Messi’s form for Argentina is raising legitimate questions

Daily Monitor: - Sports Columnists |Messi’s form for Argentina is raising legitimate questions: "With every performance, there is irrefutable evidence that Messi’s genius in the game is thanks in part to Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta and Sergio Busquets. The system at Barcelona is so fluid and perfected that Messi’s style dovetails with the passing and movement of accomplished players like the aforementioned stars and Daniel Alves.

Argentina cannot play like Barcelona - no team can. But they have some top class players who on paper should form world football’s most feared attack. Few countries boast names like Sergio Aguero, Carlos Tevez, Gonzalo Higuain, Diego Milito and Angel Di Maria.

There are manifestly areas of concern in defence and midfield; problems not of Messi’s making. Messi has routinely been compared to Maradona but when the latter singlehandedly won the 1986 World Cup with Argentina, he had arguably a more inferior supporting cast than Messi today."