I wouldn’t mind this tbh. I have my criticisms of him like the way he approaches big games, or the way we do our high press, or maybe not giving Castilla players a chance to break through into the first team.

But I like Carlo overall. I think he’s doing a good job this season given the circumstances. No Benzema replacement, the backbone of this team has been injured (Courtois, Militao, Tchou, Vini), and the board hasn’t done enough to support him imo. He’s also identified most of the team’s limitations and is trying to make the most out of the squad he has now.

Holy shit

In the words of Ray Hudson, “a pearler of a curler”

Happy to see several players slowly getting back to form again. Happy about everything except our defense. Nacho and Alaba struggled a lot. And too bad the international break’s coming up too.

Not exaggerating but this would be the worst bottling I’ve ever seen by a football team.

Ancelotti: gives him 5 minutes next La Liga game

This reeks of a late 1-0 winner. Not like Barcelona’s playing too well but Athletic lost a lot of steam this half.

Seems as though Athletic don’t have as much trouble finding goals as they did last season and they’re doing decent. But they often get thrashed when they go to Barcelona so even if they’re missing a lot of players, I don’t expect anything less than a 3-0 here.

Ramos is everywhere right now, damn I wish he was still with us…

What happened to Fali that looked nasty.

Great pass, great run and a cool finish.

Atleti’s backline needs to talk to each other. Those long balls by Ledesma are giving them problems