10 - Lionel Messi - v3

[DinhoR10]

A lot of people here always rubbish claims that Messi doesn't do enough for the team with the notion that he's never been a great runner, even in past seasons. While that's true, the big difference between the current Messi and the Messi under Pep is that he was more tactically limited and his off-the-ball movement was a lot better, especially in Pep's earlier seasons. He doesn't make himself available as much; he picks up the ball anywhere he wants and that's usually a lot deeper than it used to be, which makes no sense at all, as he often has the opponent's central midfield in front of him and leaves our attack practically empty then; and sometimes, he doesn't even run forward and get involved even though we're attacking.

It's not supposed to be a criticism of Messi (if anything, I blame the coaches), just an observation. He plays in one of the 4 most important positions in our team so we have to get the best out of him, tactically, so that our style of play doesn't suffer.

Against levante he HAD to drop back into inesta's role because iniesta wasn't there he had to drop back and start something. A better tactical move would have been to take off Cesc or Xavi and put Dongou on and have him actually play in midfield.

 

[Patty2720]

Any livestreams today?

 

[Luftstalag14]

Too late

No more of this next time!!

 

[The Observer]

Those passes.

 

[Leo10]

>>>>

Did better than Xavi Song and Roberto.

 

[NotInHere]

Leo was definitely the difference maker, Tello did what he was supposed to do, which was to capatalize on those amazing passes Leo did,

This ladies and gentlemen, is what separates Leo from the rest. Dude is a scoring machine and scores amazing goals, plus his vision is out of this world.

 

[Frejsgodes]

Now this is more like it

 

[aki13]

Great by Tello, but Leo. wow

I hope this gains him a new kind of respect.

 

[Meitux]

He's always dropping back, the point is that without players who can make this happen he can't make everything by himself when he's closed down. Dropping back to give the service and have the right players to do the job works. But it was just a good day for Tello, would like to see how it goes on with our usual attack and Neymar in it...

 

[Antimadridista1]

DAT vision .

 

[Kerrybai]

I thought he didn't like Tello? arty1:

 

[raskolnikov]

his first hattrick assist in his 400th game, we saw the messi from the future tonight, he will be playing like this in 4 years.

 

[CatalinR10]

God of football

 

[Alarcón]

His assists reminded me of the ones against Madrid 3 years ago when we won 5-0

 

[FCBarca]

His assists reminded me of the ones against Madrid 3 years ago when we won 5-0

They're replying extended highlights of it on Sky