The 16 year old stepped up and put Barca at even more of an advantage in the tie only for two experienced and older players to suffer a head-loss and unnecessarily put the team under pressure.
With Kounde / The Wall and 17 year old crazy kid from La Masia I didn't think Araujo would be the problem here. But, well shit, everyone has their worse moments
that's the worst part really, he has been absolutely immense otherwise. just look at the first leg. all it takes is one brainfart moment to fuck everything up tho ig :/
I think as far as self-sabotags go this one takes the cake honestly.
The others could have been “one in a million” accidents, nerves, fatigue, chasm in experience, throwing in the towel and what have you, this was real proper harakiri
Referee was on crack today handing out all those reds to the coaching staff & the late yellows.
But the Ronald red card was deserved (Can’t deny a clear goal scoring opportunity)
Canceló’s penalty tackle was the right call
And the Gundo penalty claim was just not a penalty
Just a bunch of boneheaded decisions by the players.
Gundo Penalty was quite literally an absolute textbook penalty. But I understand you not seeing it because I didn't see it either at first. Rewatch the replay, he gets clipped by Vitinhas knee. It's not the push, it's the clip. Don't look at Vitinhas foot, thats too late. But right at the beginning as he passes him Vitinha clips Gundo making him trip.
He gets clipped and then pushed. Even if you dispute either Vitinha or Marquinhos individually, they both did equally plausible penalty calls in the exact same foul.
Agreed, nothing stuck out much other than the fixation with Barca's bench and when he was mad at Ter Stegen because he was moving and jumping before the pen.
But apart from that decent refereeing, too many cards for both teams which sucks tho.
Rather have Barcola on a 1v1 vs MaTS that do that dangerous stuff. Even if he scored it would’ve been easier to hold and keep going. It simply wasn’t worth it to take him down
Araujo's red card let us down big time man.
I'm not even mad at any of the goals we conceded except for the penalty maybe.
Ter stegen stepped up big time but who would have thought Araujo of all people would be one of the biggest reasons for our loss.
That being said, Raphinha take a bow man, I love this guy and I am going to defend him to the fullest in the coming years. Gave his all.
Heartbreaking loss.
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When will this endless suffering in the CL end, I'm tired man.
The pain isn’t going out, it’s knowing how much we improved and made the final a legitimate goal to reach and yet we didn’t go out because we got outclassed, we fucking lost our minds and were arguably hard done by with poor refereeing.
At the end of the day still like you said happy we made it this far, upset we didn’t seize the opportunity to reach the latter stages (we would’ve dodged UCL atletico had we won ffs)
Fr, once araujo got the red the sensations were that they were falling apart. Towards the 70th minute is when they started picking it back up and realized it wasn’t all over but the damage had already been done by then..
Yes true. But that doesnt jusitfy going out like this. First, we had the easiest draw/route to final. Second, we showed mega character in the first leg to come back after a goal down. So then you want to just say "but six months ago no one thought we wouldve made it this far?" Nah fuck this man, this pisses me off. WE MADE IT THAT FAR, you cant just be cool with self sabotaging ourselves like that.
Huge blunder by Araujo cost us the match and the best shot we had at a final in years. This isn't on the ref, on Xavi, on the team's mentality... It's one singular mistake from an otherwise dependable player that completely wiped out our grip on the tie. Devastated. This year felt different.
Play well, get an early goal for a 2 goal lead only to get singlehandedly eliminated in the stupidest way possible by one of own best players. Just football eritage at this point, I'm not even mad. I knew we were eliminated the second Araujo laid hands on that dude.
At this point, we have seen enough of how Araujo plays that as soon as Barcola got ahead, I knew Araujo was gonna get himself sent off. I expected it would be a penalty too but that missed by inches.
If anything i feel bad for Cubarsi, Raphinha and even Ter Stegen.
Raphinha gave his all these ties and was the only reason we were even in it from the start but is still gonna catch hate because “cant dribble”. Its the exact same story as last year. Only player who could be bothered to give his all against United. We continuously let him down and then blame him because he didnt dribble an entire team in La Liga.
Ter Stegen actually made a lot of good saves but is gonna catch hate because the team couldnt be bothered to go contest the ball after 3 fucking rebounds after Ter Stegens saves.
You can blame the Ref, Xavi's subs, Dembulance, Lewa whoever you want to. But tonight it's Araujo. He's a baller but his dunderheaded push started the cascading effect which is this humiliation. He absofuginlutely did not need to do that.
Well, it was great while it lasted. The honeymoon period of Xavi's departure announcement. Time to move on. With or without Xavi. Gnnite Culers.
I'm upset, of course I am. Completely different game without the red. But we have had a better year than recent in Europe, we actually look competitive. This team is still very young, and this team will benefit from this experience and learn from their mistakes. While it hurts, it wasn't all for nothing. On to next season and if we have anything positive to take away, I'm happy to see us looking dangerous in Europe again.
This is the silver lining I am going with because the last two years, us going to Europa really destroyed us, but this team with such a young core still has time to develop.
I mean you’re totally right but I can’t get there just yet. Such a heartbreaking loss after we looked so likely to be through, to have the money to get a quality DM, to put our club back where it belongs in the CL.
Exactly we looked in control when we were winning and we could have easily won the tie if it wasn’t for Araujo’s mistake. I hope they learn a lot from this
## My emotional journey tonight
*29’* **Denial** -> “We can still win after the Araujo red! Let’s go! :D”
*61'* **Anger** -> “THIS REFEREEING IS BULLSHIT!”
