Recently, former Paris midfielder Jérôme Roten, a football commentator at RMC Sport, talked about Mbappe's contract and is optimistic about the prospects of the French striker renewing his contract with Paris. Speaking about the need to keep Mbappe, he also mentioned Messi: "Obviously, Messi is still that Messi, but apart from today's game (Paris 3-2 Leipzig), we saw him disappear for 20 or 30 minutes in the game. ”
Nor can it be said that Roten's words are unreasonable, after all, from the perspective of the future prospects of the club, it is very necessary to keep Mbappe (Messi also thinks so), but he said that Messi often disappears for 20 or 30 minutes in the game, obviously ignoring Messi's role in the team, and the fans do not agree. It is true that Messi is 34 years old, and it is not realistic to expect him to run all over the field, but if it is in a key game, Messi generally does not disappear for 20 minutes, and is generally seen at both ends of the attack and defense.
The day after Paris 3-2 Leipzig, Barca also won 1-0 against Kiev, scoring the only goal of the game was defender Pique, while forwards such as Depay did not disappear from the whole game, but they did all useless work. Some fans sighed: after watching this game, I know that Messi has been raising the lower limit of Barca.
Back to the topic of Rothen's comments on Messi just now, some fans believe that after watching several games in Paris, they always feel that Messi is not playing smoothly on the field, not playing his own characteristics, and there is no tacit understanding with his teammates. Messi's age is unlikely to be as good as before, but the ability to pass the ball is still top-notch. More fans feel that Messi can't run the whole game, he may disappear for 20 minutes on the field, but others generally disappear for 60 minutes.
In fact, Messi also knows the weight of each game, such as Ligue 1, Messi may feel that the Paris substitute victory over the opponent is not a big problem, but the South American World Preliminary Round or Champions League match, the opponent is much stronger, Messi will do his best in every game, which may also be one of the reasons why Messi has not scored in Ligue 1 so far.
Voting for the 2021 Golden Globe Awards begins on October 8 and closes on October 24, with voting results announced on November 29. Today is October 22, and the voting channel is about to close. Messi's last match was in the Paris 3-2 Leipzig match , a triumph that further nailed the "May Old Seven" after Messi had won six golden balls.