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What would Kenny G do?
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His playmaking is insane. He sees those gaps so fast and he can put the perfect weight on the ball on a consistent basis. Just too good.
That phase of there being a "world's top two" has definitively gone, Messi is competing in his own head with past giants or nobody at all. I like it. Cuts through the bullshit of debate and allows everyone just to enjoy a footballing genius at work. Watching (and drooling) last night, though, I still couldn't get out of my head what a powder puff era the present one is for tackling and physical contact. It's one of the reasons Maradona still edges it for me.
For all that fitness however there is still an awful lot of strolling around. Check out the Getafe game last night. Center backs if they wished could play return passes to midfielders with a cigar on. The match as a contest was over at 2:0 any player from any generation could have handled the demands of its intensity. Another great thing about Messi (and Ronaldo) is that his fitness, conditioning, and attitude allow him to play so many games. We get to watch him practically twice a week whereas Maradona had long periods out crocked due to unbelievable hackings and assaults from behind. None of that has interfered with Messi's career.One of the points I see sometimes to counter the stuff about the physicality and the pitches is the level of fitness players have nowadays compared to back then.
For all that fitness however there is still an awful lot of strolling around. Check out the Getafe game last night. Center backs if they wished could play return passes to midfielders with a cigar on. The match as a contest was over at 2:0 any player from any generation could have handled the demands of its intensity. Another great thing about Messi (and Ronaldo) is that his fitness, conditioning, and attitude allow him to play so many games. We get to watch him practically twice a week whereas Maradona had long periods out crocked due to unbelievable hackings and assaults from behind. None of that has interfered with Messi's career.
great!
Messi isn't tackled by todays standards.
He was in a walk-about last night. He wasn't even bothered to try too hard.
I guess it takes a team like Atletico to make him play on 4th gear.
I honestly don't see how anyone ever could have been better or will be better than him. He is football, it's that simple.Don't think I've ever seen a player who scores when he wants until Messi.
Neymar scored, Suarez scored, so he decided it would be cool to score himself and just did it. For me personally, no matter how good Neymar and Suarez are, they're not even close to Messi, words fail me to describe how good he really is!
I honestly don't see how anyone ever could have been better or will be better than him. He is football, it's that simple.
I used to think that winning a international title with Argentina would be important for his legacy, but I don't feel that way anymore. Quite irrelevant given all he's achieved with Barça.
It's just a normal Messi day with Argentina
He's out of this world
He's doing everything. It's a shame he can't get the ball as much he should.
This Argentine team is just a mess.
Really phenomenal form heading into El Clasico. Oh how different Argentina could look under Sampaoli or Simeone
He's doing everything. It's a shame he can't get the ball as much he should.
This Argentine team is just a mess.
Which is quite amazing given the talent (at least in attack) this team has.
Which is quite amazing given the talent (at least in attack) this team has.
Yup, it's not always about talent though, chemistry and understanding comes into it.
You could have two average wingers and Messi as CF with perfect understanding and that team would win every trophy.
The issue with Bolivia is they didn't know how to stop Messi carrying the ball from midfield. Madrid will (they'll just chop him down).
it's a shame Riquelme wasn't 28 years old in this squad and Cambiasso wasn't in his prime because that would sort the midfield out.
2006 was painful but 2014 was THE worldcup for us. It will never be the same again.
You know what means to an argentine to win it in Brazil? And against a team that scored 7 goals to them? Brazilians were horrified and praying for germany to win the WC. We had like 50.000+ argentines in Brazil, it was going to be historical
2006 was painful but 2014 was THE worldcup for us. It will never be the same again.
You know what means to an argentine to win it in Brazil? And against a team that scored 7 goals to them? Brazilians were horrified and praying for germany to win the WC. We had like 50.000+ argentines in Brazil, it was going to be historical
2006 was painful but 2014 was THE worldcup for us. It will never be the same again.
You know what means to an argentine to win it in Brazil? And against a team that scored 7 goals to them? Brazilians were horrified and praying for germany to win the WC. We had like 50.000+ argentines in Brazil, it was going to be historical
The ironic thing in that image is there's 7 tears and 1 cartman licking them
Fair playThe ironic thing in that image is there's 7 tears and 1 cartman licking them
got emThe ironic thing in that image is there's 7 tears and 1 cartman licking them
I was fortunate enough to be there. Mingled with a lot of Argentines, they were everywhere!
But 2014 was kinda overachieving, hats off to Sabella, while 2006 was a near perfect team that had everything to succeed. Only for Peckerman to screw things up against Germany.
Really phenomenal form heading into El Clasico. Oh how different Argentina could look under Sampaoli or Simeone
Too bad Argentina is in no situation to match what Qatar can offer, and Sampaoli being this money whore doesn't help either.
Simeone sounds more realistic though, and yeah, they could look so much better. The give it to Messi and pray for the best seems to be the only tactic Sabella knows.