@somehow,
Messi has a history of bottling big time at the international big stage.

No be today.

XingXhang:


He's not the best because he saved Messi's penalty. Messi doesn't usually score penalties.
He'll be the best when saves Cr7's own.

If you know you know.

They are called"Haters" for a reason!

kinzation:
haa kilode
why evils against ur motherland
how much b d money gan

Lol.....If only Messi is aware of what he did to the struggling guy ......the guy has probably promised himself a shirt and a Jean before Messi dashed his hope.

hoopLA:

He was Penaldo when he scored the free kick yesterday.
No wonder Nigerian politicians keep shïttingon us.

Go and become one to change the Nation situation.

babajeje123:

Guy, be careful. Don't kee me here o

Czar01:
Wait o! All these Ronaldo wänkers are forgetting that when Portugal and Iceland played in Euro, they also played 1 - 1 and Ronaldo couldn't score one goal in that match

Dont Mind Them, Mumu People

Retirement na him sure pass 4 Messi afta dis tournament

Messi: Scape Goat
Ronaldo: G. O. A. T

somehow:


Not doing ronaldo messi comparison. Both aren't even doing the same job for their national team.

Just remove Messi's goals from Argentina even though they have more than 2 standard strikers. How come he's even ahead of these known strikers goal wise?

All the finals they have been to, he had to do 110% to get them there but you cant always do it alone.

He's expected to do all the jobs for them. Which is killing the national team. All the same, their bad work-rate should continue until we play them in this worldcup.

He is doing no work!

The team has been built around him.

hoopLA:

Yes
GOAT with only 5 total goals in 4 World Cup appearances spanning 16 games.

Even Thomas Müellerscored5 in Brazil in 2014 and another 5 in South Africa in2010

Your opinion. Don't force it on me without facts

Ronald had 3 gols B4 ynight.....so muller is better Dan a man dat single handedly brought Argentina to the WC? MESSI HAD A BAD GAME BUT LETS NOT FORGET RONALDO HASN'T BEING IMPRESSIVE FOR HIS COUNTRY EITHER . Messi is wat keeps this Argentina team going ....but the mistake sampaoli made was to leave d captain armband with him ... Messi has set the bar so high dat he has to win d world cup to b d greatest . Obviously Ronaldo is a great player ...if Messi has scored a hatrick today Nd goes home with the golden ball again ...he still wouldn't b considered by some as the greatest ,but Ronaldo scored a hatrick Nd is already considered d better player ,that's the difference btw this two guys .Ronaldo sure has the greatest PR team ever in sports .



Messi should quit taking pks ,he admitted that taking pk is his main problem in football Nd tries to get better, he should HV given it to aguero or mascherano . the

blackaxe78:



He is doing no work!

The team has been built around him.

Don't forget he drove the team if not single-handed to World Cup final and Copa America twice.

scantee:
Messi remains the G.O.A.T weather penalty miss or not, he still the best.

Let me remind you all, what was the scores between Iceland vs Portugal in Euro 2016?

I need an ans pls?

Statistics will tell you all. Argue with it.

With an edge that CR7 did it in different places

chiboy1116:
Ronald had 3 gols B4 ynight.....so muller is better Dan a man dat single handedly brought Argentina to the WC? MESSI HAD A BAD GAME BUT LETS NOT FORGET RONALDO HASN'T BEING IMPRESSIVE FOR HIS COUNTRY EITHER . Messi is wat keeps this Argentina team going ....but the mistake sampaoli made was to leave d captain armband with him ... Messi has set the bar so high dat he has to win d world cup to b d greatest . Obviously Ronaldo is a great player ...if Messi has scored a hatrick today Nd goes home with the golden ball again ...he still wouldn't b considered by some as the greatest ,but Ronaldo scored a hatrick Nd is already considered d better player ,that's the difference btw this two guys .Ronaldo sure has the greatest PR team ever in sports .



Messi should quit taking pks ,he admitted that taking pk is his main problem in football Nd tries to get better, he should HV given it to aguero or mascherano . the

Bro, you don't need this long epistle now. This is just Match 1 against a defensive side

oshe11:
Argentina no get defence and keeper, Y can take that to the bank....

