BR - Has there ever been a football team with a higher approval rating than Pep Guardiola's bewilderingly brilliant Barcelona, who all too predictably defeated AC Milan to reach the Champions League semifinals on Tuesday night?
Outside of loyalist Madrid circles, it seems Barca are now almost universally revered. They have long since transcended the muddy trenches of fan loyalty and been elevated to a godly status that becomes only the fewest of the few.
Maybe, but still they are way too dependent on Messi.
They rely on 1 player and that makes him brilliant not the team, the rest of europe is lagging behind n creating the perfect conditions for barcelona to look good. Man United and Liverpool would destroy n sweep this barcelona team to the side in their prime.
He's just been watching too many Barca matches. The situation is pretty much like Michael Schumacher who killed the F1 for me when he was in his prime.
Barca is a great team. Every manager in the world is scratching their heads to figure out how to beat this team for the last 3~4 years... which is a great thing.
I used to be a Man U hard-core fan once but after Barca beat them up [and how] in the UEFA final around 2009 [and they still beat them in the same fashion last year] , i gave up. I love Barca only because they really teach "great" teams from other leagues how to play football. Quite entertaining, to be frank.
The only part i hate about Barca is that they play around the D area just too much... but then again only Barca can pull off such stunts.
Read an interesting stat that AC Milan have as many goals in Serie A that Messi has to himself. Total Milan goals: 60, total goals for Messi this season: 60 and counting. That's staggering. It also shows how reliant Barce are on him considering he has scored so many goals and are still behind Madrid in La Liga.
So loosing position is Entertaining?? Barcelona play they own Football that even Ferguson still can't figure out.....