Messi is hailed as the most complete player of all time and he seems to excel at every facet of football from scoring, passing, playmaking, assist, vision, freekicks and ofcourse dribbling. Even his penalties which was something he was criticized for has been perfected at this point.
Aside from the obvious weakness in the air and with headers due to his height, what other imperfections does he have?
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Everything that requires strength
The fact he never performed week in and week out in the prem
Kryptonite
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Personality! Even Maradona said it. That’s the only thing he is missing:
Put any of these against the likes of best, Charlton, finney, Pele etc etc on muddy pitches, tackles flying in… Nah they wouldn’t stand a chance.
Height. Who needs it when he can just dribble past you so easily
The actual answer is penalties. He missed about 25% of the penalties he took, which is quite a significant number, especially for a player as good as he is
I think younger Messi used to miss a lot more, as.of recently he seems to have gotten better at them
He had a whole tournament to practice them 💀
Cold rainy nights at Stoke
/s at the end right?
You’re out of the loop buddy here you go:
probably defensive contributions, but then again, the little times he has shown defensive contributions, he is quite decent as forward when it comes to dispossessing. Probably because he is so good at shielding the ball, the moment he can get in between the ball and defender, its pretty much his.
Its his balance and height