🇪🇸🇦🇷 De La Fuente: “Messi looks like he’s 19 or 23 years old. He’s performing at an exceptional level. It’s not just his maturity anymore, but above all his commitment”.
“He’s tireless, he’s never satisfied. He always wants more, every single day. He’s an example for all of his teammates, for football lovers, and for everyone who’s just starting out in the game”.
🔵🇵🇹 Geovany Quenda’s message to Chelsea fans: “I want to be someone known for having the right mentality to help my team mates and who does their best for the club to win trophies”.
🚨🟢⚪️ Jesse Derry to Sporting, here we go! Deal done on loan until June 2027, salary covered and no buy option.
Chelsea got new deal done for Derry this week and now allow him to leave on loan to Sporting.
Derry will return to #CFC in June 2027.
For a time in the second half, Lionel Messi looked dazed, as if unable to comprehend what was happening to him and his team.
He had missed a penalty and Argentina were 2-0 down to Egypt, their defence of their title seemingly in tatters.
And then something clicked.
It was as if a fire had been lit inside him. And almost in the blink of an eye, Argentina were 3-2 up and Egypt, so close to making history by reaching the World Cup quarter-final for the first time, were out, victims of a classic remontada.
Messi made the first on 79 minutes with a cross that was headed home by Cristian Romero and scored the second four minutes later with a magnificent first-time shot that flew in off the crossbar.
And even if he played no part in the third, a stunning counter-attack rounded off by Enzo Fernandez, it felt like the Messi effect was what had turned a hitherto shambolic Argentina performance around.
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NEVER GIVES UP.
8-time Ballon d’Or winner style. 🇦🇷🏆
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