The ESPN FC crew breaks down Argentina manager Jorge Sampaoli’s comments that Lionel Messi unfairly receives the bulk of the blame for the nation’s failures in the World Cup.
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Shaka level
just blame otamendi
Cl is the highest level of football in world not wc more than half the players at wc are unknow medeocre football players so it doesnt matter if messi wins wc or not
whos here after he won the copa and Argentina won as a team
Messi just needs to score one goal in the world cup final. Cant even score in the knockout round. He cant play for a world class team he can only play for barce where he is the focal point
Shaka being like he has won 5 world cups
Yes, is fair to call him like that…!
I'm from Argentina btw..?
Here's a theory on who's the GOAT. There's about 700M Latinos around the world and about 270M portuguese speaking ppl and Ronaldo(cr7) has about 1billion followers in Social Media. Which is more followers that YOU FRAUDS and the FAKE MEDIA will ever have. THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN CR7 IS THE GOAT.
Yes, wc 2014, final vs germany, messi missed his chance, yes yes, he is to blame for them not winning another world cup, anyone who says otherwise is most likely sympathizing with him and wants to blame someone else, when you're the best player ever you don't miss you chances when it counts and you create more chances for yourself to score, not just have one chance the entire 120 min but messi did neither, how come someone can call this man the best of all time is beyond my imagination.
Let's all forget World Cups for Christiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi,
Where do you find such talent who can attract the sport or compete among themselves nowhere in near future except for Neymar who is truly at par to Christiano & Messi , with his limited physical strength , just imagine Neymar with physical strength of Cristiano or
Messi.
So sympathetic for Messi …and had it been Ronaldo they would have been on his back criticizing him to the core.
He plays his football at Barcelona and goes to job at Argentina….prove me wrong
Football isn't a single man's game they want Messi to do every single thing and even when he does it players like Huigan misses chances
No
Ronaldo is not expected to win the World Cup what is this guy talking about
Messi not winning a World Cup he already solidify his career
I hope he wins something with Argentina
Ya Argentina loses the World Cup people it’s Messi’s falt they lost the copa America isn’t Messi’s falt
You can argue that he's not the best player of all time, but how can you blame Messi, it's not his responsibility to carry the team when the other players are standing like lamp posts , in fact big players like Higuain and Aguero didn't live up to their standard in international football…
you cant blame messi because if team is not good and manager is not good then what can messi do? even great people needs team…no great player won single handedly
One must accept that Messi and Robaldo are not world class players anymore. They are beyond that. In fact, Messi is like Goku and Ronaldo is Vegeta.
Its an 11 man contribution game modafakas.
absolutely messi is the only reason for Argentina to be in the final and in the loss
Pele NEVER won the world cup. Brazil did. Holland never won it, was that Cruyffs fault? N.Ireland never won it, was that George Bests fault?
even if you Ronaldo and Messi in the same team
there's no guarantee that team will win the world cup.
that's the beauty of the world cup.
They are already beginning to manipulate, victimize and look for excuses to justify Messi's failures. Portugal does not have the weight or history of Argentina. However, Cristiano was always present and played a very important role in his selection and was a key piece to reach the final of Eurocopa 2016 in France. He did not play the final due to injury but the motivation he gave his team is to take off his hat, he kept encouraging his team until the end. There are no excuses to justify Messi, it's too late. Although everyone's responsibility is to be a team, he also does not get rid of his responsibility and must assume his guilt, but they are blind and do not want to acknowledge that he is overrated. But we will blame Higuain, who put his penalty in the Copa América round and Messi failed !! … And in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil he missed several opportunities … But the fault lies with everything but he.
Absolutely wen u blame him for Barca wins Dan he shd b blame for Argentinian loss
If Messi or Ronaldo were so worried about going down as the greatest ever they would have played for Spain. This WC argument is so stupid. One team mate can mess up and now you have to wait 4 years to hope someone else doesn't bottle it. Argentina would struggle against some of the worst national squads without Messi on the pitch.
Michael Jordan and Lebron James had help to win…. this is not tennis!
Yes and no but yes because he had a perfect chance to equalize through a free kick in the 2014 final and then maybe Argentina could have won but anyway many miss their opportunity. Messi is an immense talent
Messi is not a big game player.
People often say, Higuain is the reason Messi does not have a world cup.
Why is Messi not the reason Higuain has a world cup? Or 3 Copa Americas?
The Best Teams win World Cups
Best players win player of the tournament . Balon dor, European player of the year, world player of the year etc.
Messi is not a team. He is a player.
Therefore Germany was the best team in 2014 and they won the world cup
Shaka is right. Why the violins for Messi? Other great players faced the same pressure.