Messi's Struggles Against Egypt Highlight the Burden of Greatness in His Twilight Years

Luis Paez-Pumar

8h ago· 6 min readenInsight

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Lionel Messi struggled for 79 minutes in Argentina's round of 16 match against Egypt, misplaying passes, missing a penalty, and looking out of form. The article reflects on the weight of expectations on Messi even in the twilight of his career, where anything less than brilliance feels disappointing. It explores the tension between his legendary status and his human moments of failure on the pitch.

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For 79 minutes of Tuesday afternoon's round of 16 match against Egypt, Lionel Messi was terrible, and by extension so was Argentina.

When confronted with the enormity of Messi's talent, even at this sunset period of his career, anything other than something we've never seen before feels, well, terrible.

Messi spent the first 79 minutes of the match misplaying passes, dribbling to nowhere, missing yet another penalty

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For 79 minutes of Tuesday afternoon’s round of 16 match against Egypt, Lionel Messi was terrible, and by extension so was Argentina. “Terrible” might be overstating it, but when confronted with the enormity of Messi’s talent, even at this sunset period of

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