Messi played over 120 minutes in a gruelling encounter, scored one, helped create two others, and somehow there are fans disputing his Man of the Match.
The same crowd that applauded an honorary one handed to a passenger with 25 touches, in a game won only after he was removed.
Messi is where he is because the world has always asked more of him than it ever asked of any footballer, dead or alive. He keeps answering.
Na God say make Messi no dey talk like Mohammed Ali. lol. There’d have been no debate about anything. After the Algeria game:
I am the greatest. Cristiano is not the greatest. Ogunmepon can’t score no World Cup hatty at almost 40. He doesn’t have a World Cup.
Mbappe is okay. But I won 5 ballon d’ors at his current age. I will give him the other 3 and he still won’t have as many ballon d’ors as me by the time he is 40.
I am the greatest. No one has ever been this good for this long. I have seen Ronaldo, the real Ronaldo, do it. He was on fire. Two world
Cups, you can’t be more Ronaldo than that.
Maradona is a legend, killed it in Napoli too. Pele touched 3 World Cups, you can’t sneer at that. They call us the trinity, I may be the youngest, but I am their father.
Cristiano had a spark when he started, he is all about the tap ins now. He couldn’t even start at the World Cup four years ago. Wasn’t it Morocco that…never mind. Qatar wasn’t my crowning glory, it was a gift for the fans, haters and lovers alike.
I am the greatest. The one who won what each of them won at least once, and then won a lot more. None of them can say that.
I am top of goals. I am top of assists. I get compared with the best of them scorers. I get compared with the best of the midfielders. I am the standard of football excellence. The unit of measurement.
I am one of one. When I am done, there will be none like me. I am the greatest. You know this, your mama knows this. I am Jordan and LeBron in one. Serena and the big 3 rolled into a body. No Tom and Jerry, but Brady and Rice.
I am the greatest. I never said that before I knew I was. But you and I know it now, I am the greatest. The truth and the Messi!
We bow out of the Emirates FA Cup at the Quarter-Final stage against the Club World Champions.
Thank you to @ChelseaFC for your hospitality this afternoon and best of luck in the Semi-Finals.
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