jairzinho
Senior Member
That fast football will be our biggest problem. Balls over the top and out wide when Bob and Alba push up. Hopefully we don't play with too much of a high line when they have the ball.
Champions League Semi Final: Liverpool - FC Barcelona 4-3 agg.
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That fast football will be our biggest problem. Balls over the top and out wide when Bob and Alba push up. Hopefully we don't play with too much of a high line when they have the ball.
Centauri B
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a) Being for or against managers is moronic.
b) Caring for anything besides a Barca CL triumph, simply proves you are no Barca fan.
c) How much do managers matter anyway? You either have the players, or you don't.
serghei
Senior Member
Doesn't work like that, sorry.
On the ball, Messi makes the difference, off the ball he is a liability in defensive transition. For us the have any chance in this tie we need him doing more than he usually does.
Unless people really expect him to dribble half the Liverpool team like he does with the likes of Eibar and Huesca.
I believe in Messi all the way but he simply needs to give more effort off the ball. If he does we have a great shot to win the CL this year.
OK then. Then we should all relax, because Messi is playing his best season ever and he's just going to take the ball from the halfway line, dribble everyone for Liverpool and score like he did vs Madrid in those matches from CL. Easy peasy.
Seriously, Messi's 2011 level is a level above what he is playing now.
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ThwiX
Best midfielder around
I already consider this one lost. I believe Liverpool will win tomorrow, very possibly by a couple of goals. Only Leo seems to take the CL very seriously this season, and that won’t be enough. Valverde is delivering stupid quotes before this game at the same rate he’s been giving us awful football. Fuck that guy to the end. Hate his face and need to see him gone now.
What matters is, messi doesn't have really great stamina (anymore). If he use too much energy in tracking the ball, he will have no energy bringing the ball forward.
Let it be one player less in defending, as long as he keep threatening the enemy.
About the off the ball movement. I have once explained again, what messi does in finding spaces is maybe not popular, by waiting in the crowd. But you never know when he would suddenly disappear. How we explain the sheer number of goal if he has zero positioning and just waiting in the crowd?
We know that many of his goals are also started by him.
Vidal is essential. And so does arthur. We may need to play 4-4-2 with vidal, arthur, busquets and rakitic to hold their mid from passing to the front three as ev said in an interview a while ago.
Let it be one player less in defending, as long as he keep threatening the enemy.
About the off the ball movement. I have once explained again, what messi does in finding spaces is maybe not popular, by waiting in the crowd. But you never know when he would suddenly disappear. How we explain the sheer number of goal if he has zero positioning and just waiting in the crowd?
We know that many of his goals are also started by him.
Vidal is essential. And so does arthur. We may need to play 4-4-2 with vidal, arthur, busquets and rakitic to hold their mid from passing to the front three as ev said in an interview a while ago.
BarçaBarça
New member
I never said easy peasy, nor did I say it was his best season, but certainly up there. As I pointed out, we also need Suarez to cause real trouble for the CB's for us to succeed, and either Coutinho or Dembele to contribute. With Arthur and probably Coutinho starting we should have enough technicians on the field to keep the ball flowing out of their high press line, but of course we need Rakitic and especially Busquets to move a lot in defence.
This is not lost beforehand, come on guys!
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