Lionel Messi made a subtle move before his clutch goal that had people marveling at his otherworldly skill

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• Lionel Messi showed off his unreal ability to control a football with his opening goal against Nigeria on Tuesday.
• In just fractions of a second, Messi made multiple decisions to make two perfect touches on the ball, which put him in position to put his team up 1-0.
• Argentina would go on to win and escaped to the knockout round of the 2018 World Cup.

For the past decade, Lionel Messi has been widely considered one of the two greatest football players on the planet, and with just one play on Tuesday, he concisely showed why the title is so deserved.

Playing in a must-win match against Nigeria, Messi scored the opening goal of the game, receiving a brilliant pass from Éver Banega and confidently depositing the ball in the back of the net to give Argentina an early 1-0 lead.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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