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northbank123 wrote:It's just alarming how different this Barcelona team are without Messi (or a fit Messi anyway!)
Obviously he is an absolutely unbelievable talent and any team would suffer greatly from his absence, but bearing in mind the wealth of talent they have at their disposal it amazes me just how ill-equipped they are to deal with his absence/ineffectiveness.
I hope I'm not doing Bayern/PSG a disservice (actually, I don't care - *word censored* ) because it still takes a very good team to capitalise but it still surprises me.
Think you are a bit. In the first half they pressed them, didn't allow them to play from the back and closed of their little triangles and the FB's played high up forcing Alba and Alves back. Trying their best to win corners which worked.
Through the middle Martinez and Schweinsteiger have been all over Iniesta and Xavi so much they are actually mis-placing passes. Messi can't get on the ball because they're actually crowding himout and he isn't fit enough to get out of it. They should have kept Ibrahimovic for at least the semblance of a plan B.
With the amount of reffing luck Barca have had over the years all I can say is Karma must be a bitch. It looks like 2 years in a row they're getting dumped out of champs league.
Fuck me that was some block hah hah. I won a ticket in the ballot for the final. Might be worth going to see Bayern shag madrid over. Or do i sell it too some drunk German for a riduculous amount of money.
So Pep Guardiola is going to take over a team winning their league with a 20pt gap and probably winning the champs league after humiliating his former team......Good luck with that Pep
I remember going on a Barca forum for a laugh after Mourinho screwed them with Inter. It was pretty bleak then, tonight they're probably all slashing their wrists.
Barca whoreshave been well and truly schooled
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