[Music] he absolutely is I mean one of the greatest players to have ever played the game he comes into the tournament with great form for Paris San man with great form for Argentina this Argentina team are something and this guy here he's the leader I don't think a lot of people necessarily see him as the leader but he is you know we've seen some VTS he's really going to Galvanize this Argentina team and and they're going to come into this hoping that they can win the World Cup it's such a special event the World Cup
you have to expect he's going to turn up for this he said it's his last World Cup is it going to be his World Cup there are 64 teams and 831 other players in Qatar vying to be world champions over the next month but if the romantics have their way Argentina will win it and lonel Messi having played a pivotal role he's capable of winning every game we know that every game he plays it it is all about Messi just listen to the noise as he comes on to the pitch but he has the chance
to score Argentina's first goal of the tournament it's Messi for Argentina it's simple it's easy it's one mil he is determined to cap his career with the only honor to have eluded him this is an Argentina team that are unbeaten in 36 matches is trying to release mage he's scampering in behind here he's in behind he's only got the goalkeeper to be and he wasn't going to foul but the offside flag May well have come to Saudi Arabia's rescue you don't feel we are able to come back you don't feel it he's going a shot
on Target and score for Saudi Arabia oh my word who saw this coming Saudi Arabia grab control of the game the goalkeeper out of his goal lonel Messi being trapped but still keeping track of the ball they're digging in and the sar's tring of Come Away with it he has come away with it there's no more chances Argentina one of the favorites getting beat by a country ranked outside the world's top 50 they have rocked Argentina and Lionel Messi one of the greatest players of all time to their core excuse me what is Miss where
is Miss where is Miss where is Miss okay where is Miss where is Messi where is he where is player where isi who is Missy Missy is no one he's finished he's finished where is Messi tomorrow you will play against artina please Messi kick him out World Cup kick him out Missy Missy and ask you one question ask one question what is Missy what is [Music] and for all the talent on that pitch it seems we got to step back and and and let's just hope Lon Messi does does his magic which is going back
to what we SE and which is which which was my complaint around Argentina for so many years for all that Talent everybody just seemed to down tools and hope that that L Messi would would produce some magic hey show what you've got show some guts and courage the scene is set then Argentina must bounce back or their World Cup could well be over it is messy they cannot lose he must not lose Nal Messi Messi's hit oh that's what they came for the Magic Man one more messy moment and Argentina are alive he's not giving
up without a fight they give thanks that he is one of them how often have they said that prayer of thanks and and of course they it was not uh a great performance by the whole team but we have Leo Messi and we need to rely on him know got two goals and two games considering he's almost p and he's finished you can't write these players off it's lonel Messi and it's saved by chzn strong hand to push it away and it remains nil nil here's Molina to drive it across turn towards go and in
Alexis mallister chance for the shot and it's fired in it's a second goal for Argentina Messi didn't score but I think he was another Top Class performer from and still every player looks to to him to drag them through matches he's still capable of of that the the best three or four dribbles in the game was Messi and the best three or four passes in the game was Messi the best of pitch was Messi he play he plays a different kind of sport I think to to most M Mortals um is alien Argentina equipped to
frighten anyone Australia fearful of no one [Applause] Messi Messi mallister Messi he's only going to done it again a th000 games and still he excels mess again drifting and taking the ball with him Lionel Messi looking to penetrate with support from Alvarez Messi again and still Messi now Toro Martinez with him Messi may keep wriggling himself he plays it for Martinez Messi he's Left Behind Moy LEL Messi and extraordinarily in what will almost certainly be his last World Cup there'll never be another like him enjoy him while he's here Messi there has put on the
best individual performance we' seeing at this world cup so far by a mile showboating laying charges on a plate for for teammates it was almost like Godlike I've never I've not seen anything like this whenever he gets the ball the whole stadium gets on their feet don't they you can see everyone should he knows that he's his last World Cup and you can really see his enjoying and Amy Martinez said at the end of the game he said Messi is 99.9% of this team but I just don't know how far you can go just with
