Gündogan on Araujo’s expulsion: “In these crucial moments you have to be sure you can get the ball back. If you don’t get the ball, and I don’t know if he touches it or not, you have to let it go. I’d rather concede the goal or let the ball go.”

by Caspoor11

19 comments

  1. he is so right but it is what it is, hell learn from this mistake.

  2. Gundogan is the only person in this team with this mentality and it really shows. Xavi still decided to blame the refs when it’s so obvious to everyone that we self-sabotaged. We don’t deserve Gundo and I feel bad that he’s wasting his final years with us.

  4. I love how Gündogan exposes our players to reality, our players have to learn to make more correct decisions, they’re young, ok, but man Araújo was so incompetent in this play that I can’t even watch his videos.

  5. Absolutely. Chances are:

    A) Barcola scores.

    B) Barcola misses.

    C) Ter Stegen saves.

    All of the above were much better than losing Araújo.

  7. Why I love this dude. Doesn’t mince or downplay what happened. Hope he stays with us for a while

  8. Gündogan says what we are all thinking. I bet inside he’s like “why the fuck did you do it!?”

    I’m still pissed. Unexplainable.

  9. Agree

    Even if they scored, this would have been an easy win for us, we scored after 12 minutes and were dominant until that red card

  10. Pretty sure it wasn’t the tackle/missing the ball, it was as much the pull. Araujo can think he got robbed all he wants but it was a dumb move, period. You cannot foul in that position. Back-seat commentary aside, the staked are too high.

  11. Ok, so here is the thing. Not only did the referee overreact, but i was really angry at Araujo because he fucked up so bad and made us loose against a team we had the advantage over. BUT i have changed my mind, because i watched the footage in extra slow motion several times, and Bertoni goes down a microsecond before Araujo touches him. In other words, he dove, and from the perspective of the referee (just from the back) it looks like Araujo hit him because his hand came up and when it came down Bertoni was on the floor.

    It’s not just the referee who made a mistake, but the VAR assistants really fucked up too. Then again on normal speed and normal slow motion you can’t see that. But still, fuck the ref, it’s like he was dying to give Barca a red card, which is probably why he pulled it out so quickly without consulting the VAR room.

    I think there needs to be an inquiry into this. Bertoni should be banned for a few games for diving (or just ban him from the champions league next season) and the ref should be banned from ever referring professional matches (or at least banned when Barca is playing), and Araujo needs to not his hands as it always looks like his fouling someone.

    I’m ok with him leaving next season. We need to straighten the back line anyways, and we can’t have someone that is irresponsible. Had he not done anything Bertoni would have gone down anyways. And the VAR team could have easily spotted that given the body distance between the two.

  12. the saddest part is barcola’s touch before araujo pushed him wasn’t even that good. solid probability it doesn’t even end in a goal. a huge huge shame

  13. A league will always have a player with Dembelle’s speed or skill, and occasionally our biggest rival has players like that, it’s not like Araújo doesn’t know what to do in those moments.

  14. I think he just gave an obective appreciation, don’t think Araujo should feel targeted.

  15. Finally someone, who speaks up objectively. Need more characters like this in the club if we are serious about winning the Champions League again.

  18. Araújo was an idiot and costed us a semi final. I think we go through without the red. He has great physical attributes but he is dumb as a door.

  19. That’s the nice way to say Araujo fucked us up because he was frustrated loosing his duel.

    This is beginner mistake and I hope everybody made him know this is a only once mistake.

    He was having a pretty bad season compared to last year and I would think it twice before refusing 100M for him this summer considering RCB is the position we are the best covered and have plenty of options for the future.

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