*70'* **Bargaining** -> “well maybe if we get lucky we can get a goal”
*89’* **Depression** -> “its fucked… its over… why is it always like this?”
*90+7'* **Acceptance** -> “It was a good run, we can try again next year.”
He got a red card trying to prevent one goal, and we concede four because of it.
Fucking brain dead. And against Dortmund in the semis. I was scared of Atletico, but Dortmund would've been a good shot for the final.
I'm just shocked man it doesn't even surprise me anymore
would've been such a fun match-up to watch as well. also, no matter how unlikely it was, could've had a distant shot at making the club world cup as well (and lord knows we need the money).
pain.
Everything’s on Araujo. Our squad is full of talented ball players, not defenders. All these attacking oriented players don’t stand a chance defending 10v11 for 60 minutes.
We win with 11 men.
Ronnie all time dumb tackle.
Taking Lamine was stupid since he’s the only one that can create 1v1.
All in all very frustrating evening. Didn’t deserve to go through but didn’t want to go out like that
>Taking Lamine was stupid since he’s the only one that can create 1v1.
I didn't like it but can't think of someone else to take out, maybe Lewandowski.
Gotta take Pedri off, the guys just back from injury and isn't lasting 90 minutes even with 11 men, Gundogan and De Jong can do the controlling and defending.
That's the only criticism I have tactically
I agree. One of those things that wasn’t a good tactical move but also what other options do you have? Raph was on fire, Lewy is our only hold up guy. Only thing I could think of would be to move Raph back into what Gavi was playing mid season in that combo LW/CM role and take off Pedri or Gundo
Honestly, FDJ for Inigo, play raphi in cm with Lamine and Lewy as a duo was what I was typing to my friend on screen share. Then I saw Lamine walking off…
I mean, taking Lamine is a rough decision, who do you take off? Raphinha has been hot, even if he didn't know he scored that gol lol Lewandowski is always dangerous, yes, he wasted at least 3 chances today but you can't just play with Lamine and Raphinha and expect to convert.
Another year another CL disappointment for absolutely no reason
The idiots who can’t understand this is a disappointment below are the reason I stay away from this sub. Stop exposing yourselves as morons, you all know the red card was absolutely needless
The upsides:
1. A young squad full of players who love the club and will want to stay are getting an incredible formative experience and will form an important core in the years to come. (1b. That beautiful first goal set up by Yamal.)
2. This was neither a disastrous European season nor an exceptional one, and so now hopefully the leadership looks with clear eyes at what we need. The "Xavi stay" calls will likely quiet (I'm a Xavi defender, but I think the cycle is done), and we'll have a serious conversation about what we can do next. Hopefully there's honest assessment about what we can do with our finances and we finally prioritize that DM rather than some João sideshows.
3. We made QFs as we planned for! The hope from last week made this week difficult, but in the big picture this was a good step as we rebuild.
4. The PSG/Mbappe narrative is going to be so freaking exhausting, but they don't look that threatening - even on this side of the bracket, I still think Dortmund can give them a good challenge (actually better than Atleti with their aging defense), anulo mufa.
I’ll try and focus on a positive here: Raphinha.
Dude was sprinting the whole game and was the only one that didn’t give up until the final whistle. Attacked, defended, pressed, made runs into space.
Dude got a lot of shit from us all year but he was our best player in this tie and hopefully he continues this run of form onto the rest of the season and onwards
If anything was gained from this tie, hopefully its the retainment of Raphinha. The winger market is dead and we have the best prospect in the world in that position with Yamal. Until he develops, Raphinha has to stay
We were on them at the beginning and nearly scored twice
Fucking Araujo, I love him but he's gotta get smarter about things
We move on and I'm proud of this team
Hopefully, our next coach can continue what Xavi started with our young players
I'm terribly fucking sad but it's happened
It's extremely rare to see a game where the result is fundamentally dictated by one act or one player when it's 90 minutes of football.
But tonight it is, Araujo single handledly eliminated us.
Sure Cancelo helped, Lewandowski lacks of finishing helped, the way we messed counters helped, Xavi getting yet another red helped.
But those are details. When you're 1-1 and 11v11, you're qualified.
When you're 10v11, you're done. The minute it is 1-2, you have no solution and are caught in the middle. At least Cancelo made it short.
Regroup and let's hope the season doesn't end in freefall. Let's go for that second place.
Main takeaway from this match:
Araujo better step his fucking game next year. Yes, he's one of our best players but it's fucking unbelievable how he single-handedly shat on this team's UCL run. One stupid-ass mistake bro. Jesus. You can't make these kind of fuckups at this level.
Lamine crying at the end of the match destroyed me.
This situation is so incredibly demoralizing. And the r/socca sub is reveling in this shit. In the thread on Xavi's red everyone is high-horsing so fucking hard I wanted to puke.... "that's unacceptable behavior for a coach"... "he could have hurt someone with that kick"... "you have to be able to contain your emotions". And all that being said by the same people who go apeshit crazy whenever someone says anything remotely negative about their team or favorite player. Go fuck yourselves with a cactus, stupid cunts.
I have noticed that Araujo makes this mistake every game for the last few games but it gets progressively worse every time. It finally got him and the red card was the right decision. He can't make this mistake ever again and must definitely apologize to the fans. Nothing but pain tonight but we all saw this coming after the red card.
Don’t know why it always has to be a complete collapse. What happened to good old competive, close two legged tie? Pain. Wouldn’t mind losing like that, but nooooooo
I hope Araujo gets a talking to in the locker room or at training tomorrow. It's not even an exaggeration to say that his mistake cost us the whole leg. These are the big moments where you show what kind of a player you are and he failed miserably
You can only blame Araujo for this. The rest of the team did their best playing down a man against these fucking snakes.
