Re: The Lionel Messi Appreciation Thread & Fan Club II

[DuringTheWar]

Best passer of all-time and it's not close.

Strong argument. No really, something isn't true because you say it is, and a bunch of gifs isn't an argument, particularly when there is nothing in them other players haven't done.

[guest_07]

typical messi, great performance

you will feel the football world will look like a "empty space" when messi retired, same like what i feel right now

Still not over Riquelme's retirement, huh?

sadly, yes

should i meet psychiatrist?

[eelir]

I was honestly thinking at the 70th minute mark "If I were in charge, i'd be getting Messi off, he is doing nothing but walking around".

Then bam! two goals out of no where.

He is a class above, tbh.

Really? He was doing nothing? Just go one page up on this thread and see some gif's Harmonica has posted and you will see that prior to his goal he was involved in at least 3-4 very good chances that were saved only because Bayern have a super saiyan goalkeeper. He was dangerous during entire match. He did not get involved as usual, but the whole team saw less of the ball than it is usual for Barca.

[Collblanc]

Im not suprised we didnt see much of Messi in the second half - its a bit of a tactic. Alves & Rakitic werent producing much on the right flank and Messi was in the middle alot, so we shifted to iniesta/neymar for a big portion of the game, on the left. Needless to say Bayern adjusted their defense and shifted to the left - at that moment Messi can get away from his man-marking or even zonal marking. I dont care if he walks 89 minutes of the game - he delivers when he gets the chance. Give him 1 second, 1 meter, and he will destroy you.

[RED]

And some people still doubt that he's the GOAT

Some even think CR is better

Boateng is on suicide watch after being publicly humiliated last night

[Harmonica]

As I said many times, teams collectively train to stop Messi, which is worse than traditional man marking. It's like quoting myself when I quote Mourinho nowadays. The man with logical truths. 

"Messi is unique and always makes the difference. With him, any team can win the Champions League. He has been the most dangerous rival I have ever had to face – and many times, too. Each time I would spend hours and hours thinking of the best way to stop him collectively, because it is impossible to man mark him." - Jose Mourinho

[jibers]

As I said many times, teams collectively train to stop Messi, which is worse than traditional man marking. It's like quoting myself when I quote Mourinho nowadays. The man with logical truths. 

"Messi is unique and always makes the difference. With him, any team can win the Champions League. He has been the most dangerous rival I have ever had to face – and many times, too. Each time I would spend hours and hours thinking of the best way to stop him collectively, because it is impossible to man mark him." - Jose Mourinho

Source?

[Myesyats]

Best passer of all-time and it's not close.

Strong argument. No really, something isn't true because you say it is, and a bunch of gifs isn't an argument, particularly when there is nothing in them other players haven't done.

Pls. It has always been underrated and apparently still is.....

[Harmonica]

As I said many times, teams collectively train to stop Messi, which is worse than traditional man marking. It's like quoting myself when I quote Mourinho nowadays. The man with logical truths. 

"Messi is unique and always makes the difference. With him, any team can win the Champions League. He has been the most dangerous rival I have ever had to face – and many times, too. Each time I would spend hours and hours thinking of the best way to stop him collectively, because it is impossible to man mark him." - Jose Mourinho

Source?

Don't know the original source. It's on Barca twitter.

[RealGunner]

http://www.sport-english.com/en/news/barca/jose-mourinho-would-spend-hours-and-hours-thinking-about-how-stop-lionel-messi-4169971

[Hapless_Hans]

imo José's wooing Boateng

[Muppet]

He's good.

[neuro11]

Neymar Jr.: "I'll never forget the world's best player let me take a penalty when he was on a hat-trick and competing to be La Liga top scorer."

[Winter is Coming]

Gattuso on stopping Messi

The former Italy and AC Milan midfielder said to reporters: "How to stop him? I would not know how to coach players to do that. Perhaps man marking - or even a little kick!"

[neuro11]

hwat else gattuso can say...

[Harmonica]

It's just glorious.

[RealGunner]

That last gif

Only a handful players in the world can do that. Maybe even less.

[sree999]

https://video-mad.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xfp1/v/t42.1790-2/11183130_1647180522178262_390386353_n.mp4?oh=a5ccebe495ce72462ff7bf20772dce5f&oe=55506DC9

How do you attach facebook videos .

Another angle of messi's second goal

[Harmonica]

That last gif

Only a handful players in the world can do that. Maybe even less.

Well there's no player in the game with the weight Messi has on the average pass, don't think ever was. It's looks perfect almost all the time, sometimes even unnaturally homing

[DuringTheWar]

That last gif

Only a handful players in the world can do that. Maybe even less.

There's a handful of players at arsenal who can do that mate. Ozil, Sanchez, Cazorla, wilshere, Ramsey, have all done things like that

[Harmonica]

Graeme Souness - "I am more than 60 now, and I don't believe that I've seen, or that I'm likely to see, anyone better than Messi in my lifetime.

Messi surpasses Pele and he's also way out ahead of Maradona - it's not even close anymore.

Messi is a problem solver, a game changer, the greatest player to have played the game."

[Harmonica]

[El Messico]

[BarcaLearning]

That pass for the Suarez for Neymar's first goal

[neuro11]

That pass for the Suarez for Neymar's first goal

yeah...but even then the finishing was not easy at all...it needed a top class striker to finish that

[McAgger]

That pass for the Suarez for Neymar's first goal

yeah...but even then the finishing was not easy at all...it needed a top class striker to finish that

wat

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