Neymar JR: O Galo do Barça

Neymar ranked most marketable footballer in the world.

laxman363 wrote:

Harmonica wrote:I'm not saying we play worse or better just that Xavi isn't the play maker, that he once was.

Yeah he isn't and if you ask me i would play cesc instead of xavi vs manc.Cesc can do what xavi can't this season ie to provide great assists from improbable chances which even iniesta has failed to do this season.

if all players are fit, I think Tata will play this lineup against Man City at Al-Ittihad Stadium

Valdes
Alves Bartra Pique Alba
Xavi Busquets Iniesta
Messi Cesc Neymar

Since when do "key passes" and throughballs define the playmaking ability of footballers?

Messi key passes and throughballs per game:

11/12: 2.5, 1.5
12/13: 1.4, 0.4

Messi isn't the playmaker he once was. OPTA can confirm.



Obviously throughballs from midfield will go down when teams that once upon a time approached Barca like this:



Now approach Barca like this:





Xavi has been very good so far this season up until he played through injury again the last couple of games. They rushed him back from injury to play against Ajax where he was supposed to get some match fitness for the Athletic Bilbao game. They need to stop doing this with the players. Right now he's still injured.

I don't always agree with you, but that's a great post, full props.

Khaled wrote:

laxman363 wrote:

Harmonica wrote:I'm not saying we play worse or better just that Xavi isn't the play maker, that he once was.

Yeah he isn't and if you ask me i would play cesc instead of xavi vs manc.Cesc can do what xavi can't this season ie to provide great assists from improbable chances which even iniesta has failed to do this season.

if all players are fit, I think Tata will play this lineup against Man City at Al-Ittihad Stadium

Valdes
Alves Bartra Pique Alba
Xavi Busquets Iniesta
Messi Cesc Neymar

When messi will be there tata cannot play cesc as false nine. He did it against real and we narrowly got the win.Doing that against city and we may lose. But its high chances martino wll play cesc as false 9. People consider martino a good coach but i think that him overplaying fabregas as false 9 makes him a fool. Seriously,how difficult it is to make out that cesc at false 9 does not work??Had we lost the match against real due to fabreagas as false 9 people would be so angry with him. Its high time martino stops playing him as false 9.

We cannot predict the lineup as it is constantly changed when Messi was fit, Cesc would usually rotate with Iniesta though or sometimes take Xavi's spot.
There is more of a chance that we'll play
Pedro -- Messi -- Neymar
and have Pedro and Neymar swap every once and a while along with Messi and Neymar swap, which we have seen before.
Pedro is an example I'm okay with Sanchez or Pedro depends who is more in form during those two weeks.

^^ Play anything but not cesc as false 9.

not sure if already posted,but damn

Bro, you posted it before already

But seriously, he has been really impressive, especially considering that this is his first season and that alot of players have a hard time adapting to the team

didnt even remember watching this video   

It was uploaded on the 27th of this month so I doubt it.

Ganso wrote:not sure if already posted,but damn

Ganso promoting his compatriot

But seriously, I rather watch one minute of Neymar than ten minutes of Bale's compilations this season.

my bad, i watched the video in another forum today, i was checking the last few pages to see if someone had posted it and forgot to check the latest one

Neymar

That video

Nerman

Top 3 in the world in 2 years. My prophecies are never wrong.

1. Wilshere
2. Cesc
3. Neymar
4. Gourcuff
5. Szczęsny

RG   

Chill, I got this.

2014:

1- Messi
2- Neymar
3- Iniesta

#dealwithit :-)

Neymar vs Messi :p

that looks bad :S

Its not serious as we all though at 1st, he might still be out for uptp 3 weeks and should be ready for games against City!

ankle sprains are not that serious as long as you don't aggravate them.. it just looks nasty