jpmoriarti:
If we are serious about winning the title, then we must beat Atletico. We will not wait for them to drop points. We have beaten Atletico Madrid countless of times before. If we want the league, we have to beat them again.

Nothing very special with this season's Atletico. They benefited from Barca's bad patches in the beginning of the season. Now they suddenly seem to have acquired formidable title credentials. No! You don't acquire such over night. We allowed them a sniff at the title. We will have to be the one to put off that sniff, once and for all.

We are primed and ready. Beginning from today, let's see how it goes.

CardiNice:
Except Atletico Madrid losses to other teams, there is no way Barcelona will beat Atletico Madrid to win the title. If that's what Barcelona fans are hoping on then you all will be disappointed.
Except athletico lose to other teams, Barcelona will not beat and cannot beat Atletico Madrid.
You all should learn from history.

We can very well beat Athletico but I need this title so bad am not ready to "measure dicks" with Athletico.

So I need them to drop enough points before our clash.

We are definitely not going to be handed the title for beating Athletico but for amassing the most points...

ddippset:

We can very well best Athletico but I need this title so bad am not ready to measure "dicks" with Athletico.

So I need them to drop enough points before our clash.

We are definitely not going to be handed the title for beating Athletico but for [/b]amassing the most points[b]...

Yeah....

Atletico Madrid will most likely drop points tonight...If Barcelona beats Villarreal, then that's a giant step towards reclaiming LA Liga.

joviegghead:

Don't be fooled all the time by what you see.

If he's bought back, the chance that he'll flop exist. And I'm very sure you'll be among those who'll take the lead in crucifying and roasting him.

Dest ain't bad. A very decent buy. Hasn't disappointed me.

Well, he was a decent buy. He hasn't disappointed yet but neither has he impressed. Maybe, he is still lacking a bit of confident or he is still somehow out of his depths.

But i like that Emerson guy very much. I always watch Real Betis to see how he is bombing up and down the flanks. Generally, I like this Betis side. Very impressive team, built on a shoestring budget. Shows that Manuel Pellegrini is a magnificent coach

The way Villarreal go beat Barca today Ehn

jpmoriarti:
Lolz That's how you can easily describe the American, Sergino Dest's labored performance so far this season. Reason Koeman didn't hesitate to put Sergio Roberto back at that position the moment Roberto became available. Even Mingueza does better job than Dest at that position. Dude hasn't impressed me at all.

Do you watch Betis games at all? That Emerson is just another Firpo in disguise and don’t even get started with Koeman’s decision to be bring Sergi Roberto in for Dest, what good did that do?

I’d pick Dest anytime, any day over Emerson and Roberto...Emerson’s the real huffing and puffing IMO!

jpmoriarti:
Bring back this boy. Best RB in Spain this season. Energy and quality was too much yesterday. Better than all our lazy-asss defenders.

Sell Pjanic, put Roberto back in midfield. Let this boy and Sergino Dest fight it out in the RB position. I'm sure he'll cause Sergino Dest to go out on loan

Why sell Pjanic?? Remember he was juve best midfielder

Neobulletzz:
The way Villarreal go beat Barca today Ehn

you dont follow la liga like that. Villarreal is completely useless against Barcelona. The match will end like 6 0 or 8 0 to Barcelona

ddippset:
April 2021.
90 Minutes Magazine

Top 10 Greastest Footballers Of All Time.





10.Roberto Baggio
Roberto Baggio
Baggio with the Ballon d'Or | Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images
Peak: 1990-94
Major Achievements: 1993 Ballon d'Or, 1993 FIFA World Player of the Year, Italy's Player of the Century, 1994 FIFA World Cup Silver Ball, 1994 FIFA World Cup runner-up, two Scudetti, one UEFA Cup, one Coppa Italia.
Football's most consistent vessel for the elusive daemon of genius.
Wait, you don't know what that means...? So you haven't read the article I wrote about Roberto Baggio...? Go read my article about Roberto Baggio!
Spoke of almost exclusively using biblical allusions, the Divine Ponytail who had the angels singing in his legs (according to Aldo Agroppi), for calcio fans, Roberto Baggio was a glimpse of God.
A player divinely inspired to conjure the impossible on a football pitch, and change Italian football fans' perception of the beautiful game forever.


