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at May 01, 2019 0

Leo Messi has made clear his preferences for the eleven that the club will put against Liverpool. And he does not want Ousmane Dembélé, a player he accuses of being very irregular.
The French crack is very intermittent and, although in most crashes leaves more than one detail of great quality, he does not see it reliable enough to dispute the 90 minutes. He prefers to see it as revulsive. 
To be part of the game, he likes Coutinho, a footballer who, despite having starred in a mediocre season, has reacted and left a good taste in his last performances.
In addition, the Brazilian is more hardworking and more combinative. That is to say, it brings more fluidity to the team than Dembélé, more destabilizing and individualistic. And in matches of this level, they need a more compact block than loose individualities . For that, Messi is already here.
 
To all this, we add the motivational factor that assumes that the '7' is facing his old team. They insist that the former's law take effect and that 'Couti' can be the protagonist to help the Barça team achieve its goal: reach the final of the Champions League.
And if it does well, it would recover part of its cache and then be sold at a better price.
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at April 27, 2019 0

This year is happening with a huge difference of Barcelona over the other teams in LaLiga, even in the Champions League has not existed a set that so far can decipher the number of variants that have included the Catalans to that possession game at They has got used to the world of football.

Lionel Messi, as usual, has been the main star, this season the Argentine has recovered his best version as if the 31 years with which he already has not weighed at all. The Blaugrana crack is far surpassing a Cristiano Ronaldo who has had to settle for Serie A Italian, seeing their chances ended with a painful elimination against Ajax.

Despite this advantage, Messi wants to secure the Golden Ball without any surprise at the last minute, in that sense, he is aware that he must play the Champions League final. The moment of form and the security of the southpaw is such, that he has bet with Piqué and Suárez that will mark in both parties against Liverpool and that they will pass, a meal was played with them.
Now the English are worried, since it is not the first time that Messi makes some bet inside the dressing room that ends up fulfilling in the parties, it is only necessary to remember that anecdote of Yaya Touré, in which the culé star commented to him which soccer players of the picture rival were going to be the victims of their pipes.

After several campaigns without being able to be protagonists in the European championship at the level of clubs of greater prestige, Barcelona does not think to miss this opportunity in which it seems oriented the way towards the conquest of that Oregon that was targeted as the course began. Sixth Golden Ball for Messi?

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at April 23, 2019 0

EDEN HAZARD may be having a good season for Chelsea, but the team cannot always rely on him because “he’s not Lionel Messi".

That’s the opinion of former Blues midfielder Craig Burley.
Chelsea was held to a 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge yesterday as Burnley threw a major spanner in the works of the top four race.
The Blues are desperate to secure Champions League football for next season and are in a tight battle with Tottenham, Manchester United and Arsenal for the remaining two spots in the Premier League.
Currently, Liverpool and Manchester City are the only two teams confirmed for top four finishes, with the rest of the pack closely fighting it out to join them in the competition next year.
Chelsea - fourth - are level on points with third-placed Tottenham, who have a game in hand.
Behind them, Arsenal is in fifth on 66 points, whilst United are struggling from poor form recently and are on 64 points.
With all three other teams having lost this weekend, facing Burnley at home was the perfect opportunity for Maurizio Sarri’s side to get back into the top four, but they squandered the chance despite coming from behind to lead 2-1.
And Burley explained that Chelsea cannot afford to continuously rely on Hazard to get them out of trouble as the run-in continues.
“Others have to take charge, take responsibility.
“Too often they think ‘he’ll dig us out of the hole, he’ll get us a result’, but today proved that isn’t always going to be the case.”
Hazard struggled on Monday night after Callum Hudson-Odoi suffered a heartbreaking ruptured Achilles injury, which will keep him out until next season.
In the youngster's absence, Hazard was expected to be the driving force behind Chelsea's attacks but Sarri's side struggled to find a way through a stubborn Burnley.
The Londoners' next game sees them face Man United on Sunday (4.30pm).
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at April 22, 2019 0

ended up winning teammates, club, and fans. The Chilean, signed in summer, despite not being the undisputed holder, has been consecrated as the number 12 player of Barça.
Ernesto Valverde did not hesitate to entrust himself to him when the game was rough and needed a player of different conditions: aggressive, strong and intense, a profile that was not available at the Camp Nou. 
Far behind has left his problems with his character and his controversies outside the field. Now, with almost 32 years, he is a focused player, who does not raise his voice and who sacrifices himself for the team, which has a very clear goal, to achieve the triplet.
His good performance in the Santander League, and the fact that Rakitic, Busquets, and Arthur are untouchable - which will have to add to de Jong next year - had led to clubs like Tottenham, Juventus, his former squad, and Milan to ask about him.
All of them promised more prominence, a good salary, and different objectives, but all of them ambitious. S however, or at Barça are the work of letting him go just one year after paying 22 million for Messi and spoil his escape.
 
The Chilean has made good friends with Leo, who also values ​​his involvement, his commitment and his claw on the grass.
The doors are closed and, more than a goodbye, what they try is to renew their bond to reward their good course
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at April 17, 2019 0

LIONEL MESSI was caught on camera delivering a savage snub to Chris Smalling after the game as Barcelona ended Manchester United’s Champions League dream with a 3-0 win at the Nou Camp.

