I wasn't even worried so much about Messi today although I did notice I barked at him a few times for standing absolutely still when the situation called for intensity. I felt like I was barking at Alexis for tripping over his own feet or something. I was more in tune with how the team was playing, and I didn't get the sense of urgency that said, 'okay guys we NEED to score. We need to win this game'. And to be fair, I agree with someone who said that we are without tools to be at that superior level we once were at the moment. We are ill equipped to defend properly, we are ill equipped to attack through the middle properly, we are ill equipped to draw defenders out into midfield and create space also. Collectively we are out of form and although Messi was decent and had some good runs, there were many many players who looked just as or even more out of form than him.