9. Michel Platini
FBL-FRANCE-FFF-PLATINI
Platini was the best goalscoring midfielder ever | PASCAL GEORGE/Getty Images
Peak: 1982-85
Major Achievements: 1983, 1984, 1985 Ballon d'Or, French Player of the Century, two-time French Player of the Year, three-time Capocannoniere, 1984 UEFA European Championship Player of the Tournament, 1984 UEFA European Championship, one European Cup, two Scudetti, one Ligue 1 title, one Coppa Italia, one Intercontinental Cup.
Michel Platini is now better known by the footballing world as a disgraced former UEFA president, but, for the purpose of this list, we're going to pretend that never happened.
So take a minute to put thoughts of "Platini is a disgrace!" and "Platini is a criminal!" to one side.
Done?
Good.
Remember when I said earlier that Bobby Charlton was like Frank Lampard, only 100x better? Well, Platini was like Frank Lampard, only 200x better.
Michel Platini is undoubtedly the greatest goalscoring midfielder of all time.
In three consecutive seasons in his prime, Platini won the Golden Boot award in a league which boasted the best defenders of all time; scratch that, the best footballers of all time.
Platini was similarly potent for France, guiding the nation to their first ever major football success by scoring nine (yes, NINE) goals in five games at the 1984 UEFA European Championships. Decent.


8. Zinedine Zidane
Zidane scored two goals in the 1998 World Cup final
Zidane scored two goals in the 1998 World Cup final | PIERRE VERDY/GettyImages
Peak: 1998-2002
Major Achievements: 1998 Ballon d'Or, 1998, 2000 & 2003 FIFA World Player of the Year, 2002 UEFA Club Footballer of the Year, 2000/01 Serie A Footballer of the Year, UEFA Champions League Best Player of the Past 20 Years, L'Equipe Best French Player of All Time, 2006 FIFA World Cup Golden Ball, only player to be named Player of the Year in three of the top five leagues, most goals in FIFA World Cup finals, 1998 FIFA World Cup, 2000 UEFA European Championships, one Champions League, two Scudetti, one La Liga title, one Intercontinental Cup.
Zinedine Zidane was one beautiful b**tard with a ball at his feet.
Headbutts aside (and even then, the headbutt was technically superb), Zizou was the most elegant football of all time, pirouetting his way around Europe; usually winning while doing so.
Zidane won A LOT.
Everything actually.
When he won, it was usually after he'd scored one of the most memorable goals of all time.
Three World Cup final goals and the best goal in UEFA Champions League history in the 2002 final, it's fair to say that Zidane wasn't just one of the most entertaining footballers of all time, but also one of the most 'clutch'.
Plus the headbutt was amazing. Super Saiyan level power from the France legend.


7. Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo
Ronaldo is still scoring a weird amount of goals | Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images
Peak: 2012-16
Major Achievements: Highest scoring footballer of all time, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016 & 2017 Ballon d'Or, 2008, 2016 & 2017 FIFA World Player of the Year, 2014, 2016 & 2017 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award, four-time European Golden Shoe winner, two-time PFA Players' Player of the Year, UEFA Champions League all time top goalscorer, Real Madrid's all time top goalscorer, five UEFA Champions Leagues, two La Liga titles, three Premier League titles, two Scudetti, two Copa del Rey, one FA Cup, one UEFA European Championship.
Right, let's get this out of the way: Lionel Messi is, was, will always be, a better footballer than Cristiano Ronaldo. That's just a fact.
However, in saying that you can't deny how astonishingly brilliant Ronaldo has been throughout the course of his career.
I mean, look at his 'major achievements'. Just look at them.
He's won absolutely everything (except for the World Cup) at least 20 times, and he's scored more goals than anyone else ever. EVER!!!!!!


6. Ronaldo
Ronaldo was unstoppable at his peak
Ronaldo was unstoppable at his peak | Claudio Villa/GettyImages
Peak: 1995-98
Major Achievements: 1997 & 2002 Ballon d'Or, 1996, 1997 & 2002 FIFA World Player of the Year, 1998 FIFA World Cup Golden Ball, 2002 FIFA World Cup Golden Shoe, 1996/97 European Golden Shoe, 1994 & 2002 FIFA World Cup, 1997 & 1999 Copa America, two-time Pichichi winner, 1998 Serie A Footballer of the Year, two La Liga titles, one Copa del Rey, one KNVB Cup, one UEFA Cup, one Intercontinental Cup.
Are Ronaldo's knee injuries the only things that stopped the Brazilian from being the number one, undisputed, greatest footballer of all time? Quite possibly.
Pre-knee injury - the first one, 23rd November 1999 - R9 was well on his way to becoming the best to ever lace up a pair of boots.
In short, he was the perfect forward.
As quick as peak PED Justin Gatlin, as powerful as peak PED Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson and as skilful as Garrincha, Pele, Zico etc.
Ronaldo was perfect.
The perfect exemplification of R9's mastery is his goal against Compostela. Sir Bobby Robson's reaction says it all. Mind blowing.


