Well he's not quite as good as Diaby, so that's understandable.

Heh, yeah. Or something like that.

If Iniesta (or Xavi for that matter) was playing in the Premier League he'd be considered the best footballer in the country by a street imo.

When it comes to those individual awards such as world player of the year then the PL is often overlooked, and Barcelona in particular are often wanked over.

David Silva is having a better season than Iniesta, but he will get no such recognition in Europe in general playing in the PL. Personally I have those two at roughly the same level. Silva won´t ever be considered for WPOTY, and rightly so.

Sorry Rex, but Iniesta is much better than Silva. It's been proven in Spain both in their league and for the national side.

It helps big time playing for Barcelona. Put Iniesta at Man City and I doubt he would be any better than Silva has been.

Silva is a two-bob player compared to Iniesta.

Silva is not a shit player by any standards.

Way down Spain's pecking order though.

Was the pitch as bad last night?

Not as bad, but it was hard to Barca to play their passing game. They kept going through the middle because the wide pitch was horrendous. But the central defence is Milan's strength so it played into Milan's hands.

Don't know about anyone else, but I thought Cesc was fantastic last night.

Was better than Iniesta at least. 🙂

For me Iniesta is absolutely amazing. He should probably be doing better goals and assists wise but then he is as important as Xavi if not more in enabling Barcelona to play the game they do.

I know not many prefer their style of play but the way they are able to compress the game into one half of the pitch and still find space, time and control of the ball is largely down to both Xavi and Iniesta.

I don't think we have counter attacked as well as we could in our glory years under Wenger only because we don't have a player of the quality of Vieira in our side. He made those possible and never had numbers to show for it. Now i am not suggesting they are similar players but Iniesta enables Barcelona to play the way they do and the way they do it just in a footballing sense is pretty incredible even if it may look boring.

He's the complete central midfielder. Unique player.

Iniesta is very good. Not complete in my eyes as he isn't dominant physically

Or score and assist very much. 🙂