Consistency is a real buzz word for @Nembo_Kid, I’d expect him to post something along the lines of what he posted 24 hours ago when Eire won the qualifier to qualify for the next round of qualifiers.
Argentina had to go to altitude in Ecuador in a win or bust game. The pressure was on and once again Lionel Messi delivered when he had to.
The key phrase there being once again.
Messi regularly bottles it for Argentina in the crunch, hence why last night was an anomaly.
You should figure out the difference between an anomaly and a regularity.
Exactly, which bolsters my point, no matter how good a player is he can’t guarantee success for a team. Liam Brady and Ryan Giggs never played in a World Cup finals either. The debate about Messi is nonsensical, one simply has to look at Argentina’s record in the current qualifying campaign with him in the side and with him out. Of the eight games he missed, Argentina only won one, and in the 10 games he played, Argentina won 6. In terms of goal scoring, of the 19 goals Argentina scored in 18 games, Messi scored 7 of them in 10 games.
HGH boy. Hardly surprising.