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"Causing trouble"-more like providing amusement. Trooooooooooooolll
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Jordzibob
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He'd get a smack.
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You're not even a real journalism
Xavi needs to be cloned
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Pique deserves all the credit for that goal, and Messi was the one who was probing that defence before finding Xavi in space. Other than the pass to Pique, Xavi did absolutely nothing of note. Over passed it in midfield, particularly in the first leg.
Like you can't measure Iniesta's effectiveness aswell? Seriously. Do me a favour. Creative players like those two are judged on how creative they are and their end product - something Xavi normally has, which puts him a class above Iniesta.
No, YOU'RE making stuff up. I acknowledged he got better after the Real Madrid game, which means you're last paragraph is irrelevant. Sure he had some 'great' games throughout the season, Arsenal a prime example, but he never maintained that fully throughout the entire season.
You've skewed my posts completely now haven't you?
I agree with (almost) everything you've just said here, but you pretty much agreed with me without the need to state the obvious in that post:
"if you remove Xavi, we will still play well for sure, but we won't really play like Barca. you just have to witness the games last season when Messi had to take over, we weren't really like Barca."
Which in a nut shell is exactly what I said. Lose Xavi, Barcelona can function - Messi will win games on his own and he can do that playmaking job brilliantly, just it's unfortunate we don't get to see more of it whilst he's stuck up front. Lose Messi, and the Barcelona attack loses half it's threat. Xavi can pass the ball around as much as he likes, but the main difference up front if Messi, and I find it bizarre anyone can disagree with that, as you say, he's the best player in the world.
Cut the keyboard warrior act will you, it's beginning to get a bit tedious.
While the majority of the credit goes to Pique for the goal, Xavi's pass was excellent. Also, I thought he played fairly well in the first leg (see a video of his touches at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S2eTiUpKVQ); his sideline pass to Maxwell led to the first goal. My big problem with your posts, however, is with your claims about how Messi played. You state that Xavi didn't play well in the first leg, while ignoring that Messi was absolutely, undeniably horrible in that game, to the point where if Barcelona had kept him out and used another midfielder (or heck, a backup from the B team), it wouldn't have made any difference. Messi's biggest impact in the first leg was losing the ball to start Inter's second goal, and standing around complaining to the referee while Inter launched the counter. As for the second leg, while the pass to Bojan was indeed great, and the shot was good, the fact is that these are the only good things he did in 180 minutes against Inter (60 minutes of it against 10 men at home). If someone pointed to a good pass by Xavi that didn't lead to a goal, you probably wouldn't consider that a huge contribution, so why does Messi get so much credit for a shot that got saved?
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gazza
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Ha ha and the second half.
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Sublime performance from everyone on the pitch.... but we've not been debating his form this season have we... in fact, according to some in this thread, Xavi's been sub-standard this season
xavi, he wont the golden ball with that performance right there
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Flavia
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Golazo. I don't even know what to say, he was superb.
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I know man, just seemed like a righteously diss.Sublime performance from everyone on the pitch.... but we've not been debating his form this season have we... in fact, according to some in this thread, Xavi's been sub-standard this season
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