Truly amazed to see people complaining about this. The World Cup was held to his head like a gun for the past 15 years, now it’s “just a 7 game tournament”😭
Sometimes when I watch this guy I struggle to process the gap between his reputation and his actual level. His performance today left me speechless for all the wrong reasons
I thought Barca fans were just gassing it at first but after watching him a few times I can safely say Lamine Yamal is the craziest prospect I’ve seen. How are you doing this at 16
Never forget that Argentina were reeling and on the brink of a group stage elimination until this happened out of nowhere. Most clutch goal of his career for me
How are people upset about this? He picked the ball up at the halfway line, ran 60 meters, played a one-two, then buried it from outside the box while off-balance. Fully deserved.
So in 2021 Messi has 5 goals in 5 UCL games, 9 G/A at 7 Copa America, and 23 goals in 21 La Liga games.
To say he shouldn’t win the bdor because he hasn’t scored in a grand total of 2 French League games is absurd.
As solid as the supporting cast was, he really did all the heavy lifting himself man, nobody “won it for him.” The bailout goal v Mexico, the unbelievable assists v Croatia and Holland, the brace in the final…just an insane tournament
Ligue 1 ratings about to go through the roof, imagine watching football for the first time during the world cup and finding out these two play on the same team
World Cup (golden ball winner)
Copa America (gb winner)
4 UCLs
12 league titles
2 trebles
40+ team trophies overall
8 ballon d’or
6 golden boots
2 WC golden balls
800+ goals
350+ assists
91 goals in a year
Good luck lol
They're already fuming in the quotes lmao they gave it to a fucking CB over prime Ronaldinho because he won the World Cup, cry me a river that's just how it works
Argentina’s had 4 straight elimination games since the Saudi Arabia loss. In those games Messi’s had 3 goals and 2 assists with every single one being absolutely crucial.
Genuinely a tournament for the ages given the circumstances
Argentina stumbling upon the best penalty stopper of all time has to be the biggest stroke of luck in Messi’s career. The man is literally a cheat code
Copa America is so easy Eduardo Vargas won it twice while being the top goalscorer and no one cared.
It was never a Ballon d'or argument until Messi won it and then suddenly it became a very important factor.
This shows the double standards in Football.
The tension leading up to this game was unlike anything I’ve ever seen in sports, Argentina was too shook to even string a couple passes together in the first half. Really cannot overstate the importance of this goal
🇦🇷🤩 1 year ago today: Lionel Messi's crucial strike from outside the box vs Mexico!
Reminder: if Argentina lost this game, they would have been eliminated from the World Cup.
Whenever Messi plays well the narrative shifts to “Copa America is so trash.” Uruguay literally knocked the reigning European champs out of the last WC, please rest lol.
Can’t believe the same people who called Messi ‘Eibarman’ for years are saying Lewa should win a bdor for scoring tons of goals v far weaker opposition than the average La Liga side
Lionel Messi so far this season:
✅ World Cup winner
✅ World Cup Final Player of the Match
✅ World Cup Golden Ball winner
✅ The Best FIFA Men's Player 2022
✅ 2023 Laureus World Sportsman of the Year
✅ Ligue 1 winner
✅ Most goals all time in Europe's top five leagues (496)
A Messi hattrick for example. I will love it, and I think I deserve it. As I said before Brugge is a fantastic team, fantastic club. But I think I have to have 2,3,4 goals today
This conspiracy shit is actually a shame bc that Argentina team played with a level of intensity and joy I’ve never seen before and couldn’t have been more deserving of what they accomplished
Louis Van Gaal: “When you see how Argentina gets the goals and how we get the goals and how some Argentina players went over the line and weren't penalized, I think it was all premeditated game.”
@NOS
🗣️🇳🇱
Obv Spain is way better on paper but what makes this Argentina team so impressive is how they can win any which way. They’re as brutal as they are skilled, they can turn up the flair and play you off the pitch and can just as easily beat the shit out of you in a dogfight
Mbappe started a beef with Giroud, kicked Griez off fk duty despite never scoring one in his career, and then tried to play the hero taking the last pen. Don’t feel the least bit sorry for him lol he needed to be humbled
Pr7 fans kill me man. How are you trying to force Messi slander today when he scored and your guy is fighting for a top 4 place with 3 goals in his last 10 games
I hope I don’t see any Messi fans whining about open play goals after this match lol, this is an absolute monsterclass and they’re playing rugby out there
The system player narratives were always trash, but seeing them get shredded in real time by a 35 year old Messi well past his prime is a beautiful sight
In 15 fewer matches and with over 3 months he left in the year, Messi now has the same amount of non-penalty goals as he did in 2020 when he was still at Barcelona. “System player”
MESSI statpadding vs minnows only further amplifies his goalscoring failures when it really matters 🇦🇷
8 vs Bolivia
5 vs Estonia
4 vs Venezuela
3 vs 🇧🇷 u23, Haiti ,Guatemala & Panama
Friendlies:
39 in 48 = 0.81 goals per game
Competitive Games:
47 in 114 = 0.41 goals per game
If you told me a few years ago Messi would still be leading Europe in dribbles and bagging goals/assists every game at 35 I’d have laughed. The longevity is astounding
Cristiano has 1 goal headed into November, fallen behind the likes of Elanga and Sancho in the depth chart, and has been a toxic distraction all season. I’d rather Messi leave European football before he reaches that stage.
At the time I remember being slightly underwhelmed by that performance lol. Really took for granted being able to witness this stuff week in, week out.
Messi has 7 goals & 7 assists in 11 games between this WC and Copa America ‘21. So happy for him that he seems to have finally found some peace of mind leading Argentina and can just focus on doing what he does best.
This is so gross lol. According to a new book by
@GuillemBalague
detailing Messi’s exit from Barca, Laporta couldn’t be bothered to break the news to Messi’s camp himself and even refused to accompany Messi at the press conference announcing it.
Messi has a completely different energy about him. Not trying to make excuses for his form last season, but all bias aside it’s obvious he was in a really bad place mentally after getting kicked out of Barca
Neymar was unreal but the attack didn’t really look fluid at all. 16th placed Bordeaux registered twice as many shots and accumulated more xG, they just scraped by through individual brilliance as usual.
Not a knock on Messi, as he’s still the genius we all know and the 1st name on any team sheet, but tonight has been the most fluid PSG have looked all season in attack.
Mbappé as good as ever and Neymar looking unstoppable like his usual self. Poch needs to solve the puzzle.