Messi to Define Argentina vs Croatia Match

Argentina and Croatia will be face to face today at Nizhny Novgorod Stadium for the Group D match in the Football World Cup 2018. It is also a chance for Lionel Messi to settle things by performing his best and silencing the critics, after a series of criticism for his performance in the last match.

In the previous match, Messi’s penalty miss led to the 1-1 draw with Iceland and brought sadness to the fans and followers of Messi across the world, which also generated criticism about his performance. It is therefore expected of him that he gets a chance to save his face and comes out with triumph when Argentina will meet Croatia today in the marquee match. Earlier the Croatians had knocked off Nigeria and would advance towards the knockout stages in full form to defeat the Argentines.

Lionel Messi is people’s sentiment and choice because he is the most talented player in every tournament so far. He is regarded as someone who is consumed with a unique sense of personal destiny and it is only he who can drive Argentina to win this World Cup. That is why his performance matters for everyone who supports Argentina.

His form and performances have been a concern for many football lovers for the past few days. Messi ran 7.61km, which is less than any other outfield player to complete 90 minutes. According to experts, run more and move more, it is one of the most important recipes for the success of the World Cups over the past 50 years.

In his previous match against Iceland, Argentina’s Messi made 17 sprints, which is an average performance in a platform such as the World Cup. In the World cup so far, the fastest and the quickest player is Cristiano Ronaldo who played at the speed of 34 kph against Spain. Whereas Messi’s topmost speed is 25kph. It is where Messi needs improvement.

Argentina has played only one game and has still two games to play in the World Cup 2018 and the hope Argentina is fetching from this World Cup, cannot be ignored, as on the better side Argentina team is still has scored a large number of shots as a team.

The team is in full support of Messi, as the Manager of the team, Jorge Sampaoli declares, “We are at the point where Leo is untouchable. His vision is much more developed than ours”.

The top football players of the world have shown time and again that form can be changed towards betterment and therefore everyone hopes that Messi too will perform his best in the match today and other matches to come.

It is a belief among the followers of Messi, that only he has the capability to turn a moderate team into World Cup contenders. The form and enthusiasm are no doubt, a matter of concern! But players like Diego Maradona has proved by the best performance as well as controversies that at the end of the day it is football which rules and the best performance is remembered.