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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Tags: Barcelona, dirty, El Clasico, fouls, Iker Casillas, Lionel Messi, Real Madrid, Spain La Liga

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• michael |  December 16th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

  
  
  

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

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• MoMONEY |  December 16th, 2008 at 8:57 pm

  
  
  

  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

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• wowgirl |  December 16th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

  
  
  

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

  Posted from Australia

  

• OhYes |  December 16th, 2008 at 11:37 pm

  
  
  

  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.

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• Ak |  December 17th, 2008 at 2:32 am

  
  
  

  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.

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• god's day off |  December 17th, 2008 at 5:05 am

  
  
  

  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

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• Marco P. |  December 17th, 2008 at 5:31 am

  
  
  

  Sadly, when you’re running out of ideas to stop a guy, violence always seems to be the last resort.

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• Chubby |  December 17th, 2008 at 6:50 am

  
  
  

  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.

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• Ak |  December 17th, 2008 at 7:41 am

  
  
  

  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.

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• Liz |  December 17th, 2008 at 3:17 pm

  
  
  

  is he still walking – ffs …. ?!

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• hoichu |  May 4th, 2009 at 3:03 am

  
  
  

  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

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