MORE ACTIVE IN THE FIRST HALF
Messi can do everything: Shoot to the stick, suffer a strong hit, disappear...
Published:18/10/2020 - 00:28h
Updated:18/10/2020 - 20:12h
Together with Pedri González, Leo Messi was one of the most dynamic players of the FC Barcelona during the first half against the Getafe. In the second half, he banished
If some thought that Leo Messi would arrive tired just after the parties contested with the selection of Argentina in the last days, explaining besides the transoceanic trips that has had to make to play said appointments, the true is that to the Argentinian saw him quite cool this Saturday against the Getafe in the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez, although only during the first-half.
The rosarino went down as of habit to receive the balloon to the zone of creation, moved with freedom and speed by all the parts of the zone of three chambers of field and generated danger with his incursions to the area and passes to the space, opening the balloon for Dembélé and Dest in a left band where could not coincide with one of his best partners, Jordi Alba.
During the first time starred the played more dangerous of the Barça in all the party, a shot with thread and very powerful that crashed in the stick and went out repelled. Few minutes before, the '10' there was deleitado to the barcelonismo with an exquisite control, taming a balloon that came very difficult of the boots of a contrary player, but that the Argentinian attained to intercept to mount a dangerous contragolpe.
So much this technical detail like his shot to the stick, however, went a class of mirage that never more saw again in the second part. Because the Getafe knew to cancel very well to a Messi that, already more tired, disappeared of the map and was not able to generate disequilibriums, participating much less of the usual in the Barcelona game.
Messi, without oxygen neither space in the second part
Always surrounded by one or more contrary players, Messi hardly could turn, dribble or look for to the free man when it received the balloon between lines, and left absorb by an intensity that the Getafe knew to print from beginning to end, no like the Barça.
'The Flea' caused any that another yellow card for rival players -although the referee saved the one of Nyom by a strong codazo on the '10'-, and in the first-half yes attained to carry danger to the goal of David Soria. In the second time no could him see, however, of the same form that to other players as to Antoine Griezmann that went back to be substituted. Messi, instead, held all the party on the lawn... It deserved it to him?
Messi needs to recover his best level