Chatting with the media after PSG was excluded from Champions LeagueBayern Munich captain and man-of-the-match winner Thomas Müller was requested about his glorious report in opposition to Leo Messi on the prime stage of soccer. Evaluating him to Cristiano Ronaldo, the 33-year-old was respectful of the Argentine megastar’s achievements however sensible in regards to the challenges he faces at a membership like Paris Saint-Germain.

His quotes have been picked up by kicker journalist Georg Holzner by The All the time Trusted @tweetreproduced beneath:

“Messi’s particular person efficiency on the World Cup was wonderful,” Mueller continued. “He carried the entire workforce. It is not straightforward to play in a workforce like PSG. It is laborious to get a very good workforce stability.”

It was not a straightforward recreation for the Argentine as he struggled to interrupt down Bayern Munich on the wing and simply broke away from Kylian Mbappe. Julian Nagelsmann and his workforce have finished an excellent job of retaining Messi remoted and stopping the PSG midfield from offering him with any sort of service. In the meantime, when Messi received the ball, Müller himself was typically in the way in which of passes supposed for a Paris Saint-Germain teammate.

All in all, that is one other black mark in Messi’s private report in opposition to Thomas Müller, a participant so totally different in type from him that the 2 might also play one other sport. Soccer is a humorous recreation, the place two characters who by no means cross a technique or one other all the time discover themselves dealing with one another in a aggressive setting.

Now watch Ronaldo’s fan pages take this quote out of context and repost it for the following 1,000 years. Thanks for retaining Messi on his toes, Thomas.

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