Show no mercy! Argentina defeated North America with 6 goals, Messi’s double assist showed his dominance

After playing the MLS game against Atlanta, Messi returned to the national team without stopping and played in the warm-up match against Puerto Rico. In the end, under his dominant performance, his teammates fired up their opponents and defeated their opponents with a score of 6-0, winning two consecutive warm-up matches.

Due to the huge gap in strength, Argentina quickly controlled the rhythm of the game from the beginning. In the 15th minute, Messi hit the crossbar with a powerful shot from outside the penalty area. McAllister followed up with a clever header and scored, opening the door to victory for the Blue and White Army. Eight minutes later, Messi calmly turned around in the circle of five people and penetrated the defense with a precise pass, helping Montiel volley to expand the score to 2-0. In the 36th minute, the advantage came from Messi's instigated attack, and McAllister scored twice.

In the second half, Argentina's offensive continued unabated. Gonzalez caused an own goal, and Lautaro scored twice. One of the two goals came from Messi's instigation, and the other came from Messi's direct assist. The score was finally locked at 6-0.

In this international friendly match, the world rankings of the two sides were very different, and the final score was not surprising. Although world champion Argentina has recently fallen in rankings, it still ranks third, while Puerto Rico is ranked 155th. According to some netizens' evaluation standards for the European World Cup preliminaries, they are properly classified as Central and North American. However, the Pampas Eagles did not relax because their opponents were weak. They used focused performance and continuous attacks throughout the game to demonstrate the purest respect for football.

Messi's performance can be called the soul of this goal feast. As the core of the team, he played the entire game, connected the offensive line with 59 passes, and interpreted the style of the ball king with perfect data of 2 direct assists and 2 indirect instigations. He was also crowned the national team's historical assist leader with 60 assists, leaving behind superstars such as Neymar and Donovan (58 times), always putting passing before shooting.

This choice of "passing is better than shooting" is exactly the embodiment of the realm of the ball king. When Messi's career assists climb to 398, every pass is rewriting history. As long as he is willing, he can easily score twice, hat-trick, four goals or even score five goals in this game, but as we all know, the king of football never scores goals, never abuses opponents, and only plays against strong opponents. He is obsessed with creating opportunities for his teammates - McAllister's double shot came from his shooting momentum and instigation, and Lautaro's substitute explosion benefited from his precise feeding. This pattern of "achieving others" is far more shocking than individual goals.

Having said that, if the same situation happens in the European qualifiers, then the questions of "insufficient gold content" and "too much fish belly in Europe" will definitely follow. But what happened to Argentina and Messi was a different set of evaluation criteria. No one would care about the opponent's strength and ranking. No one would care that this was just an ordinary friendly match. They would only sink in Messi's great performance, worship Messi's every pass, and cheer for Messi's exaggerated statistics.