With Suarez having only 1 goal in the Champions League this season, it is clear that Barca are relying too much on Messi. The numbers in recent matches most clearly show that El Puga is the "breath" of the team at Nou Camp.
In the round of 16 of the Champions League, Messi scored 3 goals and contributed 1 assist in 2 matches. Last week, the " Catalan giants" defeated Leganes 3-1 in La Liga, all 3 of their goals came from Messi.
When El Puga did not score, Barca was weak to see. In the 4-1 victory in the first leg against Roma, the away team scored 2 goals to score an own goal. The remaining goals were not from Messi (Pique 59' and Suarez 87). And in the match early this morning, M10 only had 2 shots on target towards the opponent's goal, marking a "terrifying" day of competition.
He couldn't drop the ball, he couldn't get the ball through the person, even his strong free kicks could not help Messi put the ball into Roma's net. Barca lost 0-3 and took advantage of the feeling that PSG suffered against them last season.
Looking back at past times, this is not the first time M10 has "shaped" on the day Barca was eliminated from the Champions League. Before that, since the 2006-07 season, El Puga had failed to score in a series of matches in which Barcelona were eliminated. Most recently, they lost to Juventus in the quarter-finals last year.
Along with the declining form of Messi and the strikers on the attack line, Barca also showed a style of play that did not have their brand. During the nightmare Olimpico night, the "Giants" gave up most of the game to their opponents with a subjective mindset, wanting to preserve the result in the first leg. Barca's ball possession rate of only 53% proved Valverde's wrong tactics. This coach gave a club famous for its attacking ability to play with endurance, being "thrown" and then knocked out.
