I kept saying prior to PSG and the same coming into this, play on the front foot. We sat back again to start off with and it cost us the game. That's exactly what these teams want. If it was prime Barca with Xavi and Iniesta then fair enough, but this is a far cry from that.
Overall we did well off the ball in the end. We pressed and forced the errors,but yet again our players let us down with the ball, especially our attackers. Barca were never there to be countered so it needed some quality to carve out a goal. I don't think we even got a shot on target. That says it all.
At least now more of our fans are realising the issues and hopefully the club are too, so we'll all be singing from the same hymn sheet for once this summer. There are question marks over all our attackers and that's not good. Young deserves a mention too because he was so bad. His decision making for a captain and experienced poster was so bad.
Having said all that, we are still in with a shout. I'm not convinced we can perform much better with this team as the quality isn't there at the top, top level. But if we press them with intent and things drop differently, then we can still progress. It will be harder without Shaw because we don't have many players with the right attributes to play against Messi, but maybe we'll find something that works.