5. Johan Cruyff
Johan Cruyff changed the game
Johan Cruyff changed the game | R. Powell/GettyImages
Peak: 1971-75
Major Achievements: 1971, 1973 & 1975 Ballon d'Or, 1974 FIFA World Cup Golden Ball, FIFA World Cup All-Time Team, three-time Dutch Footballer of the Year, two-time Dutch Sportsman of the Year, three European Cups, one La Liga title, nine Eredivisie titles, one Copa del Rey, six KNVB Cup, one Intercontinental Cup.
It takes a special type of footballer to invent his own skill move - Aiden McGeady aside, obviously.
Johan Cruyff did both.
A now mythical figure, Cruyff is arguably the most influential footballer of all time; and one of the most talented too.
The centrepiece of the 'Total Football' era (shoutout to Parquet Courts), Cruyff made beautiful teams successful; a feat so incredible that we still see its effects to this day.


4. Franz Beckenbauer
Franz Beckenbauer of
Franz Beckenbauer was a leader | Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images
Peak: 1966-76
Major Achievements: 1972 & 1976 Ballon d'Or, FIFA World Cup All-Time Team, 1966 FIFA World Cup Best Young Player Award, four-time German Footballer of the Year, 1974 FIFA World Cup, 1972 UEFA European Championships, three European Cups, five Bundesliga titles, four DFB-Pokals, one Intercontinental Cup.
While Paolo Maldini was the most complete footballer of the past 30 years, Franz Beckenbauer was the most complete footballer EVER.
Put simply, anything you could possibly want a footballer to be able to do, Beckenbauer could - and did - do it.
A goalscorer: yes.
An incredible defender: yes.
A great athlete: yes.
A consummate professional: yes.
A leader: yes. In a big, big, way.
A winner: yes.
Known as Der Kaiser, Franz Beckenbauer was the man behind the majority of Germany's footballing triumphs over the years...which you probably already know, was a lot of triumphs.
Oh, he's also one of two defenders to EVER win the Ballon d'Or. Oh and yes, of course he won it TWICE.


3. Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi
Messi has enjoyed an astonishingly good career | Soccrates Images/Getty Images
Peak: 2009-12
Major Achievements: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 & 2019 Ballon d'Or, 2009 FIFA World Player of the Year, Barcelona all time top goalscorer, La Liga all time top goalscorer, six-time Pichichi winner, Argentina's all time top goalscorer, most goals scored in a calendar year, 2011 & 2015 UEFA Men's Player of the Year, seven-time La Liga Player of the Year, 2014 FIFA World Cup Golden Ball, 2005 Young European Footballer of the Year, five-time European Golden Shoe winner, four Champions Leagues, nine La Liga titles, six Copa del Rey.
You've read it a million times on Twitter.
Someone is probably tweeting it this very second:
"Lionel Messi is the GOAT!!! THE GOAT!!! If you disagree you know nothing about football!!! Nothing!!!"
While these Tweets are incredibly grating, the do kind of have a point. Because let's face it, Messi is one of the greatest footballers of all time.
He's extraordinary. Truly extraordinary.
At his peak he scored 91 goals in a calendar year, won six Ballons d'Or, and a boatload of club honours; in his relative (relative) decline, he's still the best footballer in the world.
The reason why he's only third on this list of the Top 50 Greatest Footballers of All Time, is because of the FIFA World Cup. It's a competition he's never won, and it's a competition in which he's never scored a goal in any knockout round games.


2. Pele
Pele loving the craic
Pele loving the craic | -/GettyImages
Peak: 1958-64
Major Achievements: FIFA Player of the Century, France Football's greatest FIFA World Cup player, TIME 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century list, Brazil's all-time leading goalscorer, Santos' all-time leading goalscorer, youngest FIFA World Cup winner, most assists in FIFA World Cup history, 1958, 1962 & 1970 FIFA World Cup, top goalscorer in FIFA World Cup finals, two Copa Libertadores titles, six Campeonato Brasilerio Serie A titles, two Intercontinental Cups, 1970 FIFA World Cup Golden Ball, 1958 FIFA World Cup Best Young Player, 1970 Bola de Prata.
Important.
It's the one word that encapsulates Pele.
Pele is important.
One of the 100 most important people of the 20th century according to TIME.
The most important footballer of all time.
Bursting onto the scene as a 17-year-old looking to avenge the tears of his father when Brazil lost the 1950 World Cup final, Pele would go on to win the World Cup on three separate occasions and make Brazil the football nation.
The Brazilian's peak is fable at this point, possibly because the world didn't really get to see it due to his injury at the 1962 World Cup, but more aptly because between 1958 and 1962, he scored an astonishing number of goals.
His great achievement was leading the most incredible football team of all time to 1970 FIFA World Cup glory, but it's his peak years of the early 1960s which make Pele one of the very best.