him just with him creating just with him scoring just with him doing something special doing a bit of magic he's the same like us he's a human for sure he's good but for sure I can catch the penal who who sto him off here comes the sixth World Cup meeting of the Netherlands and Argentina craftily taken by Messi wriggling away from a and fidling for beautiful pass it's a wonderful Argentina goal Messi cut him in half and the rest was simple reaches out for more history he has a dream to fulfill step by step they
draw closer to the ultimate fulfillment berghouse theost oh a crashing over the out rushing Argentine there was a wave of Dutch orange as they Rose as one to confront him it's getting heated Co ners start to to extra1 minutes and the immediate future is still in is still orange and we stare down the barrel of extra time and they're not going homez has hit the post hopefully we can decide the game before uh getting into penalty oh great save that is a great save from Emy Martinez Li Messi a nation on his shoulders and Messi
on to call with extreme cool sure I can get the penalties and epic now Toro Martinez Argentina [Applause] job look at that look what it means to them you know what I I don't know if I said this last time but you don't see that emotion when he's in a club shirt that the difference of the World Cup when it's for country and the expectation and everything that comes with it he's really enjoying it every single there you go he's the one who makes the difference they have absolutely rely on him but he's been delivering
in this tournament yeah we said he's been before the game he's been making a difference for 15 or so years at a top top level The Cutting Edge of football he's a fantastic footballer and when it comes to games that need to be defined he is the one that takes on the responsibilities of that and he enjoys that and he's a phenomenal football you see in this Stadium whenever he gets the ball and whenever he does anything the whole stadium stands up it's amazing to see how did you see that pass that what the past
defies physics how did he see this how does he see this pass it's just like everyone else in the stadium saying oh no oh my God it's just he one of those I I I'm not sure I've seen a better pass in in football ever let alone at a stage like this when I say unconfident before the game is because we have Messi in the field everybody is getting confidence playing with Messi makes you feel like you do anything lonel Messi gave to Argentina every single thing that they needed to get through this tit what
an incredible player he is and you kind of feel that from the Argentinian side that he's on this Mission with his country with his Nation behind him as well this is the World Cup that's may be written in the stars for L [Music] Messi Ricardo steps across at the other end oh that's a GI for rage who finishes it AB absolutely magnificent sensation we're going to walk it in Leon Messi Embraces his moment again and stares into the eyes of Another World Cup final Messi again with the marvelous mischief and he will have he will
have his Ultimate Game Messi away from brol Anda all in the final what is there left for him to do the answer to the question win the World Cup how you do that with the ball at your feet running at full speed while twisting and turning it's unbelievable it's mesmerizing to watch in order to be considered the greatest ever it feels like you have to win the World Cup and he's not done this in the World Cup Seas he B be walking around the pitch people don't feel him anymore they don't doesn't have enough personality
is average St stars are align for Messi like when the questions asked who's the greatest of all time who's the best maradon or or Messi they say he hasn't won the World Cup yeah this could be the moment the final of the 22nd World Cup Messi and the world and messy a goal forever more perhaps his moment for Infinity Maria is to stay a man and how Maria glorious go and Nation reinfused with be oh wow an awesome for of nature Messi Lion [Applause] Messi Martinez Lionel Messi Fernandez Martinez Messi the referee's given the goal
the referee's given the goal oné into the Galaxy of bre and France alive again by can K what a stop what a stop by Martinez mbappe steps up first andé rattles it in [Music] Immaculate Montiel Argentina champions of the world Leon Messi has shaken hands with Paradise has just pitched up in heaven he climbs into a galaxy of his own the greatest player of his age finally has the greatest Accolade football can afford him at the end of one of the greatest football matches ever played was it written can it be see the tears feel
the emotion and all those people all those people who say he's not the greatest of all time because he hasn't won the World Cup well Messi won 12 League titles he won four Champions Leagues he won seven Balon doors he was Argentinian player of the year 14 times he won the copper America and to cap it all he won the World Cup as well surely now we have to admit Lionel Messi is the greatest of all [Music] time for [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] moment [Music] [Music] fore foreign fore [Music] spee but