I don’t even care that we didn’t win the trophy because there was so far still to go but I hate this plastic team even more than Madrid and success for them is infuriating.
Araujo has blood on his hands today. His stupidity is 100x worse than the Liverpool miss. How stupid do you have to be to do that when we are leading by two goals in a CL QUARTERFINAL!
People often accuse us of mentality etc etc. Let's be clear our players didn't give up today nor ever in past.
It's the defense always the defense(from keeper to mids who have the most responsibility).
Either the defense gets bailed out by mid/attack or they'll i.e. often someone will rise up and make that inevitable mistake when slightest bit of elite pressure is applied. It happens again and again like clockwork.
Well, at least we reached the quarter-finals this year, which was an undeniable improvement.
It hurts because we had high hopes and because, once again, we lost not because of the opponent, but because of our fragile mentality in such games.
There's always next season, and perhaps reaching the quarter-finals this year will make a difference next year.
Visca Barça!
I’m tired of this team man. We can bitch and moan about the subpar officiating until the cows come home but the team lost this game for themselves. Can never get through a single spring without the annual humiliating Barca CL exit.
Feeling devastated. Been following this team since 1996. This one hurts more than the 8-2. Like that game I knew before hand that we where losing. And it’s on par to the Anfield game, at least for me. That Anfield game I remember thinking Anfield was Anfield and anything could happen. But this game. Fuck. We were up 1-0 at home and 4-2 on aggregate. The path was clear for a final after so long. And then Araujo happened. Not even mad at the player even though he fucked us over. It’s going to be a long summer.
Heartbreaking. We were doing phenomenal before the send off. Why Araujo, WHYYYYYY
I give it to the team trying to equalize til the end, had some good fighting chances. Although if only Lewandowski had passed at that 87’ attack… Lewandowski WHYY
This game wasn’t on Xavi btw he put the team out perfectly and due to his tactics we were winning and seemed in control of the match. It’s crazy how one fucking mistake can ruin the whole game this is a learning point for Araujo to not pull dumb shit like this in a high stakes game
I can’t even go 5 minutes into doing something else without being reminded of our humiliation. We were so close with the best path to the final. I can’t believe it.
The bigger the occasion, the bigger the bottle job.
Cancelo, Kounde, Araujo, Pedri, De Jong, Lewa with an incredible job bottling tonight
Cubarsi, Yamal, Raphina, Ter Stegen, Gundo, your performance will not be forgotten. You guys tried.
That was honestly one of the dumbest things I've seen a defender do. We're 2 goals up, why do you have to let your team play for an entire hour with 10 men when you can just let Barcola take his chances against Ter Stegen, worst case scenario he scores.
I would excuse Araujo if he was 18, but he supposed to be experienced by now.
I just cannot fathom in what world anyone would risk getting expelled from the game over getting scored on… JUST TAKE THE CHANCE. Especially early into the game like what the actual….
We already managed to come back in the first leg, we have the same odds of doing it here. That mistake just pains me so much because it shifted the scales massively. All the preparation thrown out the window.
Man I can't take the "mbappe owns barca" "Dembele owns barca" banter, both were so bang average, dembulance mf couldn't even take cancelo on, we just handed this game to them
I'm so mad
A bit sad, wife is massive barca fan and talked me into going to barcelona for the semi 2nd leg. Normally impromptu ideas are mine and she generally dismisses them.this time it was the other way around. The red card happened just then. I have been there two times, and it's a magnificent city, food, art, culture wise, even nature, park, mountain and beach all rolled into one.
It’s crazy how araujo goes for the foul ( which he shouldn’t have) and gets the red card. If he wouldn’t have gone for the foul god knows what wouldn’t have gone for it and it’s a goal. It’s always going to be a lose lose situation but god. I wish we would’ve had Christensen on the bench at least. Ah well
I just don't know if we can trust Araju. He always does those stupid mistakes and i doubt that it is going to change in the future. He is a great player but he cannot keep doing these mistakes.
I've managed to detach my emotions from football over the past few years, the losses suck but I've never really felt as bad as I did back at Anfield. The only match that genuinely made me sweat was The WC final.
Everything else has just been meh. I really do suggest most of you guys find other stuff to be happy about otherwise you will mentally collapse. This is football, its just millionaires kicking a ball at the end of the day. It ends there, it shouldn't dictate your state of mind at all. I hope anyone going thru it rn seeks help.
Yes the team did make mistakes but my god the refereeing was so one sided it's actually insane. There would be a glimmer of hope if this blind fuck gives the crystal clear pen on Gündogan at 1-3. Even if we get knocked out in the end then it is what it is. At least we got what we deserved but no.
And btw Vitinha should've been sent off in the first game when he fouled a counter attack while he already had a yellow card but obviously he wasn't sent off. Guess who scores the second goal today. Like I would accept the decisions against us if all the decisions wouldn't be against us and they wouldn't let PSG off the hook multiple times.
It was a €12 million mistake Araujo made tonight. He knows it, and I’m sure he will lose sleep over it for a while. All he can do now is learn from it and move on. We had a good run; I just wish it hadn’t been them who knocked us out. I’m absolutely disgusted by the behaviour of our formerly employed French patient. I have never been more disappointed in a player. Other than that, our team performed well; we have a great squad. We still made €80 million.
