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Liverpool's XI is better than City's XI. City has a better bench though.

This underrating of Liverpool players is getting silly. All of their XI players are pretty good or above. No other team boasts this.

Or maybe he has good players.

If it involved smaller teams, I would say yes, but considering what the CL means for a massive club like Barca, that is not possible.

The problem with Roma was that we utterly underestimated them over both legs. As soon as the draw came out, we all thought (fans, players, club) that we were through to the semis. We played badly in the first leg and Roma were very dangerous, yet we came out 4-1 winners, something that enhanced...

We did finish Liverpool. 3-0 is an insurmountable lead. The bookies were paying 20/1 for Pool to go through. But yes, we could have finished them even more. That we imploded so badly in the second leg was an accident of nature and stupidity on our part, nothing more.

Messi goal against Alaves is supposed to be 3% according to this source, but I would say is even less than that, judging by the fact that he was on the run and surrounded by several players. https://understat.com/match/12193 https://understat.com/match/12173 Suarez goal was 11% but again I...

Liverpool fans understandably want to romanticize what is almost surely the highlight of their history (even bigger than Instabul imo) but the fact of the matter is that they did not do anything great, just like we didn't in the 6-1 vs PSG (bar Neymar) Just like PSG before us, we self-destructed...

Coutinho was the 3rd bum. The truth is that Liverpool played much better in the first leg than in the 2nd. Our overall performance at Anfield was not too bad, but calamitous individual mistakes at crucial points destroyed our CL campaign (Alba, Alba, Mats, Alba again, Suarez, Coutinho, Pique...

3 of the 4 goals were preventable.

I can't even remember a winning solo effort that compares to what Messi did last season in the CL. Shame...Shame...Shame...

What you say there is partly true and partly untrue. In reality, only some of the top players released by the big teams would end-up in the smaller teams, most of them would be playing back home as was the case back in Maradona's day. Most players from Argentina's 1986 winning team were playing...

BBZ8800 Who ever said that if Messi & Ronaldo played in the 80s they would score at exactly the same rate? Nobody. What everyone is telling you about Maradona & Van Basten, is that they are not in relative terms as impressive in terms of goals scored as Messi & CR7 are. Messi & CR7 outscore...

BBZ8800 I see your point which is only partially valid. I have to go to bed now, so I will reply tomorrow.

DonAndres Post of the year. Every football fan should read it.

Maradona was not playing against players from the 2010s, but against players from the 1980s. Messi has to shine through his own era and Diego shown through his. So there is a symmetry here. Defenders were allowed a bit more back then, that is true, but defenses are more systematic today. I am...

Valdano, Buruchaga, Brown, Olarticoechea, Giusti, Batista, Pumpido all had an excellent tournament in 1986, they were a very well organized and very well drilled team.

That's exactly my point. Maradona was a fat bastard. How is it an even split? Messi is: a) Faster, b) More focused & decisive, c) Sharper, especially with his shooting. Otherwise, uncannily similar in terms of style. Even the way the opposing players react to both are identical (especially...

During Maradona's first season at Napoli, they finished 8th. Clearly, for all of Maradona's immense talent, it was not even enough for 7th (and he was not the only player brought in that summer) That season, Hellas Verona won it, who was the GOAT leading them? Or were they stacked with...