Lionel Messi has been sitting in his hotel room watching all the big stars light up the World Cup. Chief among who has been his arch nemesis Cristiano Ronaldo who came up with a hattrick against Spain last night to send the world into a frenzy. Messi finally got his chance as Argentina faced Iceland in their opening fixture in the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Iceland caught the world’s imagination in the last international competition they were a part of; 2016 Euros. The Vikings were drawn alongside dark horses Croatia, a very talented Nigerian side, and their opponents on the night, in what is the closest to a “Group of death” in this edition of the World Cup.
All the big names were slated into the starting line-up by Jorge Sampaoli who even managed to carve out a place for Paolo Dybala in the starting line-up. All this meant that we were in store for an absolute thriller, as it turned out to be in the end, but not how everybody had expected it would be.