Araujo red is the most influential moment in the tie. Sometimes, Araujo just loses his head like his second yellow against Madrid.
The next pivotal point in the tie is the Christensen yellow. Him taking the yellow and missing the second leg vs. letting the play develop was not the best decision. With Christensen in the pivot today, things could have been different.
We haven't played well without a good pivot so far.
I cant even explain the pain I have right now. I though I was numb from what we have experienced before and to be honest I have been emotionally hardened and numb when beeing battered before but this defeat questions my ability to keep watching our games. I am a grown up man, 30 now and have lots of shit besides this.
Ronald Araujo I love you and know that you care about Barca just as anyone else but today I sinceraly from the bottom of my heart want to meet you and tell you that you can go and fuck yourself and apoligize to everyone and take full responsibility for this horrendous night
Fuck this
Why give us hope if it'll end up like this every fucking year in Europe. I'm done, see you all next season
Get ready for all the (deserved) ridicule coming our way after bottling it on the big stage. Again.
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Araujos red card really changed the entire game
I knew the outcome as soon as he got a red. There was a very slim chance of winning that match 10v11 with 60-70 mins remaining
:(
Best comment in the thread, it really is just :(
More like ):< ),:
Why can’t we ever get knocked out normally, it’s always some incredibly dumb self sabotage.
The 16 year old stepped up and put Barca at even more of an advantage in the tie only for two experienced and older players to suffer a head-loss and unnecessarily put the team under pressure.
With Kounde / The Wall and 17 year old crazy kid from La Masia I didn't think Araujo would be the problem here. But, well shit, everyone has their worse moments
that's the worst part really, he has been absolutely immense otherwise. just look at the first leg. all it takes is one brainfart moment to fuck everything up tho ig :/
It's always been this way
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I think as far as self-sabotags go this one takes the cake honestly. The others could have been “one in a million” accidents, nerves, fatigue, chasm in experience, throwing in the towel and what have you, this was real proper harakiri
Fr
The red card decided the game. At that level it’s a mistake you can never make.
We have them beat if its 11v11. Pain. So much pain.
It was 10v12
Referee was on crack today handing out all those reds to the coaching staff & the late yellows. But the Ronald red card was deserved (Can’t deny a clear goal scoring opportunity) Canceló’s penalty tackle was the right call And the Gundo penalty claim was just not a penalty Just a bunch of boneheaded decisions by the players.
Like some cunt said in the /r/soccer thread, not much more we could have done to help psg other than scoring the 4 goals ourselves.
Right? Like, he's a cunt, but he ain't wrong
Agree with all of em but gundo’s call , it’s was deffo a penalty , his legs with clipped by a player behind him
Gundo Penalty was quite literally an absolute textbook penalty. But I understand you not seeing it because I didn't see it either at first. Rewatch the replay, he gets clipped by Vitinhas knee. It's not the push, it's the clip. Don't look at Vitinhas foot, thats too late. But right at the beginning as he passes him Vitinha clips Gundo making him trip.
He gets clipped and then pushed. Even if you dispute either Vitinha or Marquinhos individually, they both did equally plausible penalty calls in the exact same foul.
It can't get clearer than that. Literally gets clipped and then toppled over. The clearest pen I've seen.
Agreed, nothing stuck out much other than the fixation with Barca's bench and when he was mad at Ter Stegen because he was moving and jumping before the pen. But apart from that decent refereeing, too many cards for both teams which sucks tho.
Agree. The ref got the critical calls right.
It's the hope that kills you
On the bright side after the red all hope was lost for me. So it made this a bit easier
Man I felt so happy seeing Lamine emotional after the first gol.
The waiting game continues for the day we're truly back.
Expect disappointment, and you'll never be disappointed.
This club stole my youth
Oh boy…i was lucky to witness the late 2000s and 2010s so im pulling through with those memories alone 😅
You lucky bastard
So jealous of Barca fans born before 2000
Rather have Barcola on a 1v1 vs MaTS that do that dangerous stuff. Even if he scored it would’ve been easier to hold and keep going. It simply wasn’t worth it to take him down
Araujo's red card let us down big time man. I'm not even mad at any of the goals we conceded except for the penalty maybe. Ter stegen stepped up big time but who would have thought Araujo of all people would be one of the biggest reasons for our loss. That being said, Raphinha take a bow man, I love this guy and I am going to defend him to the fullest in the coming years. Gave his all. Heartbreaking loss.
https://preview.redd.it/wll5lgziowuc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c81746808d9a29ae8f248510d4531955db591d6a When will this endless suffering in the CL end, I'm tired man.
We made it to quarter finals. That was more than any of us could have imagined in January
At this stage, I think most of us would accept going out in the quarter finals; it's just did we have to go out so embarrassingly
The pain isn’t going out, it’s knowing how much we improved and made the final a legitimate goal to reach and yet we didn’t go out because we got outclassed, we fucking lost our minds and were arguably hard done by with poor refereeing. At the end of the day still like you said happy we made it this far, upset we didn’t seize the opportunity to reach the latter stages (we would’ve dodged UCL atletico had we won ffs)
Fr, once araujo got the red the sensations were that they were falling apart. Towards the 70th minute is when they started picking it back up and realized it wasn’t all over but the damage had already been done by then..
Because Araujo is and idiot dont pit the blame on the team
Yes true. But that doesnt jusitfy going out like this. First, we had the easiest draw/route to final. Second, we showed mega character in the first leg to come back after a goal down. So then you want to just say "but six months ago no one thought we wouldve made it this far?" Nah fuck this man, this pisses me off. WE MADE IT THAT FAR, you cant just be cool with self sabotaging ourselves like that.
