Legendary Arsenal captain Thierry Henry has revealed why Lionel Messi is yet to impress in the French Ligue 1.

Messi featured against Marseille in his fourth match in Ligue 1 at the weekend and once again failed to find the net.

It is his worst goalscoring start to a league campaign since 2005, when he was embarking on his first full senior season.

The 34-year-old has been deployed on the right-hand side of a three-man attack for PSG under Mauricio Pochettino, with Neymar cutting in from the left and Kylian Mbappe in a central role.

PSG tweaked their formation on Sunday night from 4-3-3 to a 4-2-3-1, yet Messi’s right-sided position remained unchanged.

Yet Henry believes the formation and role in the team does not suit the Argentine, calling on Pochettino to consider shifting Messi into a more central position.

“Messi is isolated and does not touch the ball too much,” Henry said on Amazon Prime.

“I would not say that he is sad, but I see that his position is isolated.

“I prefer him in the centre, and I do not think he can make a difference from the right.

“He is having a bad time and the centre he can find rhythm.

“There has to be a solution found so that they [Messi, Mbappe and Neymar] can play together.

“I don’t have the exact data at a tactical level, but I think he is having less impact. He participates infrequently.”

Henry also believes that the emphasis of the PSG team means that it has become disjointed, with Mbappe still the central star within the side.

He has claimed that Pochettino’s side do not appear to be playing in unison and are far from being a cohesive attacking unit.

He added: “Messi doesn’t talk too much. He does it with the ball.

“At the moment, the team belongs to Kylian. It is he who makes PSG shine.

“The ball is looking more for Kylian and if there is more than one ‘driver’, the team cannot play in unison.

“On this team there is too much variance. They do not play at the same pace.”

Source: https://www.completesports.com/why-messi-is-struggling-in-ligue-1-arsenal-legend-henry/[/b]

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You won't see his minions like Paulolee, Numeroun4, ThierryJay, Unbitchable etc on a.thread that exposes Pessi...

obonujoker:
You won't see his minions like Paulolee, Numeroun4, ThierryJay, Unbitchable etc on a.thread that exposes Pessi...

They are hiding..if na Ronaldo now, u will see them doing Nzuko here....shameless idiots

Messi is unbalancing the team..... his first game they lead 2.0..goals by mbappe...as he entered the pitch, goals seized ... second game , they cudnt score till neymar won a penalty, they had to sub messi off 15 mins to go b4 psg finally scored the winning goal...3rd game they lost 2.0...4th game 0.0... but whenever he is not on the pitch, psg have scored loads of goals and won every single game... his minions will say he is only concentrating on CL ...but will insult Ronaldo, like say Ronaldo no b CL too im perform pass messi sef

Kingcalls:
Messi is unbalancing the team..... his first game they lead 2.0..goals by mbappe...as he entered the pitch, goals seized ... second game , they cudnt score till neymar won a penalty, they had to sub messi off 15 mins to go b4 psg finally scored the winning goal...3rd game they lost 2.0...4th game 0.0... but whenever he is not on the pitch, psg have scored loads of goals and won every single game... his minions will say he is only concentrating on CL ...but will insult Ronaldo, like say Ronaldo no b CL too im perform pass messi sef

Maybe you should also give us a detailed analysis on the underpermance of Bruno and Man u since the arrival of Ronaldo

that is normal and with time, paris would get d winning formuar n how best to use him..
d same messi also av 3 goals in 3 UCL games n dts d most important tin for paris n the main reason he came.
PSG are toppin its league n would win d league without messi goals bt do need him badly to win d ucl,
for leo to keep scoring goals in UCL n maybe win the UCL for them wud make more sense than scoring goals In d league..

obonujoker:
You won't see his minions like Paulolee, Numeroun4, ThierryJay, Unbitchable etc on a.thread that exposes Pessi...

m not bordered about his league form bcox even if he scores 20 goals in 10 games. una go say na farmers league n its too easy..
PSG are topping d league n would win it even with resting leo..
d same messi gat 3 goals in 3 UCL games n dts d important tin, he even scored against ur EPL king city n u not talking about it...cr7 go face dt same city next week n we go see how far