@BBZ
Neymar's big goals this season. I may be forgetting some, so people feel free to correct me.
1. Reduced arrears vs PSG away with a brilliant curler. Crucial goal, very tough opponent.
2. Scored another brilliant opener vs Real Madrid in the Bernabeu. Mega goal, mega opponent.
3. Once Sevilla equalized against us in the first round, he made it 2-1 straight away with a good header. Good goal, good opponent.
4. Made the score 2-1 vs PSG with a brilliant run and finish right before half time. Remember that the draw was a bad result for us. Uber-critical goal vs very, very strong opponent (with all them Verrattis, Lucas, Ibras, Mottas, Silvas, Marquinhos etc etc etc, players that this forum lionizes the whole time)
5. Scored the opener vs Atletico. Nothing spectacular, but a good predatory finish after excellent work from Messi. Super-important goal vs a very good opponent that destroyed our dreams last season.
6. Scored an astonishing equalizer vs Atletico in the away Cup game. You keep repeating that somehow Cup goals do not count, but Simeone and his layers did not seem to agree with you on that day. Full-strength team, and totally livid once they realized there was not coming back for them.
7. Scored the winner vs Atletico in the same game after they were awarded a ludicrous penaldo. Another beautiful and crucial goal against a very strong opponent.
8. Scored the opener vs PSG away in a CL QF. Cool finish to launch our triumph in the tie.
9. Scored a beautiful opener vs PSG in the home game, to further take things away from PSG. Another mega-goal.
10. Scored a very clinical header against PSG again, to bury the tie once and for all. PSG practically almost game up after that which allowed our team to take it easy from there on then.
11. Scored the 0-2 against Sevilla. It should definitely have been the clincher of that game.
He has also scored several other openers and crucial goals vs good opponents etc. Clearly, Neymar's contribution is far greater than what mere stats suggest. Scoring against useless or already defeated opponents is wholly pointless. But many of Neymar's goals have been super-crucial for our very good season so far. There are no two ways about it.
People have problems here, so, in short:
1. Neymar is awesome player
2. Neymar scored a lot of Goals this Season
3. Neymar scored a lot of important goals this Season
4. Neymar is one of the top 5 players in the world currently
5. Neymar is probably the best young players in the world
But the part which you are missing:
= his stats about Goal's scored are not that impressive as some of you make it out to be, considering:
1. that he plays alongside Messi and Suarez and how many space each player now has
2. that he plays in a Barca+La liga where the differences are larger and larger each Season
So, I don't have problems with posts how Ney is the best young player, how he scores important Goals, how he is good for us etc.
But posts like: he scored more than any Barca's attacker (Etoo, Ronaldinho etc), well that part is causing problems, at least for me.
They played in era where goals weren't as easy as today.
I posted the other day, in 2005, Ronnie and Etoo had only a few matches with 4:0 and 4:1.
They never managed to score 5, 6, 7 or 8.
We scored 6:0 like how many times this Season?
And no, Ronnie and Etoo weren't scoring that low amounts because they were poor, but because the difference between Barca and Cordoba/Almeria from that era were smaller.
This is why overhailing Ney and current players is somewhat annoying and imo disrespectful towards our former players.
But since some fans probably didn't watch young Etoo from 2004-05 and 05-06, they probably don't consider him as "our" player in the way how they consider current players like Messi/Neymar as "our" players.
I don't get in one way, people are so offended when we say something bad about Ney.
But when others say bad about Etoo, or when they compare Ney's and CR7's numbers with Etoo's, there is nothing wrong with that.
That is not an offense, right?
As always, a huge bias towards current players.