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The Real Madrid Hack-A-Messi Show.

By: chris | December 16th, 2008

Anyone who watched El Clasico this weekend saw three major things:

i. Barcelona is just that good. When Real Madrid – Real #$%&ing Madrid – is happy with a loss, it’s bad.
ii. Saint Iker may transition from nickname to title someday.
iii. Lionel Messi was lucky to come out of the game with his ankles intact.

Yeah, dirty play and tactics, but how else are you supposed to stop the greatest player in the world? Lionel should take this as a massive compliment that a team with Real’s quality, recent results aside, should have their hand forced to such methods…you know, once the swelling goes down.

[Spotted on 101 Great Goals.]

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hoichu

0.59 was a clear step on the ankle he wasnt even trying to play the ball, like the rest of the fouls. 0.39 maybe that was a bit light but apart from that every other foul was intent to take him down and not play the ball. Real Madrid are just pathetic
Liz

is he still walking - ffs .... ?!
Ak

god's day off: Man, I was secretly hoping for some fireworks. Maybe the video is unrepresentative, but mark my words. 0:59 probably is a step on the ankle, but it looks like Messi was already buckling before the challenge actually came in.
Chubby

it was painful to see, i can't imagine how Messi felt.

The tactics worked however, and Messi was out of the game, and his usual tricks for quite a long time. :)
Marco P.

Sadly, when you're running out of ideas to stop a guy, violence always seems to be the last resort.
god's day off

so i'm gonna go ahead and side wi messi here. ak- ur problem might be more wi the video which shows a mix of minor fouls, unintentional fouls that u see every game, and then the dirty stuff especially from gago and sneijder. and at 0:59 sniejer just stands on his ankle- not a lot of contact but it would have really hurt
Ak

This is going to get shot down quickly, but what the hell. In amongst the legitimate kicks and some manhandling, there were some SHOCKING dives in there. I'm pretty sure Ramos didn't even touch Messi at 0:39, 0:59 was an epic, and I invoke the 3-roll-rule for the first one.
OhYes

That video should have ended with Messi's goal and a picture of him smirking right after that.

They kicked him but he got the last laugh.
wowgirl

kid took some tough shots. good thing he’s invincible!
MoMONEY

The second one was similar to the horrific eduardo tackle... Shameful display by Madrid IMO- ANd like the guy who wrote the article said- there is a problem when Madrid is satisfied with a loss... Especially to Barca
michael

kid took some tough shots. good thing he's invincible!

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