The day false 9 Messi emerged and DESTROYED Real Madrid
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- On May 2, 2009, Pep Guardiola made a tactical masterstroke that would become a defining moment in modern football. Facing Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu, Guardiola deployed Lionel Messi in the "false 9" position for the first time. Instead of playing as a traditional striker, Messi was positioned deeper, allowing him to drop into midfield and exploit the spaces between Real Madrid's defense and midfield. This unexpected move created havoc for Real Madrid, as Messi's freedom to roam and link up play rendered their defensive plans ineffective.
Messi's new role was pivotal in Barcelona's stunning 6-2 victory. He scored twice and was involved in nearly every attacking move, showcasing his extraordinary vision, dribbling, and playmaking abilities. The "false 9" tactic not only maximized Messi's talents but also allowed other players like Thierry Henry and Samuel Eto'o to find more space and opportunities. This tactical innovation not only led to a historic win but also revolutionized football strategies worldwide, cementing Messi's place as one of the game's greatest and highlighting Guardiola's genius as a manager.
Pep guardiola realised one thing: messi was the best forward in the world at the time, but also the best midfielder. Made sense to ask him to play in between.
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ok Sherlock
@@ivann4512 He actually has a point lil timmy.
@@leo.ae1he was the best attacking midfielder and best forward. No defensive contribution. It kind of feels off to even call him a midfielder then.
@@jotarokujo9587who needs Messi to defend when he can goal and assist 105 goals per season ?
That Real Madrid team in any other league would've been dominating the league. Pep's Barca was just something else. Once in a lifetime team...true dream team.
This was only possible because of Messi magic. All other players were equal to Real. But Messi's genius tipped the scales and carried the whole team to another level.
@@after_midnight9592exactly that why he is the GOD OF THE GAME
@@after_midnight9592 Eto'o, Iniesta, Xavi, Yaya Toure, Puyol???
@@diegoMaradona98 Raul, Higuain, CR7,Guti, Xavi, ramos, marcelo and pepe, and cassilas (kaka mostly inured).. but it is crazy line up too
but the fact that barca is mostly la masia... its crazy on it self
@@5at5una the line up of that match. If you pick the best 11 of both teams.
Casillas: Dani Alves, Canavarro, Puyol©️, Abidal (at that time): Yaya Toure, Xavi, Iniesta: Messi, Eto'o, Robben! 8 Barça players if you make the best 11 of both teams!
Messi looks like he has 360 degrees camera. What an amazing awareness from him to sense the tackles and just change direction. Amazing player
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and yet people have the audacity to compare him with these players today what a insult really.
Messi from 2007 - 2015 was just out of space. Its not only his absurd statistics, but the way he played, the way he touches the ball. Whenever he started a dribbling I felt this rushing feeling. Not even Ronaldinho gave me that feeling. It was truly magical.
no doubt, but c ronaldo also was able to . 2 g.o.a.t.s
@@woklam342fck nah he wasn't
Yes. Messis dribbling also lead to something. Ronaldinho was more of a showman.
@@woklam342he is no where near messi. Just a tapper when somebody gives assist. He doesn't have the skills of messi
@@wingzacademy369 i think you really hate c ronaldo , mate. i appriciate messi and he is with c ronaldo best ever in period . ask yourself messi has a better dribble and charm but he didn t score more goals then ronaldo in other league
25 years later, football manager are still unable to replicate this position on the field.
Klopp did it with firmino
@@Slyyyy-lg5jo true
Madrid just had an amazing season with bellingham false 9 most of the league. 2 losses whole season, both to Atletico in La Liga and Copa. Looked more like 4 4 2 diamond in UCL though.
I don't think you folks really understand what false nine is. Firmino played deep lying or presing forward. Belingem is everything but a striker. They played him on dm, cm, and am, but if I had to choose, I'd give him the box-to-box cm roll.
@@SageofShadowdale did you actually watch bellinghams first half of a season, what is this fifa position talk? Yes he is very flexible in midfield but whenever Joselu wasnt on in La Liga, he played false 9.
The magic man with the world at his feet.
Lionel Andres Messi
those who say kroos or kdb or x/y/z has surpassed xavi, look at those passes in such tight spaces and close control, no one comes close, same goes with iniesta and messi is on whole new level
Xavi in el classico 6-2 was greater than every performance of Kroos, Modric. It was not close
That's true, but It's the beauty of the game that every supporter has their favorite players, superstars and excellent athletes. Each person you mentioned is a great player.
