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All we need is for everyone to play to the best of their abilities and I think we'll win. Iniesta and Rakitic need to stifle Thiago and cut off their creativity. Neymar needs to make sure to help Alba deal with Robben. Once we do those Messi should have no problems with Bernat (thats their back...

Different eras, its harder to break into the side right now. Next season Xavi will be gone and that will leave a spot in midfield for Samper as we have no other maestros in the pipeline ready to make the jump. Next in line is Kaptoum and he is far from ready.

To the defense of Bartra he's played just as well as Mathieu/Mascherano if not better when he's played but those two offer flexibility since they can play other crucial positions if substitutions need to be made.

With Iniesta coming into form I expect Messi may have more freedom to do things like this if opponents have to split their attention across to the left side with him + neymar.

I agree, Samper would be the perfect deputy for Iniesta next season, and by the season after he'll be benching him.

Tello will probably end up at an EPL team for like 25-40 mill and end up being a monster with the space afforded to him.

If he's okay with a squad role I guess, because of his defensive abilities I think he might be able to keep Samper out of the DM role but I don't think he can best Samper/Rafinha for the cm role.

A couple performances and Juve is after him? Wow thats pretty impressive.

Our midfield has been great the past two games though, especially against espanyol where the goals were vintage barca team-play.

Creativity wise coutinho might be the best youngster right now. He does the craziest things sometimes but they fail alot cause his teammates can't keep up with his thinking. I think he'd be good here if he improved some more. Give him 1-2 years so we can see if Halilovic/Suarez fit before we go...

Hope he can keep it up, clearly has a lot of talent. What I noticed the most is that he was passing in a much smarter manner, way more xavi-like than the cesc-like way he used to do things sometimes.

My name's Alex i'm from NY. Been a Barca fan all my life, yeah thats it lol.

Honestly I think its more for iniesta than Rafinha. Maybe Lucho starts Rafa next to Iniesta in order to force him to learn how to control the midfield even with a semi-unreliable partner.

What a CL run we've had, the toughest run we've ever had maybe? Three league champions.