I think it was the big chance he missed with basically the last kick of regular time. He could have won it but the shot was bad and he seemed to have lost a bit of confidence then. Until this moment he looked absolutely out of this world, not like an amazing talent but actually like the best player in the world. Everything he did worked. In extra time he then had some bad moments, but even then also moments of brilliance. The cross to Lewandowski for an open goal was crazy good and also his shot that Sommer saved was pretty good. But he was visibly worse than in regular time, where he really reminded me of young Messi. For sure the most exciting talent since young Neymar. As good as Mbappe was with Monaco,
weird post
Haaland is poor in the air. Even though he looks like he should be great in the air.
The level of delusion in this post is wild.
He almost saved our ass I don't know what you are talking about.
The weirder thing is there’s actually some truth to it.
Yep, was very one trick pony last night. No awareness to play in colleagues, just taking shots. The ego is getting bigger and blonder.
Exactly. Some of the criticism is crazy to me.
Doku is nothing like yamal.
Hence why I said typically
This person must have watched another game.
I think you have a point actually, but most people do not realise that the Pep of City and the Pep of Barca are not the same thing.
It's pretty fortunate
What's clear now is that you can't leave him one on one. If you do, he will beat the defender 99% of the time. Even if you double up (which Inter were doing all game), he can often beat both defenders. That is crazy ability. The finishing will improve, and some of the more sloppy elements of his game will be ironed out. Sky's the limit.
The ability he has to manipulate the ball, in and of itself, is phenomenal, but then how he shapes his body to set up markers makes them not want to go near him, or even when they do, have no idea what the best course of action is to prevent him from executing what he wants. They can’t show him a bad side of his body because he hits the ball effortlessly on both sides of his foot, so if you’re trying to prevent instep passes, you’re opening up angles for passes with the outside of the foot. If you try to just barrel into him and stop the whole foot with a full on block, he’s gone; skipped past you, and you have opened up the field for him. He couldn’t care less if he cuts in towards goal or runs the line wide, either. The amount of times he was/is deadly from the byline is crazy. The kid is unplayable and as we saw, it’s only a matter of whether he scores or assists that will determine how good the performance is - the defenders don’t get much of a say, they’re like red uniforms in Star Trek.
Messi at 17 was more polished - but wasn’t playing with so much confidence I wanna say ? Or perhaps he wasn’t playing like a star?
Yeah, he had that fullback on toast (especially the one who replaced DiMarco). And needed doubling up at every opportunity. If Ferran or Raphinha did a little more, Barca could’ve maybe seen off inter, but it wasn’t to be. They literally just gave the ball to Yamal at every opportunity and waited for him to do something. Unfortunately the finish just wasn’t there due to a combination of Sommer and some sub-par finishes.
Bloody hell. The one where he hit the upright at the end of the game, just before Inter made it 3-3, was maybe the one moment he could/should have recycled possession or ran to the corner flag….but it’s not the Barca way and he was an inch away from sealing the tie.
Yeah, admittedly haven’t watched a lot of Barca this season (I haven’t since Messi left), but seems to be fairly accurate and also backs up what most Barca fans admit themselves. Him, and Pedri of course. Between them for their POTY but admittedly attackers get a little more credit.
