The moment Messi forced 'suicidal' brainsnap

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Lionel Messi's show against the Socceroos was "god-like" and the champion idiosyncratic showing astatine this World Cup, according to an English great.

In Argentina's 2-1 triumph astatine Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, Messi's genius was connected afloat display.

"Messi has enactment connected the champion idiosyncratic show we've seen astatine this World Cup truthful far, by a mile," Rio Ferdinand said connected the BBC.

"Showboating, laying shots connected a sheet for teammates, and the assemblage - it was astir god-like, aft each azygous happening helium does."

While helium was the 1 to people the archetypal goal, he'd been putting successful the intelligence enactment passim the archetypal half.

Messi had been baiting Aussie near backmost Aziz Behich for overmuch of the archetypal half-hour. The brace yet engaged successful a fracas arsenic they fought for a shot that went implicit the enactment for an Argentine throw.

That infinitesimal appeared to get Behich blistery nether the collar. It led to a rash situation disconnected the propulsion in, which was called a foul by the referee.

It outgo the Socceroos the archetypal extremity of the match. Messi got the shot backmost connected the borderline of the container aft a beauteous one-two successful a choky abstraction earlier calmly knocking the shot into the bottommost corner, past the helplessly outreached manus of goalkeeper Mat Ryan.

For SBS, Socceroos large Mark Bosnich noted "the large player" had coiled Behich up.

"That was 1 of the champion positions Argentina was successful passim the half. Doing a foul determination ... tin beryllium suicidal," Bosnich said.

"The shot comes successful in a unsafe position. And past Messi does what helium does."

Messi had respective different adjacent moments done the 2nd fractional excessively - nary amended than from Argentina's last attacking accidental heavy into wounded time.

He got the changeable away, and it went implicit the apical of the crossbar by a substance of centimetres.

Also for SBS, Craig Foster said Messi provided the quality betwixt the 2 sides.

"He's 1 of the top players successful the past of the crippled … this is him," helium said.

"We've seen this virtually hundreds of times against the finest defences successful the world."

The lucifer was besides Messi's 1000th nonrecreational quality - 169 for his state and 831 for Barcelona and PSG.

The extremity was besides his archetypal successful the knockout signifier of a World Cup, and it enactment him past the large Diego Maradona arsenic the Argentina's starring extremity scorer astatine World Cups.

Messi each but confirmed up of the tourney this would beryllium his last World Cup.

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