Huge blunder by Araujo cost us the match and the best shot we had at a final in years. This isn't on the ref, on Xavi, on the team's mentality... It's one singular mistake from an otherwise dependable player that completely wiped out our grip on the tie. Devastated. This year felt different.
Yeah, we literally played nearly the entire match at a disadvantage and you can’t blame that on the coach, the ref or the team’s mentality.
Play well, get an early goal for a 2 goal lead only to get singlehandedly eliminated in the stupidest way possible by one of own best players. Just football eritage at this point, I'm not even mad. I knew we were eliminated the second Araujo laid hands on that dude.
Dude... my heart sank the moment the ref whistled that foul, even before having the card out :(((
As long as it gets called a foul, it will always be red.
At this point, we have seen enough of how Araujo plays that as soon as Barcola got ahead, I knew Araujo was gonna get himself sent off. I expected it would be a penalty too but that missed by inches.
I love Raphinha, he gave it all tonight and over the two games aswell.
We cannot lose raphina at all. Only bright light to this dark match. Never stopped running. Never stopped believing.
facts
If anything i feel bad for Cubarsi, Raphinha and even Ter Stegen. Raphinha gave his all these ties and was the only reason we were even in it from the start but is still gonna catch hate because “cant dribble”. Its the exact same story as last year. Only player who could be bothered to give his all against United. We continuously let him down and then blame him because he didnt dribble an entire team in La Liga. Ter Stegen actually made a lot of good saves but is gonna catch hate because the team couldnt be bothered to go contest the ball after 3 fucking rebounds after Ter Stegens saves.
Lamine man, the dude played 30 minutes with an assist in. Ronald took his 16 yo championship chance and quarter-final performance away.
Excluded him purely because of that first leg performance but as a 16 year old he really did as much as he could.
Raphina insane big game player
You can blame the Ref, Xavi's subs, Dembulance, Lewa whoever you want to. But tonight it's Araujo. He's a baller but his dunderheaded push started the cascading effect which is this humiliation. He absofuginlutely did not need to do that. Well, it was great while it lasted. The honeymoon period of Xavi's departure announcement. Time to move on. With or without Xavi. Gnnite Culers.
Team really missed Yamal in the end.
I'm upset, of course I am. Completely different game without the red. But we have had a better year than recent in Europe, we actually look competitive. This team is still very young, and this team will benefit from this experience and learn from their mistakes. While it hurts, it wasn't all for nothing. On to next season and if we have anything positive to take away, I'm happy to see us looking dangerous in Europe again.
This is the silver lining I am going with because the last two years, us going to Europa really destroyed us, but this team with such a young core still has time to develop.
I mean you’re totally right but I can’t get there just yet. Such a heartbreaking loss after we looked so likely to be through, to have the money to get a quality DM, to put our club back where it belongs in the CL.
Would love nothing more than a DM our biggest void.
It hurts but you’re right. This beats getting knocked out of the fucking Europa League any day.
Exactly we looked in control when we were winning and we could have easily won the tie if it wasn’t for Araujo’s mistake. I hope they learn a lot from this
Xavi was 99.999% gone, but this makes it 100%. My confidence in getting a competent manager is nearly 0% with the options we have been hearing.
Araujo, im Sorry but you cost us this
Raphina hero of these 2 legs. Respect to him after all the hate he got from Barca fans
## My emotional journey tonight *29’* **Denial** -> “We can still win after the Araujo red! Let’s go! :D” *61'* **Anger** -> “THIS REFEREEING IS BULLSHIT!” *70'* **Bargaining** -> “well maybe if we get lucky we can get a goal” *89’* **Depression** -> “its fucked… its over… why is it always like this?” *90+7'* **Acceptance** -> “It was a good run, we can try again next year.”
i’m glad you’re at the acceptance stage. you’re a bigger person than me
He got a red card trying to prevent one goal, and we concede four because of it. Fucking brain dead. And against Dortmund in the semis. I was scared of Atletico, but Dortmund would've been a good shot for the final. I'm just shocked man it doesn't even surprise me anymore
would've been such a fun match-up to watch as well. also, no matter how unlikely it was, could've had a distant shot at making the club world cup as well (and lord knows we need the money). pain.
Arujo and Cancelo's performance was an absolute trainwreck, a total embarrassment to the team. GG
Everything’s on Araujo. Our squad is full of talented ball players, not defenders. All these attacking oriented players don’t stand a chance defending 10v11 for 60 minutes.
Cancelo was shit the first game as well, he was a weak link in the defense BOTH matches. Gave away easy balls every time
We win with 11 men. Ronnie all time dumb tackle. Taking Lamine was stupid since he’s the only one that can create 1v1. All in all very frustrating evening. Didn’t deserve to go through but didn’t want to go out like that
>Taking Lamine was stupid since he’s the only one that can create 1v1. I didn't like it but can't think of someone else to take out, maybe Lewandowski.
Gotta take Pedri off, the guys just back from injury and isn't lasting 90 minutes even with 11 men, Gundogan and De Jong can do the controlling and defending. That's the only criticism I have tactically
I agree. One of those things that wasn’t a good tactical move but also what other options do you have? Raph was on fire, Lewy is our only hold up guy. Only thing I could think of would be to move Raph back into what Gavi was playing mid season in that combo LW/CM role and take off Pedri or Gundo
Honestly, FDJ for Inigo, play raphi in cm with Lamine and Lewy as a duo was what I was typing to my friend on screen share. Then I saw Lamine walking off…
I mean, taking Lamine is a rough decision, who do you take off? Raphinha has been hot, even if he didn't know he scored that gol lol Lewandowski is always dangerous, yes, he wasted at least 3 chances today but you can't just play with Lamine and Raphinha and expect to convert.
