicable miss and being screwed by VAR, we still win that game. Win and it's a tactical masterclass. Nothing Pep can do about those things.