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Austeenx: [color=orange]well, let's keep our fingers crossed. [/color]

Austeenx: [color=orange]Enough of the world cup already. 2018 is just by the corner[sort of]

I really think we should be more concerned about how Messi, Suarez and Neymar can play in one team.
Can this coach make them play well together without one or two of the three being sub par? [/color]

coded01: I don't expect you to agree with him as far as you aren't playing football...

lefulefu: an average black woman dey forbid to do excercise.na only oyibo girls dey take excercise seriously.na how many times u don see a nigerian babe dey jog early in the morning?

coded01: Messi: Argentina strikers missed chances

The 27-year-old was frustrated by his side's inability to finish chances, while also pointing to the fact it had a day less to recover for the final.

Lionel Messi blamed Argentina's 1-0 World Cup final defeat to Germany on the team's forwards for being wasteful in front of goal.

The 27-year-old was a peripheral figure on the night and fired wide a golden opportunity to give his side the lead in the second half after Gonzalo Higuain had done the same in the opening period, while Rodrigo Palacio also scuppered a great chance.

Argentina was then punished for its failure to convert those chances when Mario Gotze scored a brilliant winner in extra time to take the World Cup back to Germany.

And Messi believes his side deserved better, insisting they should have taken their chances.

"We haven't been in the semifinals for many years and the fact that we played the final and the way we played it it's something to be proud of," Messi said after the game. "But we deserved more and that's why we are sad. The strikers missed the chances we had. It's a bad feeling for all of us because we couldn't win the cup and take it to our people."

Argentina made it to the final after beating the Netherlands on penalties in their semifinal on Wednesday, a day after Germany thrashed Brazil 7-1 in their last-four clash.

And Messi felt the ease at which Joachim Low's side cruised to victory last week, along with the additional 24 hours of rest ahead of the final, was key as the final went into extra time.

"I was OK physically as were the rest of us," he added. "The fact that we played a day after them and that we played extra time against a team that was able to rest in the last minutes of their semifinals affected our finish of the game. A difference of one day is big at this stage."

Messi could take one small crumb of comfort from his evening after being awarded the Golden Ball as the best player of the tournament, though he said the prize "meant very little" on a disappointing night.

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/67/world-cup-2014/2014/07/13/4957722/messi-argentina-strikers-missed-chances?ICID=HP_TS_4

claireshan:

AjanleKoko: But seriously now. It seems like Messi is kinda done. He just takes strolls all the time now.
I mean, the genius is there, but the explosion is not. Not by a long shot.

claireshan: not really but I tried my best to have

logica: The worst part is, if it wasn't for this clown Messi may even already have won the World Cup in 2010.

Austeenx: Golden glove: Manuel Neuer(GER)

Golden ball: Lionel Messi(ARG)

Golden Boot: James Rodriguez(COL)

Golden snail: Mikel Obi(NGR)

Golden clipper: Cristiano Ronaldo(POR)

Golden Swimsuit: Arjen Robben(NDL)

Golden teeth: Luis Suarez(URY)

logica: Maradona should shut up. He was lucky he had Valdano and Burruchaga. Not to talk of the heroics of Jose Brown. Or has he convinced himself he did it alone in 1986?

logica: I think he should just stick to what he does best: modeling.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/19/article-0-1E02B2C300000578-433_634x827.jpg

AjanleKoko: I thought the Golden Ball voting is based on the number of MOTMs won.
So what is everybody crying about?

ddippset: couldn't have spoken better. WORLD CUP- 6 matches in 4 years. Club football- 240 matches in 4 years. It's madness to suggest that a footballer's greatness is solely based on a world cup. Even if it were, with a world cup silver medal, a world cup golden ball, to go with the biggest success ever in the history of club football, messi is up there with pele and diego. The argies should be proud- a silver medal after 24 years.

claireshan: Watsup

claireshan: It all Good

ddippset: sorry to say and pardon me but this is stvpidity being taken to a higher level. are goals supposed to be counted to determine a player's performance? na wa o! make una dey use una heads na!

ddippset: like i said before, i predicted correctly all the second round, quarter final, and semi final fixtures but one. i only failed the germany - brazil match, and i aint no cortana.

homesteady: I knew this cortana nonsense is just an opportunist!
If it had predicted the group stage matches, then I would have taken it seriously!

philfearon: True talk jare....
Buy Reus too and the right wing position is Settled
With Messi just behind the three of them...Na killer Squad be this ooo.....
But one thing with over squad is they rarely win anything.....

claireshan: morning chores,,, but am strong now

claireshan: yawns
am just too lazy this morning

bykebyke: Lol..Abeqi..Na una two know!!

I Don go sleep!!

philfearon: it pains me shaa...Truth is,we bought Sanchez more than €40m...it was just underreported...
We need these CBs asap...they need to join the preseason squad Na..even if Na one match dem play...
Another Truth is,The board is not serious about buying center backs...The haste with which they signed Goalkeepers,Suarez and Rakitic should tell u this...Its a fact that Barca and Madrid always get any player they want....

ddippset: my simple point is this; if you do not go to the market to buy fresh vegetables @ sunrise, you'd be left with reminants @ sunset, but i agree with you, everyone still ends up with vegetables.

onuwaje: Let's not forget he won't b training till november o

ddippset: why was suarez prioritized over cuadrado or any quality CB? even with messi, neymar, sanchez, we re very good, so what we needed firstly was a CB. or are we going to haggle in the transfer market like we want to buy melon while other clubs wait for us like God gave us the divine right to sign cuadrado and co whenever we wanted? that cuadrado guy, if we dont treat him like we did suarez, someone else will buy him. this feet dragging isnt good at all.