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There’s just one Lionel Messi.
And whereas the Socceroos are gobsmacked by his distinctive soccer potential, they’re reminding themselves he is just one participant – and he is solely human.
“It should be a troublesome sport, most likely in opposition to the very best footballer ever to grace the sport,” Australian defender Milos Degenek mentioned of their World Cup knockout bout with Messi’s Argentina.
“Aside from that, it is 11 in opposition to 11. There’s not 11 Messis, there’s one.
“We all know their squad is stuffed with stars … it is a squad that is immaculate.
“I at all times love Messi and I feel he is the best to ever play the sport.
“It isn’t an honour to play in opposition to him as a result of he’s only a human as all of us are.
“It is an honour to be within the spherical of 16 at a World Cup, that is the honour in itself.”
The 35-year-old Messi, in doubtless his final World Cup, is hailed as the very best participant of his technology forward of Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo.
If Socceroos linchpin Mathew Leckie needed to choose one, his alternative is evident.
“I’m a Messi man,” Leckie advised reporters.
“He is naturally is essentially the most proficient participant I’ve ever seen with the ball at his ft.
“He simply does issues that no-one else can do.
“In saying that, we now have come throughout nice gamers on this event.
“So long as we’re a collective group, as we now have been till now, we will cease their strengths, cease them from being harmful and that’s what we’ll attempt to do.”
Argentina’s cup in Qatar started with a shock 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia earlier than Messi and his colleagues downed Mexico and Poland, each 2-0 triumphs.
“Argentina, after their first loss, they’ve simply turned up one other degree and determined to play to the very best of their talents and to come back into each sport with a willpower to win,” Degenek mentioned.
“They’re clearly pushed by the motivation that it might be Messi’s final World Cup and he needs to win … and finish it on a excessive.
“Sadly, I’m an enormous fan of his however I’d like to win the World Cup greater than him to win the World Cup.”
Watch the Socceroos play Argentina this Sunday from 5.00am (kickoff 6.00am) on SBS and SBS On Demand.