18 Mar 2019 09:44:29
Barca and Messi were scary last night.
Just hope Ashley's fit to keep Messi in check.
18 Mar 2019 10:29:04
I expect either a right hand side combination of Young and Dalot, or Herrera may be asked to do a man marking job.
18 Mar 2019 12:39:36
Young has been nothing but a liability defensively for most part, if we hope to stop messi it will have to be hererra doing what he does to hazard.
18 Mar 2019 14:19:16
It will take far more than a man-marking job to stop Messi. He will drift around and drag defenders all over the place. Barcelona can use one-twos and triangles to get out of all kinds of pressure. The only way we will stop them will be from a massive effort of communication and concentration, to stay switched on to their movement and quality on the ball. But it can be done.
18 Mar 2019 15:16:41
We can still do this you know, just make sure the players turn up. I would even suggest drop Pogba for the game. Somehow he always goes missing in the big games. I have a feeling that we might pull this off. I am hoping that the players turn up. As for Messi, we kept Ronaldo quiet for much of the tie in the group stage. We keep Hazard quite but it will take 2 to keep him quite and don't think Pogba is the man to do the job.
18 Mar 2019 16:35:25
I expect Herrera do a job, similar to what he have done with hazard in the chelsea games.
18 Mar 2019 17:24:23
My post was supposed to be tongue in cheek.
18 Mar 2019 18:25:49
Messi can change any game in a blink of an eye, and his partner can get a goal too.
18 Mar 2019 23:50:25
Porsche, you got me there. Took that one way too serious.
19 Mar 2019 18:14:57
Porshe I agree, but he'll need help from Chris "Action man" Smalling's gripping hands!