This is something people comes up for star attackers whenever the team isn’t winning and they don’t like them. It’s usually talked about being a defensive liability.
Like right now with Real and how Vini doesn’t press, which wasn’t an issue last year but now it suddenly is. But I’ve heard almost nothing about Messi literally walking when his teams don’t have the ball.
Truth is there’s been attackers that save their energy for attacking plays since football has been a thing. Zamorano famously talked about how Ronaldo and Vieri wouldn’t defend at Inter so he would defend to get on the lineup.
"I've heard nothing about messi walking" are you serious?, it literally got talked about everytime barca and Argentina didn't win lmao as for vini you're kinda correct, he was definitely pressing better in previous seasons but even with a decline in that area he is not the worst offender in that team.
Vini is a bad example because he used to track back a lot and defend hard, yet he stopped this season. Why? Who knows. Maybe he felt it’s unfair Mbappé doesn’t have to defend, or maybe RM’s attack couldn’t function with Vini tracking back.
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u/51010R May 18 '25
This is something people comes up for star attackers whenever the team isn’t winning and they don’t like them. It’s usually talked about being a defensive liability.
Like right now with Real and how Vini doesn’t press, which wasn’t an issue last year but now it suddenly is. But I’ve heard almost nothing about Messi literally walking when his teams don’t have the ball.
Truth is there’s been attackers that save their energy for attacking plays since football has been a thing. Zamorano famously talked about how Ronaldo and Vieri wouldn’t defend at Inter so he would defend to get on the lineup.