Lionel Messi has been branded a ‘diving c***’ and somebody with ‘the improper conceitedness’ by a longtime Liverpool coach.
The Reds achieved considered one of their most historic nights in 2019 once they erased a 3-0 deficit vs. Messi’s Barcelona within the Champions League semifinal second leg, on their technique to the ultimate and an eventual win vs. Spurs.
And former Liverpool goalkeepers coach John Achterberg, who was on the membership from 2009-24, has recalled what he considered the Argentine throughout that European tie.
‘…Once we performed him I believed he was a diving c***,’ he mentioned on The Football Historian Podcast (through Anfield Watch), after saying he’d take Messi over Cristiano Ronaldo as a result of former’s ‘loopy magic.’
Achterberg added that he did not just like the ‘f***ing diving’ from the previous Barca No. 10 – and was thrilled when Andy Robertson met him with a troublesome problem at one level.
Lionel Messi controls the ball close to Colombia’s Jhon Arias in the course of the Copa America ultimate
John Achterberg, who spent 15 years at Liverpool, is seen with Jurgen Klopp in 2022
‘I preferred it after we performed him and Robbo smashed him so I believed: ‘F***ing do him, c***!”, Achterberg mentioned.
After all, after Messi scored twice within the first leg, Liverpool earned a sensational 4-0 win behind Divock Origi and Georginio Wijnaldum braces.
Achterberg left the membership in Might and joined Saudi membership Al Ettifaq – managed by Steven Gerrard – shortly after.
Messi, in the meantime, now performs for Inter Miami and led his native Argentina to a different Copa America triumph this summer season.
Messi reacts after Barca’s 4-0 loss to Liverpool within the 2019 Champions League semifinal second leg
The 37-year-old was displeased on Wednesday following a highly-chaotic finish to Argentina’s Olympic males’s soccer match.
He known as the loss to Morocco – which got here after an equalizer was dominated offside greater than an hour after it discovered the online – ‘unbelievable.’
He isn’t taking part within the event himself.