Messi was left shocked after ending up with a bloodied face from a Smalling challenge in the first leg of their  quarter-final clash.
And when the pair met after the final whistle i was not up for a handshake.
As the two met on the field Smalling was seen to turn as if to shake Messi’s hand, but the Argentine pretty much ignored his approach.
Instead of a friendly handshake, the 31-year-old quickly tapped the United defender on the back, before walking off and extending his hand to embrace another player.
The action might have surprised Smalling as he claimed he had spoken with Messi about the challenge in the first leg and had explained it was an accident.
Though it appeared from Messi’s actions that he clearly hasn’t forgotten the incident from the previous week.
Barca boss Ernesto Valverde even admitted after the game in Manchester it took the striker a couple of days to recover from the challenge.
For all the criticism Barca had come under for their style of play in the opening leg, few would find fault with their performance at home.

United came into the game having to overturn an away goal deficit and Marcus Rashford nearly gave the visitors a perfect start, but his shot cannoned off the bar after just 40 seconds.
Messi then didn’t waste any time opening Barca’s account as he scored after just 16 minutes.
He then grabbed himself a second four minutes later, off a mistake from keeper David de Gea, who let a weak speculative shot roll underneath his body and into the net.
"I have to say Lionel Messi is top quality and he was the difference of course. At 2-0 it was game over,” he said.
"He's different class, he and Cristiano Ronaldo are the best players of the last decade, everyone agrees on that one.
“Messi showed his quality.
"We have to aspire to get to that level of Barcelona, we can get there but we have loads of work to do.”

And the Norwegian’s compliments were echoed by Valverde after the game.
“Leo always appears in the important games," Valverde said.
"Not just to finish off the moves, but all over the pitch.
"He's involved in all our play. He gets the goals, but he also takes on responsibility in the attack.
“When he's playing like that, he's unstoppable."


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at April 16, 2019 0

Leo Messi goes for the Champions League. The Argentine was the great protagonist, with permission from David De Gea, of the meeting, which did not have much history. The Barça, four years later, returns to stand in the semifinals.
The Argentine appeared in the 16th minute to put the tie back on track. In the 20th, the culé captain, with the inestimable collaboration of the Spanish goalkeeper Manchester United, put the second with which he came to rest. Already in the second half, with everything resolved, Coutinho scored a goal of beautiful invoice to restore morale and send a hint to his critics with the celebration.
The '10' broke the gaffe that accompanied the azulgrana box and hit the table. He wants the Champions League and goes with everything. He has already understood that, if he wants to win the Golden Ball, it is a condition 'sine qua non' to raise the Orejona.
Leo is obsessed with regaining his throne and unseating Cristiano Ronaldo as the player with more gold balls in history, in addition to match in European Cups, with five.
In the long term, Messi also dreams of repeating the feat of CR7 at Real Madrid, as impossible as it seems: to be the kings of the World for three consecutive times. The leagues do not matter, if not the maximum continental competition. 
In Turin, Juventus de Ronaldo suffered against Ajax an unexpected defeat. The costumes of Barca did not lose any detail of what was happening in the Allianz Arena and saw how one of the favorites to win the championship was eliminated by the great revelation of the season.
Messi's message to Cristiano could not be more direct. He wants the Champions League and expects a rival in the final. Although yes, he has no doubts. If the 'Vecchia Signora' had arrived, the result would have been humiliating. Leo did not see Juve as the great candidate and believes that Barça would have passed the roller in the final. 
Liverpool waits in the semifinals already.

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at April 16, 2019 0

Barcelona will look to secure a place in the last four of the Champions League as they host Manchester United on Tuesday night.
The Catalan giants hold a 1-0 advantage from the first leg at Old Trafford in their quarter-final tie and are now considered strong favorites to complete the job at home.
However, United remain a threat as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side know that they can cause their rivals' problems after the first meeting, despite failing to register a shot on target.
With the pace, movement, and quality that they have in the final third though, they could be a handful on the counter-attack and that is something Barcelona will have to prepare for and nullify.
After being rested at the weekend, several key stalwarts are back in coach Ernesto Valverde’s squad, as seen in the club’s tweet below.
Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Sergio Busquets, and Gerard Pique were all absent in the draw with Huesca, but they all return for this crunch showdown.
Ousmane Dembele also gets the nod as he continues his recovery from an injury, and after featuring on Saturday, the Frenchman is ready to provide Valverde with another key option in attack to pose a different threat to the Red Devils.
The 21-year-old recovered to make the bench in the first leg, but having now got minutes under his belt after missing four consecutive La Liga games with a muscle injury, he’ll hope to play a more prominent role.
Based on the reaction below, it’s fair to say that many Barcelona fans are delighted to have him return to the fold, and they’ll hope that he can prove to be decisive to seal their place in the semi-finals having bagged 14 goals and eight assists in 36 games so far this season.
It’s a strong squad for Barcelona and Valverde, and few will go against them securing the result they need to advance.

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