Bartomeu really did kill the barca dna by signing players that didnt fit the system during madrids 3 peat. In addition as good as rackitic was, he could never touch xavi’s boots, this forced iniesta to perform xavis role and messi in turn performed iniestas role and even scored a shit ton, however, when it came to KOs against top opposition, all they had to do was shut messi out and that was it, suarez’s poor form in ucl didnt help either.
Well, one of those times included an offside goal and the other time a big Ulreich-Rafinha blunder. The biggest disappointing defeat was the 4-0 in Munich with the best squad Pep had, he was completely outcoached (or according to Lahm’s book, the players basically forced him to change his tactics).
It always confused me how Barcelona with prime Messi both had no impact or chance vs Bayern but then Real Madrid with Ronaldo won every single time
Because Bayern got a new manager whose tactics had to be adapted to.
Messi was playing injured
Bartomeu really did kill the barca dna by signing players that didnt fit the system during madrids 3 peat. In addition as good as rackitic was, he could never touch xavi’s boots, this forced iniesta to perform xavis role and messi in turn performed iniestas role and even scored a shit ton, however, when it came to KOs against top opposition, all they had to do was shut messi out and that was it, suarez’s poor form in ucl didnt help either.
Well, one of those times included an offside goal and the other time a big Ulreich-Rafinha blunder. The biggest disappointing defeat was the 4-0 in Munich with the best squad Pep had, he was completely outcoached (or according to Lahm’s book, the players basically forced him to change his tactics).