How Do We Handle Lionel Messi?

Anyone any ideas?

 

we can't really, no team can, just need to hope he plays *

 

Literally :icon_mrgreen:

 

Honestly though, I don't think anyone can answer that question. Tactically we could blurt out a thousand different methods but on the night if he decides he wants to go past a player or score a goal, he just will.

 

give him a boot in the stones lol

 

\0/

 

It's one of those things, watched the highlights of Barcelona last night and apparently he was * *.

And scored 2 goals...

 

Hope he gets injured. Then hope the same happens to Xavi,Iniesta,Fabregas,Alves,Alexis Sanchez, Villa,Pedro,Mascherano, Pique and a few more.

 

I said earlier on to my mate if they end up with Alex Song and Mascherano in defence I would fancy Sammy running at them with the ball. They aren't centre backs.

Xavi and Iniesta will control the game. There is literally nothing we can do about that and may as well accept it but they rely insanely heavily on Messi for the goals.

So the question is simple, how do you stop possibly the greatest player ever?

 

You can't stop him, that's why he is the greatest player ever!

 

snap his legs but no normal person would want to do that

 

and if their reserves all got the flu also,would be handy

 

I've drew a blank as well

First time I've actaully been scared of a football team visiting Celtic Park.

 

The answer is you can't really, we have no one even near good enough to mark him out the game, and he is too good to just hack down, it won't work. We can only hope he is well off his game, the reality is he will probably score 3 or 4 goals over the 2 games, unstoppable

 

Are you serious? Aside from the fact Messi is unstoppable, even if by some miracle we put the shackles on him there are countless world class players around him who can make a difference.

I'm not saying we can't get something from the game (stranger things have happened) but we know already they will have the vast majority of possession and will dictate the tempo of the game.

It's important we respect them, but don't fear them. They can be 'got at'. If we remain fairly compact, press well as a team then who knows.

 

kick him in the dome in the tunnel, only way to stop him.

im expecting barca to win every game so not fussed bout results vs barca. it's the benfica and spartak games that will matter to us

 

There's no point in hacking him down risking our players getting banned for vital games afterwards. Never know, we might get lucky at paradise with our 12th man atmosphere putting him off maybe just a little. Then if only we had Henrik to knock the ball into the net again in the last few minutes!

 

David Villa is back too. How do we stop him ????

 

We hope he has one of those nights where he just can't score and concentrate on stopping Messi from definitely scoring? :icon_mrgreen:

 

Barca are that good that we can't even afford to double up on Leo. Need to treat him as just another member of that team.