@@dragoci2I don't think I've ever seen such an understanding and peaceful comment online ahaha
@@dragoci2my brother you have my respect. I see a real football fan here.
@@dragoci2everyone knows kroos and modric are great/worldclass players but they arent on iniesta and xavis level
One thing l feel is overlooked and that is the intelligence of the players around him. Henry, E'too, Xavi, Iniesta, Alves etc, their movements create space. Of course Messi is exceptional, but these guys skills make a heck of a difference. This team and next variant that came 2 years later go a long way to producing the Messi that is loved by most fans of the game. Club football has so much time to develop patterns of play. Without time to get things worked through he struggled at international level. Today he gets to let team mates help him and Argentina are reaping the rewards
I think the player that gets overlooked the most in terms of success of Barcelona for all those years, and in enabling Messi is Dani Alves. The chemistry those two had on the right wing of the field is something that can't be reproduced. Yes Xavi and Iniesta are at the very top of players who ever played their positions but Alves was the one that truly unlocked that side of the field for Messi. I'd even go as far as to say Alves is the only one who can challenge Cafu for the RB position in an all-time top XI.
When did he ever "struggle" at the international level?
He struggled in every Copa America and World Cup under the burden of extreme expectation that his country expected of him. Every time he took the field he was supposed to be capable of carrying his country after the manner of Diego. But he is not the same type of person, he appears to be a much more humble individual. He never said he would carry the team, he just tried. Now he is coming to the end of his career and expectation is reduced, he has been able to spread the load and the rewards are coming his way.
@@asnark7115Up until a few years ago.
Not him exclusively: Argentina had a bit of a 'Tottenham complex' at one point. Got close but kept bottling. A lot of people scapegoat Higuain for it but honestly they just didn't have the right mentality to finish a tournament.
They obvs managed to fix that problem in recent years and are the best national team on the planet atm. 🙂
This is exactly why i always said Messi should have been a mid-fielder play-maker.
He has incredible dribbling skills and speed to start plays, seriously good passing skills and the most important fact about him, due to his fame he always attracted the whole attention of the opposing team, which meant others would be more likely free to make goals.
I remember pep saying that Messi was the one player on the team that had the freedom to do basically whatever he wanted to do. He gave Messi ideas and suggestions ofcourse but at the end of the day he knew he was dealing with a once in a generation footballing genius and trying to restrict him too much would be foolish
And here is why madrid fans cant stpo hating Messi...15 years later they still have nightmares with him
He destroyed this prime RM and New Era Prime RM lol
But the introduction of Cr7 really improved Real Madrid & decreased Barcelona dominance 😂The error came to an end❤Genius ✔️Cristiano Ronaldo vs Lionel Messi💯 the only Goats of our Generation history wont repeat itself 👏Elcrasico 🎉🎉🎉
It is called selfishness, sobre losers
@@tresfoliusshamena5674 It's Clasico. Please do not compare mortals to this alien.
Are you aware that RM won more clasicos matches than Barca 😂
i never skip my eyes watching barca messi, xavi and andres era.😂
It's a crime against football 😂
Word
Sadly we can't see anything like this again.
Pure joy to watch this kind of masterpiece
Why not?
@@npvuvuzelait will be almost impossible for a player to come close to his level of greatness. We witnessed the best playmaker, dribbler of all time while scoring over 50 goals per season over 10 years. Do you realise how hard it is to keep that level for so long? As of today we have only seen 2 players achieve this level for so long and they shared the stage. I’ve been watching football for over 30 years and I have never seen anything like Messi and Ronaldo. Imo Messi is superior as a football player but mad respect for CR7.
Got to 5 mins in there and realised it was still the 1st half. Messi had so many touches and dribbles and real looked exhausted.
most world class players entire career highlights in a single game.
no
@@dreadhead240 Yes.
No man @@sayantanmazumdar3
@@sayantanmazumdar3no. Most of these were normal passes. I’m not downplaying Messi. This comment just downplays world-class players.
