Hahaha fuck off what is this match

Var calling this back for offside?

Underrated aspect of Romeu having a nightmare is Xavi having a nightmare too.

Why is Romeu higher than Frenkie playing as a CM? Why is Pedri playing as a 10 so far away from the ball? What’s the idea of this mid 3 playing together in this configuration?

Lamine is gonna be such a problem when he’s an actual adult

They need to something about this whole passage of time thing. Kvara being an 8 yr old watching Messi treble and win a Balon is insane to me

Haaland has historically outscored Kane even in similar competitions on weaker teams. Look up their international records and their CL records.

Kane’s the better player but Haaland is a scoring machine. Don’t fool yourself into denying that.

Holy victim complex no one ever denied this. I remember Kane vs Lewy debates like 5 years ago.

Especially win kane now and how lewa is doing its beyond clear that lewa needed bayern more than bayern needed him.

Agree with the rest of your comment but this part is braindead. Bayern isn’t always as dominant as they look in results. Lewy has never gotten credit for the periods where Bayern looks a mess and he’s carried their dead attack on his shoulders.

That Barça team was great but it was a very weird season that. With the coach being diagnosed with cancer, Messi picking up that infamous hamstring injury and constantly rushing back to be there in that CL KO run.

Awful loss regardless but imo that 8-2 was way more inexcusable.

I’m not saying he wasn’t best as a winger, I’m saying he was best as a winger who with the freedom to be his team’s main playmaker. That’s the way he played in that Libertadores win, in almost his entire Brazil career, in Barça whenever Messi was out and at PSG.

That’s a difference from how he played as winger in that Barça treble season (where he was great, no doubt but that treble was about the entire front 3 fittin together and Messi having his peak season. Neymar himself had far from reached his best level). If anything during that treble season should be a reference for the best version of Neymar it’s the way Messi player in that free winger role. Receive the ball early and have all the freedom to dribble, pass, shoot, etc while other players are tasked with being at the end of your chances.

And as for him not being able to play the 10, look back one year. He’s done it for stretches in his career but that PSG stretch before the WC he was playing some of his best football ever pretty much all from that left 10 position.

The entire comment. Starting with saying he was a better player at Barça than he was at PSG (he was not, not even close) and then describing him as a player who needed players to supply him the ball in the final 3rd and then finishing off with saying he couldn’t play as a 10. Every single part of that comment was nonsense.

The best version of Neymar, the one we’ve seen at his peak playing for Brazil and PSG and who we got flashes of at Barça, has always been the one who had the freedom to be the team’s main playmaker. Even in Barça times we could see it. The Neymar we got at Barça was great, but he was limited by having to play a secondary role to Messi. Fewer opportunities to playmake and more responsibility of having to provide width and depth and make runs in behind. The Neymar we saw during every international break was the real Neymar. A devastating playmaker and dribbler and easily the 2nd best creative fulcrum (next to Messi) there’s been in the past 15 years.

Not a single person who actually watches Neymar thinks of him as someone who thrives best being on the end of chances. What you’re describing is a player like Mbappé or Cristiano.

Astonishing this. Literally every part of this comment is wrong.

Why do people have such strong opinions about players they clearly didn’t watch?

Clearest example of the strength of Madrid PR we have. That was 100% Cristiano’s Balon to win, yet the moment he left Madrid suddenly next best got propped up and ended up getting it against all odds.

They were calling him a top 3 mid in the world and a legit Balon contender tho.

Imagine being brazilian and thinking players from your country don’t get enough hype lol. You’re fine. Endrick was crowned the next Pele before he even turned 16.