Messi may have been involved in 39 goals in his 23 appearances this season, but Spanish football expert Graham Hunter says Messi has been playing 'oddly' this season, when compared to his usual standards. Hunter believes Luis Suarez's injury hence absence has contributed greatly to the decline in Messi's performance and accuracy. "If you look at the data, you look at the assists and the goals you, say 'Yeah, everything is fine.' If you look at the play, it's not. "He's playing oddly. Not shambolically, but lacking precision, doing things that are very un-Messi like." "All the little deft solutions, the cat burglar solutions, that we have seen Messi produce over the last 16 years on top of his goals and his trophies, these things have been going wrong since November. "He's just so good that he has produced a spate of assists, scored four at the weekend," Hunter added. "Therefore, Luis Suarez being abse
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