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Today’s Football - 2024/25 Season


PITA said:
Didn’t @Eggs score one like that at Old Trafford?
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….wowzy, doubt I could get my legs up that high even then.

Seeing as though you asked, Stretford End; cut in from the left, beat two defenders and hit a low bullet from the corner of the penalty area across the keeper and just inside the far post. I have a report upstairs that said I ‘crowned an enterprising display with an excellent goal’ :lol:
 

Drico said:
He's better than Messi at the same age.

I never thought I'd write such a sentence.

Mind you, Rooney was too...
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Messi wasn't getting regular competetive game time till he was 18/19.

This kid has played a 100 games for the club. Messi was 20 when he got to that number.

I can't imagine him being better than Messi in the long run but he's defo doing more than he was at the same age.
 
davek said:
You mentioned the 'eye test'.

Well on every occasion Ive seen him, especially in big games, he's taken too much on himself to get a goal when others were open and a better option. Going for goals when angles are way too acute seems to be a thing for him.

I dont think there's any doubt he hogs the ball way more than he should.

I get that it's a temptation because he's so good on the ball. From a neutrals perspective - one who doesn't care if his team wins, loses or draws - I dont care any way. I can applaud his attempts to do outrageous things. But if I were a supporter I'd be wondering if we'd be in that CL final at the end of the month in Munich if he'd done certain things a different way...especially going for a 4th with 90 seconds to go.

That's where the comparison with Messi really comes in. He'd have drawn fouls and killed that game at such a point.

Lamal is the greatest talent (at present) in world football, but he can be criticised.
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Shouldn't he be a bit of a ball hog, at this stage of his development?

The only way he'll figure out how he can and cannot beat the world's best defenders is trying it. He isn't playing against the world's best on the training pitch, and they're dialing it back a notch or two to avoid injury.

It's unreasonable to expect the decision-making of someone with a hundred Champions League games under his belt, and I think it's clear enough his continued development is more important to Barcelona's sustained success than anything else. We've played and watched enough games to see the errors. He hasn't, yet.

He's also probably right, some of the time. If he's still making mistakes in a few years, there's a problem. For now, he should do some stuff we think is stupid. It might work.
 
Martin Alvito said:
Shouldn't he be a bit of a ball hog, at this stage of his development?

The only way he'll figure out how he can and cannot beat the world's best defenders is trying it. He isn't playing against the world's best on the training pitch, and they're dialing it back a notch or two to avoid injury.

It's unreasonable to expect the decision-making of someone with a hundred Champions League games under his belt, and I think it's clear enough his continued development is more important to Barcelona's sustained success than anything else. We've played and watched enough games to see the errors. He hasn't, yet.

He's also probably right, some of the time. If he's still making mistakes in a few years, there's a problem. For now, he should do some stuff we think is stupid. It might work.
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I'm merely saying he's not the finished article, and you and others are telling me "he's not the finished article".

Lol.
 


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