A Tactical Look At What Went Wrong With Valverde | Can Setien Avoid These Mistakes | 2019/20 

What else do you think went wrong for Valverde?

I think bartomeu is more of a problem than valverde was

I love how Dembele wasn't mentioned in any of this.

coaches should be in charge of signing players not the board

Barcelona fans want beautiful football like back in the Pep days but the problem is they just don't have the personnel to do that. The core of that supreme team is either out of Europe, retired or too old to offer the same intensity. I think Valverde did well to adapt to the squad especially in the first season and still led Barcelona to La Liga victories. The Barcelona board are to blame mostly for the football Valverde offered which the fans didn't particularly love, they knew how he sets up his teams but offered him the job. Barca's signings have been very questionable too in recent seasons. Coutinho sign for a hefty fee was not a fit, Griezmann is good but do you really need such a profile if you already have Messi especially when he's close to 30 and now they're also after Rodrigo Moreno who's similar to Messi and Griezmann. Just shows how they don't really know who's a perfect fit for the team. They need players who move into spaces created by Messi dropping deep to create. They also need fullbacks who overlap to stretch play since currently it's Alba who does that and he's not getting young.

My man Valverde was unlucky, and still took us to a UCL semi-final, back-to-back La Liga titles, once almost unbeaten in the league. He didn't have the likes of Alves and Neymar but he compensated and still won it for us

The one dislike is from Ernesto himself

Bartomeu's solution: *"Get me Kevin-Prince Boateng's agent on the phone"*

Barcelona will face a worst season than Real Madrid last season once Messi retires

Saying that valverde faced the weakest version of Madrid is wrong ! he faced the MD that won UCL and has Ronaldo while barca lost Neymar. The guy was very good in la liga and el clasico and we should be fair to him when it comes to la liga, his problem was in UCL, especially his decision to relay on the defence after winning by large margin in home which led to those two embarrassing comebacks that ruined his entire career with barca and ruined our image. I think Valverde is a decent manager and would work perfectly for other clubs that play direct football and don't have a huge demand like barcelona. For Setien, he has come to bringing Tiki-Taka back, but from the first games, the problems of Tiki-Taka that led us to ask for new type of managers and football appears again, and setien should bring new idea and tactic, not just bring the Tiki-Taka back since most clubs are already familiar with the style and know how to stop it.

Barca fullbacks, midfield, and over all the whole team composite is the problem, griezman Dembele Coutinho some of the most un-logical transfer business ever, they need a completely new midfield and a real left winger, should of bought Son from spurs instead of griezman

The biggest problem with Barca is that they need a complete overhaul next season players like busquets Suarez pique rakitic they have been fantastic for the club but their time is up great analys bro please just make more videos every week love your analysis

Valverde wasn't the problem (in fact, I'd say he's a good tactician overall). The main problems are: 1) Messi and his generation retire soon, and the next gen are not nearly as good. 2) Nostalgia is bad: tiki-taka was effective and groundbreaking for Barca and Spain in 2008-12, but today the tactical trend is exactly the opposite i.e. fast and vertical transitions disregarding possession (we even see the return of counter-attacking 4-4-2 to fashion with young managers like Nagelsmann) 3) Social media creates a toxic atmosphere 4) Internal political battles among Barca factions for the presidency (Bartomeu, Font, Laporta et.)

Valverde didn't play the role of manager,he had no power within so he befriended the players and let them rule and do as they pleased...the players became less and less competitive doing as they pleased,no intensity both in trainings and in games,with a brutal fall in the capacity to compete (remind how spalletti described with astonishment how poor were Barcelona trainings);some players,due to their large list of success,had gained a lot of power within the club,and they played almost every Game,leaving no space for meritocracy and internal competition,which leaded to Coutinho playing on and on despite his ultra low level of performance,leaving out a real winger, dembele,much more skilled to give width and one-on-one habilites,speed,and capacity to score with both legs...also the absurd ostracism of semedo so Sergi Roberto could play despite a lower level as rightback,the constant appearance of rakitic playing every minute without deserving when there were 7-8more available midfielders un the team...the sempiternal appearance of Suárez playing every minute,leaving no room for dembele and Malcolm....It was ridiculous,but Valverde had no power inside so he let the sacred cows to rule over him,leading to a severe lack of the capacity to compete....

Valverde was a yes man and the board just doesn’t sign players that fit Barcelona profile

This didn’t age very well

Proper analysis, especially about the absence of a Dani Alves type defender, lake of Neymar's width and no Iniesta

This is one of your best videos bro. The clarity from your analysis here is insane.

