Former Atletico Madrid full-back Kieran Trippier, who got here up towards former Barcelona ahead Lionel Messi recurrently throughout his time there has opened up on the Herculean process. Nearly the entire defenders have had horrible experiences of making an attempt high cease the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner, the current of which might be defined by Croatia’s Josko Gvardiol, who was having a superb World Cup marketing campaign earlier than developing towards the Argentine within the semifinals.
Kieran Trippier neither too has not received any good recollections of making an attempt to defend towards Lionel Messi. The ‘La Pulga’ who just lately led Argentina to glory by lifting the World Cup in Qatar is slightly hitting the type of his life at 35. Nonetheless, as a lot ecstasy because it was to see him raise the coveted World Cup trophy, it was paining as properly to see bid farewell to his boyhood membership Barcelona in the summertime of 2021.
‘Just pray’ – Trippier on Simeone dialog about stopping Lionel Messi
Whereas Trippier reveals that the one approach his former coach Simeone considered stopping his fellow countryman Lionel Messi was to ‘pray’, the Atletico boss isn't the one one who too assist of such religious methods. It's certainly advisable to ‘just pray’ when you're up towards the GOAT. Ask 6′ 1″ Gvardiol, who was turned and twisted by the 5′ 7″ Leo Messi to serve an ideal ball within the platter for Julian Alvarez to attain a 3rd objective to kill the semifinal between the 2 nations.
Likewise, the Barca all-time topscorer wrecked havoc even on the darkest days of the membership in La Liga, and Trippier was simply one other sufferer of his wizardry. Furthermore, the England worldwide needed to come up towards Messi throughout his time at Atletico in addition to Tottenham. Trippier and Messi clashed towards one another a complete of 5 occasions, whereby the Argentine loved 2 wins and a draw, additionally netting 4 targets.
Whereas at Atletico, Trippier too triumphed over Messi and his Barcelona twice throughout their 4 encounters, however after all, it didn’t come with out struggling. And no person is aware of greater than Diego Simeone what its wish to endure towards the 35-year-old, who racked up 18 targets in 31 video games towards his Atletico. Talking to GOAL about how Simeone deliberate to cease Lionel Messi, Trippier mentioned:
“You can’t [defend against Messi] to be fair. It’s funny because obviously Simeone was the manager [and] they are both Argentinian. Even he would say before the meetings, just basically ‘pray.’ You just can’t do anything. You can’t organise or set up to stop him because he’s that unique.”
Nonetheless, Trippier and Simeone nonetheless managed to win the La Liga in the course of the 20/21 season towards Messi’s Barcelona with a staggering 7 factors. Messi, then again, left Barcelona on the finish of that season after the membership did not register him resulting from their reeling monetary scenario, which even at the moment hasn’t improved a lot. Trippier to walked via the exit door at Atletico within the winter market of 2022, making a return to England becoming a member of Newcastle United.
