ESPN FC’s Craig Burley and Shaka Hislop break down Barcelona’s 1-0 win vs. Atletico Madrid at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium. The guys praise Lionel Messi for his winning goal for Barca, but Burley adds that Messi’s brilliance is “papering over the cracks and deficiencies” at the club and believes Ernesto Valverde might be without a job if not for his star player. Hislop says Barca are more reliant on Messi more now than when he won his first Ballon d’Or award in 2009.
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777th comment ????
What a way to pick up ballon d’or.
Messi and Suarez are SUPPOSED to score. They are the attacking players that is their job. Who do they expect to score? The defenders? If defenders score it is a bonus. But Messi and Suarez are supposed to score or get fired.
Without Messi barca are exposed to how bad valverde really is
TerStegen was the real difference ??
Ter Stegen and Messi saves Valverde's Job again. ??♂️
Short answer, Yes
This is why Messi is the best and deservedly won his 6th balon dor.
These fools still mention xavi iniesta ni disrespect brilliant players but messi made them look good to not just they mafe messi look good
Messi and Ter Stegen is the one keeping Valverde on his job.
Messi and Ter Stegan are absolutely unreal ? ?
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Yet stegen is skiing the coach as well
This is getting so old. Leave the coach freakin' alone. Three of the four most important masters are gone. Iniesta, Xavi, Alves. It takes some time to rebuild a team. Coach hopping may work in Real.
So if Barcelona loses it’s Valverde’s fault, if they win and Messi plays well (which is well most of the time) he gets saved by Messi? Great Logic there! This Valverde bashing is disrespectfull just saying. Let the man do his job and enjoy his win.
I'm so happy that he said Suarez
Barcelona would’ve been better keeping Luis Enrique IMO
Messi should have sacrificed his ballon d’or and stopped delivering to sack Valverde. Barcelona is wasting too many good players like Griezmann, Coutinho and De Jong because of Valverde’s poor management.
The most boring team in the world – Atletico Madrid.