mav_9me
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Everyone knows he loves this pass but he manages to pull it off and get an assist or almost an assist every match anyway.To be renamed the Leo lob?
Everyone knows he loves this pass but he manages to pull it off and get an assist or almost an assist every match anyway.To be renamed the Leo lob?
This must be the worst video streaming platform around. It always runs slow for me whereas the rest work just fine.To be renamed the Leo lob?
I've been going mental here since morning trying to load this.This must be the worst video streaming platform around. It always runs slow for me whereas the rest work just fine.
It happens everytime someone post that format but I still take it as challenge on behalf of my internet connection.I've been going mental here since morning trying to load this.
He's been 90% of the reason I've tried to watch Barca as much as I can, when it's convenient.Anyone else feel guilty/stupid for not seeking out every game Barca play these days just to watch Messi. I hardly watch any though I know full well one of the best three footballers in history is turning it on on the other channel. It's like mid career Richard Burton passing through your provincial town to star in a stage performance at the local theatre and you saying, 'Nah, I'm ok' when someone offers you free tickets. I'm going to make more of an effort from now on.
I feel this way about not seeing them live enough but that's one of my resolutions going forwardAnyone else feel guilty/stupid for not seeking out every game Barca play these days just to watch Messi. I hardly watch any though I know full well one of the best three footballers in history is turning it on on the other channel. It's like mid career Richard Burton passing through your provincial town to star in a stage performance at the local theatre and you saying, 'Nah, I'm ok' when someone offers you free tickets. I'm going to make more of an effort from now on.
I managed to go last year and saw them win the La Liga at Atletico Madrid, was nice to see Xavi bow out too.I feel this way about not seeing them live enough but that's one of my resolutions going forward
same.He's been 90% of the reason I've tried to watch Barca as much as I can, when it's convenient.
Felt the same with Ronaldinho. Ever since I practically don't miss a Barca game. The transition from Ronaldinho to Messi to possibly Neymar (though it's still all about Messi) has been flawless so far. I would indeed feel stupid to miss out on watching these historic players regularly. I also really liked Madrid in the early 00s (who didn't love Zidane, Ronaldo, Redondo and Co.) but something really put me off of that team. The whole Galactico celebrity individualism thing, Perez selling Makelele because he is not flashy enough and then replacing him with Beckham. All that felt stupid to me even when I was still an elementary school kid at the time.Anyone else feel guilty/stupid for not seeking out every game Barca play these days just to watch Messi. I hardly watch any though I know full well one of the best three footballers in history is turning it on on the other channel. It's like mid career Richard Burton passing through your provincial town to star in a stage performance at the local theatre and you saying, 'Nah, I'm ok' when someone offers you free tickets. I'm going to make more of an effort from now on.
What bothers me is when I see him shooting from outside of the box so strong and precise like the goal today and yet he can't repeat that from the penalty. I know it's bit different when the ball is already moving but it's a penalty, fecking Balotelli mastered them.How is Messi shit at penalties is the biggest football mystery for me......best player that ever played the game, one of the best finishers in history, cold as ice under pressure and yet he cant score from a fecking penalty
Messi scores plenty of freekicks though, God knows what it is with penalties.What bothers me is when I see him shooting from outside of the box so strong and precise like the goal today and yet he can't repeat that from the penalty. I know it's bit different when the ball is already moving but it's a penalty, fecking Balotelli mastered them.
maybe but surely he would regain his focus after a couple of misses.....Maybe he thinks they're too easy and therefore he loses concentration ?
I don't know, it is too weird tbh. Just smash it hard and low.maybe but surely he would regain his focus after a couple of misses.....
He certainly set up more than 3 but only 3 were converted.I heard he scored 1 and set up 3 today.
Scraped a decent game then? Just about got a 7 or 8 out of 10 would you say?
The lad is a fecking beast.
Yep, why wait and try to sign the next Messi, when the current one will do!This guy is pretty good. We should try and sign him.
That phase of there being a "world's top two" has definitively gone, Messi is competing in his own head with past giants or nobody at all. I like it. Cuts through the bullshit of debate and allows everyone just to enjoy a footballing genius at work. Watching (and drooling) last night, though, I still couldn't get out of my head what a powder puff era the present one is for tackling and physical contact. It's one of the reasons Maradona still edges it for me.Really feel ashamed by comparing him to Ronaldo in the past, he's so much more than a goal scorer, stats really show just a minuscule part of his game.
In the interest of balance though (I think he's the greatest ever fwiw and by a margin), having two great players makes anyone's job easier. Two more targets, two more distractions and two more intelligent players to link up with.The other important aspect to his trajectory as a player is the burden that's been lifted playing alongside Neymar & Suarez. Without them, perhaps the risk of burnout was going to be an ongoing concern due to how much the team relied on him for playmaking, scoring etc. but now I see a more relaxed Messi yet no less lethal. Moreover, I believe the brilliance of Suarez & Neymar probably serves as a new motivation for the player who has little to prove - without them, would we have seen this arc to his development?
Glorious to witness
That highlights reel is a real treat.He certainly set up more than 3 but only 3 were converted.
8/10 game for Messi. 14/10 game by any other player's standards. Or something along those lines.
This is true in theory only because in practice these scenarios of putting stars together rarely works out to the degree one might expect - RM says hello. And in the case of MSN, the whole is arguably greater than sum of it's partsIn the interest of balance though (I think he's the greatest ever fwiw and by a margin), having two great players makes anyone's job easier. Two more targets, two more distractions and two more intelligent players to link up with.
Exactly what i wanted to post after reading @FCBarca 's tenth eulogy about him. Love him and all that, but contineous posts like that stir the rebellious side in me begging me to swim against the current.In the interest of balance though (I think he's the greatest ever fwiw and by a margin), having two great players makes anyone's job easier. Two more targets, two more distractions and two more intelligent players to link up with.