@@jotarokujo9587 no
Todays players 9 dribble won in a whole league
Messi 20 dribbles won in 1 game 💀
It's a shame people compare this inhumane entity with some strikers who only score through penalties and tapins
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Pep caused so much chaos using Messi in the false 9 and introducing that position to the game. No one could stop him
I was just watching this year's EURO games and well, the way Barça played in the 2010s is just so much more fun to watch than today's football. Will there ever be such a team again?
International games are not always great since teams need time to form chemistry. Club teams like prime Barca were set up to perfection both in roster and strategy.
@@SombreroFlicksAgreed but still, no team that plays - even remotely - so beautifully like prime Barca comes to mind.
@@Kanol77 Manchester City on their best day maybe close, guess what they have in common...
I was a new fan to football at this time but I swear I won't ever forget this moment. This was the moment the golden era of beautiful football was born.
Truly illegal stuff this. He should've been suspended after this performance. Playing against Prime Madrid is one thing, but the threat levels in 1 game are off the fucking charts.
I agree with you, but jow can you call this team Prime Madrid?
That makes no sense
@@ricardolombardini Tbh prime football days.Basically the whole Ronaldo vs Messi era.
Whatever season Ronaldo played in, I call prime Madrid. I know prime Madrid was around the threepeat times.
@@ricardolombardiniany top team during that time = prime doesnt matter if sevilla valencia or anything, it was peak football
CR7 had a benzema ghost and bale pace merchant. FOOL😂😂. BARCA WAS better no matter prime real barca was better in evry position so basically the will win even messi play rw instead of false 9 . Iam a madrid fan but barca was always better . benzema winning ballondor even David villa was better player
@@nxtvisuals Despite doing a 3 peat they kept losing the league title to barca. So Real didn't dominate club football completely in any given calendar year. Whereas this Barca side did. Even as late as 2015.
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Dude, Messi looking for the ball even after a difficult collision with the GK😮
..... u cannot be serious. the difficult collision wouldve been on casillas.. he basically cushioned messi.
I was also wondering
Xavi Messi and Iniesta in the middle was litteraly a cheat code
Pep guardiola creating a monster 😮💨💥
Looking at messi at his primw or young is devastatingly frightening. Soo good its unreal😊
I remember pep saying messi can play your number 6*7*8*9*10*11 now i understand better
False 9 my ass. Messi was an alien. We just didn't know yet at the time. He would destroy Real Madrid in any position he was. As he did. Don't disrespect Messi by giving credits to Guardiola or sounding cool with these damn tactics or positions. With Messi is simple. You give him the ball. Doesn't matter where he is. In the midfield or near the goalkeeper. In his prime he would run all over the team and kill them. And he would make that look so simple. That's the goat for you. We were so lucky to watch him play.
Plays as false 9, scores 92 goals in a year, wins treble, repeats that in 2015. Truly illegal stuff.
Messi is so good, and thus so despicable for allowing simpletons into this game of football. Football now is NORMAL, how its supposed to be, yet CR7 and messi brought simpleton audience into this game. Looking for the future generations to numb this game down after these aliens retire fully
It was both, the change was in game play and the best player in the world to try it with.
Yess my fellow fanboy. Messi is our lord and savour! We would sacrifice our family just to smell his feet. How dare they make such a disrespectful video on him. Its blasphemy. Messi gets all the glory!! He won everything single handedly despite having mediocre team and management
@@navjitbassi03 🤡
Those who think football is all about scoring should know that just giving a successful pass isn't easy
What is a successful pass?
Just a pass that reaches a team mate, even if he's behind or next to you, withouth gaining advantage on the pitch?
Or a pass that cuts through the lines, a pass that creates space or time for your team, stretches the opponent, creates an opportunity?
Not every accurate pass is a successful pass in my eyes.
The day that modern football changed forever
It's humiliating for real Madrid and heaven for Barcelona
The GREAT GOLDEN DAYS 🔥🔥🔥🔥✨✨✨✨ XAVI INIESTA 🔥🔥✨✨AND MESSI HE IS JUST UNSTOPPABLE JUST UNSTOPPABLE 🔥🔥💯💯
VISCA BARCA VISCA CATALUNIA ❤️💙❤️💙
False 9 required a player that both elite Striker and Playmaker..
Messi is just too strong💪❤
1:56 that finish from Henry
He’s done that hundreds of times and it is fool proof. Henry should be talked about as one of the true greats of all time.
