coded01:


Very childish...



--- It's been on prior to El Clasico & it is not permitted on here...

dmcdad:

At all... I no sure say I don see this kind childish display on this thread before. Too absurd to say the least. At the end of the day the people wey dey involved (Club and players) dey there dey flex. People dey here dey call eachother names. Imagine wey I dey vex as Barca dey play, Iniesta get appetite to drink orange-drink. Whereas, I go dey here lose appetite to chop. That moment wey I see that thing I give myself brain once.

The players (both the ones wey win and the ones wey lose) fit even go club together sef. People go dey here dey insult eachother. Balderdash!

coded01:


AMEN!!!


Thanks bro!!!


GOD BLESS YOU TOO...

usbcable:


ogbeni
you dey form say you no see my posts abi?
i go remind you later.

and them stop lying that you are objective. you are just same of the same. sayone actanother

coded01:



You are completely right!!!



Imagine? Iniesta or Pique after selling game dey flex as he likes... where fans dey vex, have headache, no fit chop, sleeplessness, haterz dey shout 4 our head but dem dey enjoy life....

mukina2:

shey na our thread you sabi dance?

manage this with AjanleKoko and Eyoniggar . .i forgit honeric01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6nqZM5vhus

Eruditor:
Criticising the coach will be overstating the facts for me. It is well known on this street the obvious dislike I have for Lucho but what's been done has been done so no need to cry over spilled milk.

I had no problem with playing Pique in centre half position but I maintain that we should have paired him with Mattieu while Alves and Alba maintained their regular positions. Macherano and NOT Busquets should have been the DM.

Most of us criticising Pique forget to realize that Madrid started out by trying to pull crosses through from Alves' wing for CR7 but it failed to yield on a couple of occasions courtesy Pique. It was after this that they preferred to play the crosses on the ground and one of such instances created the handball and thereby penalty.

Alves wasn't to blame in totality too. Suarez who played on that wing was supposed to help with the defensive duties but he rarely did and this left Alves exposed to mark Marcelo and atimes Isco or CR7 all through the game. Even When Hamez Rodriguez got the ball on left of our defence, he always switched it back to Alves' wing because that was the major leakage.

Mattieu didn't have a bad game defending against Caraval and James. Neymar on occasions too helped and we safely neutralized them and I think he should be commended for doing such.

Concerning Neymar and Mattieu up front there was nothing going and this is partly because Caraval was brilliant and also because Iniesta lacked ideas all game.Xavi too was slow and equally bereft especially since Madrid played 2 CMFs in front of their back 4.

I will never blame Suarez for his contributions. He did very well. If anything I will blame the midfielders for not reading his runs all the time. Suarez attempted to make good runs in behind the defence but the players were much more interested in tiki takaing their way into oblivion and even when Rakitic came on, he continued with the same folly. A few times he was through on goal to have a shot but he rather passed the ball to the side that is, to either Messi or Alves. It was so disappointing as Madrid would have conceded if we played any more direct than we did.

As per Messi, he did no wrong all game apart from lose steam as soon as Madrids 3rd goal came in. Not only him but the whole team and this is solely the managers fault. We had up to 25mins to muster a come back but somehow the body language of the players kept saying "we have lost and we know it". That's not the Barca attitude.

As for those criticising Messis indifference after losing the ball, you have to remember that he had a yellow card as early as the 8th min or so and he was forced to play on thin ice till game end. Same with Neymar and a host of others and they didn't want to get a Red card.

At the end of the day, we lost to 3 semi-unforced errors. The second goal was the worst of all. We still haven't learnt to defend against Cornerkicks. I don't understand how Sergio Ramos and Pepe (2 of the 3 best headers in RM) were left unattended to. That is criminal if not diabolical and we made same school boy errors against PSG this season.

Oh well, all hope isn't lost. We can be more pragmatic at times. Messi should be encouraged to drive into the box and get fouled for a penalty. Neymar can do so too. We can also employ counter attacks and direct passes to the forward players instead of passing the ball side to side (sometimes hopelessly). It took the players 30 odd mins to realize how high up Rayo Vallecano's defence was set up before we used direct long passes to expose them and score 2 goals. That's not good enough for a team of Barcas quality. And on Lucho we placed the responsibilities of such requisite intelligence but so far he has failed to deliver on the big occasions.

My hope is that he is learning. RM are still bread for us.

Lucho
got a few
things wrong in this one, but I still
believe the starting line-up wasn’t
one of them, though I would've
started Rakitić in Xavi's place if you
asked me before the match. On
paper, playing Mathieu should’ve
brought the team more defensive
stability, and to an extent it did, but
it was the right side that was ran
over. The substitutions were
questionable, especially the one
where Xavi was taken off, but those
did not lose Barcelona the game. The
game was lost before that, in the first
half when Barcelona missed their
chances, and I can’t (fully) blame
Lucho for what the players failed to
accomplish.

ddippset:
i saw that messi miss again, infact i saw it better and truthfully speaking, messi was the number one reason we lost. that was supposed to be 2-0. he had no right to miss that!

bykebyke:
If this ain't true,tell me what is!!

bykebyke:
If this ain't true,tell me what is!!

Mcleo007:


A good striker is one who can operate on all forward positions. E.g. god-Messi.

Suarez can thrive playing on the flanks. He has it in him.

ddippset:
that's where the problems begin, messi would not be pleased being shifted to accommodate suarez.

sebod:

I don't see any problems here bro, playing Suarez as a direct centre forward will do us more good rather than having Messi as false nine. After all, Messi plays more of a midfielder these days and that position is always left vacant.

sebod:

I don't see any problems here bro, playing Suarez as a direct centre forward will do us more good rather than having Messi as false nine. After all, Messi plays more of a midfielder these days and that position is always left vacant.

ddippset:
it is easier said than done. messi is human not a spirit or an angel. let's face facts and not fantasize. if i was messi, after performing as a centre forward or false nine( much better than every striker in the history of football) and then you decide to shift me, to accommodate somebody else, i am leaving the club.

coded01:



Thank GOD you aren't Messi...

ddippset:
lol. 99% of you guys on this thread wouldnt make a statement like that. but 99% of you would do the same thing. i wont be hypocritical.

coded01:

Thank GOD you said 99%!

ddippset:
yes i said that. but trust me the remaining 1 % wouldnt even know themselves yet, until they find themselves in the same situation.

coded01:



You right though!!!


But obviously not the ones that make noise...

ddippset:
luis enrique should give the 3 of them freedom up front simple. let them just understand themselves and adjust to suit one another for the good of the team. that would be a bit fair on messi. but if he decides to give suarez a permanent centre forward position, he would be sowing a seed of discord.

ddippset:
cant get a meaning out of this.

coded01:



I agree!

coded01:



Oh well!


Don't get me wrong, just saying many make noise about their loyalty but falls apart @ the last moment...

ddippset:
sure. thats what is has been with neymar and messi. on paper, messi's name is written at the centre. but on the field most times messi runs in from midfield and then you see neymar in the box playing almost like a centre forward.