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Well to those that wished for athleti. ..they finally got their wish...just hope we wouldn't regret

ddippset:
do you mean his assists are on inadvertent mode?

Hehehe. ..lol..after all ororo dey give assist too na

Olamyyde:
I still believe di stefano is real Madrid's greatest player. Funny thing was that he signed for barca but madrid found a way to steal him in the end

Truth is 3 south Americans; Maradona Di Stefano n Pele wI'll always be mentioned in any list of GOAT before any bloody European!

Nihilist:
I hope you know that Gerd Muller's Balon D'or was not an 'honorary' one received after his playing career like Maradona.

He was never talking about "strikers" he said PLAYERS... Irrespective of your position on the field of play..you could help me name your tho

Upnepaa:
you said

51 - Luis Suárez has made 51 assists for Barcelona, more than any other La Liga player since his debut (all competitions). Stellar (_opta)

lol assist are in forms Jare, most of his are square play...he's tried sha...not taking nothing away from him tho. His passes are still piss poor

Olamyyde:
I swear! But i believe he is an underrated great player sha probably cos he wasn't as arrogant as pele or maradona.

If he's underrated, what is Di Stefano?

Olamyyde:
That's what people don't understand, they only see goals. Someone told me suarez was barca's best player last season just because he scored more goals. To be a GOAT, u have to single-handedly be able to influence games by both goalscoring and playmaking(also affecfing games even without a goal or assist) . That is why ororo will never be greater than messi even if he wins 3 WC...if he doesn't score in a match, he didn't play well.

These days, I don't dabble into that cris n Leo argument cos the difference is clear like 7up...suarez is just a goal scorer...nothing more

Olamyyde:
so the GOATS are pele, maradona and muller? daris God ooo

Gerd muller wey no dey top 5 of any list even it was composed by ulli Hoeness

Gerd muller isn't maradona's mate abeg! There's a big difference between being a great goal scorer n being an all round great player! Shoe get size...

Upnepaa:
Thank you in a million bro.

better to face them over two legs than in the finals where we will somehow have an equal chance.


The only deja vu disturbing me now is that they know how to dump us out of a two legged match( champions league precisely) but I think we beat dem convincingly over two legs in the copa two seasons ago ,so no lele...

All due respect,but Celts and Alaves will be good for us in final ,forget about the early season's defeat.

have you been following Alavez before n after they beat us? Anyways, I respect everyone's choices n opinion

RichieRex:
hello evry1
Thank goodness,finally found FCB thread
FCB forever

welcome to the fam bro

bykebyke:
Celta's 4-3 flogging still fresh in my memory.

I need Alaves.

celta like La real are also useless at the camp...so after their IGG at the baladois, we'll hammer them big time n bam we ate in the final

bykebyke:
Semi finals.


Alaves please please please.

I prefer celta, Alavez has been really good defensively this season. Pathetico? Nah, i'll pass

Real sociedad are one useless team at camp nou...always loosing heavily! Apart from that awful first half, I just knew they'd succumb

dmcdad:
Let's go boiz!

sociedad don die be that.. Expecting 3-4 goals from barca

ddippset:
even if we need to win LA liga the wisest thing is to rest messi in about 3 to 4 of those remaining 20 fixtures so he stays fit and fresh for the champions league and the very difficult LA liga teams. Playing him in all fixtures would become counter productive. And what's the best time to rest him? I tell you it must be at HOME games against LOWLY teams like leganes and gijon.

If Alaves n Malaga didn't teach you a lesson; what will? We will always murder La real at the camp, just like Rayo vallecano

ddippset:
lose the copa and you are out. lose a league match and you still have 20 fixtures to go. the real risk is resting messi against sociedad. before mid February, everything about copa del rey is over until the final which is then 3 months away in may. Lucho cannot escape from resting messi is LA liga. HE MUST REST MESSI IN LA LIGA. and if its not in home games against leganes and gijon then when the heck is he going to? against Valencia or Bilbao or athletico? Besides if barca cannot beat leganes and gijon without messi then they all need to donate their salaries to messi and rename the club MESSI FC.

