Just came back from the MaracanĂ£. I was very much looking forward to watching Messi, who is in my eyes the very best player in the world, and to be honest I was a bit underwhelmed in the first half. He looked slow, uninterested; I'm not sure what was wrong but in the stadium you could see his movement off the ball and he simply didn't seem to be trying to get into good positions enough.
But then in the 2nd half he scored THAT goal. A brilliant goal - typical Messi. It was fantastic to watch the best player on Earth.
The Argentina fans were pretty cool in the stadium, as well as a small minority of Bosnia fans. Brazilian fans got behind Bosnia and started adapting Brazilian football songs to support them
It was pretty funny for a while.
All in all, it was definitely not the best match of this WC so far, but I enjoyed it, especially for having the chance to watch Messi.
I also thought Rojo was impressive for Argentina. Di Maria is a brilliant player.
Bosnia are awfully predictable and lacked urgency even when behind the score. They got a big guy in Dzeko but barely made use of him and played too narrow. They're a decent team but I wasn't impressed.
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