Everytime he takes a sprint or is involved continually with the play, you just sense his energy draining.
It's like that with the whole team these days. A good, focused play with lots of runs or an intense burst of pressure and you get the sense that it has a price in the other end. The sense that you know we only get a certain amount of those in a game, so we shouldn't waste it.
Actually playing focused and energetically for 90 minutes seems like an impossibility, a pipedream. But that's what we literally used to do.
Exactly. Messi and every great player needs the team to step up as much if not more than the team need them to step up