La Liga Superthread 2016/17

Burial.

Just seen the Messi goal there. You just have to smile. Trademark Messi goal.

Edit: Ahhhhhh Neymar brilliant

Andersonisgod

Oh wow! Another genius goal! This is another one for the highlight reel! Messi to Neymar and that lob is eerily accurate. Stunning goal, exceptional performance.

Andersonisgod

Wonderful 45 minutes. Could be a really strong close to the finish for Barcelona.

Gbear

Looks like there's a weight off their shoulders. They look effortlessly brilliant tonight.

I woudln't bet too heavily against them turning it around against PSG. On their day Barca are more than capable of demolishing even other top European teams and if this is anything to go on they might be getting their **** back together at the right time.

Both goals were incredible quality.

MisterAnarchy

dfx- wrote: »

Definitely a lot more fire under the team it looks like than recent home games.

Rakitic is a huge boost to the midfield ,its no coincidence that results have improved since he has returned to the side.

I honestly dont know what Enrique was thinking preferring that waster Gomes to Rakitic.

The Talking Bread

At least todays results won't lend themselves to a certain ridiculous "debate" !

GavRedKing

Conspiracy. Rakitic was 2 weeks offside there. :pac:

MisterAnarchy

The Talking Bread wrote: »

At least todays results won't lend themselves to a certain ridiculous "debate" !

You spoke too soon...

Andersonisgod

3 genius goals! Tiki taka returns to the Camp Nou! A goal that could only be scored at the Camp Nou, a Blaugrana goal. 3-0

GavRedKing

Id say theyre clear.

Running riot now.

GavRedKing

5-0 and its messi again.

Sublime and effortless.

Andersonisgod

It's 4! It's Messi! It's Umtiti! The best football performance of the season, nothing comes close to Barcelona on song.

HalloweenJack

Rakitic was offside for the third, wasn't he?

Gbear

Andersonisgod wrote: »

It's 4! It's Messi! It's Umtiti! The best football performance of the season, nothing comes close to Barcelona on song.

Somebody's watching a stream.:pac:

GavRedKing

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Rakitic was offside for the third, wasn't he?

By a good 2 yards

GavRedKing

Andersonisgod wrote: »

It's 4! It's Messi! It's Umtiti! The best football performance of the season, nothing comes close to Barcelona on song.

Its 5-0 :P

Andersonisgod

5! Tears in my eyes! There's only Messi. Watch the greatest footballer ever and marvel at his genius. God I love this.

Andersonisgod

GavRedKing wrote: »

Its 5-0 :P

Hahaha these methods of watching the game aren't what they used to be.

GavRedKing

Andersonisgod wrote: »

5! Tears in my eyes! There's only Messi. Watch the greatest footballer ever and marvel at his genius. God I love this.

Peerless, hes dragged Barca into contention for the league for the passed few weeks. If they win the league this year it will be his greatest title IMO.

Andersonisgod

They rise and applaud Neymar. Whisper it quietly but he's having his best season at the club.

The Talking Bread

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Rakitic was offside for the third, wasn't he?

The Talking Bread has added AndersonisGod to this conversation..........

MisterAnarchy

Andersonisgod wrote: »

They rise and applaud Neymar. Whisper it quietly but he's having his best season at the club.

No he is not.

Gbear

Andersonisgod wrote: »

They rise and applaud Neymar. Whisper it quietly but he's having his best season at the club.

By scoring a third as many goals as last season? By scoring a quarter of the goals of the season before that?

Most of what I've seen of him has been him being anonymous while Suarez and Messi in particular carry the attack.

Brilliant today, of course.

The Talking Bread

Andersonisgod wrote: »

They rise and applaud Neymar. Whisper it quietly but he's having his best season at the club.

Eh, no. 2014/15. Also the season which took him to the new level.

GavRedKing

If Barca were more rurhless around the box instead of trying setup Suarez theyed have another few here.

Andersonisgod

D10S!!!

Burial.

Perhaps a slight glimmer of hope ahead of the CL match.

Andersonisgod

Best performance of the season. Messi is at a level that I don't think has ever been seen before in this sport, he's so special and his bandmates were playing the right tune tonight. Barça are back in the title chase.

Jan_de_Bakker

Burial. wrote: »

Perhaps a slight glimmer of hope ahead of the CL match.

Glimmer ?


serious ?

The Talking Bread

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Best performance of the season. Messi is at a level that I don't think has ever been seen before in this sport, he's so special and his bandmates were playing the right tune tonight. Barça are back in the title chase.

When we're they out of it?????? Nonsense talk.

inforfun

inforfun wrote: »

Bet365 have Barca 10/1 to qualify.
If you are so convinced they will over turn it, you might as well make some money of it.

It is not that that 4-0 happened because Barca had 3 men sent off after 10 minutes. They were played off the pitch.

