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One thing football has taught me is this: if you're playing against Lionel Messi and Argentina, keep the talking to a minimum until the final whistle.
Yerry Mina danced after Colombia knocked out Uruguay at the 2021 Copa América. A round later, Emi Martínez saved his penalty, and Messi's response was simple: "¡Baila ahora!" ("Dance now!").
Then came Louis van Gaal in 2022. He confidently spoke about settling the score with Argentina and even said that if it went to penalties, the Netherlands would win because they were prepared. It went exactly where he wanted, to penalties. Argentina won the shootout, and the Dutch left devastated.
Whether it's pre-match bravado, penalty shootout confidence, or provocative celebrations, history has shown that Argentina, especially this Messi-led generation, has a habit of turning those moments into fuel.
Confidence is part of football. Disrespect is a gamble. Against Messi, it's usually an expensive one.
🚨🏴 John Terry: “Argentina DOESN'T worry me. I don’t look at Argentina and think they’re better than us. Player for player, we’re BETTER than Argentina." @FIFAcom
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Preciey, I have said it many times, these set of people are new Barca fans.
Every single one of us that has been supporting the club for over 20 years have seen many things, we understand many situations good and very bad times and we criticize coaches and players even when it’s not popular.
I said Rubin Kazan beat prime Barca at camp Nou and one teenage Barca fan was arguing with me. I had to block him. Many of them think because it’s Barca everything has to be rosy all the time. It’s supposed to be about the good times only.
It is well o.
Luis Enrique that Hansi Flick haters are glazing, had a similar “big game situation” in his treble winning season at Barcelona. He was almost sacked in January. Here’s what happened:
When he arrived, the club signed two goalies for him, two CBs, Rakitic, and Luis Suarez. He had Neymar, Messi, Iniesta, Busquets, Dani Alves, Piqué, Masche, and Alba all within their primes.
We were winning all our “small” games in La Liga comfortably, 6-0, 5-0, 3-0 etc, until we faced PSG in France. Lost 3-2. In fact, it was the first time the team conceded a goal. We were 23-0 in 9 games.
We continued winning our “small games” and then one month later, we had our next big test against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, lost 3-1. Then the game after Real Madrid, we lost against Celta at Camp Nou for the first time in history. We beat PSG at Camp Nou in the second group game with MSN scoring, then we met a big test in January against Real Sociedad at the Anoeta. We hadn’t won there in 5 games, Lucho rested many key players including Messi and Neymar, and we lost that game. All hell broke loose as Barça missed a chance to go top of the table. (Side note: Lucho failed to win any of his three La Liga games at the Anoeta in his 3 seasons as coach).
There were rumours that Messi didn’t like the benching, chaos occurred in the Barça camp, sporting director Zubi was fired, Puyol stepped down, Barto called for elections… Twitter was hell on that day.
But then, the dressing room was filled with matured players, the captains, the coaching staff, all came together and resolved the issue and kept their heads up high. And from there the season turned around. Next game was against Atletico Madrid, La Liga defending champions, knocked Barcelona out of the CL the previous season, wiped them 3-1 for that famous MSN celebration as they all scored. Beat Real Madrid in the second leg, beat Atleti again, beat Atleti home and away again in the Copa quarterfinal. Beat Man City home and away in the CL R16, the PSG that beat us in the group stage, we beat them home and away in the CL QF. Knocked Bayern out of the SF. Beat Juve in the final. Won the treble. Lucho wrote his name in the history books.
Lesson of the story: blips happen. Team just need to learn and keep going. And we need to keep on supporting. Visca Barça 💙❤️
At least, Yamal won a penalty at the world cup, and he was nowhere to be found...
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Ahh. It depends on what the game needs oh. Xavi was just really good at maintaining the tempo, and giving long passes that were accurate. IniOluwa could dribble, to create something out of nothing.
Ray Touchline retweeted
Yamal suffer for this word last two seasons
Any small thing, make e use am win UCL 😹
Hold it✋️
He's only 19.
Messi only had the eye test at 19.
Lamine has both at 19.
Yamal loves to talk about Eye test because its hard to measure
but lets take Lionel Messi as an example, someone who has the best eye test ever and also the best stats ever
but accoring to yamal he dosent need to be great in big games, he dosent need to score or assists. all he needs to do is some fugazi dribbles some key passes and he is the best itw
DISGUISTING!
Ray Touchline retweeted
Dembele winning the ballon d’or is exactly the reason Mbappe has a headloss now. I am certain he hasn’t slept since Dembele won the ballon d’or and 2 UCLs with a team he couldn’t win with. They compared both players when they were youngsters, with Dembele being the better player at Dortmund. He had a set back and Mbappe surpassed him clearly, Dembele’s come back is something Mbappe didn’t foresee and it is hurting him.
Don't let anybody gaslight you. Lamine Yamal is the best Barcelona player. You guys will not also make us hate Raphinha, who gives his all for this club.
Ray Touchline retweeted
If you like let your ancestors be from Barcelona. You can’t force your opinions on anybody.
Lamine Yamal is the best Barcelona. If you think the people saying Raphinha is the best are doing so because they love Raphinha then you are a joker.
They neither like Raphinha nor Lamine Yamal, they are only afraid of the bragging rights Barcelona would have if a la masia graduate after Lionel Messi becomes the face of the club again.
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“The best players always make their team win “and that’s what Lamine Yamal basically did for Spain in World Cup
Before Lamine first match for Spain in World Cup , everyone was clamoring for him to play cus Spain were basically predictable and shit
This is the clearest ballon d’Or winner in recent !!
Sir ballon d’Or !!
The race is on 🌕
Lamine Yamal's case for the Ballon d'Or.
Find everything about him here: ballondor.com/players/lamine…
#ballondor
