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    Pedro Rodriguez

    I don't disagree with you. I certainly think the number of matches Pedro hasn't scored in likely hurts his confidence a lot despite the fact that the number of shots missed is not actually insanely high. It is definitely a concern. I was more just arguing that he hasn't been playing as badly as...
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    Pedro Rodriguez

    Saying he hasn't scored in 22 matches makes it sound worse than it is. In reality, he simply hasn't scored out of his last 32 shots. Now, that's certainly a long drought, but Pedro mostly just doesn't get goals because he doesn't take shots. Just for some reference, Messi himself went 34...
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    Alexis Sanchez

    I think only the 2nd case there is an example of "Messi dependency" being a big concern. You expect your best player to rescue you sometimes; it shouldn't be concerning that that happens. EVERY team will need rescuing sometimes, and their best player is most likely to be the one to do it. It...
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    David Villa

    Alexis could be sold for more than Villa since he is younger and cost so much not that long ago. If they wanted to force out one for money to get Neymar AND if Villa is better than Alexis, why wouldn't they force out Alexis? Doesn't make sense. They could play Villa now, have him be better than...
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    Alexis Sanchez

    Yeah, it is something of a semantic thing. I do think, though, that dependency implies that Barca needs Messi to be playing well in order for the team to play well. We don't see that type of dependency. Barca can play great with Messi not at his best. You seem to define dependency as Barca...
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    David Villa

    I think the issue with Villa is this: 1. Barca wants two big things from their wide forwards. They want A LOT of pressuring and they want runs that will open up space for others, particularly Messi. This takes A LOT of running. Villa has been capable of these things, but being in his 30s and...
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    Alexis Sanchez

    But I don't think the problem there is Messi dependency in the sense of there being no other players who could score goals. That was just the team playing badly in away matches. When a team plays badly, their best player naturally tends to be the main one able to find the net despite that...
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    Alexis Sanchez

    Messi missed chances too. Sometimes the whole team misses chances. It's not entirely logical to take an extremely small sample size of two matches in which non-Messi players were wasteful with chances and say "OMG THE TEAM IS ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON MESSI FOR GOALS!!!" It's just a couple matches...
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    Pedro Rodriguez

    Play Pedro to get him back in form for the important part of the season. Don't play Villa in order to ensure he doesn't get re-injured before the important part of the season.
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    Alexis Sanchez

    I think it's worth noting how few shots have been taken by Alexis and Pedro, particularly Alexis. According to whoscored, Alexis has only attempted 7 shots in La Liga this season. Obviously you'd hope a player to get 1 or 2 goals from 7 shots, but 7 straight shots without a goal is hardly a...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    Anyone running towards you when you're going to shoot can make you rush your shot. Granted, Falcao is world-class and is unlikely to feel rushed by someone who isn't going to catch him, but you never know.
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    Isn't it 34 goals now? And it should be 35 or 36 after the Valladolid match, of course
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    I wanna say that's ridiculous, but I would have also said 90 goals in a year was ridiculous if someone had said they thought Messi could do it a year ago so who knows? Still, though, I don't think he can keep up this scoring pace. Messi typically gets better the 2nd half of the season, but the...
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    Pedro Rodriguez

    I think Pedro should be benched, and probably would be if we had someone else to play in the RW spot. At the very least, there should be SOME competition for this spot. Maybe put Adriano there, with Alves at right back? Maybe try giving Villa some minutes on the right?
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    David Villa

    jtmx12, are you trolling? You seem to only ever post about David Villa, and so I looked at your post history for a second, and it's hilarious. 90% of your posts are either on this thread or on another thread but talking about how a player shouldn't be playing instead of Villa or isn't as good as...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    Same guy?
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    Right, that's why I gave one formation that had 2 DMs, and then the other one with 1 DM and specified that they'd play the same style as Barca in that case
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    Man of the Match thread

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    David Villa

    I think the logic is this. Pedro and Alexis are way off-form and having scoring droughts. Villa is coming off of a major injury. We are not yet in the most important part of the season. We want Pedro and Alexis back on form by the time the really important matches come, and we do not want Villa...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    Barca play with only 1 DM too....

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