Sigh. We dominated, had so many shots, possession etc but Atletico reminded Barca of what they did against Liverpool and it worked too. 1 own goal and 1 penalty, Messi won't want to remember this 700th goal landmark at all, all that for 1 point.
Title is Real Madrid's to lose now.
Yeah, actually we didn't played bad yesterday, but it wasn't enough. I still have questions about second Atletico penalty and I can't understand why they didn't even made VAR review. Now everything is in Madrid hands. 2 next games against Getafe and Athletic will be crucial for them. If they will win both, there will be no doubts who will win league.
I am not entirely sure whats wrong with Barcelona, but they are not doing great not only right now but also not doing great for the future as well with weird transfers as well. I think they are not going to be proper team for a while. Every one of their players that matters became over 33 this year with most of the good ones over 30, and we are talking about getting another 30 year old and they are not even contending for championship this year anymore with how they are playing and getting bad results.
Anyone thinks this season was the officially start of the end for their messi era of awesomeness and they are going to have a big trouble for next certain amount of years and not going to be great anymore (by barcelona standarts, definitely top 3 in la liga) and will find their new system and players after certain years? Or will they just be like Madrid after Ronaldo and just continue to dominate?
Messi is still good and if there will be injuries, he still can play in top level for few years. But the problem is that Barca simply have no strategy for upcoming few years and our transfer policy shows it. You have good point about age of our key players, they are getting old and our board is failing to find replacement for them. It feels that our team is turning into joke like MU or Milan. Now I'm just waiting until president election next year and I hope that new board will move club in right direction.
And I just remind that Real struggled a lot during first season after Ronaldo departure. Same will happen after Messi era in Barcelona. It's impossible that teams after loss of best players in this century will remain in same level.