Messi - The Mesmerizer

If anyone missed the Barca - Gunners match last night, then they missed seeing a player full in control and confidence. I do not see anyone in the world of football right now who is close to Lionel "the goal machine" Messi. Yes Drogba, Rooney, Pato etc are in the form of their life but Messi has been playing as if he belongs to another planet. In this game he scored the third hatrick of the season. That is just unbelievable from a player who does not seem to have a great physical presence like Drogba, Anelka or Bendtner. Well let me get back to last night's game. Arsenal took a shock lead through Bendtner. Twenty one minutes later the scoreline looked Barca 3 - 1 Arsenal. Hatrick in twenty one minutes in a champions league game says a lot about the class of the man. Yes Arsenal were depleted as Fabregas, Song, Gallas, Arshavin and Campbell missed the game through either through suspension or injury. On the other hand Barca were without their prefered center backs in Puyol and Pique and their first leg scorer Ibramohavic. But then as it turned out, Messi made those absence totally irrelevent with his sheer brilliance. It would be great if Maradona can use him like Guardiola at the World Cup. This would make sure that his trophy cabinet has the missing medal and that would truly qualify for him to be called the "World Footballer of The Year" yet again. I wish Argentina the perenial underachievers to win the coveted trophy at South Africa. Argentinian team would be a force to reckon with players of the quality of Messi, Tevez, Sergio and Angel Di Maria.