Game of the century.

Le Samourai wrote:

shinigami99 wrote:

Jonathan28 wrote:Not Canadian, not Argentinian, yet supports Argentina....

lol i know it's weird

but I'm Trinidadian, our NT is pretty much shit and the only contribution we made to football was Dwight Yorke.

Argentina impressed me from a young age and the fact that I supported them through the maradona and pep batista years shows that I'm not really a Bandwagoner.

Trinidadian

Shahdon Winchester

Kenweyne

Latapy

Marvin Andrews

Autis Whitley

Well Kenwyne is at Stoke and i guess thats not THAT bad. Latapy was great, especially in scotland and portugal and I thought he was a bit underrated.

Also you forgot the great Shaka Hislop (lol)

but yea, Yorke shits on all of those people in terms of success.

nasir6371 wrote:

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

Gil wrote:How can you allow Messi to run 40 yards and not even attempt to close him down?

Luiz & Silva would have locked that ass down.

Another jealous hater, you are aware he shot before he get anywhere near the defence

If your going to blame anyone..... blame Mehcelo and the midfield.

Also Messi has done better goals than that against better defenders than Luiz and TS

Also you know full well if CR or Hazard did that you would be wanking silly over him.....

The hating is lulz.

If only Luiz was playing God that is funny, When did Luiz become a WC CB???? Luiz could not stop the raping Messi was giving the Brazilian blackline

And if I remember correctly, Luiz did exactly the same thing as the defender here, when Messi last scored similar winner in 1-0 match.

my bad but wasnt luiz part of the defence that shut messi and co down for the most part of 180 minutes ?

Why are we disucussing If luiz is world class or not?TS and luiz wouldn't have conceded those 4 goals,period.I'm sure Argentina would have scored but not 4

Marcelo did nothing wrong there, Lavezzi was having a Joey Barton moment, trying to take Marcelo along with him!

Lord Hades wrote:my bad but wasnt luiz part of the defence that shut messi and co down for the most part of 180 minutes ?

No.

Ganso wrote:Why are we disucussing If luiz is world class or not?TS and luiz wouldn't have conceded those 4 goals,period.I'm sure Argentina would have scored but not 4

By this logic, we might as well discredit most of the goals Messi and Ronaldo score each week as majority of them are due to bad defending in some fashion.

When CR scores an amazing goal against a shit defence.... do we discredit because the opposition is poor? no we dont same goes for Messi we just praise the brilliance of the goal.....

Besides its not like Messi has'nt scored a better goal than that against WC defences before

Its fine to support a foreign NT, everyone does it over here, but when I see people saying 'We' this and 'We' that about a country that they have no personal connection with, it just sounds wrong.

First Luiz did not play in either matches against barca... SO yeah Defending Messi from the stands

2ND LEG
1st leg

oh yeah , i had forgotten his injury , my bad..

Brazil missed leaders at the back, with Silva and Luiz the match will have been won by Brazil, Argentina though are terrible outside their front 4, their midfield can't hold the ball and their defense and goalkeeper look amateurish at times. But it did make for and exciting encounter.

Why are you goings going on about TS.. he didn't play.. so stop with the what if's, though fact of the matter is both teams had horrible defenders so call it even difference is Argentina actually took advantage while Neymar and Hulk keep shooting wide.

It's a friendly match, the scoreline is not the only basis for assessing the teams, you can't help but feel for a centre back pairing with a handfull of international caps coming against some of the best attackers in the world. It would have been a better contest if Luiz and Silva had played.

You know people are butthurt when the ifs start rolling out

It would be better if Zanetti and Samuel played. its a national match haters. whoever gets call must in high level. silva didnt play but marcelo played and owned at the end so i dont think silva is better than marcelo

btw messi scored better goal getting past ramos arbeloa marcelo. so all this if silva played if luiz played predictions doesnt make sense

Well,I will bookmark this page and show it to everyone who watches neymar and says he wouldn't do that IF he played in Europe because the defense messi played against today isn't even starting quality in the Brazilian leage @bm,I said Argentina wouldn't have scored 4 goals,messi can obiusly score against anyone

Messi had a very good match. Brazil was the better team though, imo.

People are blaming the CBs, sure they were (and are) crap, but the CDMs were nowhere to be seen in 2 of the 4 goals, were directly at fault for his first goal as well.

Ganso wrote:Well,I will bookmark this page and show it to everyone who watches neymar and says he wouldn't do that IF he played in Europe because the defense messi played against today isn't even starting quality in the Brazilian leage @bm,I said Argentina wouldn't have scored 4 goals,messi can obiusly score against anyone

And I'll show you the replay of Santos vs Barcelona
difference between my statements and yours is I have facts, and you have the simple "WHAT IF"

and defence that neymar played against....

i'm not fully happy with argentina's play, no defence no midfield if there was no that 4 attacker they would lose every match.

about brazil...they played goood but they have no good finisher. Neymar is a great player but he is not a great finisher. if they had some european strikers they would score some goals

I think the Brasil didn't win because of their attack not because of their defense... Argentina screwed up way more than the ones that went in

Gomez83 wrote:

Ganso wrote:Well,I will bookmark this page and show it to everyone who watches neymar and says he wouldn't do that IF he played in Europe because the defense messi played against today isn't even starting quality in the Brazilian leage @bm,I said Argentina wouldn't have scored 4 goals,messi can obiusly score against anyone

And I'll show you the replay of Santos vs Barcelona
difference between my statements and yours is I have facts, and you have the simple "WHAT IF"

Barcelona,the best team in the world...sounds fair.and I mean,every wc player performs vs barca rite?

The way I only saw it was, Argentina defended terrible, but when Hulk and Neymar etc were 1 on 1 with the goal keeper they hit it too softly, too wide or a stupid back pass. Argentina's 4 in the back were so horrible, and always out of position that I believe Mascherano had more tackles in the box then them, a center defensive mid.. more tackles in the box then a CB says something.

Of course it must be the game of the century, because this is the first time Messi performed in the NT and we all know he is the best player of all time and Jesus' reincarnation himself!

game of the century maybe a slight overreaction but its cool. i missed it, so who knows I thought Germany v Portugal would have been more exciting than it actually was.. damnit!! Argentina should call Zanetti up for 2014, he'll be 36 by then since he ages backwards

happy for Messi to be silencing his critics who say he's useless for Argentina now. I'm not a hater though and I was hoping for CR7 and RVP to have good days today too.

Be/\/ceCALI wrote:game of the century maybe a slight overreaction but its cool. i missed it, so who knows I thought Germany v Portugal would have been more exciting than it actually was.. damnit!! Argentina should call Zanetti up for 2014, he'll be 36 by then since he ages backwards

happy for Messi to be silencing his critics who say he's useless for Argentina now. I'm not a hater though and I was hoping for CR7 and RVP to have good days today too.

Well obviously, but it had some fantastic stuff in it. First BRA leads, then ARG leads, then BRA leads, then ARG leads. Also it had most of end to end stuff I remember seeing in one game. Before first Messi goal, Neymar was just 1on1 against Romero, and before the 4-3 winner, Brazil had like a 5 against 3 counter attack.

that winner is great for messi's archive. after 20 years people will watch and think he was brazil destroyer.

btw messi is king of derbies. before r.madrid now brazil

Brazil destroyer in friendlies....i want to see him rape us like kaka and adriano raped Argentina in qualifiers and confederations cup.too bad messi will never even get a chance to play the confederations cup.hopefully we will meet again in 2014