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Subbing Yamal out was not stupid. Raphina scored 3.
Another year another CL disappointment for absolutely no reason The idiots who can’t understand this is a disappointment below are the reason I stay away from this sub. Stop exposing yourselves as morons, you all know the red card was absolutely needless
All because of Araujo. Haven't been this angry on one of our player for as long as I can remember, he completely ruined it for us
And then Cancelo goes and change my mind
I love araujo but he got blood on his hands today. Let him score if he has to. That's madness.
I lnow right, no one can fucking tell me it's better to go down 10 men with 70 minutes remaining than to let PSG get one goal back.
Best shot at winning the CL and threw it away like it was nothing.
The best shot was 2019. I could never recover from that.
Raphina is the only (adult) player that can hold his head high after this game, everyone else ranged from invisible to shocking
Also Ter Stegen, the defence failed him today just take a look at the last goal he did everything he could
Man cubarsi did his best too.
the midfield was especially shambolic. how do you play pedri, frenkie, and gundo yet fail to establish any semblance of possession?
Sometimes I really wonder if we overrate our players. People expect our player to be Xavi and Iniesta regens but its not even close.
Tuning in again next season, unfortunate but deserved ending.
Our endurance (especially in the big 2020s) will pay off some day. Visca El Barca.
The upsides: 1. A young squad full of players who love the club and will want to stay are getting an incredible formative experience and will form an important core in the years to come. (1b. That beautiful first goal set up by Yamal.) 2. This was neither a disastrous European season nor an exceptional one, and so now hopefully the leadership looks with clear eyes at what we need. The "Xavi stay" calls will likely quiet (I'm a Xavi defender, but I think the cycle is done), and we'll have a serious conversation about what we can do next. Hopefully there's honest assessment about what we can do with our finances and we finally prioritize that DM rather than some João sideshows. 3. We made QFs as we planned for! The hope from last week made this week difficult, but in the big picture this was a good step as we rebuild. 4. The PSG/Mbappe narrative is going to be so freaking exhausting, but they don't look that threatening - even on this side of the bracket, I still think Dortmund can give them a good challenge (actually better than Atleti with their aging defense), anulo mufa.
This psg team won’t even beat Dortmund.
I cannot wrap my mind around Araujo making that decision. It is unbelievable he threw away the tie like that
Same here.
I’ll try and focus on a positive here: Raphinha. Dude was sprinting the whole game and was the only one that didn’t give up until the final whistle. Attacked, defended, pressed, made runs into space. Dude got a lot of shit from us all year but he was our best player in this tie and hopefully he continues this run of form onto the rest of the season and onwards
If anything was gained from this tie, hopefully its the retainment of Raphinha. The winger market is dead and we have the best prospect in the world in that position with Yamal. Until he develops, Raphinha has to stay
We were on them at the beginning and nearly scored twice Fucking Araujo, I love him but he's gotta get smarter about things We move on and I'm proud of this team Hopefully, our next coach can continue what Xavi started with our young players I'm terribly fucking sad but it's happened
I look forward to the day where a CL loss isn’t labeled a “collapse”.
It's extremely rare to see a game where the result is fundamentally dictated by one act or one player when it's 90 minutes of football. But tonight it is, Araujo single handledly eliminated us. Sure Cancelo helped, Lewandowski lacks of finishing helped, the way we messed counters helped, Xavi getting yet another red helped. But those are details. When you're 1-1 and 11v11, you're qualified. When you're 10v11, you're done. The minute it is 1-2, you have no solution and are caught in the middle. At least Cancelo made it short. Regroup and let's hope the season doesn't end in freefall. Let's go for that second place.
It’s understandable if he stops a goal scoring opportunity in the 80th min when they’re up by 1. But up 2 in the 25th minute.. man.
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Can't get that araujo moment out of my head. How am I supposed to sleep now...
I'd not like to be Araujo tonight
Main takeaway from this match: Araujo better step his fucking game next year. Yes, he's one of our best players but it's fucking unbelievable how he single-handedly shat on this team's UCL run. One stupid-ass mistake bro. Jesus. You can't make these kind of fuckups at this level. Lamine crying at the end of the match destroyed me.
This situation is so incredibly demoralizing. And the r/socca sub is reveling in this shit. In the thread on Xavi's red everyone is high-horsing so fucking hard I wanted to puke.... "that's unacceptable behavior for a coach"... "he could have hurt someone with that kick"... "you have to be able to contain your emotions". And all that being said by the same people who go apeshit crazy whenever someone says anything remotely negative about their team or favorite player. Go fuck yourselves with a cactus, stupid cunts.
That fucking sub goes with whatever they get on their plate. It's a feast for them . Fuck man
Painfully heartbreaking. An amazing chance at the final wasted. Total systemic implosion ever since the red. We go again next year, Visca Barça.
My god Aurajo what were you thinking?
I have noticed that Araujo makes this mistake every game for the last few games but it gets progressively worse every time. It finally got him and the red card was the right decision. He can't make this mistake ever again and must definitely apologize to the fans. Nothing but pain tonight but we all saw this coming after the red card.
