Have no idea why Puyol didn´t just boot that ball away. You´d think that is ok even at Barcelona off your own line.

Iniesta has been crap (not 'off form'), but uselessly crap for a good while now. Looks like Gervinho out there. Nor have I seen Xavi misplace as many passes. This Barca team is way too reliant on Messi, nobody else has stepped up except for maybe Cesc who doesn't fit this fluid formation.

Pep needs to go back to basics. Use the midfield to control the game, and the forwards to put away the chances. Ridiculous that Messi has to do everything game in, game out. I wonder if they finally (FINALLY) are beginning to feel the number of games they've played. It's absurd how none of their stars ever get injured, but they are starting to look seriously jaded.

By the way, Iniesta's been pretty underwheming this season by his high standards

Just seen the goal, what on earth was Puyol thinking?

He wanted to play himself out of the situation. 🙂

😆

Funny because it's probably true.

Tello is not good enough for this game. Bring on Cesc.

Barca need Cesc.

And for all the fapping that Busquets receives, he folds when pressed and not presented with passing options. Arteta would have done better than him today.

Tony Montana wrote:

Tello is not good enough for this game. Bring on Cesc.

Word, the boy's mostly pace. I think Barca are taking this youth thing a bit too far recently.

Cronny puts them ahead again

Ronaldo didn't even need to look at the goal as he blasted that ball into the back of the net.

He's rolling around on the sideline now.
Rcovered easily from that stud scraping in the end

Fabregas - only midfielder at Barca with balls. Xavi would have passed it backwards there, Iniesta would have lost the ball.

Its funny that as soon as cesc moved there they are losing in la liga and struggling in the cl and looking very human and making mistakes, i think they miss villa more than they expected no one scores except messi. They arent as good as when we played them in 09-10 where they just constantly created chances.

It would take some kind of unprecedented disaster for Madrid to lose out on the la Liga title now.

Messi has not scored in two games?
Barcelona were far far from impressive.