Leo Messi, cabizbajo against the Valladolid in the Camp Nou

MESSI CONFIRMED THAT it STILL IS not To TOPE

Messi failed a penalti after a jugadón of Coutinho and Suárez

Published:16/02/2019 - 22:34h

Updated:16/02/2019 - 22:54h

Although Luis Suárez and Coutinho did the delights of the Camp Nou with several walls until colarse in the interior of the area, with a penalti received by the Brazilian, Leo Messi no atinó in the shot of penalti to duplicate the advantage against the Valladolid

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If some doubted that Leo Messi still is not to the one hundred by one hundred after the hit that received in front of Valencia two weeks ago, received the confirmation this Saturday against the Real Valladolid. To fault of five minutes for the end of the statutory time, Luis Suárez and Coutinho caused, with his fast walls in the interior of the area, a clear penalti.

Leo Messi, that already had benefited in the first time of a maximum penalty caused by Gerard Hammered, attended to shoot from the eleven metres and did not adjust the sufficient as for colar the ball to Jordi Masip. The goalkeeper of the Valladolid certified his big performance when stopping the penalti to Messi and, just afterwards, detain also the finish of head of the Argentinian.

The '10' of the FC Barcelona confirmed that it still needs something more than time to return to his best version, although it fits to signal also that it was the most incisive player of the Barcelona and the one who looked for the goal with more ahínco in front of the Real Valladolid. 

It marked a penalti, failed another and delivered several passes to the space that well could have been assistances of goal, in the case that Boateng, Luis Suárez and Sergi Roberto had been the sufficiently fine-tuned -that were not it- for desequilibrar the marker along the ninety minutes. Leo Messi did not play to 100%, and even so it was the most dangerous player of the FC Barcelona.

With his penalti failed, gives arguments to those who think that the launching of maximum penalties is not his best speciality, although the reality is that his percentage of errors from the eleven metres neither is too high. The aim, in the short term, is that it recover the confidence for comandar the attack of the Barcelona in the next parties, decisive so much in LaLiga Santander as in League of Champions and Glass of Rey.

The Barcelona will need to the best Messi in Lyon

The first big 'battle' for which will have to prepare psychologically is the visit of the FC Barcelona to Lyon next Tuesday, in the gone of the eighth of final of the Champions League. Messi will arrive to the party like the current maximum second scorer in the tournament, with six targets in the phase of groups, after the eight goals annotated by Lewandowski. New challenges to motivate to 'The Flea' in the fight by the title that more wishes.

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