@buckbumble the fact that he never won a Ballon d'Or really hurts his status in the eyes of those who didn't see him.
signature goal
@@SombreroFlicksnever deserved a BD that's why. Flopped every international game, and went quiet in every major game. One invincible season don't make you the best player in the world when we had Messi around.
@@A3M-FIFA but Messi wasn't even active when Henry enjoyed an invincible Arsenal season.
Beautiful to watch, let's go Messi and Barça 😃♥️🙏🏼
How can you compare ronaldo with this man?
It was never a debate🐐🐐 Messi>>
Perfect false 9 doesn't come naturally with just formation and 1-2 pass or tiki taka passing..it require high technical player to hold ball or dribbling before execute pass to compensate human response speed and distraction/feint movement of support player.Messi is perfect quality fulfilled.
Missing those days ❤❤❤
Pep destroyed Real Madrid.
Messi was just one of the vessels used along with Iniesta & Xavi.
moving the food to make people understand football concepts is such a xavi thing to do
False 9 is just a diamond formation.
4-1-2-1-2 diamond
What u can expect when u have best player and best manager combination 😊 pure innovation
01:53 this goal is almost identical to Messi's first goal at Barca assisted by Ronaldinho. also the celebration is the same.
Yes
these short tikataka passes in triangle messi-xavi-alves is just pure football beauty, the opponents could either just run around like headless chickens or stay and watch them playing ball around
Lionel Messi 🐐 x Pep Guardiola 🐐
July 19, 2024
Messi the only true no 10 left
To have Henry and Eto up front but they aren't even the main player shows the ridiculousness of this team.
I literally remember what I was doing on May 2nd, 2009. Great times those were
It wasnt the first time f9 emerged but it made it popular
With more development this is the position I see Yamal thriving in. His passing off the wing might already be the best in the world. When Pedri got injured de la Fuente moved him in a similar position and he was unstoppable to finish the Euros.
Debatable, Yamal hasn't shown to have the positional off-the-ball awareness needed for that, but who knows, maybe he will develop that in the future.
@@SombreroFlicks That was my point when I wrote “with more development”. He has all the raw talent to exploit defences between the lines. His body control, his dribbling, his passing touch and his situational awareness are already elite. With more experience and proper coaching I can definitely see it. I know it’s been overstated but he is only 17.
No
Spalletti did it with Totti before.
How nostalgic watching this again!
One of peps biggest masterclass
It is hard to say when Messi was in his prime. He was dominate in the game for so many years. But I feel when he played as a false nine and literally could go where he felt he would contribute the most....that is when he was at his best
i remember that day, before trio MSN born..
That day they called fantastic 4 = Ronaldinho, eto'o, henry and messi..
Are these season highlights? No way that happened in one game
Never ever a Player like messi come again!
I warched all his games and it was a joy to see the best ever on a pitch!
I subbed. Hope to learn more from you with great players like Ronaldihno, Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo, and many more
Aun recuerdo ese partido como si hubiese sido ayer....
Messi has that much energy
Young Messi was a savage.
Lionel 👽 Messi
É assim que Dorival tem que usar o Endrick! O moleque é forte, rápido e habilidoso. É desperdício ele ficar perdido entre os zagueiros adversários.
your under a strong delusion to think that Endrick can put the performances messi put even at Endrick's age. Even without scoring u could see Messi was destined for greatness. Endrick has to score to be relevant in a game and he also needs Madrid PR
One of the key was Eto.
He loves to pull left and right.
So very often we see Messi and Henrey switching to the middle or even all the way to the other side
Eto'o was underrated because Messi and Dinho were the biggest stars.
Shoutout to Cadillas any other keeper would have conceded 10 goals this match
He's like a machine he keep coming he dont stop the pressure
Messi last of the goat
bro makes cassilas looks like average goalkeeper
Casillas was definitely one of the biggest victims of the Messi Era.
Cause he is
this system even shined more when Busquets came
Lassana Diarra still has nightmares about that game
Hay jugadores que tienen compilados de su carrera entera con menos jugadas que este partido de Messi. Y no es que los demás sean malos. Este tipo está 10 escalones por encima del resto.
The Xavi, Iniesta, Messi era was a pure tyranny.
Busquets too..
