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SonOfAfonja:
Spot on

I think Mingueza also did well.

Dembele has a lot to learn, his decision making is still average tbh.

Yes!!!!

That guy was solid. Damn.
Araujo!! That boy is fast o
Honestly, the defense tried. Lenge Lenge, did well too.

Riqui Puig:

"Ronald named four players to shoot the penalties. I asked for the fifth one."

"I'm very happy to have scored the last penalty. I offered myself to do it. I shot with great conviction, you have to believe in yourself. I never lose the desire to be in the first team and I will continue to fight for it."

Koeman won't change. I actually saw when Puig told. And he was like 'are you sure'?

Good one from Puig. Good way to gain the stubborn manager's trust.

SonOfAfonja:
Only positives from this match...Dembele, Ter Stegen, Puig and De jong....You see that Greaseman, I have no words for him

Ter stegen was flawless-9

Dembele, was active during regular time, but can someone just teach him how to make right decisions. Shoot when necessary and not dilly dally. He had 3 to 4 chances to kill the game. Just shoot! - 7

De Jong was good. Conceded and lost penalties but, he was great-8

Puig- Saved us. But I wanted to see more of what he could do. I won't blame him though. Sociedad had the ball a lot at extra time. - 6

Griezmann might have missed his penalty to add to his total chances missed. But he Worked! Attack he was there. Midfield he was there. Defense, he was there. - 8

I'm happy we qualified, but I'm not impressed.

BlueMann:
Riqui Puig sends Barca through

It was written in the stars that it would be him

He was waiting for the moment.

He was too sure that he'll score.

But the hero tonight was ter stegen

Kilishihunter:
De Jong has really turned up this season. Nice one from griezmann too

Of course.

After messi, it's Dembele and De Jong.

These 3 are the most important players in our team.

NoFap123:
FDJ and dembele have been super this night

As much as I love Dembele, I must admit that there are certain aspects of his play he has to improve.
But he's incredible.

Boom!

De Jong strikes. Sweet cross from griezmann.

Waiting for dembouz!

We need to take this 'life without Messi' talk seriously.
With what I'm seeing today. We don't have much hope

Expert17:


Messi is the problem at Barcelona is constructive

Mtcheew.

Abeg, let's talk of sensible things. Imagine yarning trash and calls it constructive criticism. Defends misfiring attackers and picks messi as the central problem of barca.

That's constructive criticism.

Abeg na 2021 we dey. Bye bye to stupid talks.

abduleez1:
Hmm, that's nice.....let's see what this team can do to a Top Team without Messi.

As far as Dembouz is starting I'm a bit relaxed...the guy is on fire.

Sociedad is a decent team. Top team? Nah

tesppidd:
I hope that we actually show no MercyMessi to Real Sociedad.

In Dembele and De Jong , I trust.

I'm not just comfortable with this match. If Dest was starting. I would have been a little bit more optimistic.

I'll be looking at how Pedri will handle the chief role of creating chances.

Our wing play? Can't trust it.

Barça bench: Neto, Iñaki Peña, Dest, Pjanić, Riqui Puig, Trincão, Umtiti, Junior and Ilaix.

No messi.
Starting 11:

abduleez1:
E be like say Messi go start oo.

No

He's not even on the bench

cumz:
Messi injured

Muscle discomfort.

Still expecting official confirmation. But he likely gonna be ruled out for this match.

TLona1:
That guy na Confam clown..

Mtcheew. After our first argument, I knew he was an empty skull. I don't know the fools that were liking his silly comments.

This thread sef, na hypocrites full here. Say one thing now and then change story later.

tesppidd:
They actually called it player of the century; but what they actually meant was "Player of the century so far"

That's actually a big joke.

But what is a bigger joke is the fact that the awarding body still has the temerity to continue dishing out awards year in year out.

Ronaldo has won 8 of their last 10 player of the year awards and his agent Mendez has won 9 out of the last 10 agent of the year awards.