And why u no reply the 2nd part?

U agreed ba?

Am tired....

Someone said there is G. O. A. T (CR7) and there is Nkwobi (Messi)

Horlaboy51:


We go hear am tonight. Croatia 5:0 Nigeria

u dey compare us to saudi arabia? Saudi arabia are the only team dey gave 5:0 in dis world cup so far. Anyway marcus d pig has predicted we will reach d semifinals...so shall it be :p

Dybala ooo Argentina aren't ready to win the world cup.

somehow:


Well i am not here to discuss emotions. Came here to discuss facts.

Discuss with your reflection.

Oju4190:
This world is really vanity.....Me that have very big flat screen television and 14700 Dstv subscription cannot watch common Argentina and Iceland match as a result of weather whereas someone that has 14 inches sharp television with 3k Gotv subscription watch the full match with the same weather.....life has just taught me not to underate.........

1900 Gotv not even 3k as u ar thinking. Ntooor we ar the same level with u In this one.

Kingwizzy16:



It doesn't remove the fact that Ronaldo is better than Messi

you cn say that to ur likes, nt to LEGENDS like PELE, MARADONA, RONALDINHO, LOW JOACHIM, HENRY etc that understood, the round leather game, better than you n I.

blackaxe78:


Statistics will tell you all. Argue with it.

With an edge that CR7 did it in different places

Don't blame Messi penalty miss for Argentina failures

Much will be made of the Barcelona man's inability to convert from 12 yards but Argentina should not need a penalty to beat Iceland


Try to resist the temptation – as tantalising as it might be – to compare what Cristiano Ronaldo did for Portugal against Spain on Friday night to what befell Lionel Messi against Iceland in Moscow on Saturday afternoon.

Sure, Ronaldo scored a penalty and Messi missed one. Sure, Ronaldo banged in a stupendous free-kick and Messi put a similar kind of one over. And sure, Ronaldo hit a hat-trick and Messi drew a blank. But there is so much more going on.

Portugal – under Fernando Santos - have a high-class, settled squad with continuity in the line-up and a clearly defined method for obtaining results. They are the European champions for good reason.

And yes, they counted on Ronaldo for a hat-trick against their Iberian neighbours. Those moments are his own but there is a solid base for him to work with. In that regard it’s not too dissimilar to Real Madrid; 10 men to win the ball and keep it and one to score the goals.

It might look like Portugal are a one-man team – if you concentrate only on the list of scorers – but they are not. For years it was said that Portugal lacked the genuine No. 9 they needed. Now they have one, don’t criticise them for that too.

Argentina – on the other hand – have problems. They are the very definition of a one-man team. Portugal managed through Euro 2016 when Ronaldo had bad days – indeed he played precious little of the final – but Argentina simply cannot survive without their No. 10 playing 10 out of 10.

Sergio Aguero’s first-half goal was the first goal scored by an Argentine other than Messi in a competitive international match since November 2016. Since then, of course, Messi’s hat-trick in the autumn against Ecuador has carried them all the way here to Russia.

Jorge Sampaoli has a way of football that he likes to play but here we are 12 games into his reign and Argentina still looks entirely to its playmaker. It’s left to Messi every time to create, to conjure and to finish. One shot of his even hit the back of Ever Banega and another drive ended with Nicolas Tagliafico falling over in front of him.


He is the one making space and then demanding the ball. He is the one starting one-twos and then scurrying fruitlessly along as moves break down around him. He is the one to whom Sampaoli looks to get him out of trouble.

At Barcelona, Messi has had the luxury of a team built around him since his teenage days. That is his talent. And that is the way to ensure he can give his maximum. Instead, for Argentina, it's not the same.

The formation Sampaoli preferred was confusing. To play two defensive midfielders in Lucas Biglia and Javier Mascherano was to pay Iceland entirely too much respect. There was a failure to deal with the direct aerial threat carried by the Islanders. There were jitters throughout the backline and from Willy Caballero and Marcos Rojo in particular. That much was proven in the Alfred Finnbogason equaliser.

This is the kind of team in which Messi at his best can paper over the cracks. But when he has an off-day – and he did – there is simply no other answer. And for Argentina, that is a big worry.

