With Di Maria's goal, Argentina beat defending champions Brazil 1-0, and Messi broke his Copa America title drought. The game was a wild celebration for Messi and his teammates, while Neymar was "spitting in the mouth". This time, Neymar again lost to his former idol. For many years, fans have always regarded Messi as the second only to Maradona and Pele. But when faced with Neymar, who is also a top-notch player, few fans recognize him as the fourth Ballon d'Or winner. So where does Neymar fall short compared to Messi?
Compared to Messi, Neymar has always thought that the green field is a samba stage, passing and breakthrough choice is not reasonable
Messi has been very good at dancing tango on the green field since his debut, but Messi's personal technology is biased in the rationality of as long as his teammates out of the more reasonable position in the ribs of the opponent's line of defense in the broken, Messi will give a beautiful straight shot. Messi will give a beautiful direct ball. In contrast, Neymar seems to prefer to advance alone with the ball, and he is too obsessed with his own personal samba performance. When his team is playing well and he is in top form, he may be surprised by his opponents and fans, but if he is not in good form, his team's offense will come to a standstill, or even be directly robbed by his opponents. In the final of the London Olympics, Neymar indulged in individual breakthroughs, for which he consumed a lot of physical energy, but also let the team's offense was interrupted again and again.
It is a pity that Neymar, after the exercise in Europe, will gradually give up the obsession with the ball, but from the current point of view, Neymar has not completely changed this problem, in today's game his breakthrough by the Argentine team is firmly restricted, if he can play more and his teammates to play a pass, so that the Brazilian team's point of attack to spread out, the formation of a multi-point force, the Argentine team today! may not be able to completely lock down the Brazilian offense.
Compared to Messi, Neymar seems to be less happy to be the little brother next to his idol
If Neymar had stayed with Barcelona, Barcelona would have at least won one more Champions League trophy, and would not have fallen so far as to not even be able to defend the La Liga title, and would have had to fight for the Copa del Rey title. But Neymar too much want to be the boss, too much want to be happy to run around with the ball. Therefore, he chose to leave Barcelona to join Paris, which is a lose-lose situation for Barcelona, and for himself. And from the performance of this America's Cup, Neymar is farther and farther away from the idol in his heart, from the Golden Ball Award. Over the years, Neymar no longer has the "Pele successor" aura, more often than not fans mention him will only think that he was once wearing a star halo, and ultimately just a personal technology is excellent, but the general outlook of the flower frame of the ball player only.
A 0-1, Messi took the Copa America title, but also beat Neymar again. In the future, Neymar may have the opportunity to stand on the podium of the Copa America, but he will never reach the height of Messi. And Neymar's gradual decline also shows that to become a top superstar, not only need first-class technology, but also need the ball and emotional intelligence.