He dragged them through against chelsea scoring 3 setting up the other in a 4-2 victory whilst chelsea completely dominated both legs and barca could barely string a chance together. Apparently unless he does this game in game out all the way through to them winning the thing then hes bottled the big matches.
Not to talk of the big games in the league and Copa.
You can only laugh at the suggestion that he doesn't turn up for big games. Fecking ridiculous thing to say.
Anyone who says or thinks this, is an idiot in my book and clearly either has an agenda or has basically never watched Messi play. It’d be the same if anyone said or thought the same of Ronaldo.
There was already plenty of Messi threads, hence my question, but since everyone is posting here, I’m replying here.
It's the stupidest thing I've read on here by far.
There is one about his contract and the last post is from almost a year ago. The rest are rubbish.
Somehow that argument didn’t matter when Messi had the better team mates, would he even have made the CL final if it wasn’t for the incompetence of Ovebro + a moment of genius by Iniesta?
Put away the sitter he missed?
A sitter (I laugh at calling that sitter) he himself fabricated out of nowhere, it's not like Maradona dribbled 6 defenders and put Messi a pass in front of the goal, only for him to miss it Abreu style.
Except Messi played far better in that game than Ronaldo played semi-final and final games last season. Both have had good luck, both have been in amazing teams, but if you actually judge their individual performances over their careers then Messi will always come out on top.
He fabricated that chance? A couple of lucky bounces and a fluffed shot?
He played better in that game where Chelsea should have won 4 or 5-1? Some performance...
This really. I get that many people really like Ronaldo but I don't get how they can really be seen as comparable. They score a similar amount but Messi plays a much bigger part in the rest of a game. He's much more complete and rounded. Real winning the CL each year doesn't change that.
Shhh only CL matters, remember?
In a career of 675 games and 570 goals you're still pining over a single game that happened 10 years ago, I'm starting to believe you're Michael Ballack.
On top of which how many offside goals did Madrid get away with themselves in CL? Atletico and Bayern have a lot to be sore about
The one very very unfair game that changed everything, United would likely have been the first team to retain the CL.
And if Ramos’s offside goal in the 2016 final against Atletico doesn’t count or Robaldo’s Offside goals again Bayern then there is no three peat for Madrid and they go trophyless
Real Madrid have a better squad than Barcelona.
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I blame it on the Ronaldo bias in this forum. You only have to look at the top posters of these threads. Or how long it took for this thread to be brought up again although Messi started brillantly in the season in a relatively stark contrast to the Portuguese. It is only natural that you have many Cristiano supporters in here and it irks them if people prefer his biggest perceived rival. That alone is not bad thing at all but this constant downplaying of Messi to make CR7 look better annoys me. Guess that's just human nature.Why does every Messi thread have to devolve into the same, tired nonsense?
Can there never be a thread for him that just talks about his current form and performance?
A Messi thread should be made that literally prevents keywords being used and flags repeat-spammers for thread-banning, so that the repetitive dross is at least kept out of one Messi thread.
You really need to watch some more of Maradona.
Bingo.
Maradona played as a midfielder until 1979, when he was moved to a forwards role.
Cheers
True, can't imagine Maradona being nowhere near another footballer especially citing all pitch presence as the reason. Something that he specifically was king at.
