Massimiliano Allegri Quotes

If Messi has the ball, he is fantastic to watch and difficult to stop. You have to double up on him, triple up on him even, stay with him constantly to block his way to the goal.

Messi is the best in the world, even when he is defending.

When you watch Barcelona play you want to see Lionel Messi score two goals. If he hasn't after 80 minutes you can perhaps get restless.

Messi is a god, as a person and even more as a player. I hope that he wins the World Cup with Argentina.

Messi is one of the best strikers in the world, one of the very best players.

I will always vote for Messi for Golden Ball.

I can honestly tell you that playing against Messi is very difficult.

I'm an attacking midfielder.

He does not scare us; other things in life scare me. We all respect Messi, and he is one of the best players in the world.

Central defence is my favourite position.

I respect Messi a lot.

If there's one thing that fans like to see, it's a player who can run at full speed towards the goal.

I can mark Messi only in my dreams.

If Messi is in the mix, that's who I want to win.

Neymar is a good player.

It's harder to defend against Lionel Messi than Cristiano Ronaldo.

I'd love to play with Messi.

I like to dribble and give the decisive pass to my teammates.

At Barca B, I played No. 9 and think I played well.

If you ask me who I would have liked to play with, I would say that with Messi.

Messi is the same player in Barcelona and Argentina, and it would be the same if he played with Australia.

Ronaldo? He is the most dangerous player at Real. It is hard to stop him, like Messi, because both score a lot of goals, and you never know what is going to be the next thing they will invent for scoring.

The players who defend against him make fouls because it's always hard to defend Neymar and take the ball without fouling him.

As a goalkeeper, it is a challenge to face Messi.

I prefer playing up front, really, because I feel like if I make the right run, or if I get the ball at the right time, I can just be one-on-one with the defender, and then if I manage to get past the centre-back, it's one-on-one with the 'keeper.