Every movement is so simple. A little feint in one direction, a little feint in the other direction; it’s nothing, and it neutralizes five converging defenders. Tevez does brilliantly too, in his barreling, on-balance way. Maradona crosses himself at the end.
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by Brian Phillips · February 11, 2009
Brilliant, though the one he missed earlier would have been more so. As Capello has said “No one in the world has the talent that Messi has.”
And what about the “Maradonian” flick to Tevez to start the whole thing off? Indeed brilliant.