#you found the team completely overcome both emotionally and tactically when the difference wasnt even that big yet (which ofc directly

[garciapimienta]

Barcelona fan here (and long time admirer of your blog) and I'm actually ill after watching that game, like what the fuck was that

Of course there's the league and stuff to look forward to, and I do appreciate the turn around the team has gone through, and having four starters out does leave an impact, but it's like every time things start to be looking up at Barça it comes crashing down (especially in crucial a knockout match hmm 🤔)

The thing that sucks is we actually were so! close! with this one - 1 goal ahead at the Bernabéu with starters out, semi finals of the CDR, etc

Tearing my hair out, banging my head against the wall, hoping against all hope we can do better next season

sorry I'm just seeing this now!

yeah personally I'm at this weird in-between where I don't want to catastrophize and act like this one loss is the worst thing ever, considering that before the season started just aiming for one trophy felt like a lot, but at the same time I don't think that it's just something to brush off either. It's like you said, there's been a lot of progress but then we have matches like these (or halves like this one if we are precise because the first half was SO good) and it feels like we are back where we started, or at least not as close to the goal as we thought we were.