Valverde was a good manager .. The problem was from the board

Valverde Step-1: Pass to Messi he will do everything.

Very well explained! Setien needs to ensure Grizzou stays in the No. 9 vicinity instead of running all over the pitch. It's very evident why Messi doesn't pass much to him...because he's generally caught running in all the 'wrong' directions compared to what the MSN were used to. I really hope Setien tunes up Griozzou's game to adapt to this, just like Pep did with Henry's.

Setien actually destroyed the club lol But never forget the real culprit ...BARTOMEU

If only Valverde have seen this wonderful analysis!

excellent detailed and intelligent analysis. some of the best available. thank you.

Bravo. Execellent analysis. Keep the good work!

Nice illustration 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Great analysis!!!!

Valverde is a really good manager clearly better then koeman/setien i didnt love his style but still we werent bad! He leaded us to the ucl semi and selling Paulinho was a big mistake

Keep it simple 👋

He did well in his first two seasons

In my opinion Valverde did not do it badly, although perhaps it is the Barcelona coach he had something big with players who have a big ego. But the absolute fault lies with the board of directors with Bartomeu at the head. He did not give Barsa the renewal it needs, the squad aged because of him. The league titles hid for a few years the falls in the Champions League, but it must be taken into account that in 2018 and 2019 Real Madrid did not even compete in the league after two painful seasons. Barsa won those leagues without doing much, but in Europe they had not reached the quarterfinals for 5 consecutive years. Between those 5 years, in 4 of the occasions he was eliminated being thrashed by Juve, Roma and Liverpool. Now for Bayern. Messi is the best in the world, worse today his friends play in the team and Barsa has become the team of Messi and his friends. Barcelona need a big Renewal, but it´s too late.

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Anyone else here that comment about fullbacks not providing the same quality as winger and think of the two best in the business at LFC?

Great analysis!

superb analysis thanks bro

That pretty much sums it up man 👍

I was hoping you would do that....thank you!

An Outrageous Title!

Much waited video

You are right. But remember we have Osman to provide us with width on the left

Nice video, but I'm missing one element Why is Valverde the one to blame? No wingers in the team, no substitute striker, no really good full backs,... and as far as I know, Valverde wasn't the one in charge of the transfer. The problem is mainly with Bartomeu and Abidal, who is just incompetent as sporting Director.

Great analysis.

From this video, Dembele on the Right could be key to Setien's tactics. He obviously want to use Fati on the left wing to occupy the space Messi leaves but Fati is just not ready.

Who is here after 8-2 under setian🤣

Selling Paulinho was a big mistake.He was key to Valverde's style and selling him while bringing players not fitting his system crippled him.

They should've sacked him this summer. That way Setién would've had more time to build a squad of his own and practise the new tactics during the pre-season. That guy didn't even want De Jong to be signed, ffs.

The next person Barca needs to fire to make Barca great again is Bartomeu

Who’s after 8-2

that was a badass vid I just watched

Do tactical analysis of Barca vs Valencia

Bro please make a video on Enrique tactics at barca, I love ur narration nd ur videos bro keep it up

I don't think that the tactic was the weak poin of Valverde's work. If he wasn't lost crusial against Roma and Liverpool he would be the best coach in the last 3 years. I think that the leakest part of his work was that he hasn't able to motivate the team in almost won games.

I dont think Valverde destroyed Barca at all. He got the maximum performance of and old, changueless team. Only people who knows about football can notice that this Barca cannot give more with the players they have now. The real problem is the bad desicions on contracts in the last years and thats more of a president's or sport director's issue.

Well done. Nice analysis . Can you make a video on what style koeman will bring to barca?

May I ask what is the software that you use when simulating the pitch and player positions / movements / tactics ?

still better than Setien and Koeman

Valverde was way too practical for Barcelona. He was far too cautious and tried to play to prevent losing instead of playing to win with positional concepts Barca is known for. Seiten has more of a positional ideology, but curious if he can get the players to buy in to his way of playing as it requires a high level of running/pressing.

Very good analysis(only thing i dont agree with is Griezman not tracking back, hes been amazing at helping the defense). Valverde isn't a top tier Manager but he is actuallt a good one, and i think this video shows that tried to utilise Barcelona's squad the best way he could. Unfortunately for him, the Barcelona administration is bad, and made bad choices when building the squad over the years. Valverde, and now Setien, suffer for it.