1. Diego Maradona
Maradona won the 1986 World Cup basically on his own
Maradona won the 1986 World Cup basically on his own | Bongarts/GettyImages
Peak: 1985-90
Major Achievements: 90min's Greatest Footballer of All Time, Corriere dello Sport's Best Athlete in History, 1986 FIFA World Cup, 1986 FIFA World Cup Golden Ball, 1985 Serie A Footballer of the Year, FIFA World Cup All-Time Team, FIFA Goal of the Century, Argentine Sports Writers' Sportsman of the Century, two-time South American Footballer of the Year, four-time Argentine Football Writers' Footballer of the Year, two Scudetti, one Coppa Italia, one Copa del Rey, one UEFA Cup.
So what makes Diego Armando Maradona 90min's greatest footballer of all time?
Is it the fact that he won the FIFA World Cup in a way that no one else has ever been capable of doing - single handedly?
Is it the fact that he scored the two most significant goals in footballing history?
Is it the fact that one of these goals was the greatest goal of all time? The impossible made possible by a true genius?
Is it the fact that he joined SSC Napoli - a downtrodden, unwanted, unfancied team - and made them the best team in the strongest league Europe has ever seen?
Is it the fact that in his native land he is considered to be a God? A working class hero that empowered a nation through his messianic talent?
It's all of the above.
Diego Maradona, at his very best, is the greatest footballer we have, and will ever see. Effective and exceptional in equal measure.
The best of the best.

Hmmmmmh,don't know what to say here, but zidane shouldn't be on this list,I don't get why he is so overrated, cyruff should be top of the list but I know most of them don't even know cyruff the player,this is how I would rate them
1)Johan cyruff
2)Pele
3)Messi
4)maradona;;
And then the rest

Santiago123:






Hmmmmmh,don't know what to say here, but zidane shouldn't be on this list,I don't get why he is so overrated, cyruff should be top of the list but I know most of them don't even know cyruff the player,this is how I would rate them
1)Johan cyruff
2)Pele
3)Messi
4)maradona;;
And then the rest

Was Cryuff so good in your eyes?

Which kain match be this

By the way, lovely Griezmann goal

This Villarreal high line dey give orgasm

See comedy

Messi penalty gift to griezman don lift the guy spirit

BlueMann:
This Villarreal high line dey give orgasm

Asin ehh... and we are not exploiting it to the fullest sef

Time to approach with caution....

homesteady:


Asin ehh... and we are not exploiting it to the fullest sef

Una suppose don score like five sha. De Jong's miss was the biggest. Fair play to Asenjo, but d guy suppose score there.

BlueMann:
This Villarreal high line dey give orgasm

Imagine Dembele was playing

We should have scored up to 4 goals already in this game.

Hopefully, we can confirm this victory emphatically in the second half.

Not a bad first half. But still very tight.

How Koeman doesn't see Pedri is seriously tired still dey shock.


I choke.

BlueMann:
This Villarreal high line dey give orgasm

Ah swear.... Dembele go dey smile like dis. If to say him play.

Same funny tactics Getafe use last match.

Santiago123:






Hmmmmmh,don't know what to say here, but zidane shouldn't be on this list,I don't get why he is so overrated, cyruff should be top of the list but I know most of them don't even know cyruff the player,this is how I would rate them
1)Johan cyruff
2)Pele
3)Messi
4)maradona;;
And then the rest

Cryuff ko... Crynff ni.....

That should be 2 2

Red card for Villarreal

Villarreal is a very useless club

What a horror tackle on Messi by Triguerios

Red Card!

Missed

What da crap did I just watch?

Getting outplayed by 10 men for 30 minutes!

This has to be in contention for our worst match of the season.

I hated the way we played this second half!!

Very poor. I don't know why we decided to start defending against 10 man.

But very happy with the 3 points!

We are second and have a game in hand.




La Liga is still possible

jpmoriarti:
I hated the way we played this second half!!

Very poor. I don't know why we decided to start defending against 10 man.

But very happy with the 3 points!

I don't think we decided to defend.

We were outplayed. We just couldn't get a hold of the ball.