10 - Lionel Messi - v5

[Donatello]

You keep trying to make this angle that folk are 'blaming Messi' as some straw man argument when no one is really doing that.

Just pointing out how inept Messi was like the rest of the team.

Lol.. Really. You haven't proposed you P.O.V as how Argentina should play, or what lineup should they have played.

You are just good at arguing with others, and ignoring them when you have nothing to back those baseless claims that you make.

 

[te amo barca]

This season dummy. Although RM are quite regularly poor in the fall.

Sorry, misread that. Yes, Ronaldo tends to really start performing and gain form in the second half of the season lately. Barça was like that in 14/15, but never again after.

 

[JamDav1982]

Blaming Messi for the performance unilaterally, not just the loss. There was no platform to perform, none. A player needs the support and the right environment to perform, and there was none. Like the 7-0 against Bayern too, he simply had no place to make a difference. Only maybe if he had taken control of the entire midfield as he did vs Iceland, but then people would whine about how he isn't being effective in the final third and not making enough runs to goalscoring positions.

If Neymar was as inept as Messi tonight in a game like this he deserves every bit of comment on it.

Messi can do a lot more than he did tonight and this idea that as midfield find it hard to get ball to him adds to the idea of him moving into better areas to receive ball.

Where he played tonight was no mans land and left with too much to do when had the ball.

 

[El Gato]

A player needs the support and the right environment to perform, and there was none.

A GOAT player and A CAPTAIN should need zero support to run more than 7.5km in a crucial fixture. You gotta stop whitewashing him. It doesn't do your arguments any favours.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

No guy, but you obviously have. It s really ironic, you just described yourself. It s apparent, that you (and some other smurfs on the forums)just don t get the logic of team sports.
You still blabbing this notion of 1 on 1 fight, while ignoring the rest of the facts. No use, keep whining and good luck with your short memory span.

Come back when Messi or Barca wins CL or World Cup or something else big. Messis teams are flawed. His teams are not performing vs good teams. You say it's all luck? I say bullshit. Look how Barcas players are performing in WC ! Almost all of them are shit.

 

[JamDav1982]

Lol.. Really.

Aye.

 

[Flavius]

Dybala and Messi can play together. Too bad Sampaoli is stupid. The system in this Argentina is worse than Maradona.s in 2010. They played more balls to keeper than to Messi. Lol. They will lose against Nigeria also

 

[KingMessi]

Sorry, misread that. Yes, Ronaldo tends to really start performing and gain form in the second half of the season lately. Barça was like that in 14/15, but never again after.

We gas ourselves in the first half of the season and playing the CDR, and we have no energy when it matters.

 

[DonAndres]

If Neymar was as inept as Messi tonight in a game like this he deserves every bit of comment on it.

Messi can do a lot more than he did tonight and this idea that as midfield find it hard to get ball to him adds to the idea of him moving into better areas to receive ball.

Where he played tonight was no mans land and left with too much to do when had the ball.

The only better areas where he could regularly receive the ball was basically in the zones of a DM as with the game against Iceland. Receiving the ball on the run trying to find space in pockets is just not realistic with this team. They can't execute those passes.

 

[MessiCam]

Go watch the alternative camera angle and produce a boring post about the 'nuances' of how Messi actually played well.

Hahaha. I didn’t say he played well tonight... Stupid rebuttal for saying stupid shit like that.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

If Neymar was as inept as Messi tonight in a game like this he deserves every bit of comment on it.

Messi can do a lot more than he did tonight and this idea that as midfield find it hard to get ball to him adds to the idea of him moving into better areas to receive ball.

Where he played tonight was no mans land and left with too much to do when had the ball.

I agree. Messi was basically hiding today. Nobody could get the ball to him, but I think that's also Croatia playing well. It's just too easy to shut him out from games these days..

 

[JamDav1982]

The only better areas where he could regularly receive the ball was basically in the zones of a DM as with the game against Iceland. Receiving the ball on the run trying to find space in pockets is just not realistic with this team. They can't execute those passes.

He can move more where he was and make it easier for those players who are struggling to link play up. By his lack of movement it makes the situation worse and he is part of it.

Drop deep and help those struggling to build up ball is another option but completely useless if just drops deep to do what others are already doing.

Messi received the ball in terrible positions tonight.

 

[FCBfan22]

Argentina should play 4-4-2 diamond, like we did in the 1st Clasico. Messi and Aguero up front, Dybala CAM and Lo Celso CDM.

No more grandpa Mache at CDM and those 3 at the back experiments.

 

[booge]

pitty wont see argentina vs portugal.

i always kinda favour messi when he comes up against cristiano.

 

[te amo barca]

And Madrid were utter shit in the first half of this year.

Get your pessimistic shite elsewhere.

That is why Zidane left. Because of their debacle in La Liga. He realized that he can’t bring anything else to this Madrid side, yet their experience and mentality ensured them yet another CL win.