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38 in Ligue 1 last year. 17 in PL this. Looks like he scored less to me.People said the same about Zlatan last summer, and he did alright before his injury...
38 in Ligue 1 last year. 17 in PL this. Looks like he scored less to me.People said the same about Zlatan last summer, and he did alright before his injury...
I disagree. Stats for the top strikers in Spain are massively skewed. No way they'd consistently score as much in the PL.
Genuinely, no. The smaller sides in la liga go to Barca and Real looking to play football, and get thrashed. The smaller sides in the PL sit back and defend with 10 men in their own box. Barca would cope as they're absolute quality. But they wouldn't score in the same volume.Don't you think Barca would score as much in La Liga as they would do in the Prem?
Genuinely, no. The smaller sides in la liga go to Barca and Real looking to play football, and get thrashed. The smaller sides in the PL sit back and defend with 10 men in their own box. Barca would cope as they're absolute quality. But they wouldn't score in the same volume.
That's a fair point however let's spin it this way...we scored 86 goals this season, we have an excellent attack however it's obvious that Barca have a better forward line then us and one of if not the best in Europe, therefore it isn't entirely inconceivable that that they wouldn't be able to score a few more than us therefore it isn't totally against the realms of possibility that Messi wouldn't be posting up similar numbers to what he's getting in La Liga.
They may score more than us if playing in the PL but I do not expect they would score 33% more as they did this year (116 to 86).
Not saying they wouldn't still score goals, just think the Spanish league is particularly generous to good strikers. The Premier League is far more competitive than basically all the other leagues.But they'd score more right?
Messi's record against English clubs is 17 in last 16 inducing hat tricks against Man City and Arsenal...pretty sure he'd be able to score a few goals against English teams including the ones who sit back and defend...I mean it's not as if we struggled against the likes of Leicester and West Brom who are notorious for playing deep.
Not saying they wouldn't still score goals, just think the Spanish league is particularly generous to good strikers. The Premier League is far more competitive than basically all the other leagues.
People said the same about Zlatan last summer, and he did alright before his injury...
Yeah put Messi in this Tottenham side he's score and create a similar amount.
Soldado looked amazing in La Liga
Don't tell me some of you are the weirdos who don't fully rate Messi because 'he's only done it in Spain'.
Where did anyone say that?Don't tell me some of you are the weirdos who don't fully rate Messi because 'he's only done it in Spain'.
Where did anyone say that?
The argument is that barcelona including Messi wouldn't score as many in the premier league, which is valid imo
Its summed up perfectly by Bale
"Every game in the Premier League, you have to be at 100 per cent for 90 minutes or you will lose.
"In Spain, you can be up at half-time against the bottom club and take your foot off the gas.
"You can rest players and take people off. If you try for 45 minutes, you won't win a match in the Premier League.
This highlights imo that other teams do mentally give up in la liga when playing the big 2 teams
Its worth noting that we are talking about knockout football as well, so whilst english teams might set out to be defensive when they go behind against Barcelona they do go for it.Like I said before Messi's record against English teams is exceptional, he's only ever really 'struggled' against Chelsea when they sit deep but Chelsea under Mourinho defensively were a different animal defensively to Tony Pulis' West Brom for example, he's made far better defences and defensive units look stupid, what makes anyone think he wouldn't be able to replicate that over in the Prem?