That's literally impossible, unless you're getting carried out by your team m8s to the attacking zone, by not attacking too fast so Messi might sneak to the final third by walking. That's the reason he's in the end of the play quite often, just because Barca wants to keep their play slow in order to have Messi in play in the final third. If they played like Liverpool, Messi would be picking up his nose in the middle, when players are going past him in both directions, it's just how it is whether you want to accept it or not.
He might have the best left foot in the game, his brains might weight 15 kilos and so on, but it's a physical sport, where you need a certain physical condition in order to play and Messi clearly isn't capable of doing it anymore, considering how fast and physical game is nowdays. All the top teams in the world are either great at counter attacking, great at pressing because that's how you keep up the tempo. Barcelona do not have players for anything, they're bunch of fossils walking around the field and hoping their 80% posession wins the games in La Liga against Getafes etc, as it has done because they still have way more quality in there but if they're facing team like Liverpool, City, Bayern in the CL, they can't have 80% posession and they're required to run way more and since no real counter attacking ability or anything, they basically become useless. Even the last few classicos against RM they've looked like bunch of amateurs compared to RM. That whole Barcelona team is built by playing with quite low tempo, that's why Messi is able to jog around like he does and it's a cold hard fact. Let's say couple years ago when those players were still somewhat on their early 30s, not 33-34s they were just fine, but that couple years in there with no real additions to their team and couple La Ligas when RM was putting all their eggs to the same basket(CL) just made them believe we still got this, even the reality is that they don't and it's crystal clear nowdays.
He might have the best left foot in the game, his brains might weight 15 kilos and so on, but it's a physical sport, where you need a certain physical condition in order to play and Messi clearly isn't capable of doing it anymore, considering how fast and physical game is nowdays. All the top teams in the world are either great at counter attacking, great at pressing because that's how you keep up the tempo. Barcelona do not have players for anything, they're bunch of fossils walking around the field and hoping their 80% posession wins the games in La Liga against Getafes etc, as it has done because they still have way more quality in there but if they're facing team like Liverpool, City, Bayern in the CL, they can't have 80% posession and they're required to run way more and since no real counter attacking ability or anything, they basically become useless. Even the last few classicos against RM they've looked like bunch of amateurs compared to RM. That whole Barcelona team is built by playing with quite low tempo, that's why Messi is able to jog around like he does and it's a cold hard fact. Let's say couple years ago when those players were still somewhat on their early 30s, not 33-34s they were just fine, but that couple years in there with no real additions to their team and couple La Ligas when RM was putting all their eggs to the same basket(CL) just made them believe we still got this, even the reality is that they don't and it's crystal clear nowdays.
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