Lionel Messi has been the subject of talks for people since his move away from Camp Nou to PSG, After Barcelona couldn’t reach agreement to extend his stay with club through financial crisis and ever since his transfer, his form has deterioate due to lack of match fitness, injury and covid19 crisis.
With the international break over, the Argentine who didnt set for Argentina for there world cup qualifiers match remains at Parc De Prince after being confirmed positive to covid19 two weeks ago, resumed to full fitness during the break.
He head home with a man of the match award after beating the current Ligue 1 champions Lille 5-1 at Parc De Prince, Lionel Messi was in fine form setting up an assists and scoring a goal to extend there lead on the Ligue 1 standings.
Its shows clearly the 7th time best player has found his missing form and the form will likely continue as PSG faces Real Madrid in the UCL on the 15th February, which happens to be the next major encounter.
France Media L’eqquipe wrote a description about Lionel Messi performance against the reigning champions Lille saying “Lionel Messi showcase his fine form again at the best time in the season.” Ahead of there match against Real Madrid.
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After a rough first half of the season with the Argentine man his statistics is far beyond standards, due to his involvement with national team and injuries crisis which limit his game time but seeing him against Lille was a reassuring moment.
With his well reserved master’s suit being displayed, while his hips weren’t weak for movement, as he swings pass Mauroy and Slalons in a close area around the pitch really shows the man is fully getting near to his best.
To conglomerate his performance, he was award the man of the match and joint top with Danilo and verratti on a scale of 7 out of 10.
Messi wasn’t praised only by L’eqquipe Media but his coach Mauricio Pochetino was very pleased with his performance and quickly back up his star player to get back fully in form.
The PSG head coach has since find it difficult to establish a decent starting line up at the club but looks so that he has found a better one ahead of the later stages of the season.
“Am pretty sure, Leo is the utmost best player in the world,” Pochetino said when speaking with press after the match.
“He’s human like every other, he seriously needs time to adapt to changes and recover his lost physical shape, after series of months without playing a game.
“The most important parts is Leo showing great commitment and participation in the team.”
The dynamic formation that has activated Messi fine form
As it stands now, Messi has be deploy to play more on the right flank as its his favorite position where he had gain much success in the past and present in his career.
But with his display with Lille in a 4-3-3 formation pairing up with Mbappe and Di maria at the front, he was opportune to move more closer to the keeper and also dropped deeper to help the midfields.
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