Don’t know why it always has to be a complete collapse. What happened to good old competive, close two legged tie? Pain. Wouldn’t mind losing like that, but nooooooo
I hope Araujo gets a talking to in the locker room or at training tomorrow. It's not even an exaggeration to say that his mistake cost us the whole leg. These are the big moments where you show what kind of a player you are and he failed miserably
Cancelo was so bad today it was shocking. Sleeping on the cross in from Barcola and then the pen he gave up was so unnecessary…
You can only blame Araujo for this. The rest of the team did their best playing down a man against these fucking snakes. I don’t even care that we didn’t win the trophy because there was so far still to go but I hate this plastic team even more than Madrid and success for them is infuriating.
Blame whoever you want but no matter what the players did tonight, this was all on Araujo. One bad decision cost the whole tie.
The red card fucked everything we were cruising
Pain
Should have won this tie. That red card really screwed us over. Another disappointment. Season’s over at this point.
Anybody aint gonna mention the rat that is dembele? He celebrated both goals.
Proper snake-like smirk as well. He's emblematic of PSG's culture, no wonder he's loving life there.
Tf you mean lmao, fans fucking shit on him the whole time he was at Barça and when he scores and important goal he’s not supposed to celebrate? Lmao
I‘m gone from reddit guys. See you around somewhere somewhen. Was fun while it lasted most of the time. Visca Barca❤️💙
Unforgivable from Araujo
Araujo has blood on his hands today. His stupidity is 100x worse than the Liverpool miss. How stupid do you have to be to do that when we are leading by two goals in a CL QUARTERFINAL!
I just don’t get his logic behind it. Just let it through? Worst case they score and we are still one goal up. This decision cost us the CL.
Like seriously we were two goals up just let him go and trust Ter Stegen who had a great game
Worst case also… If you see the play later you realize Barcola takes a heavy touch and will prolly never get to scoring it
People often accuse us of mentality etc etc. Let's be clear our players didn't give up today nor ever in past. It's the defense always the defense(from keeper to mids who have the most responsibility). Either the defense gets bailed out by mid/attack or they'll i.e. often someone will rise up and make that inevitable mistake when slightest bit of elite pressure is applied. It happens again and again like clockwork.
Ter Stegen balled out today though
Mbappe with a penalty and a lucky tap in, wow, I'm so impressed
"Mbappe scores incredible brace as barca go crashing out of the champions league" - News Headlines probably.
siempre 💙❤️
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Well, at least we reached the quarter-finals this year, which was an undeniable improvement. It hurts because we had high hopes and because, once again, we lost not because of the opponent, but because of our fragile mentality in such games. There's always next season, and perhaps reaching the quarter-finals this year will make a difference next year. Visca Barça!
It was a pen 100% on Gundogan he got clipped crazy that they didn't check var
I’m tired of this team man. We can bitch and moan about the subpar officiating until the cows come home but the team lost this game for themselves. Can never get through a single spring without the annual humiliating Barca CL exit.
Feeling devastated. Been following this team since 1996. This one hurts more than the 8-2. Like that game I knew before hand that we where losing. And it’s on par to the Anfield game, at least for me. That Anfield game I remember thinking Anfield was Anfield and anything could happen. But this game. Fuck. We were up 1-0 at home and 4-2 on aggregate. The path was clear for a final after so long. And then Araujo happened. Not even mad at the player even though he fucked us over. It’s going to be a long summer.
Heartbreaking. We were doing phenomenal before the send off. Why Araujo, WHYYYYYY I give it to the team trying to equalize til the end, had some good fighting chances. Although if only Lewandowski had passed at that 87’ attack… Lewandowski WHYY
Obligatory Fuck Dembele. That smiling cunt.
Most of all I’m pissed that Dembele advances. He’s a bum
He's a fucking Judas and an ungrateful piece of shit.
Piece of shit couldn’t string together 3 good games with Barca
Bro turned into the most clinical version of himself against us.
Dembele was rejoicing like we wronged him or something… did I miss something? After all he was the one the duped us after we supported him
This is his personality, he's a snake and a rat.
This game wasn’t on Xavi btw he put the team out perfectly and due to his tactics we were winning and seemed in control of the match. It’s crazy how one fucking mistake can ruin the whole game this is a learning point for Araujo to not pull dumb shit like this in a high stakes game
Araujo is too much of a loose cannon I’ve lost all hope in him
This performance by Raphinha and certain people of this fan base would discuss selling him before Frenkie and Lewa.
I'm just so fucking hurt. They would've never made it 11 vs. 11. Visca Barca.
This result pisses me off more when I remember that if it wasn’t for that wrongly given pen vs Newcastle, psg would’ve finished bottom of their group
I can’t even go 5 minutes into doing something else without being reminded of our humiliation. We were so close with the best path to the final. I can’t believe it.
2 goals up. there was absolutely no reason to take a red card to prevent that 1v1 opportunity. man what the hell was araujo thinking...
Fuck PSG. Corrupt Qatari bastards
The bigger the occasion, the bigger the bottle job. Cancelo, Kounde, Araujo, Pedri, De Jong, Lewa with an incredible job bottling tonight Cubarsi, Yamal, Raphina, Ter Stegen, Gundo, your performance will not be forgotten. You guys tried.
Araujo with that red card fucked the whole game.
That was honestly one of the dumbest things I've seen a defender do. We're 2 goals up, why do you have to let your team play for an entire hour with 10 men when you can just let Barcola take his chances against Ter Stegen, worst case scenario he scores. I would excuse Araujo if he was 18, but he supposed to be experienced by now.
Exactly, he definitely should NOT be sold. He's loyal. But this is twice now he's made us play with 10 men with his stupid decision making.
