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haymekus:
Line up

Can't tell you how happy I am to see Suarez dropped.

Upnepaa:
Messi as captain voted for Modric, Cristiano and Mbappé. It
takes certain type of character to vote for your rival, the
best player of your rival club and the 19 years old who
eliminated you from world cup and ended with your dream.
Pure class.

Source:Twitter.

Oga, Messi no get rival!!!

LordAdam16:
In this anecdote you made, Messi and Iniesta were teammates. If CR7 and Modric were still teammates and the entire team contingent went without him, that's when your example would make sense.

CR7 and Modric may still be personal friends, but they are competitors now, so you can't use Messi's episode when he and Iniesta were still teammates to berate CR7 for not attending when Modric isn't his teammate anymore.

You are comparing apples to oranges.

PS: BTW, Modric's vote was Varane, Cristiano, Griezmann; while Ronaldo's vote was Varane, Modric, Griezmann. Since hypocrisy don turn some people national anthem.

-Lord

Ronaldo and Modric were teammates within the purview of the award. The award is for FIFA BEST PLAYER for 2018, and Ronaldo went to Juventus after the World Cup ended.
See how you have made yourself bereft of common sense just because you want to defend Ronaldo.

I hope they are seeing our midfield without *******!

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homesteady:
Are we looking at the same stats I posted?

Besides Barcelona plays more of possession, so it should be expected that Rakitic have more passes than Modric.

I'm guessing Tiki taka plays itself!!!

homesteady:
Now let's compare stats of Modric and Rakitic for last season. (Screenshot below) I'm using Modric because he plays almost the same role with Rakitic.

- From the stats, You can see how Modric destroys Rakitic in offensive contributions.
- You can also see Modric defensive contribution, which is quite similar to Rakitic contribution, except unsurprisingly aerial duels. he even makes more interceptions and tackles than Rakitic.

This just sums my problem with Rakitic.

I don't even think you understand what you are saying or posting.
You were saying one thing and yet posting something else which entirely supports our point.
Check the:
-Total forward passes.
- Total Chances created.
- Successful passes.
- Key passes.
- Assists...
Rakitic trumps in all against Modric using what you posted.
So, exactly what are you even saying?

Enough said.

Coutinho14:
lmao I see folks here trashing Raki, y'all should take a chill pill.......... Raki is god to pogba, put some respect man

As in eeh... People dey mad me for this thread!

homesteady:
I'm 100% sure that Enrique and Valverde did not tell Rakitic to put a leash on his creative side, because honestly, his creative instinct is average at best.

Like Upnepaa said, he is the weakness in our midfield when you compare our midfield with other top clubs. He is doing a good job in the defensive aspect, but that's not all that is required from a Top club Central Midfielder. Compare Rakitic with the likes of Modric, Pogba, De Bruyne etc and you'd see why Rakitic is the weakness in our midfield. These guys also put in a lot of defensive work, but they also offer more to their teams.

If Rakitic can leave his comfort zone and be frequently giving perfect passes like he gave to Messi against PSV, the creative burden on Messi would be reduced and it would speed up our attacks.

Rakitic is not the weak link in our first eleven and can never be.
If anything, i am always afraid in our midfield if he is not there!

AmuEwu:
Rakitic is a good player that plays with a lot of heart.
Dude is creative, but not barca's standards when you look at the midfielders we've had.

The problem with Rakitic is that he is not press resistant. Once you press Rakitic he'll hurriedly give a pass, sometimes a wrong pass. That's what I like about Xavi and now Arthur. Even if you press them, they'll shield the ball with their body and comfortably give a good pass

Oga, Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets and Messi have all lost a lot of direct passes in such circumstances as you stated which has led to direct goals.
Rakitic does have his low days, but the stuffs you are stating are off the mark!

Upnepaa:
Rakitic is a word class midfielder any day any time, but to me, he seems to be the weakness in Barca's midfield over the years. Right, he is doing his job as a midfielder and will fit into any team in the world, especially the counter attacking and direct styled teams, but I don't believe he is creative enough for a team like Barca, Rakitic of Croatia and Rakitic of Barca are world apart simply because Croatia's style of play suits him like a glove.

Is he allowed to be that much creative as you stated?
He has a job, and he is doing it just fine... There is a reason he is the most played Player in the team both during Enrique's time and now!

femiti:
Who would have thought a certain Sergio could 'dislodge' yaya and confine mascherano to cb?

We get a cm that can control play effectively...bye bye to workhorse

I ask you again...is that so?

Let's wait till then!

Debroslink:
What are you even saying? Have we been having superb seasons for the past 3 years? Haven't you learnt that 1 UCL title is greater than domestic double?

