10 - Lionel Messi - v3

[CatalinR10]

Man of the match

 

[Irish_Cules]

Such a good performance by Leo tonight. Lets hope he keeps this up over the next few weeks.

 

[Flavia]

Picture: Man City coach Pellegrini reacting after Messi's goal [via @i_njr_yt]

 

[Ode to Django]

facepalms are amazing

 

[Alarcón]

Txiki seems happy enough

 

[Sumlit]

Someone please crop that image and make it an emote for this forum. That could effectively replace the emote.

 

[Kerrybai]

Does the Uefa website still give distance covered stats?

 

[MrXavi_The_Midfield_King]

Wonder where the doubters are? Put in a monster performance held the ball up strong dribbled,made some lovely passes and scored a nice goal.

 

[footyfan]

Vintage performance, but people need to stop acting like today's game proved anything.

 

[Devils]

The KING.

Those runs, those dribbles, that finish! Classic Messi. He was beautiful to watch today. Stunning performance.

 

[Flavia]

Vintage performance, but people need to stop acting like today's game proved anything.

Proved he hasn't lost his pace?

 

[MrXavi_The_Midfield_King]

Vintage performance, but people need to stop acting like today's game proved anything.

Well to be fair i think he proved he is still hungry for success and that IMO he is still the undisputed best player in the world when he plays like this. Let's hope it he does it in all game from now on!!

 

[footyfan]

Proved he hasn't lost his pace?

Nobody says that, that's stupid.

 

[footyfan]

Well to be fair i think he proved he is still hungry for success and that IMO he is still the undisputed best player in the world when he plays like this. Let's hope it he does it in all game from now on!!

You can't say that proves his hunger for success. By definition, it needs to be a sustained hunger, not something that flip flops from one game to the next.

Talent wise he's of course the best. The template has been the same throughout the past 2 years. When he sees space, and has the ball at his feet, he's far away from everybody else and that's part of what gives him GOAT status. When there's less space, and he doesn't have the ball at his feet, that's when we're seeing problems nowadays. A couple of years ago, in this scenario, he would always provide a useful option to our passers. Nowadays, he has to shoulder a chunk of blame for our central midfielders passing the ball around aimlessly because they simply do not have a good target for a forward pass.

 

[Kerrybai]

8 goals in 5 CL games. Last he had 8 in 11. He's on a goal every 53 minutes in the competition. Had he avoided injury he would have kept up with Ibra and Ronaldo.