But what Messi and Argentina must remember is Portugal started their Euro 2016 campaign with a 1-1 draw against Iceland… and it didn’t turn out too badly for them.

Cointrader:


This is a lie.

Iceland follows a naming rule set by the government:

Male surnames are a combination of the father's name and son: Sigurdson (meaning son of sigurdur)

Female surnames are a combination of father's name and dottir: Ragnardottir (meaning daughter of Ragnar).

It has nothing to do with ethnic group. It is simply a simple naming rule long instituted by the government.

so if a man has 3 sons they will all bear his name abi?

Ayemileto:


Don't loose hope. Iceland played a defensive game against Argentina. I don't think they will do same when we meet.

Bros,
Please what's the name of the app you screenshot? I like the GUI

Messi will see Nigeria now and start scoring us like we stole the goat he did photo shoot with

Elzends:

3k plenty...N1900 did the job

Bros, star time na N1,300.
N1,900 self too much

sirchim:
you cn say that to ur likes, nt to LEGENDS like PELE, MARADONA, RONALDINHO, LOW JOACHIM, HENRY etc that understood, the round leather game, better than you n I.

Argue with statistics and records

chiboy1116:
Ronald had 3 gols B4 ynight.....so muller is better Dan a man dat single handedly brought Argentina to the WC? MESSI HAD A BAD GAME BUT LETS NOT FORGET RONALDO HASN'T BEING IMPRESSIVE FOR HIS COUNTRY EITHER . Messi is wat keeps this Argentina team going ....but the mistake sampaoli made was to leave d captain armband with him ... Messi has set the bar so high dat he has to win d world cup to b d greatest . Obviously Ronaldo is a great player ...if Messi has scored a hatrick today Nd goes home with the golden ball again ...he still wouldn't b considered by some as the greatest ,but Ronaldo scored a hatrick Nd is already considered d better player ,that's the difference btw this two guys .Ronaldo sure has the greatest PR team ever in sports .



Messi should quit taking pks ,he admitted that taking pk is his main problem in football Nd tries to get better, he should HV given it to aguero or mascherano . the

Ode
Who said Müeller was better?
Don't you know what the word "perspective" means?
I brought Müeller in to show how relatively poorMessi has been by the standards he set for himself in winning 5 World player of the year titles.
But dullards like you will misread, misinterprete and generally miss the point I am making.

Ronaldo not impressive?
Someone who has scored in 8 consecutive major tournaments. Oldest player to bag a hat trick ina World Cup.Someone with a European championship medal and one runner-up medal?

Ogbeni you don't have to quote me.

blackaxe78:



He is doing no work!

The team has been built around him.

Lol.
These Messimaniacs will say anything.

They won't remind you how he blew their Copa America chances with another penalty miss vsChile in the 2016 finals.

hoopLA:


Partly agree with you. And partly disagree.

Messi I think simply hasn't raised his game at the World Cup or even at the copa America: the biggest competitions.

As someone with 5 WPOTY he should in my opinion be the driving force of this Argentina side. Ronaldo showed us yesterday what responding to expectation of a nation means against a top side.

Shining in qualifying is different from doing it at the real tournament. Iceland has players that are part time. No excuse for not beating them if you have Messi in your side.

I agree with you when you speak of chemistry issues but I think Argentina over the last decade or so have too much talent at their disposal and the managers/coaches of the national side over this period just picks stars (possibly to make his job easier) instead of functional players who can play together.

So yesterday was the first time Ronaldo was playing a world cup match abi? Messi had a bad day like every other big players do sometimes. Did you watched the last world cup? no other Argentina player scored more than a goal but he scored 4 times...Before yesterday Ronaldo had just 3 world cup goals now he has 6 so stop saying Messi haven't been raising his game for Argentina. Portugal are a better team than Argentina.. without Ronaldo for most of the game at the last euro final they still defeated France...they are more organized than Argentina. When Messi don't turn up for Argentina they become bunch of mediocres. They narrowly qualified to this world cup because of Him. The team don't play to his strength...it's sad this might just be his last outing with his national team

Lol

Elzends:

bros comot mind der.....9ja ain't beating that team

keep doubting, e go shock u