Why Bradley Barcola STRUGGLED To Make An Impact Against Fenerbahçe

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Chris (0:31)

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Abi (1:25)

When I saw the team at first, I was like, yeah, yeah, that's absolutely fine. Even though I do think like Gomez has struggled every time I've seen him on the pitch this season. But I was sort of like, yeah, that's fine. It wasn't until I started to realize who actually played for them. And I understand a lot of them are basically 35, but I had a moment of going, is that Kante?

Oh, Greenwood signed for these? Like, I don't know why. I just thought like, oh, this is going to be one of those easy ones in the Champions League. I probably won't have to pay too much attention as to like who they are, how their team's going, and who the manager is, by the way. And then it all started to tick in my head when I was seeing the car crew and I was like, oh, maybe we should have went a little bit stronger, maybe, you know. I mean, Siachay struggled, not having a racho next to him and all those sorts of things, which I didn't take into account before that. It wasn't until we were in the middle of the game and I was like, oh, actually, I think we might struggle, yeah. But yeah, we started okay. We started bright, but clearly not good enough.

Chris (2:22)

No, I think that's right, isn't it, John? Taking you back to the sort of starting 11, five changes from Arsenal, Isaac Wirt, Gacapão Araujo and Kerkes were out, Rio Munoz, Suboslai Gomez and Timur Kas in. Did you have the same sort of thought as Abi there, or were you quite comfortable with the side of the squad?

John (2:39)

I was quite surprised that Joe Gomez is in the squad. I'd forgotten he was in the squad last year. He couldn't get a game to save his life. So, that surprised me.

I thought, in my naivety, that the front three were going to be there so that we could pull them into our defense and then hit them on the break with this fantastic pace we had up front. And that sort of didn't materialize. Barcola just wasn't in the game.

Abi (3:06)

No, he wasn't in the right position either.

John (3:08)

He had no clue how to play as a center forward. And I didn't think he was gonna play as a center. I thought he was gonna be all over the place. He just disappeared, didn't he? I think Munoz and Rio particularly were pretty good. They did exactly what I would want them to do.

But we just don't seem to be able to score goals properly. I mean, from the chances we create.

Chris (3:31)

I wanted to pull on the thread of Barcola because how do you think he actually fared? Because there was times where personally I thought in the first half I was like, oh, him and Saba is like off the ball. You know, their pace, their sort of harrying kind of works, but on the ball, it just didn't.