No Mario Gomez here, and no fake Ronaldo, but a Xavi siting: The Cesc season was just after he left us for Chelsea in 2014. The Figo season was exactly the same, but he left us for LPB in 2000. The Henry season was at the heart of his Arsenal prime, 4 years before he joined us in 2007. But of course all 5 Messi and 1 Xavi seasons were with Barca.
Yep. 1st goal came from a very poor turnover from him deep in the midfield. Maybe his ankle is really bothering him.
To be honest its not Messi. Argentina's other 10 players are average, maybe good players. And football is a team sport.
Maradona was gifted but he was taking performance enhancing drugs plus he was extremely short lived compared to Messi
I thought Messi had a pretty good game. Obviously scored the PK but also scored another goal later ruled offside, assisted the Lautaro offside goal (which doesn't look offside to me) and created a few other chances. Not sure how people can blame Messi for this loss. Sure he didn't score a hat trick but he did his part. A team of pretty average players is right.
#AnkleWatch is on Lionel Messi's ankle from training. There's a picture floating that it's swollen, I think it's the angle. Looks fine here. pic.twitter.com/VBX6ipKRu0— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) November 21, 2022
Both Messi and Neymar are carrying ankle injuries - same for Mitrovic and Kane I did warn about the ridiculously lenient reffing .. allowing too many bad tackles to go unpunished !! Then if someone is actually booked the manager just replaces them as they have 5 subs . Last night Neymar was taken out as he ran through into the penalty box and the guy WAS booked as it was clearly deliberate and reckless .. he’s now possibly OUT of the World Cup View attachment 227442 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Proo
Plus Kane and Mitrovic probably more players as well . Those four are the KEY players for each team though and they’ve only played one game ! I hope the authorities make a change so they stamp out all the dangerous, cynical tackles