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Lots of reasons why we lost

Lots of mistakes

Main one for me was giving Messi time and space to play the game his way and he destroyed us

Forgetting the whole “everything is Trippier” bullshit narrative for a minute, this is pretty much it in a nutshell.

That was vintage Messi from the Guardiola days, played as a WLF in a 433, dropping deep and playmaking and it’s been a long time since any “big” team gave him as much time and space as we did.
 
Big day for we proud few in the pro-Lamela anti-Sissoko camp.

Messi was fucking brilliant, as we all know, but at the peak of his powers it's like prime Michael Jordan, something you'll be telling your grandkids about. Where on earth was this Messi for Argentina this summer?
 
You are becoming a parody of yourself. Stuff like this just makes you look incapable of an objective opinion. This is where the silly bollocks starts:



Lets get this straight, the goal starts by Son just ambling around and bot pressing properly, then Messi given all the time in the world to pick a pass, which he does, beautifully, that Trippier can't physically reach, but his positioning is fine, Lloris has no reason whatsoever to do what he does, because even if the guy receives the ball, which he does, he's on the corner of our box at a 45% fucking angle. It's 5% the fault of poor pressing in midfield and 95% idiocy from that fucking clown Lloris.

It gets better:



As this move develops Trippier is behind Moura, in his correct position, pressing his man, which he does, it is Moura who allows Messi to wander off free, waving a fucking limp arm in Messi's direction rather than actually sticking diligently with him. The rest of your game of consequence is just more biased tripe that ignores the failings and "joggings" of every other player equally culpable, or not.



Fuck me. Show him the line? he hits the ball instantly? What's he supposed to do flail his hands about?



Lloris had time. Why start the clusterfuck by passing to a man, in our own penalty area that is under pressure almost immediately. There were four players in or on the edge of our penalty area, there were no spare players, Lloris as ever doesn't read this and starts the clusterfuck. Trippier has no easy immediate pass option, Sissoko seeing what's happening jogs (I know how you hate a jogger) but still has 4 yards on his marker, (if he'd sprinted he might have had more), he then gets too easily shrugged off it by a bloke half his size who's trying harder for his team.

And by the way, take a good look at what Alderweireld is doing while all this is unfolding. He's pitched himself a deck chair, has downed tools, got his pack lunch out while Messi just stands there in 8 yards of space in the centre of the box. Which is of course, Trippier's fault.



We play with FB's pushed up, if you don't understand the ramifications, Poch's poor tactical application at times, for this and Trippier's inability to defy physics and be in two places at once, especially in a back four system, that's not his fault, it's yours.

I even pointed out to you Walker getting done the same a couple of weeks ago in the Lyon game.

I have also proved to you that factually your theory of Trippier or our right side being "targeted" is utter bollocks. You choose to stick your fingers in your ears, stick your head up your arse and whistle "Trippier's shit".

By all means criticise the bloke, but at least be objective and not just make stuff up, or do the same for everyone.
This post is spot bollock on.
I don't often agree with your evaluation of matches especially re Dier and a (possible) over reliance on stats.
That being said I agree 100% with this post.
 
Forgetting the whole “everything is Trippier” bullshit narrative for a minute, this is pretty much it in a nutshell.

That was vintage Messi from the Guardiola days, played as a WLF in a 433, dropping deep and playmaking and it’s been a long time since any “big” team gave him as much time and space as we did.


My point was that he was given the time and space to play and he killed us

In the World Cup against France he wasn’t so was virtually effective
 
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Big day for we proud few in the pro-Lamela anti-Sissoko camp.

Messi was fucking brilliant, as we all know, but at the peak of his powers it's like prime Michael Jordan, something you'll be telling your grandkids about. Where on earth was this Messi for Argentina this summer?


Marked out of the game

Particularly against France

What Poch said was going to happen in his pre match press conference but our team just didn’t do it so that was one of the main reasons for our defeat
 
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