You are impossible, their worst period of form was when they went 5 games without a win and were missing more than just iniesta. Infact the first of the winless run Iniesta was playing, Messi wasn't, he came off the bench and barca scored a late equilizer. 2nd match Iniesta doesn't play, Barca have a man sent off in the first half and lose a derby 2-1. They then drew 1-1 in Lyon in which Messi was the best player. They then lose 4-3 to Atletico, messi was unplayable in the first 45 mins and the defence was shocking, how that is down to Iniesta i'll never know. They then drew away in the cup with Mallorca with 10 men, Messi came off the bench and scored the equilizer. They've won every game since and yes Iniesta is back but if you look at the most crucial time in the season the period of November and December Iniesta was out and they won every game. those 5 games were to do with a team naturally having a dip after performing so fantastically for so long, natural and not much to do with one player. You are clueless to assume as much and then ignore that Iniesta was out for large parts of the season when Barca were in there finest form. Do you realize that Henry has been reguvinated due to INiesta being injured? that is the reason Henry got a run in the side but no it is Iniesta that is all important...
1. Henry is rejvunated because he finally settled in Barca in his second year. Like most players do after moving to a new league, in a different country, with a style of football there are not used to. That has naught to do with Iniesta being injured. After all his direct comeption has infact been Hleb and not Iniesta.
2. I never said any where that Iniesta alone was all important. That is a figment of your imagination. Neither did I say him being out injured was the only reason their form dipped like you have just claimed. I instead said Insieta's injury
and then Xavi's dip in form lead to Barcelona dipping in form. Even with Messi and his fellow forwards still on fire. You instead want to claim the whole team lost form. Which is a myth. I pretty much watched all Barca's games in that period. & their biggest problem at the time was in midfield. Not a collective loss of form. It caused their defence all sorts of problems and their front 3 didnt have the same room to do the same damage they had been doing earlier on that season.
I don't think they do, they score more with Messi on the pitch, when he plays they score more and are more creative, i think you underate his all round play.
Firstly I'm not you. I'm not about to ever under rate Messi's all round play. Which you constantly do with Ronaldo.
Secondly it it doesn't take a genius to see that Messi benefits greatly from the type of service he gets from Xavi and Iniesta. Which is literally the best midfield service in the world ATM. Without it he and Barca wouldn't hit their current heights as easily. This was shown clearly last season. & this season during that period when they almost threw away their entire 12 point lead in La Liga.
You want to bracket him with Ronaldo as some sort of hyper productive player who when not scoring goals is not contributing. He's different to Ronaldo, he doesn't need to score a goal to impact a game.
Are you mad? Have you seen me say any where that Messi doesn't contribute anything when he doesn't score? Have you also seen me any where say Ronaldo has no imapct on games apart from score like you ALWAYS do?
I didn;t say you didnt. You made it out that he isn't as important to the team as Iniesta or Xavi, which i laughed at because it was a laughable thing to say.
Which shows how mad you are. Because I said Xavi and Iniesta are more important to Barcelona's creativity than Messi is. Not, like you are falsely claiming again, that I said they are more important to Barcelona than him. I've repeated this twice already since I first posted it. But you keep repeating the same drivel that I'm saying they are more important than him.
Yeah no difference at all between a 433 and a 442.
More drivel. So saying there is no difference in the role of a winegr ina 4-43 anda 4-42 = there is no difference bwteen 4-4-2 and 4-3-3.
Are you for real?
Messi is not a winger, Ronaldo isn't either, maybe when he was 20 or 21 he was, if he's a winger now he's a rubbish one.
Messi is a Winger. So is Ronaldo. Ronaldo being in poor form wont change that. Messi being in better form than Ronaldo or vice versa wont change that. Neither will stats of any kind.
Iniesta isn't as good a finisher as Xavi
What does Xavi's finishing have to do with anything I said? Does Xavi play for United? Because I said Iniesa is a better finisher than all our center midfielders with the excpetion of Scholes?
but you are just undermining your own players to make Messi look bad.
How? How does Messi look bad by me saying he plays alongside superior finishers to what Ronaldo does? Does it take away the fact Messi created all those chances? Just because the personnel he plays with used them better?
Quite a pathetic attempt really, do you not think Barca players miss chances?
Their attacking players miss simple chances far less than our attacking players do. Of that I have no doubt. I've watched both teams reguarly for the last 4 plus years to be 100% sure of this.
if you watched the messi video of his assists you would see how stupid your comments are. He creates so many more chances and so many more are missed. If they converted half the chances he created he'd have more than he does now and more than anyone in the team.
That's the dumbest shit I ever read really. According to your dumb logic the matches of Messi that I've watched over the last 4 years have given me no idea about the chance he creates? Yto the extent that some DVD of higlights with his assists will suddenly change my views?
Worse still you want to convince us all that he creates more than anyone else in his team?
And? This season Barca have been awesome, in seasons past they havent, they couldnt score, Eto'o was missing everything and Henry was a shadow.
Which seaons past? For the last 6 years If I'm not mistaken Barcelona has top scored in La Lig consistently for like 4 out of those years. Even in years they didn't win the league. You want to honestly claim their goal scoring form this season is only down to Messi? A team with the creative talents of XAvi, Iniesta and Henry in it, amongst others?
Ronaldo is not creative, not a fraction as creative as Messi
Explain his stats from the 2006/07 season then.
he doesnt create many chances in a game for his team, he puts in a cross when given the time on the odd occasion he isn't going for goal himself.
Bullshit. Ronaldo on form is our most creative outlet on the wings. If you watched Ronaldo with even the slighest anount of honesty in your body to you would have clearly seen this by now. Some one much earlier in this thread IIRC reproduced stats of last season showing that Ronaldo had made more crosses than anyone in the EPL last season. You dont do that by not being creative.
My myth? that was what you said
You wish. It was you who claimed the only way Ronaldo could get the award over Kaka was by breaking scoriung records. Depsite the fact that in the year he lost those awards to Kaka he had surpassed him in boh creative and scoring stakes all season.
, if Messi doesnt break Ronaldos records with goals or assists then he cant
be considered better.... Do you now see that it was a spastic comment that you made and are now trying to turn it around and say i said it ?
Of course it is spastic. Just like you who thought that drivel up! I laid out my criteria of what Messi had to do to out do Ronaldo clearly. It never included only goals and assists. Of that I'm beyond 100% sure. Lie about it all you want.
,I agree with this though, Ronaldo was awesome that year but Kaka did it where it mattered, top scorer in the champions league and the sort of virtuoso displays others dream of in the semi, the final, the group stages, the last 16. He was outstanding, sort of how Messi as been up to this point in the CL this season.
Messi will have to do what Kaka did that season in the knockout rounds and no one else should match it for him to be crowned the best. That's the type of thing I said he should do to surpass Ronaldo. But this is an alien concept to you
Even when i give you what you so crave you throw it back in my face, there is no reasoning with the unreasonable. You bang on about goals and assists and then see the stats for yourself and dismiss them as garbage
Gave me what I want my arse
What I want is for you to use your fecking brain for fecking once in your life Man! You said Messi has
better all round stats than Ronaldo as a player. (Dont even try to deny it) Meaning since he started until now all he stats are better than all Ronaldo's stats.
Do you not see how fecking retarded that is?