In the World Cup semi-final against Croatia , Messi made one pass and one shot, and advanced to the World Cup final for the second time in his career, and also set a series of records.
Messi's anger
Fight against Holland Fight, Messi made a pass and shot and scored in the penalty shootout. The media thinks he played the most beautiful game of this World Cup. As the World Cup progresses, Messi is in a better and better condition. Despite his lack of physical fitness and slowdown, Messi has overcome such difficulties with his smart mind.
Messi also realized his limitations, so he changed his playing style to overcome difficulties. Just three years ago, Messi would speed up once he entered the shooting area, but the assists given to Molina proved Messi's change. Facing the opponent's double-team, Messi did not force a breakthrough, but instead gave an assist under the double-team of 6 defenders.
Messi's assist is quite similar to the assist given by Maradona to Cania in the 1990 World Cup against Brazil. In addition to this wonderful assist, Messi's determination, courage and anger are equally important. After
scored, Messi made a celebration move against the Dutch bench, confronted Van Gaal after the game, and criticized Lajos and Van Gaal in an interview, and even scolded Vikhorst who was passing by.
The famous sports writer Mark Ogden commented, "In the game against the Netherlands, Messi showed his determination to do his best to help Argentina win the championship. Whether it is good, bad or ugly, he is saving his hopes for Argentina, and the World Cup will become more wonderful because of this."
Mr. The final battle between Mr. Golden Balls
For Messi, this is both a revenge battle and a decisive battle between Mr. Golden Balls. In 2018, World Cup group stage, Argentina lost 0-3 to Croatia, Modric scored a goal, Messi participated in a crushing defeat in his national team career, and this loss also laid the foundation for Argentina to get out early. After defeating Argentina, Croatia finally reached the final. Modric won the World Cup Golden Globe Award , and then won the Golden Globe Award .
Whether in the national team or in the club, Messi was at a disadvantage in the confrontation against Modric. He only achieved 9 wins, 5 draws and 12 losses in 26 confrontations. In the last 5 confrontations, Messi has never won, only achieved 1 draw and 4 losses.
In fact, there is a lot of connection between the two. As early as 2006, when Modric made his national team debut, his opponent was Argentina led by Messi, and Messi also scored his national team's debut in this game.
In addition to Messi and Modric, Taliafico, O'Need, Perisic, Brozovic and Lovren also started again after four years.
Active shooter king and assist king
If Van Gaal uses ugly tactics and off-set moves, then Croatia can be called the "King of Grinding". In two consecutive knockout matches against Japan and Brazil, grid team dragged the game into the penalty kick final. Messi's performance is crucial to how to defeat King Mo.
This game is Messi's 25th World Cup appearance, tying up the World Cup appearance record held by Mattus. For the 18th time, Messi continued to break the record he had maintained.
In this World Cup, Messi has set many historical records. In this World Cup, he has also become the first Argentine player to play in the fifth World Cup, the first Argentine player to give assists in the fifth World Cup, and the first Argentine player to score goals in the four World Cups. He gave 8 assists and tied the record held by Maradona. He was selected as the best player in the game 9 times, ranking first among all players.
In the 32nd minute, Alvarez won a penalty for Argentina. Facing Livakovic, who is known as a kicker, Messi took the penalty and helped Argentina take the lead.After scoring this goal, Messi scored 11 goals in the World Cup, surpassing Batistuta and becoming the Argentine player with the most goals in the World Cup in history; at the same time, he also surpassed Müller with 11 goals, becoming the active player with the most goals in the World Cup, combining the active scorer and assist king.
In the 68th minute, Messi forced his way out of Gvadior at the bottom line and sent a wonderful pass, and Alvarez made it overnight. This is Messi's third pass and shot in this World Cup, becoming the first player in history to make the pass and shot in four World Cups.
At the same time, he also surpassed Klose, Bailey, Ronaldo, Gettings-Muller with 20 goals (11 goals and 9 assists), creating a new World Cup goal record. He scored 5 goals in a single World Cup, and Messi also set a record for individual goals in a single World Cup, and tied the Mbappe , which ranked first in the scorer list.
35 years old and 172 days Messi became the oldest player to score 5 goals in the same World Cup. Since the current competition system was used in the 1986 World Cup, Messi has become the sixth player to score in the quarterfinals, quarterfinals and semi-finals. In 2022, Messi has scored 22 goals for the Argentina national team, setting a new record.
After witnessing Messi's performance, Zhang Lu said, "What is the king of football! Such performance can be called the king!"
final is here!
advances to the World Cup final for the second time, and Messi will set a series of World Cup historical records. First, he played in the World Cup for the 26th time and played as captain for the 19th time, setting historical World Cup appearance records and appearance records as captain respectively.
Secondly, after the semi-finals, Messi has played in the World Cup for 2194 minutes. Once he plays in the World Cup, he will surpass , Maldini , which is held in 2224 minutes.
currently plays for 2104 minutes. If you enter overtime, you will surpass Maldini in 2224 minutes and become the player with the most playing time in the World Cup.
Of course, Messi only has one goal in the World Cup final, that is, to win Hercules Cup and achieve the last goal of his career.
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