10 - Lionel Messi - v5

[Mitchell1978]

The analyst after the game just said he had 2 little 2 work with, said he didn't play bad, and praised his assist late and that late run where he got a shot off with his right foot.

 

[xxxxxx]

Messi is not to blame for Argentina and no player ever would take this side even close to glory.

But can still see Messi was poor, barely moved in offence and did next to nothing defensively.

Leaves him needing unreal dribbles, passes, shots etc to be any influence.

Can you blame him? Everytime he passes the ball forward to other player, they fuck it up with poor ball control or poor crosses. But whatever, he's out and he can focus on Barcelona next season.

 

[Cule For Life]

People can blame Sampaoli all they want but Messi was jogging around in the last 5 minutes. Desire seems to have been gone for some time now.

Looking at the state of the squad and management don't blame him.

 

[Donatello]

Well,

Mascherano is 34, Iniesta is 34, Ronaldo is 33. Plus, there are numerous others.

If he maintains his physique, he can definitely play WC at 2022.

The thing is whether he is mentally prepared or not. I fear he may retire now.

But, Argentina need to start from basics. They need to build their team around Icardi and Dybala, who weren't even involved much.

 

[Laplacian]

I enjoyed watching him play, despite not being able to influence the game as much as we all wanted him to.


Unrelated to the world cup: Messi as a RW? You guys watching the same Messi, right? His pace is gone.

 

[JamDav1982]

Folk going on as if Ronaldo and Portugal have beaten Uraguay already....

They were being called the luckiest team going for avoiding 'solid' Uruguay a few days ago.

 

[Lomar1o]

You guys wanna know what's really sad in all of this??? The fact that we bought Dembele. lol

 

[-SG7-]

These games show that no one wins 'single handedly'.

Messi at Barca is backed by a great set of players and he is best of lot that can influence most games.

Posts like Messi being a one man team are more pathetic than anything else.

No mate...posts about messi scoring against only lesser teams are quite more pathetic. Clearly shows u dont watch barca matches at all and have no respect for one of barcas grestest ever.

 

[Mitchell1978]

So the claim is Messi carries a shit Barca side to glory in league etc but cant perform with Argentina due to shit players and tactics?

Constant changing of goals posts.

Imo this season we saw the worst barça of the decade but still infinitely better then this Argentina side, with superior talent in every position compated to Argentina.

 

[Windhook]

Messi did excellent job, but having all this poor quality on every line it's almost miracle, actually it was miracle Argentina reached the knockout stage. He is expected to retire from international football, it's not worth shitting on your legacy at 35 years in Qatar 2022.

 

[JamDav1982]

Can you blame him? Everytime he passes the ball forward to other player, they fuck it up with poor ball control or poor crosses. But whatever, he's out and he can focus on Barcelona next season.

Yes he can be commented on for being that poor.

Messi had plenty of moments of poor control and passes himself anyway but thats all blamed on others as well I suppose.

 

[bodi16]

You guys wanna know what's really sad in all of this??? The fact that we bought Dembele. lol

You wanna know what's really the best thing out of this? The fact that we didn't buy Griezmann.

 

[vlad]

Average at best WC for his standards

He didnt need to take them all the way to final, but he needed to look like captain on the pitch and stand out considering his ability, but wasnt the case, far from it actualy

Lets hope he will be more motivated with barca

 

[JamDav1982]

No mate...posts about messi scoring against only lesser teams are quite more pathetic. Clearly shows u dont watch barca matches at all and have no respect for one of barcas grestest ever.

Nah you are as bad as folk that make those claims with this idea Barca were shit but Messi carried side.

Great shout - never watch Barca games...

 

[Raketa10]

The most ridiculous fact is that Argentina concede 9 goals! If you have a weak team what do you do? You concentrate on defense! You try to concede as little as possible! But stupid Sampaoli did quite the opposite! First he tried to play possession football against much stronger Croatia and he did the same mistake today with France. Instead of narrowing the lines he left them acres of space in the middle. To be fair Argentina never stood a chance with this way of playing.