Barcelona v Tottenham Hotspur | Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys | Tuesday 8th August | KO: 19:00

[Kaz Hirai]

Barca mugs, tried to be cute playing their first 11 and now they have one of them injured and are being schooled by the reserves of a team that finished 8th

A few observations.

Bissouma has been best player on the pitch.
Skipps two goals are the kind that richarlison should be getting but he's barely involved.

Peri continues to ooze quality.

Apart from Shakey first 20, that backline has been pretty solid

Lo celso been good again
Solomon not providing much

The ref is criminal

 

[Macch]

The slow motion jumping header from Skipp is both funny and beautiful

 

[Airfixx]

Love that header.

 

[1882]

I think this will be Son's last season with us unfortunately, so much of his game relies on his lightning acceleration and he seems to have lost a yard of pace, if he can't open up and make space for himself he's gonna struggle to impact games for us in the PL. Hopefully Solomon continues to flourish when we get going in competitive games.

Cheeky double Bayern bid this time next season for the pair of them...?

 

[NotThatTedHughes]

They've got previous....
the filthy bastards were at it over 40 years ago when we played them in 1982 ECWC...




That aged well.... (Unlike Skipp who already looks like he's in his early 40's!!)

Was at that game . Couldn’t stand Barca after that.

 

[Smogz]

Our midfield is fucking mustard, keep GLC and bin Hojbjerg, we clearly don't need him with this clutch of brilliant 6/8 hybrid type midfielders we've got. Not even got Bentancur back fit yet, Jesus Christ.

About that. Where the fuck is N'dombele?

 

[meaningless-friendly]

Very enjoyable half of football, let's call it there, doubt Barca want a proper hiding.

 

[skywalker68]

Skippy on a hatrick

 

[mummy]

It's a fucking training game. Let's see how we do in a match that matters before sucking the coach and players dry without even buying them a drink first.

You normally don't post crap. What's the matter mate? Happy to help.

 

[Macch]

Barca mugs, tried to be cute playing their first 11 and now they have one of them injured and are being schooled by the reserves of a team that finished 8th

A few observations.

Bissouma has been best player on the pitch.
Skipps two goals are the kind that richarlison should be getting but he's barely involved.

Peri continues to ooze quality.

Apart from Shakey first 20, that backline has been pretty solid

Lo celso been good again
Solomon not providing much

The ref is criminal

Richalison's runs have literally opened up the space for both goals

 

[Airfixx]

Real Madrid are too , full of antics

Ties in with all the preferential referring they receive in La Liga & the CL.

 

[Ealesy]

Odds on Skipp winning the golden boot?

 

[prinmemo]

Andrés Skipp the best midfielder on the pitch by some distance.

Happy he scored two goals, but let’s not get carried away.

Biss has been class breaking the press. De Jong, Pedri, and Gavi are class as well.

 

[tedesco23]

Really hard for me to see any role for Porro or Dier this year. Porro can maybe become something, though I suspect he’ll go down as a serious error in judgment, where Levy was desperate to convince Conte to stay long past the point where it was clear that he was leaving and that we’d be better for it.

Dier still drags an invisible piano around the pitch, and he totally lacks recovery speed and positional awareness, both of which are absolutely necessary for the high line we will be playing under Ange.

 

[Gilded Lily]

What makes me most happy is we go 1 - 2 up and we keep attacking, rather than going into 'soak up pressure' mode. Attack really is best form of defence.

 

[daveyboy88]

I think we'll be making a mistake letting Perisic leave he has an excellent delivery and some of his passing has been quality.

Perfect squad player in my opinion with bags of experience

youre actually seeing the proper perisic now. he aint a fucking wingback

 

[koko619]

Still just friendlies but hoping to football corks out this season. 1st half was best I've seen since poch era. Quality.

we gonna win the league

 

[Stov]

It's a fucking training game. Let's see how we do in a match that matters before sucking the coach and players dry without even buying them a drink first.

Boo

 

[Confusius]

This ref needs a slap

Or a rendez-vous with Chuck Norris!

 

[Airfixx]

My stream's gone down but it's been replaced with a very tasty lady with big tits

what was I saying about streams?

That's Ange.