Tyranny of the majority
@@z3dda 🫣🫣🫣
People that didn’t watch that Barca are the ones that put Kroos and Modrić on Xavi and Iniesta’s level
No wonder Spain won the world cup in 2010
The passes from messi 🥶🥶
Amytime barca has the ball they seem to take a 4-1-2-1-2 shape with Messi behind eto and henry
1:29 Mes-sketer 😂
That's when As a team, but as a club throughout heaven and earth Madrid is incomparable 🔥
Ventajas de tener a el mejor jugador de la historia
It only worked because they had the players who could realize the dream. I can count on one hand how many times Xavi was dispossessed in those years, not to mention his ability to pick out a pass. Iniesta dribbled and passed as well as Messi, Busquets' intelligence in CM was quiet and sure. And of course Messi on the pitch ---- he was the best dribbler, passer, and finisher in one. That's not even mentioning Eto'o, Henry, Alves, Puyol. I was blessed to have seen it in real time. We've been trying to replicate it ever since without success. It's because they had the players, the coach, and the drive.
No player has ever done it alone for an extended period of time. There have been tournament exceptions such as Maradona and Rossi but for the most part the superstar needs a solid team to win and keep winning.
What a player.i thank God for blessing my eyes to see him
The jersey is back i hope the form too
Pep Gaurdiola is the most successful ngl....
Now in Man City he does the exact thing.
He knows his boys , their strengths, their weakneses
Wherever he goes that team becomes Lethal
❤❤❤❤❤ 😢😢😢 those days
Have you ever seen humiliation like this 😢
Real Domination
Messi is more like a midfielder
He's a no 10
Yep, you have to bring up Real Madrid to prove yourself.
Who else is missing Casillas?😢
Nunca mais veremos algo parecido
Best player in the world ❤❤😊😊
The Emperor of all time 🎉
Your best midfielder modric getting played in the mid by the false 9 shows who is the best..
Modric wasn't in Real Madrid in 2009, but Ramos, Cannavaro, Marcelo and Diarra all suffered.
When every player was an all timee prime classico
Miss Eto'o😢
Messi wasnt the first false 9.
The first was Hidegkuti Nandor from Hungary.
Many second strikers learned from him to play between the lines.
Then in 2007 it was Luciano Spalletti who adapted the false 9 to modern football. This time, Totti was the only striker but being a natural number 10 he played put of the natural zone, removing any reference to the opponent. That, combined with Perrotta (a specialist coming from behind to dangerous positions), Taddei and Mancini from the wings, made Roma really difficult to play against. Everyone remembers that Roma side for the 7-1 thing but I suggest you watch the first leg match. Ferguson had no clue how to deal with them. Scholes was expelled early and Roma wasted a lot of goals.
Guardiola is an admirable coach but he is basically a synthetizer, not a creator per se
Similar to Hellenio Herrera who took Catenaccio and made it formidable and fearful. Making a known tactic deadly is also admirable
@@SombreroFlicks Guardiola has managed an incredibly difficult achievement as tactician:
He has adapted many old tactics to modern football.
Midfield box from WM, false 9 (Szebes/Spalletti), inverted fullbacks (Telé Santana-Junior), attacking stoppers and positional interchange (Gasperini) and many more.
The guy is a monster. Shame that he won 2 Champions with such controversy and the other one because of Lukaku.
His genius truly deserves more than that
5:36 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
EL CLASICO BACK IN THE DAY😢😢
Good times.
Dopo il Brasile del 70 e la squadra più forte del mondo
Cassillas was brilliant
No one could match the Prime Barca ❤💙
Not quite true. Totti did it before in Italy back in 2006/2007 with Luciano Spalletti. He played as falso 9 because As Roma didn't have the money to get a proper striker so Spalletti figured out this solution. Totti who always played as a midfielder or eventually 2nd striker, played for his first time as a " false 9" and he ended up winning the Golden foot that year in Europe, as the best striker.
False 9 started back in the 1950s, this is about how Messi performed in that role and against Real Madrid of all opponents!
5:52 best real madrid player ever
Messi under Guardiola reinvented (and mastered) the DEEP-LYING STRIKER position
Xavi in his prime was amazing too and only made Messi better
I think pep got this idea bcz he had messi at his disposal ...he fully utilized the potential of a genius ..can't imagine any other player donning that position Nd giving even the half amount of output that messi gave (maybe hazard and neymar could've done that too but not at his level) 😅