Totally agree with your video. On top of that, current Barca is too one dimensional (tiki-taka heavy). They are so good at tiki-taka but that's it. No fast counter attack - they often stop in the middle to check their twitter and allowing opponent to get back to formation No through pass - they should learn from Liverpool, as in their backline should give long pass more often to their forwards when opponent got high defensive line No aerial prowess - even in corner they don't have the 'ball' to initiate aerial combat and often getting corner seems bad for Barca as it actually gives opponent chance to counter No cutting pass - their midfield just busy passing the ball sideways and backwards instead of paying attention to Griezmann making his run behind opposition's backline No physicality - most of their players have medium or even small body size, they have hard time if opponent gets physical just like when they got bullied by AS Roma and Liverpool, seems like watching highschoolers playing against primary school kids. They might need a new coach but really they need players with different skillset (like Vidal) to give Barca more options in scoring goals. They need player who can: Outspeed opponent's backline - Dembele is good but he's too prone to injury Win aerial combat - Pique is the only one with aerial threat but he's a defender Outmuscle opponents - Suarez and Vidal are currently the only players who can shield the ball, the rest just got hammered as soon as opponent charges in If Barca can add some players to give more dimensions in their team with these three aspects then they have a chance of getting treble.

You said you were gonna tell us what Quique Setien needs to do to avoid Valverde's mistakes

Barca fans are so spoiled. Valverde won two league titles and a cup in the 2.5 years and they are so ungrateful.

The answer: Nope. Setien didn't avoid any of them. He became Valverde version 0.5

Then what's the point of buying Coutinho for so expensive. Hahahahah...

Can u do an analysis on Ralph Hasenhuttl and how he has changed since the 9-0 defeat to Leicester?

Video suggestion: Sarri ball and how it has finally helped Ronaldo reach his peak with Juventus

Valverde is the better manager

Hi. I'm from the future & I'm afraid to tell you that Barca is not looking good under Setien...

I wonder how lucky Guardiola was with the crew he coach. Multiple of these players was absolutely perfect for the system Guardiola wanted to play.

How come Messi defended Valverde until recently? Specially knowing that Messi had to work much harder the last 2 years than ever before 🤔⚽️⚽️⚽️

setien must understand the versatility of this squad. If we don’t have a good winger instead of playing fati we should have played roberto upfield so that we cud have dominated from the centre instead he played fati which was never useful he still substituted him with another unexperienced and unfit winger which made no sense. Even valverde would have handled this situation better. we love possession ball yes but still the coach must adapt and change strategies according to each game. look at zidane He takes risks changing strategies in between the game and has experienced players who can adapt to the changes in tactics we have well balanced squad and sad part is that the manager could not dictate this team well. setien must not stay clueless again. hope everything gets better with barca. they must use messi’s prime form its sad that they are wasting it.

And people bash messi for liverpool and roma fans of this game can be a disgrace to the worlds best dribbler, playmaker, assister, goalscorer and winger my goodness,the amount of hate he gets is unreal the only reason they were 3-0 in any of those games was because of him and it's up to the rest of the team to be successful liverpool were a team so were roma Barca were a one man team

the best we can do now is using messi as a false 9 and griezmann as a second striker behind messi , dembele on either of the wings and coutinho at the standard iniesta role playing more like an attacking mid fielder rather than a winger instead of buying another striker we must go for buying a versatile full back and the best option is joshua kimmich who can link up really well with lionel messi as well as attack whenever we need him just like dani alves....

I disagree with the nature of this analysis. 433 and 442diamond are extremely similar pressing systems. Teams don’t use their defense shape while in possession. Barcelona vary their rotations every game. Messie didn’t stay in a static possession for an entire season...let alone for 5 minutes

the failure of Barcelona is to blame both the manager and players. except for a few most of them lack of drive and desire to play intensified.

I don’t blame Valverde.

Valverde didn't destroy barca. What people fail to understand is that barca is a tough side to manage or even play for, due to the limitations players and managers have with the tactical style. Valverde was more of a coach who relied on heavily on the intensity from his players. Valverde was brilliant at athletico bilbao due to the players he had, players who fought in every match to get a result, players who always played with high intensity and dint depend so much on their technical attributes. Barcelona hired the wrong manager, the players never adapted to valverde, but instead expected valverde to adapt to their own style of play, which was never gonna happen with a team that requires immediate results.

