Welcome to the boards, nice to have another North American Blues fan here, to your statement about frustrating leo messi, from what i have seen of the lad that does not work Real Madrid have tried to employ this tactic time and time again in every el classico but he seems to not get phased by it, the other thing is taht we can't just focus on messi he is a talisman don't get me wrong but their attack is too potent to focus on one player for us to be successful in 2 legs the team defending has to be top notch, we have to bring back that good old english defending blocked crosses and shots as well as mikel will need to stand on his head to cut out passing lanes, as well as some high pressure from the forwards to cause the backline to give up the ball TBH we have a serious chance as barca have not been the greatest in recent weeks and our form since RDM took charge has been pretty good even with some scrappy wins but that is a sign of a great side pulling off wins when you play poorly COME ON YOU BLUES!!! ----------------------------------------------------- posted that in the closed forum not a bad analysis of todays game