A question for those who know more about football than I do.
Is Lional Messi one of those players who is great at club level, but not good enough when it comes to the international stage ??
For what its worth I think he does fall into that category.
Well he's put in some brilliant performances right at the very top club level, so I don't think it's a case of him not being good enough.
I think he's been struggling for months to consistently reach anything like his best form. Is there an underlying injury? Sometimes something relatively trivial can rob a player of that little extra bit of ability that made them special - look at Torres.
And maybe the particular style deployed at Barca is so ingrained in him, he finds it difficult to adapt to a different system, such as that played by Argentina (which, of course, you would expect the very best players to be able to adjust to)
Martin
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