La Liga | Round 7: FC Barcelona - Real Madrid 1-3

[Barcaman]

Don't think we're that bad. We do miss a mobile/technical midfielder to kick out Busquets though.

 

[serghei]

Messi right now is in the Xavi 2015 and Iniesta 2018 phase. Just painful to watch after having also seen greatness at their peaks.

He should just stay up front and polish his finishing skills so that he can finish 1 of the 2-3 good chances he might get every game.

Xavi in 2015 was a better midfielder than Messi is trying to be. The thing is Messi was always a shoehorned midfielder.

Now finally a Messi set piece. He's still great at that.

 

[George_Costanza]

Why are we not making any subs...??

Cowman froze

 

[JPM85]

No worries. We'll hear again from the usual suspects how nobody could make that average pass so that's why he dropped deep . In order to shed light on our build-up and play a ground-breaking wide pass the likes of Andre Gomes pulled for fun.

🤣🤣🤣

 

[messi2140]

So far in the very short sample size, Koeman shows he lacks game management and any flexibility with personnel and tactics. Keep trying the same XI and formation and if that doesn’t work chuck on all the subs as a last resort.

I wish this would have been the case for this game. Instead we got Coutinho suddenly being almost a full time LW and Pedri a RW.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Messi is huge liability. The guy doesn?t move and loses balls like crazy

He takes too big risks and plays too low. It's not good to take those risks in the midfield. Big chance for villain everytime you lose the ball.

 

[Laplacian]

Messi right now is in the Xavi 2015 and Iniesta 2018 phase. Just painful to watch after having also seen greatness at their peaks.

He should just stay up front and polish his finishing skills so that he can finish 1 of the 2-3 good chances he might get every game.

There is no reason he can't do what Aguero does. He has off the ball intelligence, he has technique, he has finishing, and he STILL has his acceleration (just not as good as his peak). The only thing holding him back is the inability to break his habit from his glory days, and the shit midfield/lack of wingers.

 

[Neymessi]

Machine learning algorithms should be modeled after Jammy the contrarian.

Incredible consistency and efficiency in what he does.

For a change, I agree with you. Jammy always tries to come across as "I am not biased against RM just because I am a barca fan" person and takes it to the extreme.

 

[Ritchie]

Messi is huge liability. The guy doesn?t move and loses balls like crazy

He needs to stay high up the pitch and see if he can possibly get his goalscoring touch back.

He's not worth a new contract at the moment otherwise.

 

[Barcaman]

Fk. Let's gooo

 

[fergus90]

I wish this would have been the case for this game. Instead we got Coutinho suddenly being almost a full time LW and Pedri a RW.

Yeah and it’s clearly not working. That’s my point, 77 minutes in and he persists with it. Baffling.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

He needs to stay high up the pitch and see if he can possibly get his goalscoring touch back.

He's not worth a new contract at the moment.

Exactly. We shouldn't need him to play from the midfield. He used to be the best scorer in the world..we need a goal. Stay fucking up.

 

[kattanib]

Did Messi instruct the team not to pass to Fati? Lol

 

[Latschenkiefer]

Vinicius, Real's counter attacks and the referees are the jokes of the day.

 

[Sorin]

His last 1000 freekicks have been awful.