messi tap in lolll

amazing. hw many assist from thiago already??

This post has been edited by sepulse: Aug 30 2011, 04:36 AM

We're second spot for sure.

done. 1st manita.

thiago 1 goal 2 assist. awesomee.

worth my hari raya sleep

nice win.. dapat sebelah tangan 5-0.. too messi didnt get the hatrick, if not, we share the 1st spot with madrid.. feb scored again, n sanchez scored too. nice.

Yeah, it's worth it.

Thanks but apparently in this part of OZ, they started fasting a day later thus celebrate Eid a day later which
also means that Im fasting a day extra..

Messi and Fab really have a great connection don't they?

I really thought we were gonna lose the match when I saw our line-up.
3 defenders??? 2 of which were midfielders...
Thiago and Keita in midfield who are both not the ones you wanna play to protect the back 4 as they lose the ball more often than Xavi-Iniesta.
What on earth was Pep thinking?

Now I really believe we have time for every player.
You know how nice it was to see Xavi, Villa coming off the bench?
Compare that to the previous seasons when we had Bojan or Jeffren to come on in the match.
It never excited me haha

beast!

i totally agreed with ur statement.. i used to think who will start in the first 11, where to put febragas, what bout xavi n so on.. now i understand with our current squad, we r muc more flexible n our player wont be too exhausted for havin to play every game from start to finished.

Really like this quotes.. Cesc: "I really 8-2 (hate to) leave arsenal, but I don't regret my 5-0 (final) decision." LOL!

lol.

gotta miss barca football for awhile.

messi to captain argentina

As I said, Pep is fond to rotate players around, even if meant to reposition several players. Yeah for us its a bit odd, because we are so accustomed for players to have their position to be fixed throughout a season, or even in their career. But not with Pep. Messi as false 9, Eto'o and Henry played out wide on the flank, Iniesta on the left wing, Yaya as CB, Abidal as CB, Masch as CB, Keita as pivot, Busquets as CB. Even Cesc was played as false 9 ala Messi against Napoli. Plenty of evidence showing Pep's ideas on effective rotation.

Not to say that I was not nervous when I saw Busquets-Masch-Abi defensive line for the first time I fully expected that either Montoya or Fontas would step in. But his final decision has surprised me as well.

But Pep has proven that he is right, AGAIN.

me too. i was like WTF when i saw the lineup. then pep proves me wrong. i wonder will this 3 - 4 - 3 works against bus parking team? or big team?

i think it is depending on the situation. i believe pep will improvise accordingly to the situation when we face the opponent. for me this formation is kinda an emergency formation where we hv lack of defender due to injury.

Actually I do think that Pep is looking to apply 3-4-3 as permanent formation in the future. No reason in particular, just my feeling. But for now 4-3-3 is our optimum formation, mainly because we still have Alves bombing down the right wing.

Puyol is expected to play in the next match. That's a good news.

Oh, and since no one mentioned it in previous thread, Barca now has NINE (9) representatives in Spanish NT squad. Even Montoya received the call up. LOL even Pep was surprised.

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Argentina won 1-0. Header by otamendi after corner kick by messi. Hehe. About 3-4-3, I'm also surprised. I'm expect montoya or fontas, somehow both our 2 DM revert back as CB.hurm..strange..I felt this was a pep's plan all along.. He only use 1 specialist CB, and other two our midfield. Pep want to develop entire game as midfiled in future? I suspect. So when pep said he opted 3-4-3 as emergency formation, I dun believe 100 percent coz in future, after puyol's retirement, we might use only one true CB, wih 2 DM, and four midfield to ensure the ball always linger around middle of the pitch. Pep, u r mysterious..

wont it be too risky to our defense? so we r turning into a most midfielder team?

Well we won against Villareal didn't we? If we wanna talk about risk, is our 4-3-3 system risk-free tactic? What about other tactic? English long ball tactic? Catenacio? No tactic is risk free, or can guarantee victory. What a coach can do is to devise tactics that may minimize the risk. I think our now famous pressing game is Pep's solution for minimizing it. Of course the risk is still present, but again no tactic is 100% perfect.