And then the biggest joke of all is Ronaldo organizing a presser and declaring "I am honoured to receive this award"

"I am honored to receive this award"

Fool will be thinking: 'I've done it over messi'. Ode!

TheHulk616:
this is not true. GOAT Ronaldo won player of the century. You cant logically say messi is the greatest player in the world ever, and he can't win player of the century. It doesn't make any sense.

Oh really?

Who gave him the award? Globe? A typically never-to-be-trusted awarding body.

No standards what so ever.

Abeg Rest.

Moura7:
Bringing back Xavi, Iniesta and Puyol to take coaching roles, I think this will be nice. I think Font would be Ok too

Yea

TLona1:
godx I've not been seeing you lately..

You sure sey you be Barca fan like this?

When messi is scoring and saving barca, don't you haters will stay mute.

Honestly, messi has suffered on this thread.

"He's our problem" to "He slows our attack" to "The team plays better without messi"........

I've even forgotten the silly accusations sef

TLona1:
What plans?

Going back to the roots. La masia.

Bringing back xavi(not sure it's certain)

Move beyond messi(this is my favorite)

Eliminating bad player deals and buys

tesppidd:
Laporta it is!

Based on experience. Our best times came while he was in charge. Don't know about font, but I love his plans.

FirstbornWds:
Like, the thing weak me really bad.


Wondering why the video no day trend wella sef.


Ronaldo don turn CB, na goal e day defend against now.

The video can't trend na. He's not the GOAT �

While messi was scoring free kick, he was missing from 3 yards.

I thought griezmann bad at taking chances. This is one worse.

Ororo at his best

IngeniousLeez:
Wow so Griezmann played so well today??
Wonderment....

I couldn't watch first half but the second half was lit. Person go open mouth say this Puig isn't good enough. Make person no make me invoke Ogun

Umtiti head just dey click. He's a bit slow but his touches are really good.and mehn he knows how to distribute balls and push forward. He's making Lenglet look average at best.

This is my concern

And Araujo is likely injured.

NoFap123:
If smiling is the reason, then Koeman dey ment serious ment.


Puig has always shown he is ready to play and have ever for once turned down any sub even I'm dying minutes.

If Koeman has attitude issues with the boy, e suppose don talk am since na

Koeman is actually tired of this Puig backlash and question from the press.

NoFap123:
He don come again.

What attitudinal oh?

That's jp for you.

But maybe the way Puig laughs and smile a lot both in training and on the bench may make Koeman feel he's not serious.


This is me trying to reason why the Bleep Koeman isn't playing him.

michealdeco:
where did I compare?

I only stated what someone was saying earlier

I didn't compare anything

Okay boss

Koeman: "I have nothing against Riqui Puig. We have very young players like Konrad, Matheus and Junior who don't have many minutes, but you always think I'm talking about Riqui. I have no problem with him, we talk often. His future? He has to decide."


Please who saw the crazy skill riqui Puig pulled off.

The funny thing about that match was when Puig came on, the Spanish commentator couldn't stop mentioning him.

Ratings for tonight.(other rating systems differ tho)

Moura7:
Nice game tonight...Grizz was phenomenal today, same with big Sam and Busi. FDJ and dembouz were pretty good. See we need Bobby Axelrod's therapist in this team, it's all about confidence and mindset then you'd see players performing at insane levels. Confidence is the elixir of football.

Bullseye!!!

That confidence gan gan is highly needed.

Olamyyde:
Pedri is the superior dribbler and finisher. Puig is the superior passer and hardly loses possession. For me puig is better presently but pedri's potential is ridiculous. It's like a de bruyne or higher level potential.

Like I once said, if being a midfielder was about twisting, turning and dribbling in the middle of the park, pedri has it all.

But if it's about creating, distributing killer passes and bossing the midfield, then Puig is our best midfielder asides messi.