Barcelona score every 32 minutes - with or without Messi

http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2014/01/10/4532985/barcelona-score-every-32-minutes-with-or-without-messi?ICID=HP_FT_1

He's scoring the goals someone else would score if he weren't there coupled with some added individual goals that only he could score. Nothing new.

Real with Cronaldo every 33 minutes, without every 28 minutes.  

Harmonica wrote:Real with Cronaldo every 33 minutes, without every 28 minutes.  

Same applies there. If he weren't there someone else would score the goals. That's why I said in the other thread that Suarez could easily score 40+ goals for Real Madrid every season if he didn't get banned for biting people (but then again La Liga officials are incompetent and wouldn't ban him anyway, especially if he played for a Madrid-based club). Difference with Messi is that Messi can pull something out of the hat at any time. The 2 Barca losses would have probably been draws with Messi, even if the overall goal tally of Barca hadn't differed too much "with Messi" and "without Messi" in the same time frame.

 Yeah, never mind that they weren't the same teams compared in stats. Let me see Atletico, Atletico, Real, Ajax, Milan, Milan compared to what, Gartanegas, Getafes, Elches, 10 man Celtic's, 10 man Ajax, Celtic's who was playing training match and so on?

Stats are very misleading, for a variety of reasons

Tbh barca have scored a lot of goals even when messi was playing that had nothing to do with him

DuringTheWar wrote:Tbh barca have scored a lot of goals even when messi was playing that had nothing to do with him

What is this blasphemy? Barca can't score goals without Messi.  

Could someone find stats for last season on this subject?

Barca did a little better than I thought they would without Messi, actually. But eh, stats can only prove so much.