Yeah a statistical performance, nothing impressive in term of pure football, they are still the same team who will destroy small fry and struggle against organized teams.
You can't really compare, Messi is the detonator, the creator, but Busquets is the regulator, the decisive factor to maintain equilibrium between offense and defense.
For me, for a 100% effective system, they are both of equal importance
Mascherano is not a DM anymore, people need to understand that once for all, even for argentina he plays more like a third DC (WC 2014).
Right now Mascherano is one of the best DC in the world, moving him to the DM position and play Mathieu is just ridiculous.
Like said not an easy draw and not a hard one, ATM, Real and Bayern (even Juve) are way more difficult.
If we keep our form we should get through without much worries.
The presence of Neymar regardless of his form is a serious tactical brain-teaser for any team, that alone is more than enough to choose him over Pedro.
Pretty confident about the classico, we have the perfect players to exploit all of Madrid weaknesses, can't say the same about our eternal rival.
Bayern better than us! based on what indicators? we destroyed teams better by miles than any of the bundesliga teams, their defense looks rock solid, so is our defense, what we showed against City in Manchester was on par with the best performances from the Pep's era.
I welcome the Bayern...
The bearded butcher, Alonso is not here anymore, Messi will have it easy.
On another note, our defensive block looks great, very solid and compact, a good news before the classico.
Except Chelsea, every team that ended first in the group stage, qualified for the 1/4.
Of course we must not underestimate City, I'll be worried if they were better than us, but we are superior by a great margin, tomorrow will be no more than a simple training for our true challenge el classio...
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