10 - Lionel Messi - v5

JamDav1982 said:

That Madrid game Madrid played open game as thought could batter Barca to effectively win title. Ecuador played open as well with nothing to lose.

Against the top sides who defend deep and defend well Messi has struggled and almost seems to run out of ideas. He has become easier to stop than Ronaldo in those games in recent years and part of that is down to his movement and players giving him ball too often in those games.

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Stoichkov1 said:

Lol bullshit. Firstly, Real Madrid only needed a draw because they had already a 3 points advantage over Barca before the game. Then Casemiro scored and Real parked the bus to protect the lead. The match became open only in the second half after Rakitic scored.

You also forgot that Messi scored 3 goals in 4 matches in the league against Atletico, a top side that defends deep and well.

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JamDav1982 said:

Nope not bullshit.

Real played that game like they thought they could batter Barca and effectively win the league making a statement. They played more open than normally do v Barca and Messi killed them for it.

Never forgot anything about Messi scoring v Atletico.

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Stoichkov1 said:

"Against the top sides who defend deep and defend well Messi has struggled and almost seems to run out of ideas."

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JamDav1982 said:

Yes discussing the CL and not sure would class Atletico of last season as all that strong defensively against the top sides either going.

Not saying he has been shit and not scored in every game anyway as clearly said he was Barcas best player away to Juve as well.

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Stoichkov1 said:

He scored in both games against Atletico in the league in 2016 when they reached the UCL final.
He also scored 2 goals against Juventus this year.

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JamDav1982 said:

Again... talking about the tight CL knock out games against the top sides who defend deep and he has struggled against them in recent years in those matches.

In 2016 he virtually went missing when it came to Atletico in the CL knockouts.

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Stoichkov1 said:

True but Ronaldo in 2016 went missing against Atletico both in the league and in the UCL final.

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Barcaman said:

Thunderstruck!

Leo likes AC/DC

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Devils said:

Has to be a translation error LMAO. But yeah all the sites I'm seeing too say the same.

I bet Mateo is the one who turns out to be a sick footballer though.

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Ousmane Dembélé said:

I hope his third kid is a boy as well. Nothing against having female children, but I just want the best odds that one of his kids becomes a footballer.

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Egert said:

Seems like if he doesn't win the world cup he will retire from Argentina.

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Ousmane Dembélé said:

Weird, he has the Copa America coming up in 2019 and 2020; I think he should give those two tournaments a shot as well.

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aaron101 said:

Another back to back Copa America tournament? Why? They just had a Centenario tournament.

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