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Today's line up pretty much confirmed he's gonna start vs Real Madrid. I shiver at the mere thought of him trying to contain Modrić with his presence and aggression. :shrug:

17 goals? I don't think he's focused at that at all, he 100% won't even play the last group stage fixture.

To be fair it's tough to develop team chemistry in international fixtures. Players from various clubs and leagues gather around few days before the actual game and do only few trainings. It's not easy for that Argentinian left back to read Messi's body movement and time his runs perfectly like...

Gotta have respect for Mateu Lahoz for having the guts to book Ronaldo for complaining at Bernabeu. Is he still the only Spanish referee to book Ronaldo for diving?

Notice at around 2:35 [edited] how the ref calls a foul and immediately sprints towards a defender to warn him after that from-behind tackle after CR released the ball that stayed in Madrid's possession (didn't play advantage). This particular defender tactic of intimidating forward (getting in...

Messi Suarez Rakitic

He seems to work even harder after he screws something up. And he did screw few things in the 1st half, but definitely redeemed himself after the break.

Enzo Perez was supposed to be booked after he blatantly held Iniesta's shirt from the back few minutes before the tackle when Mallenco played advantage. That tackle is what happens when the player has the confidence in the ref that he won't pull cards early in the game. Thank you, Mallenco...

He didn't feel confident defensively at all after that early booking, probably because it was given after Valencia players intimidated Mallenco into issuing it. Their players were just waiting for him to extend his foot or something so they could crowd the ref again.

Mallenco issued Valencia licence to kill. This isn't looking good.

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There was a nice comparison at BarcaNumbers, iirc.

Roberto Alba Pique

Anyone have some NT stats, It would be interesting to see goals/assists in competitive games stats of him compared to other NT players worldwide, maybe in a 2008-16 or other time span.

Off topic but have to ask, why was barcastuff account suspended from Twitter?

Mostly they are not aware they do any law infringment at the time. I.e., you have to pay 50% of your image rights deals in Spain, and your financial consultant suggests you can form an offshore company in Belize, do the business from there and pay your taxes there at a ridiculously low %...

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Funny to post this since Maradona never scored in a final too (and reached two less than Messi). Since you hold goals in finals in high regard here is another fact for you: In his WHOLE professional career (club+NT), Maradona scored only ONE major final goal: a penalty vs Stuttgart in 1989...

Well, Messi had to be directly involved in 7 out of 8 goals of his team to get to the point of Palacio or Higuain chance. :) But the focal point here is Burruchaga had to run almost 40m and have 4 touches with the ball in the process of scoring that game-winning goal. He could have CHOKED it...

Colossal mistake by Strinić. You don't try to dribble your way at LB when you're being closed down by two opponents.