Caporegime
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Revenge? They've won the league, the Spanish cup(whatever the fa cup equivalent is), beaten them in several la liga games, why is it the least important cup is revenge for the 5-0?
As for Barca, they need to use Fabregas better, last season he was from joining used briefly in central mid with Villa ahead till the leg break, Fabregas was awesome with a striker to actually pass to, then they pushed Fabregas upfront and he was awesome. He was awesome till xmas when they started switching if he started or not, playing him in a different position every game, switching Messi from right to upfront every other game till he was finally only upfront.
Messi as a striker for Barca spends too much time deep, Pedro on the left helps as he makes a LOT of runs. "old" Barca at their best had any striker + left and right wings making constant runs in behind and 2-3 world class passes of the ball to feed them, they've almost completely stopped focusing on that type of football.
Barca are playing less well because Messi shouldn't be played as the out and out striker, he's far better coming from deep with someone AHEAD of him to play 1-2's off and to make space or be in space to receive passes from.
Song... lol, Mascherano, lol, Pique, Lol, Adriano, no where near good enough. Iniesta, massively over rated, he does do some epic passes, but he'll spend 80% of every game running and ignoring passes while running into a dead end. When everyone plays great he can make great passes and great interplay, when the team isn't playing well Iniesta is usually annonymous. Tello/Song/every reserve defender/complete lack of central strikers/backup is whats hurting Barca.
Valdes has made some big errors but look what his defence does, leave even the best keeper in the world completely open and they'll look a complete fool. Sure in the first leg he did badly and should have just shanked the backpass into the stand, all keepers do stupid things now and then, the massively open defence is what led to all the goals, not the keeper.
They need Villa back and to play him as the central striker, push Messi back to the right, play Pedro left, never start Tello(not till he improves at the least), start Fabregas and give him a run of games in a single position, or at least restrict it to two positions and play him frequently. Aside from Messi he was quite easily their second best player till xmas last year when games/position started being smegged with.
As for Barca, they need to use Fabregas better, last season he was from joining used briefly in central mid with Villa ahead till the leg break, Fabregas was awesome with a striker to actually pass to, then they pushed Fabregas upfront and he was awesome. He was awesome till xmas when they started switching if he started or not, playing him in a different position every game, switching Messi from right to upfront every other game till he was finally only upfront.
Messi as a striker for Barca spends too much time deep, Pedro on the left helps as he makes a LOT of runs. "old" Barca at their best had any striker + left and right wings making constant runs in behind and 2-3 world class passes of the ball to feed them, they've almost completely stopped focusing on that type of football.
Barca are playing less well because Messi shouldn't be played as the out and out striker, he's far better coming from deep with someone AHEAD of him to play 1-2's off and to make space or be in space to receive passes from.
Song... lol, Mascherano, lol, Pique, Lol, Adriano, no where near good enough. Iniesta, massively over rated, he does do some epic passes, but he'll spend 80% of every game running and ignoring passes while running into a dead end. When everyone plays great he can make great passes and great interplay, when the team isn't playing well Iniesta is usually annonymous. Tello/Song/every reserve defender/complete lack of central strikers/backup is whats hurting Barca.
Valdes has made some big errors but look what his defence does, leave even the best keeper in the world completely open and they'll look a complete fool. Sure in the first leg he did badly and should have just shanked the backpass into the stand, all keepers do stupid things now and then, the massively open defence is what led to all the goals, not the keeper.
They need Villa back and to play him as the central striker, push Messi back to the right, play Pedro left, never start Tello(not till he improves at the least), start Fabregas and give him a run of games in a single position, or at least restrict it to two positions and play him frequently. Aside from Messi he was quite easily their second best player till xmas last year when games/position started being smegged with.
