WTF are you talking about? He had a great second half of last season. He scored 20 goals from January until April and added 8 assists. He was excellent during that period. From September trough December he was bad. However, Lewa did nothing with his national team.
lets see: from january to april
messi goals against real 0
atletico 0 (direct league rivals)
eibar and others minnows: idk, but all of his goals are here
1-4 humiliation in the camp nou, with mbappe, a bdor rival (then) making messi look like a chump
1-1 in paris with a nice goal but also a missed PK. out of the CL in r16
september-december beyond awful at PSG.
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in 2010 Sneijder had a phenomenal season with Inter and with the Netherlands. He didnt win it because that year messi was the best (although imho it should have been xavi/iniesta). well, same in 2021, messi has a good copa america (and thats it) but he
is not the best player in the world. lewa is.
its also hilarious how messis copa america victory is played up as some tremendous achievement--after failing to win it in like 5 finals, and after failing to win an international title after like 6 finals. and this too with Argentina as his team, a team that always has star, world-class players. its not like he won the copa america with ecuador or peru. on the other hand, CR winning the euro with portugal is much more impressive than if he had won it with idk France or Germany. CR has three intl finals, 2 wins). just to put some perspective on this achievement, which, from the way it is discussed here, is made to sound like Maradona's 86 WC, which it emphatically was not