This aged well

Can you do a tactical analysis for barca v Valencia

Thank you valverde

Based on what koeman is doing. Valverde was much better

Setién aren't better than Valverde... I support ten Hag or Pochettino as a manager in Barcelona, they have the tatical style that the team needs. But Barcelona should bring some key players, like a ofensive right-back, a attacking midfielder and a left-winger, in my opinion the best names are: Héctor Bellerín, Havertz and Neymar. My ideal 11 for Barcelona 4-3-3 ter Stegen Bellerín, Lenglet, Umtiti and Alba de Jong (Arthur/Rakitić), Busquets and Havertz (Vidal/Riqui Puig). De Jong also can play in Busquets's position Messi, Griezmann (Suárez) and Neymar

The best thing for barca is to let go of Messi, as stupid as it sounds sometimes I feel he has an inner circle in his teammates in which only players he like r involved, just let him go and start rebuilding while the time is there cause if they're going to wait long I think it's going to be too difficult

Barca had one phenomenal generation and the fans fully expect every team after that to perform at that standard while playing their crap tiki taka, they’re in for a nice dose of reality and I’m here to see the tears.

Barca should write a book: scouting gone wrong. They are constantly spending money on player types they already have while they needed to replace ones you have lost

He can't, hindsight is a wonderful thing.

You don’t have to be a genius to know that Valverde was not suited for Barca. The appointment if Bartomeu is a curse. Can you do an analysis Setien and what players we need. Next season I think we’ll have width, Trincao and Maia. I think we should have appointed Klondike.

Valverde shouldn’t have even been in Barcelona. His style didn’t fit the current philosophy

Real Madrid is the champion. Maybe im exaggerating, but I do feel this channel and a lot of Barca fans (thats for sure) own Valverde an apology. Im not saying this video is wrong, Im not a Barca fan but I dont like Valverde either, but he delivered and it was sacked by an incompetent board with the help of huge part of the fan base who needed a scape goat. We will never know what whould have been if Valverde continued, but I do firmly believe Barca was unfair to him, in the same way a huge amount of followers of the team, and people blaming him of a debacle in which he was probably the only thing making things work.

The video shows Valverde although a problem, wasn't the real issue. He didn't have a squad to play a certain way, be it his way or how Barcelona fans want the team to. Barcelona lacked a proper LW, a No.8 and attacking RB to play the possession based football and also lacked a deep playmaker, a modern CDM and wide midfielders to play the Valverde brand of football. Eventually he tried to combine both and achieved neither, which isn't really his fault. I would only blame him for his cowardice in both the UCL bottlings, something neither Lucho nor Pep would have shown

what happened to your podcast? just asking

I didnt realise the other teams only had eight players on the field as seen in this video. Ok i assume the keeper was there so make that nine. Are you saying the opposition team stikers never ever dropped back?.

the next-gen Real Madrid is as good as Barca with Messi and Suarez...that should be plenty of trouble for them...imagine if Real Madrid decide to really develop players like Vinicius, Rodrygo and Jovic, while also getting a better version of Odegaard who can then be mentored by the likes of Modric and Kroos to be the next-gen midfield engine. They also got performers like Isco and Asensio who just didn't have a good season in 19/20...the next decade looks good for Real

When jordi alba push high for making corsses right back serhio roberto dont pushed high its also a mistake pf barcelone if he pushed high some more presure will come to right side of oponennt defence and messi is a good dribler he make somany chances by dribling he dripes deep and make runes by dribling and creat somany cjances for suarez but siarez every time take volley and miss and another problem is valverde dont make any tactics for barcelona without droping deep of messi

This just shows that barças signings from the board are just as wrong as the manager

Valverde is not wrong

Valverde was not the problem. The problem is Messi. They are, and have been, relying highly on him. Just imagine barcelona life without him in next couple years, I guarantee they will lose their grasp in every competition . And with the Messi's retirement is getting closer, they still haven't found a decent replacement for Messi...

As of 1st of July he is worse than Valverde. Same mistakes, same lack of rotation, even slower to make changes during the game. Combine that with a much slower buildup, no counterattacks and back and side passes for days

The moment he got hired

Not Valverde.. Enrique was destroyed barca. Valverde couldn't restore it. That's it. Enrique 's first season was huge success because that was Pep's barca. But then they showed clear decrease in good style of play. (But Not trophies) 2nd season of Enrique clearly showed the coming curse barca going to face.. after him Valverde came in, the destroying process continued. And now Satein came in. I don't think he can bring back Old barca. Barcelona need a High profile Coach who have experience in high standard matches. And have ability to control players and do their things.. And the real problem is not coaches. They have limitations.. But the Management 🙏

In 2021 presidential elections if joan laporta wins it he may bring pep Guardiola back