Lionel Messi scored two goals and assisted one in his first game against an MLS defense. Is Messi really good or is what he's up against really bad? johnspacemuller examines:
, which has fewer restrictions on spending, the average forward earns 31 per cent more than the average defender, according to estimates from the website Capology. In MLS, that same gap is 150 per cent. The guys scoring the goals and the ones trying to stop them might as well be playing different sports.
match. He also scored two goals, you may recall, in last year’s World Cup final against France. Which he won. Because he scores against everybody.He didn’t do anything against Atlanta that he hasn’t done to countless other teams in every league he’s played in. He wandered constantly in and out of defenders’ zones, making it hard for them to keep track of who was responsible for him.
And yeah, sure, he’ll probably have an easier time finding space and beating defenders in MLS than in Europe. That’s what happens when you move from some of the world’s best leagues to a less good one. If MLS is worried that too much of this might make the league look bad, they don’t even have to raise the league’s salary cap — they can start by loosening the rules that control how clubs spend their money, making it easier to invest in defence.
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