Jan_de_Bakker wrote: »

ill stick a tenner on them so ...

I ll just take the usual 25% commission

MisterAnarchy

Jan_de_Bakker wrote: »

Well done !!!

The Talking Bread

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Well done !!!

Sometimes being crazy has it's merits! Imagine only backing such an outcome becaue you are demented (or feign being demented ) by a rival team!

Andersonisgod

By the way, I said on this thread only a short while ago that Neymar is having his best season at Barcelona. The stats don't reflect it but for those who watch him every week you've seen him turn into both a truly elite player and a player that Barcelona turn to. Despite his higher goal totals in previous seasons, it's only this season that he's become one of the 3 most important players in this team. He's undoubtedly the next king of the Camp Nou.

HalloweenJack

It's not about his stats, in the first half of the season he wasn't at his best. In recent weeks, he's been playing better but he had a slow start which went on for a while.

I didn't see the game last night but if it was anything like his performance against Celta then I can imagine he's back to his best. He's unstoppable when he's on form but its taken him a while to get going this season.

The Talking Bread

Andersonisgod wrote: »

By the way, I said on this thread only a short while ago that Neymar is having his best season at Barcelona. The stats don't reflect it but for those who watch him every week you've seen him turn into both a truly elite player and a player that Barcelona turn to. Despite his higher goal totals in previous seasons, it's only this season that he's become one of the 3 most important players in this team. He's undoubtedly the next king of the Camp Nou.

He definitely isn't having his best season. Even ignoring stats, which are more essential than a lot of other aspects when you are talking about an elite forward in an elite team.
You are probably in a very minority to say that. Any leading journalist or Barca fan would disagree.

Also, "a player that they turn to? " Barca have needed many last ditch goals and scraped a fair few games that they should, squad wise be relatively to easily comfortable...........ie, they have needed more goals. neymar is a striker, 10 goals up until last night all this season for a Barca striker, "who they turn to"..........has there been a worse return for a starting Barca forward in recent seasons?

The Talking Bread

That jink and pass though. It was the equivalent of a quarter back precision play except under indescribable pressure.. He had made the decision where to put it, even before he feigned to cross initially. Sublime stuff.

The Talking Bread

Back to standard Barca again !!!!!!!

Andersonisgod

Goal Barça! Goal Suarez! The comeback is on!!

HalloweenJack

Apart from ****ting their pants at the start of the second half, Depor have been playing very well, Bruno Gama in particular is having a great game.

Ter Stegen has looked a bit shaky today.

The Talking Bread

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Apart from ****ting their pants at the start of the second half, Depor have been playing very well, Bruno Gama in particular is having a great game.

Ter Stegen has looked a bit shaky today.

He must be still awful shook up after that awful "foul" that brought him down to earn the freekick that led to the winner midweek!

HalloweenJack

2-1 Depor.

The Talking Bread

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Goal Barça! Goal Suarez! The comeback is on!!

GOAL DEPORTIVO! GOAL BERGANTINOS! The corner is whipped in and Alex Bergantinos is in the right place at the right time, planting his header straight into the bottom right corner. He makes it 2:1.

Armchair Andy

Messi had his chance there.

HalloweenJack

Brilliant performance by Depor. Well worth the victory. They pressed the hell out of Barca today and took their chances, though should have had a third at the end.

Barca were nowhere near good enough. Messi had a poor game, his free kick at the end summed up his performance.

The Talking Bread

That performance shows you just how much of a cowardly, amateur like, disgraceful display PSG gave their fans midweek

Andersonisgod

Well that's a shame. Tough to see Barcelona winning the league now. On one hand it's understandable there'd be such a drop in performance given the emotion and adrenaline of Wednesday night, but equally the current setup really does not favour Messi at all who literally has no space to operate in. The impact of Messi's decrease in space isn't felt as harshly with Neymar in the side but he wasn't here today and our best player had 4/5 players around him whenever he got the ball. Also the squad players really needed to step up today and didn't, the question marks around many members of this squad remain. I will say that the corner Depor scored from to win it wasn't a corner and I don't know how a handball wasn't given late on against Depor but I wouldn't want to talk too much about referees.

zuutroy

Why the hell has he gone back to putting Messi in the middle when he figured out about 2 years ago that it doesn't work and teams have found a way to smother him there. Back to being as ineffective as he was for Suarez's first few months there.

The Talking Bread

zuutroy wrote: »

Why the hell has he gone back to putting Messi in the middle when he figured out about 2 years ago that it doesn't work and teams have found a way to smother him there. Back to being as ineffective as he was for Suarez's first few months there.

Messi has had a brilliant season??? Not sure what you are getting at here!

S.M.B.

Both those decisions should have gone the other way but they were difficult calls for the ref as opposed to more conspiracy theory evidence.

Suárez should have scored late on.