MSN didn't score enough in 2015/16, and even fired blank in 180 minutes against Juve. For us to win the UCL, all our strikers must be on hot form throughout this season especially in knockout. Dembele has starred very very well so far.

We had a perfect season last season up until that Roma debacle in the UCL... maybe you have forgotten!!!

Olamyyde:
Roberto is poor defensively, he is always exposing pique. Almost all the attacks from psv came from roberto's side. He is good at attacking but i don't think we can win the champions league with roberto as our main rb.

If only our coach can use Semedo as Guardiola used Abidal...
Allow only Alba do the forward forays.

femiti:
Is that so?

That is the reality. Do we have any other midfielder better than him in our current crop of players?
Infact, how many midfielders in the world are better than him at the moment even at his age?

Debroslink:
If you read that post very well, I didn't say we won't qualify from our group. I said when the big teams come calling in knockout stages, and we're still depending on Messi, we'll get the same results we've got in UCL in the past 3 seasons; Q/F exit.

When MSN were producing 121 goals, UCL was won. When we stop relying on Messi alone for goals, UCL will be ours again. Thank God Dembele is doing wonders now. It remains Suarez to be red hot.

We still had MSN in 2015/2016 and didn't win UCL... infact we were dumped out the same way we got dumped out last season.
You guys should stop living in fantasy and come to the reality that Superb seasons come and go...

Upnepaa:
The guy is really good, I like him a lot. If given enough game time, he might dislodge Rakitic from his position.

Not Coutinho, not Arthur, nor Vidal is going to dislodge Rakitic from his position!!!

boylemonade:
Please don't get me angry.

Our last two matches have been the worst matches of Barcelona this season..

The score line do not reflect the true colour of the game..

If PSV players were decisive and were as good as the attacking players of Liverpool, PSG, Chelsea or even inter Milan,, do you know how many goals they would had scored?
Can't you see how our defenders left lots of spaces at the back?
can't you see how many times they countered us?

Try giving Liverpool or Tottenham that defensive space and see how they will disgrace us..

I was angry in most parts of the game..


This was the same mistake we did against roma and we suffered for it, due to the fact that Roma attackers were not PSV attackers..

I watched the PSG vs Liverpool game yesterday and i began to fear for Barcelona..

Our defenders apart from semedo and umtiti,, they don't have this ruthlessness,, they can't cover space,, can our defenders cancel out Mbappe, cavani, di maria and neymar, like the way Liverpool defenders did?

I'm a Barcelona fan but Barcelona has the worst defenders amongst the top teams of the world..

You don't know anything about Barca nor football!
You think football is Basketball!

NiggasInParis:
Wait o. Is it only me? I was thinking the OP was talking about our dying state of Nigerian Hiphop and wanted to chronicle events as they happened since 2000 till 2012

The thing tire me... No cohesion, correlation and connection whatsoever!

Mediocre write up...
What's with the Tupac ending... Why not just write a Eulogy for him if you are missing him!!!

BlackManta:
You damn right.
Cavill is still Superman.
They just having issues with his contract and uncertain future in DC.
WB wanted him to cameo in Shazam, that is how issue of contract arose and the media is blowing everything out of proportion.
Until WB or Cavill officially call it quits, I will not believe anything the media sells to us.

About Afleck.
Ben is still Batman.
Any report of Ben quiting Batman is fake rumors and speculations.

The only report that is 100% true is that Matt Reeves is casting a younger Batman for the movie.
The Batman movie is set in his younger years, long before MOS and BVS.
So it pretty reasonable that a 40+ year old Ben won't be the major Batman character.
He might still appear in future Batman films cuz he is yet to quit.

You are right bro...

Henry Carvil is still Superman... Only Ben Affleck was dropped cuz of his alcohol problems!

This Bilbao v Madrid match is the hottest match of the weekend ah swear!

femiti:
Game played out like a normal away game for barca at anoeta.
We didn't play too well, we were found out severally in

midfield and defence. Messi had a bad day in

office...Suarez still the same old rusty rabbit .

Rafinha should have been a ball boy at nou camp.

All in all, we didn't play well but I am happy we got the job donne.

Our game was okay, but we were the better team even though Sociedad had better chances.

Bilbao raping Madrid...

Isomerizm:
Livescores people will think Suarez actually played something because of that absolving goal.

As in. na him be the flop of the match again...

Sociedad scores a golazo

All of you speaking out against the dropping of Ben Affleck, will you keep a persistent drunk with a lot of alcohol issues as the face of your franchise?

Lana1:
Superman is not a black man. Superman is not a black man. Superman is not a black man

Lol... Are Kryptonians white people?

Lana1:
A black Supes? Hell to the.....no!!

Why? You have something against blacks?