We finished 3 points behind RM that season, that's 4 points we should have had.
In every season, or in every defeat, there are usually tons of different factors why we lost.
In 2017, you can equally blame:
Arda for 1:1 against RM
Neymar for staying 1:0 against RM
Neymar's red card
Random ref's mistakes
But look at this, against Roma, you can blame a lot of things:
1. midfield
2. Rakitic
3. EV
4. Umtiti
5. Semedo's jump for 3:0
Nobody picked Semedo, because there are more interesting scapegoats.
Against Liverpool, you can pick lots of scapegoats:
1. Raki
2. Alba
3. Dembele missing at 3:0
4. Mats rarely saving a shot in away KO matches
5. Lenglet
You know who are scapegoats, Raki and EV.
So, of course that Neymar isn't the only reason for 2017'.
But since people are affected with this brain eating virus and a collective amnesia in the last 24 hours and since Neymar is the 2nd best player in the world again, I need to add some balance.
I am waiting until someone will try to convince me that 4 years of Neymar here was a pure fairytale and the most successful and the most beautiful era which we ever had.