Video: Messi and an assist as a child which is the carbon copy of the one he gave to Molina against the Netherlands

Lionel Messi makes football a simple game and, season after season, it seems to play better and better. But is that the case or is he still having fun and doing the same stunts as when he was a kid? This is confirmed by a video that went viral in the preview of the world final against France in Qatar.

The clip of just five seconds compares the spectacular play of the captain of the Argentina national team in the presence of Nahuel Molina for the first goal against the Netherlands, in the quarter-finals of the World Cup, with a qualification that the now 35-year-old achieved when he had a handful of birthdays.

Without specifying the date or place of that goal, what can be seen in the image is the similarity of the one played with the one played last week in Doha. At that time, the 10 child received, got rid of the first rival and then evaded another until he cleared the 7 of his team when a third came out to cross him.

On December 9, the emblem of the team of Lionel Scaloni repeated that assistance which has long since become popular as ‘do not look’ and enabled the least expected marker. 35 minutes went by from 0 to 0 with Holland until Leo rubbed the lamp and Molina executed perfectly.

The captain took the ball three quarters of the way down the field, in the middle, and started a pure feint on Aké, who he couldn’t decipher and, despite trying to stay close to him, couldn’t stop him from leaking a pinpoint assist to the blind side between another five ‘orange’ shirts for the Cordoban, who had broken through the center of defence.

The winger out of Boca and currently at Atlético de Madrid controlled with his left foot and defined with the backhand of his right foot, against a stick, to score his first goal for the Albiceleste shirt in 25 games.

Scaloni puts the team together for the final: he has tried two schemes and has a doubt about how to stop Mbappé

It will not show cards. Lionel Scaloni He remains in the same position as before the semi-final with Croatia and in the face of this Sunday’s World Cup final he sows questions whose answers will not be resolved until shortly before the match so as not to make things easier for France. In the penultimate trial in Doha, the DT of the Selection tried it with a five defender schemebut then he brought in Angel Di María and also made a change in a key position: right-back, who will be the one who should score Kylian Mbappé.

The World Cup is over. There is almost nothing left for it all to end. But the most important thing remains, knowing who will be the new champion. Argentina led by Lionel Messi seeks glory and his coach will have to define two central issues.

The first thing is the tactical design to be used on the Lusail Stadium field. In the hot afternoon of this Friday (the coolness that had lasted for a few days in Qatar seems to have passed), Scaloni started working with the following equipment: Emiliano Martinez; Nahuel Molina, Cristian Romero, Nicolás Otamendi, Lisandro Martínez, Marcos Acuña; Rodrigo De Paul, Enzo Fernandez, Alexis MacAllister; Messi and Julian Alvarez. Read more.