Well, well. Lionel Messi, the man who wishes to replace Maradona as the greatest Argentinian footballer ever seems to be finally making a difference. Another goal and 2 assists today in the Copa America Centenario win against Venezuela has set up a semifinal against the USA. The Americans are going to so love taking down that Messi. Dempsey vs Messi. I'm that story is being written somewhere.
In the other quarter final Chile gave Mexico a good old fashioned 7-0 thrashing. 7-0. Seven. Many years ago I watched Italy beat Mexico 5-0 and my Dad said that Mexico aren't the kind of team that get beaten that way. And even though they've always threatened to be really good and kind of think they belong to the South American level of football rather than their North American peers, I do never remember them being beaten like this.
This Copa has come alive with some goals, except for yesterday's Colombia-Peru match, settled on penalties after a 0-0 draw.
Colombia-Chile and USA-Argentina. A couple of tasty semifinals. Enough to possibly compete with the Euro action. Canadian TV doesn't think so. With a major tournament going on at our doorstep, we have multiple channels of the Euros and the Copa on some obscure channel which requires forking out more money to watch. Messi is still not enough of a draw. We'd rather watch Sigurdsson and Zoltan Gera. And the not to be forgotten Swedish bloke who seems to have forgotten that he said himself that the last Euros and World Cup would be of an inferior quality without him. Ibra, the tournament has started. Your team has played 2 matches already. When are you going to show up? Saving yourself for Russia 2018, I guess.
No comments:
Post a Comment