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  • Andres Iniesta Will be the Most Important in the Lionel Messi – Neymar Era

    Andres Iniesta Will be the Most Important in the Lionel Messi – Neymar Era

    Next season, some of these conclusions will start being answered. The most interesting of them? Not seeing Neymar playing next to Lionel Messi, as mouth-watering as that prospect sounds. It’ll be exciting to watch, or at least wait for, but the most important change Barcelona have to look forward to is Andres Iniesta, the European footballer of the year not too long ago, moving more and more to the middle, and slowly pushing Xavi out of the lineup.

  • FC Barcelona – Cesc Fabregas is Never Going to Be Lionel Messi

    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.

  • FC Barcelona – Tito Vilanova Turns Lionel Messi Into a Super Sub

    FC Barcelona – Tito Vilanova Turns Lionel Messi Into a Super Sub

    Maybe this is going to be the new thing for Barcelona heading into next season – starting Lionel Messi on the bench, and then throwing him into the match when he’s most needed, just to show his brilliance and scoring ability in a much narrower window of time. Tito Vilanova has used that “trick” more than once this season, and it seems to have worked every time.

  • FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Can’t Be the Only Plan for Tito Vilanova

    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.

  • FC Barcelona – Andres Iniesta Needed for Legendary Comeback

    FC Barcelona – Andres Iniesta Needed for Legendary Comeback

    Not just a ‘good enough to qualify’ result would be considered a success. Any win for Barcelona against a team that’s shaping out to be one of the more menacing Europe has seen in quite some time, it’s going to take more than Lionel Messi wonders. Andres Iniesta, demolished by Javi Martinez in that first leg, will have to be the best midfielder in the world for 90 minutes, something he’s capable of doing.

  • FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Was Abandoned By Tito Vilanova

    FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Was Abandoned By Tito Vilanova

    To some it felt like giving up. Tito Vilanova forgot he has a bench, but worst, he failed to realize Lionel Messi, the man his entire game plan is based on, wasn’t really fit for the match, thus sending Barcelona on something close to a hopeless mission, from which they return home battered and bruised like never before.

  • 4 Reasons Why Barcelona Will Win the Champions League

    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 […]

  • FC Barcelona – Cesc Fabregas Loves it Without Lionel Messi

    FC Barcelona – Cesc Fabregas Loves it Without Lionel Messi

    I’m sure Cesc Fabregas is a better player with Lionel Messi on the pitch, but for yet another week, he manages to do things, mostly score a goal, while the biggest star on the Barcelona squad takes another day off heading into more important matches, while the Spanish La Liga is not proving to be too much of a challenge, even on one of the most unimpressive displays from the soon-to-be-champions this season.

  • Lionel Messi & Cristiano Ronaldo Are the Best But Not the Most Important Players On Their Teams

    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.

  • FC Barcelona – Cesc Fabregas Still Hasn’t Truly Arrived

    Despite being a product of La Masia, it seems Cesc Fabregas hasn’t really found himself since arriving, or returning to football club Barcelona, being too much of an Arsenal man in the way he plays to perfectly fit the tactical needs his current club requires of him, raising the question, more than once, of if signing him at all costs while having a possibly more suitable player, like Thiago, growing from within, was the wisest choice to make.