10 - Lionel Messi - v5

[El Flaco]

Let's be honest here, CR would have scored 5 goals against this island team.

Scored 0 goals against Iceland 2 years ago tbf.

 

[Felipetonelo]

To be fair, he tried a lot. 10 shoots, a couple of dribblings, but in the end he was just bad and had no luck. Some of his shoots were better than Ronaldo's yesterday, but De Gea failed, Iceland keeper didn't.

 

[messid10s]

Did anyone actually expect Messi to score that penalty? If you could imbue Messi with Ronaldo's mentality he'd have already won the world cup and copa america.

 

[JamDav1982]

You guys are fucking disgraceful.

A combination of being swarmed- not enough movement- not enough variety (everyone just looked for him) and yes- the pen playing on his head.


But the way you are speaking about him. Shame on you.

You need to get your head out the sand.

 

[Neymessi]

WTF are you talking about? They wouldn’t even participate in this WC without him? He lead them to Copa America final two years ago! What the hell dude?

Read my post again.

 

[Sorin]

All on him. Can t use any excuse this time.

 

[DonAndres]

Let's be honest here, CR would have scored 5 goals against this island team.

He didn't in the Euro 2016.... Portugal vs Iceland opener? 1-1

 

[Ritchie]

His aging is starting to show. He's been poor at penalties for a while now but the bigger issue is that his loss of burst is hurting his dribbling. That counter chance he fluffed exemplified this. His play relies so much on his ability to dribble that it's gonna be interesting to see how he transitions away from that. Now he still has excellent passing and finishing in his arsenal. This leaves him two options. Go deeper in midfield and rely on his passing skills or become a full striker. He seems to be taking the first route because it gives him more control but in my opinion finishing is a much rarer trait than passing and he should go the second route. It's going to involve more work though as he'll need to adjust his playstyle.

He should just stay in the box with Argentina. He's not on anyone's wavelength playing deeper and his passing is wasted in this team and often wasteful.

 

[defyqa]

Ate too much Lay's.

 

[Neymessi]

Had a good game imo. Lots of efforts.

 

[CatalinR10]

Fucking retire, choker.

looks like you chose a good picture for your profile when the days were good


as soon as days get worse , you make comments as these


oh well , if barca fans turn their back against him , can't imagine what's going on outside of this forum

 

[ebc_99]

Some real pieces of shit on this board, Messi played well, not great but well. But you so called fans are morons.

 

[Ritchie]

Messi's career is turning into a tragedy. Ronaldo is starting to shit all over him in legacy terms.

 

[messi15478]

I dont understand why Sampaoli doesnt bring Dybala ? I mean he is miles better than Higuain, simply stupid decision from Sampaoli.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

He wasn't good today.. Fuck. I think it's over for Argentina. You can't fuck up vs Island.