Messi fanboys you are ridiculing yourselves even more.
He is doing that in every game all the time the last 5 years to say the least.
Pretending that the earth is flat and not round will not save your ridiculous attempts to defend Messi's flaws.
There is nothing honest in your question.
It's the new stupid 'last ditch' attempt to save your argumentation from the living proof that we witness with every passing game.
And there is a simple answer: EVERYONE is outperforming him in the attacking positions in all phases of play, because none plays as badly as Messi curently, even dembele with his mistakes, or Griezman with his incompatibility.
None of the rest commits ALL of the following:
i) attempt to dribble and fail, or succeed and then fail to follow,
ii) attempt to pass and fail to find teammate
iii) attempt to shoot from difficult positions, and fail to score all the time
iv) do all the above at the wrong moments, when there is always a better option
v) Not have a position on pitch
vi) Demand the ball at his feet all the time.
vii) Never defend
Even Griezman who fails miserably on i)-iv), at least does v - vii) correctly
So, cut the shit and face reality.
The team is playing with 10 men with Messi on pitch
1) name the persons who are "currently" outplaying messi. as i said before messi did not have a preseason so he's working his way back to fitness.
2)name our consistent dependable scorers beside messi and our star forward own goal.
3)i dont know what team you have been watching but coutinho, griezmann, dembele and trincao have all been horrible this season. just because coutinho scored a couple goals doesnt mean he played well.
4) messi is definitely aging and cant beat the third man thats true. he has to adapt his game again to a new system, new teammates and an incomplete squad that doesnt have a 9 that will possibly change with the new board.
5) messi is also a victim of koeman tinkering, he's been moved around the most to accomodate coutinho who cannot play LW or RW but only 10 and Griezmann who cant play anything but 10 and even that he cant do.
6) its now messi's fault that fucking griezmann cant finish a 2 yard shot with no keeper.
7)past that griezmann one of our
attackers had 0 attempted dribbles, ZERO. he played the entire match facing the wrong direction.
if you cant see the big picture i cant help you. knock yourself out.
