10 - Lionel Messi - v2

[jiopi]

This whole injury thing is starting to freak me out. It begun almost 2 months ago and it still didn't heal fully, it worries me.

It's healed fully. Fitness is not all back yet though.

 

[BarcaOG]

^how do you know that?

 

[jiopi]

Medical greenlight is given when the injury is fully healed.

 

[jiopi]

Shots per goals - Goals, Barcelona players with more than 100 shots in La Liga 09-13.

4.21 - 161 Messi
4.84 - 37 Pedro
6.25 - 16 Zlatan
6.45 - 33 Villa
7.14 - 21 Xavi
11.21 - 14 Iniesta
17.21 - 7 Alves

Iniesta and Alves.

 

[mixer]

 

[raskolnikov]

Shots per goals - Goals, Barcelona players with more than 100 shots in La Liga 09-13.

4.21 - 161 Messi
4.84 - 37 Pedro
6.25 - 16 Zlatan
6.45 - 33 Villa
7.14 - 21 Xavi
11.21 - 14 Iniesta
17.21 - 7 Alves

Iniesta and Alves.

Source?

 

[jiopi]

Source?

OPTA

 

[JamDav1982]

Shots per goals - Goals, Barcelona players with more than 100 shots in La Liga 09-13.

4.21 - 161 Messi
4.84 - 37 Pedro
6.25 - 16 Zlatan
6.45 - 33 Villa
7.14 - 21 Xavi
11.21 - 14 Iniesta
17.21 - 7 Alves

Iniesta and Alves.

The best Barcelona sides seemed to have three midfielders that kept their shape and the ball and let the front three get on with the majority of goals scored/created.

Now the likes of Iniests tries to get in on the goals as the wide players are chosen to make space for Messi and close down the opposition.

Hopefully Neymar in the front three will mean more goals from the front guys and lave the midifielders to keep shape and kill the heart of the opposition!

 

[jiopi]

^Yeah, agree with that.

 

[footyfan]

In addition, it's our midfielders who press up the opposition backline ineffectively (usually Xavi) instead of our forwards. Messi does nothing, while the two wingers drop back to cover. Taking 'defenders who attack and attackers who defend' to a different level and losing some common sense along the way

Messi is one of the best in pressing and he's asked to just hang about for opportunities.

 

[jiopi]

Shots per goals - Goals, Barcelona players with more than 100 shots in La Liga 09-13.

4.21 - 161 Messi
4.84 - 37 Pedro
6.25 - 16 Zlatan
6.45 - 33 Villa
7.14 - 21 Xavi
11.21 - 14 Iniesta
17.21 - 7 Alves

Iniesta and Alves.

Did the same for Refdrid.

3.51 - 75 Higuain
5.26 - 19 Özil
5.62 - 55 Benzema
6.58 - 146 C.Ronaldo
6.70 - 23 Kaka
9.14 - 14 Ramos
10.33 - 18 Di Maria
12.20 - 10 Marcelo

 

[ShandyFFM]

been a while since messi scored for argentina...bad luck though

 

[ShandyFFM]

Shots per goals - Goals, Barcelona players with more than 100 shots in La Liga 09-13.

4.21 - 161 Messi
4.84 - 37 Pedro
6.25 - 16 Zlatan
6.45 - 33 Villa
7.14 - 21 Xavi
11.21 - 14 Iniesta
17.21 - 7 Alves

Iniesta and Alves.

can you do this for messi playing for argentina too ? will be very interesting to see if he needs more shots there

 

[jiopi]

 

[rafals]

Medical greenlight is given when the injury is fully healed.

Only in theory. Messi was given medical greenlight and still we could see that he wasn't fully healed yet in all those matches when we complained about him being forced to play.