TBH, I won't celebrate us wining just the copa, but if we win the Liga, or even only the UCL, I will be glad...so see? The matches u underestimate in the league are sometimes the ones you struggle the most in, so no room for error...same way they won vs Leganes when Leo was on the bench?

ddippset:
just like malaga at the camp nou, just like lowly alavez at the camp nou. abi? when results begin to go well, complacency sets in. blow the match tonight and we 'd be laughing stock of the whole world. we need at least a 2 goal cushion before beginning to forget we have not been invincible at the nou camp. there would come games to rest messi definitely not this one. We host leganes and gijon within the next one month. Rest him for both games, but bro this one is a no no for me.

some of us don't understand how to win a league title, how can you rest Messi vs Leganes n gijon You want a repeat of Alaves? Now that's the real definition of complacency. If Lucho had blown that little advantage we gained on Madrid vs Eibar with that his line up, I sure would have criticised him. The Liga is >>> copa plus we already have an advantage, like I said earlier, nothing Neymar can't handle, after all some top team around Europe does not even possess his calibre in their team.

ollah1:
You and bykebyke will be in the front line castigating Enrique if we get knocked out for resting Messi even though you asked for it. Why would you want Enrique to rest your talisman against a stubborn team in a good run of form?




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No, I won't criticise him, cos it's a copa match, plus we already have a lead, coupled with La real's poor record vs us at the camp. Liga is a game of consistency, so all his erratic line ups aren't needed

ddippset:
I wouldn't do that if I was Enrique. Remember its just a one nil advantage! Maybe start him and sub him on 65 mins if the result is favourable.

I say rest messi! Sociedad at the camp isn't much of a tussle. Nothing neymar can't handle

homesteady:
Sometimes I pity for the guy, most times when he is subbed in, the tempo has already died down! But he has missed many clear-cut chances.

True...but not worse than suarez actually

homesteady:
Nice game! Happy that Denis Suarez got a goal!

That's the main positive of this win bar the 3 points. Looking forward to Gomes scoring too, as well as Lucho bringing paco in a bit ealier to see if he can build his confidence n score more

Mathieu

Upnepaa:
Dear cules,just bcus we wanna defend pep doesn't mean should we discredit Aguero,


He is by far the best striker in the EPL (when on form) and for me the third best striker in the world( behind Suarez and lewandoski) but he is currently off form now,which can happen to any player.

Aguero may be a great striker (cos his primary job is to score goals) but he's a also a terrible teammate just like sturridge cos he's way too selfish to be a team player...That's why he's too useless for the NT where they don't have too many playmakers creating, n have to depend on team play..this isn't about pep!

usbcable:
for those comlaining of favors from Laliga president;

The La Liga president might influence kick off times, but not refs. That privilege goes to Villar – president of RFEF (supported massively by Laporta and is his good friend), vicepresident is J.Gaspar – ex-vicepresident of Barca, outspoken antimadrista. Has said that he wants to hurt Madrid as much as is in his power etc.

saw this somewhere. so what is pique on all about

Javier Tebas is not transparent at all, he's a camouflaging corrupt leader.

Just imagine if it was barca that scored that offside goal vs Malaga. ...you ll see haterz here plenty

jpmoriarti:
If a particular team plays well and yet does not win, something is definitely wrong. These situations are not mutually exclusive.

in a final, you have 7 shots hit the woodwork, you opponent scores from their only counter attack, they were the better team? Stat does not show everything brozay

jpmoriarti:
Because they understand football more than you.

By going to see the scores? Let's leave each to their whims n caprice then... As for me, I watch to learn many things other that FT result

bykebyke:
They are leaving next summer..Massive overhaul.

Txiki was in Valencia this week to talk about left-back José Luis Gayà (21) and right-back João Cancelo (22).

Them don already start.

I think Grimaldo, Gaya, Fabinho, plus another average RB can do the job tho

jpmoriarti:
So what then did Guardiola create at Barca if the players he met were already good?

He made them play to their strength.

jpmoriarti:
We watch game live to see how a particular result was achieved. That's all there is to it

Hmmm! Really you should be a shekpite..Just to see how a result is achieved? This is the kind of things my Chelsea folks are capable of saying

jpmoriarti:
Was all Barca players tiki-taka gods before he trained them yet they learned to become gods? Guardiola had time to analyze the players at City prior to taking over. He quickly dispensed of the players he thought couldn't adapt. So that meant that those who stayed had the potential of becoming tiki-taka gods. Yet they're looking lost 8 months on.

Yes barca had players that were already comfortable with the ball cos thats the foundation of the team right from the youth set up. That is why Victor valdes ( a goalkeeper ) is a better passers than clichy, kolarov, sagna, n otamendi put 2gether