Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi has reportedly picked a
match against the Super Eagles of Nigeria as one of his favorites in the 2018
World Cup in Russia.....
The winger who was superb in Argentina’s win
against Ecuador which gave the South Americans the World Cup ticket was said to
be looking forward for his country to face Nigeria in Russia. Messi was
reported, according to National Helm, to have said that a game against Nigeria
was among his favorites games. He has played against Nigeria twice at age-grade
level – the 2005 World Youth Championship and also the 2008 Olympic in Beijing
– winning both times. At senior level, he has scored three times in the three
games he has played against Nigeria – a brace at the last World Cup in Brazil
and a goal in a friendly game played in Malaysia in 2012. “He was speaking
after his hat-trick for Argentina against Ecuador, he was asked his best games
for his country and he picked his debut at the World Cup against Serbia which
Argentina won 6-0, and also the final game of the Olympic in Beijing which they
won 1-0 against Nigeria, then the game against Ecuador,” Sky Sports’ Guillem
Balague said.
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