Mirth wrote:
Fundamentally I doubt teams are scared to play this Barcelona side without Messi
There's probably a lot of truth in that. I know a couple of Barca fans who have complained about Suarez non-stop for like the past 18 months, calling him a stat fraud. (The same people think he was the best 9 they've seen at Barca during his first two years at the club, so it doesn't seem to be anything personal.)
Tonight I could see their point. What an absolute horseshit performance that was from him when he didn't have Messi to hide behind. They really lost a creative dimension when Neymar left.