Jadentheman
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During WC 2014 Messi wasnt on his GOAT form which he reached in the end of 2014. He was still worldclass with his genius moments but 2015 he was on another level, back to GOAT mode. But if i remember correctly he wasnt good in 2015 copa, he had an outstanding match against Paraguay in semi final but overall it was a poor Copa america. His best tournament for argentinia was Copa 2016 when he was in Goat-mode during the whole competition.
The WC final was unfair, argentinia had played 120 min against netherlands and had one day less time to recover than germany who could chill after 45min against brazil. By the way Di maria was injured.
Oh yeah I forgot how crucial Di Maria was in terms of running the midfield. Even then most of the fault lies with Higuian who had three clear cut chances to finish the ball, but choked.