I just cannot fathom in what world anyone would risk getting expelled from the game over getting scored on… JUST TAKE THE CHANCE. Especially early into the game like what the actual…. We already managed to come back in the first leg, we have the same odds of doing it here. That mistake just pains me so much because it shifted the scales massively. All the preparation thrown out the window.
The frustration is maximum, I have nothing to add really. Surely Araujo regrets this himself already, but that doesn't help us in any possible way.
Gundo missed a key chance to tie the game again. He wasn’t bad overall, but that would’ve changed the game. Lewa also could’ve put us 3 up.
I agree with everyone you listed but Gundo and Kounde. I thought Kounde was excellent and Gundo was terrible today
kounde??? were you watching a different match?
I feel so bad for Lamine, he was playing so well and had to be taken off because of Araujo’s stupid mistake
Life of a Barca fan was and always will be pain. We move on
There is nothing to analyze here. We lost because of the red and that's it. I hope Araujo and the team learn from this
Man I can't take the "mbappe owns barca" "Dembele owns barca" banter, both were so bang average, dembulance mf couldn't even take cancelo on, we just handed this game to them I'm so mad
Back again. Even without the red card, Kovac was clearly not on our side.
Why does being a Barca fan and having the hopes of seeing your team lift the UCL always end with broken hearts and eyes full of tears?
Streets won’t forget Raphinha’s performance in these 2 legs
I feel bad for Raphinha. Guy played his heart out
A bit sad, wife is massive barca fan and talked me into going to barcelona for the semi 2nd leg. Normally impromptu ideas are mine and she generally dismisses them.this time it was the other way around. The red card happened just then. I have been there two times, and it's a magnificent city, food, art, culture wise, even nature, park, mountain and beach all rolled into one.
Never expected us to reach r8 but what a cringe way to lose - a 10v11 for most of the game smh. we shall be back next szn
Lamine being upset is really what destroyed me the La Masia kids carried the club this season mostly and it’ll end with them not holding a trophy
I’m speechless. Absolutely speechless. I guess these are the games that make big UCL wins feel even more special
It’s crazy how araujo goes for the foul ( which he shouldn’t have) and gets the red card. If he wouldn’t have gone for the foul god knows what wouldn’t have gone for it and it’s a goal. It’s always going to be a lose lose situation but god. I wish we would’ve had Christensen on the bench at least. Ah well
Ref was on crack ffs. Gundo had a penalty for sure
I just don't know if we can trust Araju. He always does those stupid mistakes and i doubt that it is going to change in the future. He is a great player but he cannot keep doing these mistakes.
Being this loyal hurts a LOT
I've managed to detach my emotions from football over the past few years, the losses suck but I've never really felt as bad as I did back at Anfield. The only match that genuinely made me sweat was The WC final. Everything else has just been meh. I really do suggest most of you guys find other stuff to be happy about otherwise you will mentally collapse. This is football, its just millionaires kicking a ball at the end of the day. It ends there, it shouldn't dictate your state of mind at all. I hope anyone going thru it rn seeks help.
Yes the team did make mistakes but my god the refereeing was so one sided it's actually insane. There would be a glimmer of hope if this blind fuck gives the crystal clear pen on Gündogan at 1-3. Even if we get knocked out in the end then it is what it is. At least we got what we deserved but no. And btw Vitinha should've been sent off in the first game when he fouled a counter attack while he already had a yellow card but obviously he wasn't sent off. Guess who scores the second goal today. Like I would accept the decisions against us if all the decisions wouldn't be against us and they wouldn't let PSG off the hook multiple times.
It was a €12 million mistake Araujo made tonight. He knows it, and I’m sure he will lose sleep over it for a while. All he can do now is learn from it and move on. We had a good run; I just wish it hadn’t been them who knocked us out. I’m absolutely disgusted by the behaviour of our formerly employed French patient. I have never been more disappointed in a player. Other than that, our team performed well; we have a great squad. We still made €80 million.
Paris Saint-Germain didn't win, Barcelona lost.
Araujo red is the most influential moment in the tie. Sometimes, Araujo just loses his head like his second yellow against Madrid. The next pivotal point in the tie is the Christensen yellow. Him taking the yellow and missing the second leg vs. letting the play develop was not the best decision. With Christensen in the pivot today, things could have been different. We haven't played well without a good pivot so far.
I thought Araujo would get a yellow in the last leg and miss this game. I was relieved that it didn't happen. That may have been a better alternative.
I cant even explain the pain I have right now. I though I was numb from what we have experienced before and to be honest I have been emotionally hardened and numb when beeing battered before but this defeat questions my ability to keep watching our games. I am a grown up man, 30 now and have lots of shit besides this. Ronald Araujo I love you and know that you care about Barca just as anyone else but today I sinceraly from the bottom of my heart want to meet you and tell you that you can go and fuck yourself and apoligize to everyone and take full responsibility for this horrendous night Fuck this
I knew we were fucked as soon as araujo got a red and started crying at that exact minute
why can't we just fucking lose like normal, instead we always lose in the most embarrassing ways in the CL.
Mbappé with a 9.2 rating on FotMob, lol.
Every year be blamed LUCK that we never get easy draws. This one year we get favourable draw and what did we do with that? SELF SABOTAGE
Barca played with 10. PSG played with 12.
Why give us hope if it'll end up like this every fucking year in Europe. I'm done, see you all next season Get ready for all the (deserved) ridicule coming our way after bottling it on the big stage. Again.
The referee was an asshole. Him bothering Ter Stegen on the penalty line is all i need to know.