Messi's special request to Scaloni before Argentina's game against Ecuador
Argentina faces Ecuador for the qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar 2022 and Messi feels renewed to guide Argentina
Lionel Messi is the best player in the world and Lionel Scaloni, the Argentine national team coach, knows that it is important that Messi feel as comfortable as possible. Before the game against Ecuador Messi asked Scaloni not to talk about his problem in Barcelona and that he preferred not to play as a false 9 as Koeman use him in Barcelona.
Messi's request was not because he did not feel comfortable in the position he has in Barcelona but rather because he prefers to play with a traditional center-forward like Lautaro Martinez. The Argentine team with Messi and Lautaro Martinez as attackers has two of the two best forwards in the world. Messi has already asked Barcelona to hire Martinez for the next season.
As soon as he arrived from Europe to the training sessions of the Argentine team, Messi asked Scaloni and the whole group not to ask him anything about Barcelona and that he was now focused on the matches with the Argentina team. Let's remember that Messi had said that he did not want to continue in Barcelona because he was not happy there.
Argentina faces Ecuador for the first date of the qualifying rounds for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar 2022 and Argentina has only one goal ahead: to start first. The last qualifying rounds, Argentina reached the last game with the possibility of not qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, it will not want that to happen again and for that Argentina must start winning.
