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eph12:
Your knowledge of football is poor. Even if I try to explain it, you won't understand

K

Kimbeast:
Grealish definitely has more ability than Bruno

Don't mind these United fans. They will be the first ones to say this player or that player is overhyped when it's them that overhype their own players the most.

But Grealish is average while Bruno is levels above him. One is playing for Aston Villa while the other is at United.

eph12:
[s] Watch football long enough, you will see it [/s]

How is Bruno better than Grealish?

timay:
You clearly have problems with my English.

Yes , Grealish is average same as Van De Beek .
So yes, they are on the same Level. And I didn't assert that one is better than the other.
We all know Bruno is not his mate. Meanwhile these two(Bruno and VDB ) cost a combined of a little over 80m, the asking price of of Grealish.
So I'll take that any day and any time.

And What makes Bruno better than Grealish?

timay:
Overpriced and Overpaid is a very correct way of description both Grealish and Madison, so I'm not wrong and I still stand by it.

Considering they are English, they will cost more and earn more than players like Bruno and Van De Beek and those English guys are not better than these two we bought

You clearly stated "Average". Meaning Grealish is an average player that's different from just "the price reason you gave"and how exactly is Vdb better than Grealish?

This is you calling him "Average".

timay:
Bros , the price was the problem na. We ain't gonna pay that much for someone not better than Bruno.
Same reason we didn't pay Dortmund asking price for Sancho cos the valuation was more than their abilities .

And pls don't refer to Maguire price or Pogba price, that era is gone. Those were one offs deals that I'm sure is not happening again anytime soon

timay:
Bruno is something else. I'm glad we didn't neglect him to go for neither of those overpriced and overpaid average English duo of Grealish and Madison

Adiwana:
What is one thing that Pedri currently offer?? Because I can't name one thing that guy does. He loses a lot of balls,can't press and can't dribble. He shouldn't be getting the amount of minutes he's getting when he have Puig who's so much better wasting on the bench

Dude should go out on loan. He's young and has a lot to learn. But if he's one person we are relying on to do anything,then we're in for a shocker

Pedri had a good cameo today and the coach trusts him.

haymekus:
Oga fvck outta here jare


We should applaud greizmann for directing his penalty on target or scoring from an empty net?

Fvck out and go to your chelshit thread

K

haymekus:
Two shots on target

-empty net
-penalty

That’s very impressive from a €120m signing, I doubt if Messi can ever match that again

I have no clue about what you just wrote.

michealdeco:
so what stopped them from being 3-0 up?

It shows clearer that without Messi the team good but with him it's better

I wonder what you all gain in slandering him at any given opportunity

Why won't you talk about the 3 chances missed by Griezmann and the penalty instead everyone wants to criticize Messi and sadly coming from the so called cules

When did I slander Messi today bro? I was only replying someone who was indirectly throwing a snide comment my way.

* The first half and 2nd half which was Barca more dominant? So how did you come to that conclusion?


*Griezmann finishing was absolutely poor today. I am not going to defend that but this was the first match this season he is getting more than 2 shots on goal? Give your Main man more than 5 chances per match and he is going to a score like he later did as well.

So happy for Griezmann and Pedri getting in the score sheet.

Moura7:
Nice game....but could've buried this game in the first half to tbh.

We could have been 3:0 up in the first half alone.

michealdeco:
I wanted to reply you earlier but I decided that's not worth it

I hope Messi has answered you

Your opened your phone and typed such thing

You didnt have anything to say bro.

First half we created numerous chances without Messi ( that's an L to those already that says we can't create chances that why Messi drops deep). We could have been 3:0 up before the 2nd half. My reply was to those clamoring for Messi in the first half like we were being dominated and unable to create chances which was not the case.

homesteady:
Is it only me that thinks Dembele is not as fast as he used to be?

Too much injuries

Griezzy boy

FirstbornWds:
And that Penalty would have given us 3 points.. Isn't it?


Guy, don't begin to lose the respect I have for you with your criticism abeg!!!

It's beginning to lose worthwhile value and sense.

You are still not getting my point and there was no Criticism in my post. We have played well,we have created chances and we should have been winning the match. What's now bringing about post like "those critizing Messi".

michealdeco:
We bought Dest a very good RB
But this man will prefer playing Roberto than him

I don't know the problem of coaches at Barca
Now imagine when the guy will rust from sitting on bench he will now start playing him and start complaining of incompetence

Nonsense

And for people criticizing Messi
I hope all of you are happy now

Tell me what Messi would have done in this current match differently apart from maybe score the penalty? We have played well and created good chances.

Griezmann

Dembele nice one. Griezmann with the assist.

Gloryissac somebody owes you something

patrickmuf:
Everton just upgraded their midfield with less than 100m...When they play us, can you bet that they won't ball our midfield

GloryIsaac:
I’ve mentioned scouts before..

But I can bet that Everton’s midfield won’t ball our midfield.

A fit United Starting XI will beat a fit Everton Starting XI..

Except Mr. David decides to celebrate his birthday on the pitch that day.

patrickmuf:
I will get back to you whenever we play Everton...

Atletico play Cadiz and Real play Valencia. Not expecting either of them to drop points but hoping they do because we need to make up ground.

