At that point, only Messi could solve Argentina’s woes. Ugly and convoluted compared to the one already beaten by Saudi Arabia, unable to break the web that Tata Martino had woven in front of his own penalty area. Di Maria slow and predictable, De Paul scholastic. Scaloni had just removed the modest Guido Rodriguez e the useless Lautaro Martinez, this time little Toro and a lot of nothing, finally sending Enzo Fernandez onto the field, that having it and not using it is a crime of injury to football.
Your eyes were still full of le Roi Mbappé’s France and you were already figuring out how many chances Argentina had to save themselves, in the last match against Poland. And then, suddenly, Leo Messi’s razor, who slips between a hundred legs and goes into the corner, unreachable for Ochoa, another legend, also at the fifth World Cup, an achievement that is becoming fashionable (there were 3 before Qatar, there are already 6 and could become 7, with another Mexican, and it would be the fourth).
Messi on the cover, as the World Cup wanted. Because everyone needs Leo’s face, not just Argentina. As needed, and much, that of Ronaldo. The two continue the head-to-head challenge to the sound of goals, we’ll see here who will go further. Messi is talent and pure class, Cristiano science and application, a bit of a challenge between the top of the class, where there’s the one who doesn’t need to study so much and there’s the nerd, who does his homework even on Sundays and on vacation. And we had fun, we’re having fun.
Then there are those who count goals and overlap the statistics even with the past and therefore Messi can even challenge Maradona, of which against Mexico he equaled in matches played (18) and sols scored (8) in the World Cup. And then the Champions League won and the Golden Balls, which Diego couldn’t even compete for, and again the statistics of goals and championships won, all in Leo’s favour, except for the World Cup (1) or the finals played (2) and then they give up. But instead the difference is not there, which is all in the emotions and magic that Maradona gave every time Diego touched the ball, in a football very different from this one, much less televised and more bad (objective fact, there is no discussion), even more difficult and more beautiful (subjective, one may disagree). For this reason, even if Argentina were to win the World Cup (which we feel we can rule out today), Diego will remain the greatest, and by a lot.
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