Not only is Messi not really running anymore, he’s not bothering to look, either, before he threads passes through an entire midfield/defensive unit for a team-mate to score The evolution of Lionel Messi ⤵️ 🟢 samcunningham
And good on him. If you can’t stroll around the park at his stage in football, after all he’s done before, when can you? When you can still go from standstill to full sprint faster than at the gun in a 100m Olympic final, you can walk for however long you like.
Wonderful images emerged during and after the match of men in orange shirts reaching desperately when Messi was on the ball, arms outstretched, trying to get hold of anything but grasping only thin air. Several decades later, when he’s finally made peace with the moment, Nathan Ake will probably regale his grandchildren with the time Messi sent him to Souq Waqif and back again with that glorious feint, then without even so much as a glance saw a pass that 87,000 in the Lusail Stadium – even those high up in the rafters – couldn’t possibly have imagined, before passing the ball through Ake’s legs and Nahuel Molina poked Argentina in front.
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