In the documentary dedicated to the 2022 World Cup, Lionel Messi returns to this Argentina-Poland where he had a score to settle with Robert Lewandowski.
Yes, the atmosphere was very tense between Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski during the Argentina-Poland of the 2022 World Cup. The former Barcelona player was angry with the current center forward of the Blaugranas, and this was felt on the ground. This is what emerges in particular from the documentary on the Star+ channel dedicated to the coronation of the Albiceleste in Qatar.
“Even my grandmother understood that Messi deliberately tackled Lewandowski, laughs Angel Di Maria. These are things that happen to him sometimes. When you talk about him, he ends up pointing it out to you in a statement or on the field. He talks like that, in that way. I think it’s normal. There are people who sometimes don’t respect him and don’t realize that he’s the best player in history. You shouldn’t tell him anything because it ends up escalating and it’s worse. »
But what did Messi accuse Lewandowski of? A statement from the Pole, after the 2021 Ballon d’Or, which concerned the previous edition, canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “He asked for a Ballon d’Or for me but he didn’t vote for me for The Best”regretted Lewandowski.
Messi was ‘very angry’
Messi had kept this sentence in mind, he did not greet Lewandowski at the start of Argentina-Poland, and he had fun dribbling him in the middle of the field during an action. “Lewandowski’s statements disturbed me because when I won the Ballon d’Or I said what I really felt, but for him to speak in this way disturbed me, Messi explained. I ignored him during the match because it was him and I was angry, I thought he shouldn’t have said what he said. I was very angry. What if I deliberately dribbled because it was him? Yes. »
From now on, this little quarrel between the two men is forgotten. “After that, we met, talked and agreed that it was a misunderstanding. He was bothered because what he said didn’t really match what was relayed on the Internet. Then he went to Barcelona and we talked about a lot of things about the club, the city and everything. »
