What's most worrying about this team this season is that when Messi or Neymar fail to dribble 3 players and create clear cut scoring chances, we have nothing going forward. As we saw today, Messi was off and we could get nothing going in attack.
Unfortunately Iniesta is getting to a point in his career where we can no longer rely on him to create consistently. This is not Barca, this is not our style.
We are at our best when we play short creative passes in attack and look to open the other team up with possession or strike quick with MSN on the counter. For the most part of this season we've lacked ideas going forward and usually score our goals through sheer might and repetition, PSG for instance.
We still have loads of possession but it's not useful possession, just sideways passing. We now score by crossing it into the box and somehow managing to bundle in an ugly goal. This is not our style and is definitely not sustainable with the the of players we have. Lucho needs to figure it out and quick or this season is a goner.
Even against PSG, two of the goals were penalties, the first two were ugly flukes and the other two were produced from Neymars individual brilliance.