“Messi goes every game to assassinate the goalkeepers”

Within the field Messi has no friends. Not even his compatriots and teammates have been spared from suffering the Argentine in their own flesh when they have faced him. Willy Caballero, Leo's teammate in the albiceleste in 2018, it was not going to be less and in a statement to 90min.com has related what it was take on the six-time ballon d'or.

“The other day they handed out beers (Budweiser's campaign to celebrate Messi's record for the most goals for the same club) and I got a few. Messi had to face him and I had to suffer because He goes to every game to assassinate us archers. The goalkeepers, the defenders, he's going to kill. And killing means scoring as many goals as possible, “said the now Chelsea player.

Messi's goalscoring mentality has made him the top scorer in a league, with 467 goals, an attitude that Willy Caballero remembers. “It does not matter if you know him, if you are Argentine, if you are friends. Then he stays talking to you, greeting you and everything else., but those 90 minutes he has a mission: if he can fill you with goals, he will fill you“.

Caballero faced Messi several times when he was defending Málaga's goal and recounted the great differences that existed between the boquerón team and that Barça that dominated football. “In the confrontations between Malaga and Barcelona there was always a lot of difference. We played well, but they always had a lot more punch than us“.