[QUOTE=“Manuel Zelaya, post: 1154984, member: 377”]You might want to digest this information in relation to your irrefutable point about Messi scoring in one game from play in the 11 times he has faced Italian opposition.
Here’s some goal footage from the 2012/13 last 16 tie between Bareclona & Milan. You’ll find Messi scoring the first and second goals from play as Barcelona won 4-0.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARD7tlChAck
Here’s some goal footage from Barcelona’s 3-1 win over Milan in last season’s tournament. You’ll find Messi scoring the third goal from play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpiKql9Sl1s
Here’s Messi’s equaliser at the San Siro in the return leg of last season’s tournament. You’ll find that was from open play as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFPyTejTtc
You should really stop spreading erroneous falsehood’s about Lionel Messi, the world’s greatest player and take your beating with some level of dignity.[/QUOTE]
So it’s in fact 3 games in 13 as opposed to 1 in 11. I forgot about last year. Hardly game changing is it? The fact is Messi’s game is revolved around goals and from play he badly struggles to come up with the goods against Italian teams, against weaker teams he can shoot the lights out but against Italian teams he struggles. Messi is not a great player, we’re just going through a poor enough patch of footballers right now - he would not have been in the top 20 in the world 20 years ago. He shit his pants in the knockout stage of the World Cup last summer, providing one assist and no goals in 450 minutes of knockout football.
A great man to get a manager to fuck every other teammate he has over and take drugs and shoot the lights out when every favourable condition he wants is met. Ask him to do something when the odds are skewed against him, he shits it.
He’s a big baby and not a great.
10:3 - that’s the ratio of Messi not scoring in games against Italian opposition from play than him scoring. Do you think that cuts it for the “best player in the world”?