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MessiCam
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Lol. Cr7 didn't score in a final and now he is bad.
Regarding key matches, do you know that in the last 13 matches of Cl's quarters, semis and a final, in the last 5 years, Messi didn't score a goal on 12 matches.
So, he didn't score in the last 12 out of 13 key knockout matches.
Think about it a little.
Something happened with Messi after all those Nt finals defeats.
Now try to count how many goals Cr7 scored in Cl knockout rounds in the last 5 years.
The sad truth for Messi is, in the last 5 years, Messi and Barca are kings of La liga.
While both Messi and Barca are invisible in a Cl against big boys.
Cr7 is a boss in the last 5 years in key Cl knockout matches and on an NT level.
After Cr7's goals against Spain, I have seen some troll video where guys said: now Messi will score a hattrick against Getafe and he will be the best again.
That was a troll video, I love Messi, but at the end of the day, it was true.
Messi is lately dominating only La liga matches.
But remember, there is no pressure in La liga.
If you lose one weekend, nothing will happen.
In La liga, we will win 3:0 against Atletico.
In a Cl, we will probably lose 0:2 and 0:0.
Both Barca and Messi are mentally not strong enough anymore for sudden death knockout matches.
Mental strength or the lack of it seems to be the word of the day... Weird.
My theory is this... You guys are overthinking things to the point that it is bordering on the insane.
Reality is far too complex for most people and this forum is no exception.
You can keep harping on about Ronaldo this, Ronaldo that. He is clearly a driven individual, mostly by what Messi does (as can be seen by his celebrations) but right there is where the comparison ends. He can score as many goals as he likes, it makes little difference because Messi scores just as many if not more. They were once comparable but not now. Ronaldo gave up his football for numbers, coincidentally to win Ballon D'Or's while Messi is still doing what he's always done which is play the game in a manner that very few can or have been able to.
You talk about sad truths... The reality is that Barcelona have deviated from a style and system of football that has brought them unprecedented success. Before Cruyff this club won little outside of Spain and now with this deviation from his model have gone back to that sad reality. The teams dominating Europe are building styles, systems and signing the types of players and managers that we were once the bastion of. What we've done is gone from that system of team work to a system reliant on individual brilliance, mostly from one man, and when he fails he is labelled mentally weak, lazy and all sorts of things which are neither complementary nor true. It is no coincidence that Madrid's recent rise in Europe coincided with them forgoing the signing of galactico's in order to focus on the type of players that can play in a system like Modric, Kroos, Ceballos, Asensio, Hernandez etc etc so when their star fails the team is still there. They keep Benzema, who is criminally underated, around because he makes their system tick at the expense of his own glory and now they've signed a manager that has basically copy and pasted Cruyff's ideas and implanted it into a very good Spain team. What we go and do is the complete opposite... We sign managers that have very different ideas to the very legacy that brought us success and the legacy that other clubs are now using to take their teams forward. And to top it all off these managers we sign bring in players which result in our star player having to accommodate them. We don't keep Suarez around because he makes our system tick, we build our system around accommodating him at the expense of our star player.
So no, Messi and Barca are not mentally weak, what we're witnessing is the culmination of a rot that started some time ago with the signings of players like Rakitic, Gomes, Arda, Vidal, Paulinho... Signings that are neither here nor there which the likes of you are clamouring for more of instead of what makes us and others great. More of the same is what you will be left with...