“It is a huge team, with great players, with style… a team that I know very well,” praised Leo Messi about his next opponent in the World Cup final this Sunday at Metlife Stadium in New York/New Jersey. The Argentine star analyzed la roja and did not hide his excitement about facing many of those who were his teammates during his long time at FC Barcelona, a club that “I always love and follow,” he said in statements to FIFA after being named MVP of the semifinal against England.
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“Spain has been playing with this philosophy for many years, in this way, and I know the players. I have also faced many of them and I keep following them. Some play at Barça, a club that I always love and follow,” said a Leo Messi who expects “a special and very balanced match.”
The former Blaugrana will play his third World Cup final, the second consecutive for an Argentina that was already crowned champion in Qatar: “It is incredible everything this group has been doing, and today’s is another example of character, desire, unity, strength, football; because we went for it with style and patience,” he concluded.
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Argentina started behind on the scoreboard, after conceding the goal from Blaugrana Anthony Gordon, but Enzo Fernández and Lautaro Martínez turned the game around in a thrilling finish: “None of us wanted to lose it and the Argentines needed this joy. The Argentines did not want to lose against England. We managed to do it, to leave them out and play a new World Cup final. It is a very happy day,” confessed an emotional Leo Messi.
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