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FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Becoming the Power Figure of the Club
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a soccer club is for one of its players to become greater than the team itself, which is something that’s at a risk of happening for Barcelona with Lionel Messi.
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FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi & Andres Iniesta Make Managers Matter Less
Everyone at the moment is busy thinking who should become the team’s next manager, but that question is less and less important when Barcelona have the kind of attack they currently possess, and above everyone else are Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta.
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FC Barcelona – Cesc Fabregas Isn’t as Bad as He’s Made Out to Be
It’s not easy being Cesc Fabregas, who needs to play with the most talented bunch of midfielders in the world and the best player on the planet as well, which make him look like a bit-part player sometimes at Barcelona, but numbers, and actually watching him play suggests a very different reality.
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FC Barcelona – Cesc Fabregas is Never Going to Be Lionel Messi
No matter how many times Barcelona use Cesc Fabregas in the false 9 position, there’s just too much of a gap between him and Lionel Messi. It didn’t prevent Barca from winning and staying on course for the 100 league points that would make for a club record, but the ongoing presence of Andres Iniesta and Xavi keeps pushing Fabregas away from where he feels most comfortable on the pitch.
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FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Can’t Be the Only Plan for Tito Vilanova
The questions of whether or not such a season, with such an exit from the most prestigious tournament, is a failure or not, will soon come. Lionel Messi spent 90 minutes on the bench, next to a helpless Tito Vilanova, as they watched Barcelona crash and burn at the Camp Nou in what has been their most painful and humbling loss at the biggest stage of all.
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FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Shouldn’t be This Important
It shouldn’t be this way, not for a huge club like Barcelona. Things shouldn’t hinge on the amount of minutes one player, as talented as he may be, plays each time. And yet once more Lionel Messi came on for a cameo appearance to save his team from defeat with one wonder goal and another assist, although eventually it wasn’t enough for more than a meaningless draw.
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4 Reasons Why Barcelona Will Win the Champions League
How do you know Barcelona are declining? We could only find four reasons that make them favorites to go all the way and win the Champions League. Lionel Messi is one of them, the main one of them, standing tall above the rest of them. Without him, there’s really no hope of triumphing, making it […]
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Lionel Messi & Cristiano Ronaldo Are the Best But Not the Most Important Players On Their Teams
The never ending fascination with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo being one or two levels about the rest of European football isn’t going to stop any time soon, not when the two Barcelona & Real Madrid stars continue to score at the pace they are now, but it doesn’t mean they mean the difference between success and failure for the two sides.
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FC Barcelona – Cesc Fabregas & Xavi Oversee the Substitutes
Garbage time for Barcelona doesn’t mean they’re planning on dropping points. Cesc Fabregas was back in the role of Lionel Messi while the real deal wasn’t even in the squad, while the ones who truly enjoyed a run in the lineup were Cristian Tello who finished with two goals and plenty of others, who’ll see quite a lot of La Liga action till the end of the season.