Today game is a must win if we want to keep up with Madrid at the top. Our next game after the international break is Atletico Madrid which won't be easy as well. 8 points behind so we can't afford to drop more points even with one game outstanding.

losprince:
That took place around 90 + 3 minutes with few seconds to go, messi was our only player at the opposition half, we had 9 men and the goalie at our own half of the field, I'd find it ridiculous had he chased that player, I don't get what the fuss is all about.

People just want to push the messi is lazy narative so bad that they will take things completely out of context, it's pathetic to say the least.

I don't really follow the logic as to why it doesn't make sense to have one more player putting pressure on the ball when the rest of the team is in shape, considering that he doesn't have to conserve energy for anything, it's the last kick of the game, anyway.... He just looked at him and watched him walked by disinterested.

KingAlabi:
What about a certain ocampos

homesteady:
Do you think everyone here is a beer parlour "analyst" like yourself? I was cringing as I wrote analyst sef. Who doesn't know that per 90 minutes is the best metric for measuring player statistics? Have you ever sat down to watch the analysis of any match?

Look at this headline from Barca Universal. Do you now see how it lays credence to the stats?

You are just falling your hand. You have been on this section for a long time and you are still debating like an amateur.

Bro it's enough. Let's just move past this issue and look forward to our match today. With the kind of predicament Dynamo find themselves,I expect us to score nothing less than 4 goals tonight.

Kimbeast:
Honestly after reading the entire interactions your replies have been weak. You keep bringing unrelated subjects and diverting from the main context of the discussion which is typical Nairaland style of Amala turning. Godx is talking about Messi inability to score from open play which you have not addressed or said anything about.

Thank you for the bold. They keep bringing unrelated and stupid things into the discussion.

Sommyroy10:
[Mundo Deportivo] Dynamo Kiev arrive to Barcelona with 13 players. The minimum that UEFA states. If another player tests positive, the match will be suspended.

Haha 13 players . So if they lose one more player the game is off. What's to stop them from saying that one last player is injured so they can play on another date with a full squad? Because that's what I will actually do in such predicament.

KingAlabi:
Why nobody dey mention Adama Traore name again


Because he is not scoring goals like jota

Maybe when he drops a Hattrick against Arsenal, guys go remember am.

tesppidd:
[s] You just don't get it, do you?

Our attackers; Messi, Dembele, Fati, Griezman, Coutinho, Trincao, Pedri have all been wasteful this season.

I might excuse Fati because he's young but 5 Goals out of 8 games which is fairly good.



Messi has played 12 seasons for Barca,
And Barca has played 8 matches this season,

And at least 10 out of those 12 seasons he'd be having nothing less than 6 Goals already after 8 matches.

We've played 8 games already and what do we have?

Fati 5 goals.
Dembele 2 goals.
Griezman 1 goal.
Coutinho 2 goals.

Is this what you call goal scoring?

The Messi you are disgracefully dragging would be having 7 Goals already after 8 games, in 10 of the last 12 seasons.

Yes Messi has been poor at finishing but You can't single out Messi because what?
Fati 3, Coutinho 2, Dembele 1, Griezman 1.

Are these what you call productive attackers after 8 games?
8 whole games??

Is that how Messi used to do it while we were winning la liga, after la liga, after la liga?

If Messi was having only 2 goals in open play out of 8 games wouldn't you still call him poor at finishing?

Wouldn't you run your mouth about how he has had only 2 goals from 8 games?


Walahi craze dey worry you.

You said you were going to shut up, shut up already, you have become too much of an irritant. [/s]

K

joviegghead:
[s] See this mumu o.
Dumbass!
I was defending messi who you singled out.

Our 'attackers being poor' argument at finishing has been settled .Obviously you didn't see that cuz your brain responds only to faulting messi. You can check my previous comment.

Biko, you should be ignored from now. No one here deserves to have his intelligence reduced through some interactions with illogical critics on this forum.

Farewell. [/s]

Recap.

Joviegghead: Our attackers have been poor at finishing chances.

Godx: Not true. Messi is our only attacker who has been very poor at finishing this season shown by his numerous shots with 0 end product in terms of goals from open play so far. I even went further to show you it didn't just start this season but since January he has been struggling in that aspect.

Then you resulted to typing completely out of point.

Joviegghead:

*Messi drops deep.

*He has been involved in our goals

*Dembele has poor decision making

*Other attackers need to step up

*Our defense is not good. If lenglet makes a mistake you will blame Messi.

* He should go to Man City

Nothing more to add then you resulted to insults and name calling (Mumu/Dumbass). Ok bro.

2 days ago forming kingpin and overlord

afrodoc2:
Our players are better suited for 4-4-2 diamond. I remember i stated this last week. 4-4-2 diamond allows us field a higher number of our good players IN THEIR BEST POSITIONS.

In 4-2-3-1 we don't have a good right wing forward so that is 1 position being used sub-optimally. Our left wing forward Rashford is more of a scorer than a natural creator so that is another position being used sub-optimally.
Then crucially our defence has less protection as the 3 forward players don't track back consistently . Our midfield also has less control.


With 4-4-2 you can actually field Pogba and Bruno together in their best positions and still have quality on the bench with VDB, Mata. You can play a true strike partnership with Rashford and Martial and still have quality on the bench with Cavani and Greenwood (all playing their natural positions).

The weakness is on the flanks as the full backs don't have much help and might face 2 v 1 situations more often than they would like.

Yesterday after the so called 4-4-2 diamond formation failed woofully

afrodoc2:
We need to switch to 4-2-3-1