Lionel Messi farewell match live – updates and analysis from Argentina v Benin - 开黑

• Farewell match kicks off at 7pm ET

• Messi has completed football

• Email Pablo your analysis, jokes and more

Guardian reader Paul reached out via email and is apparently deep in the comments section of a 20-year-old Messi article we published here at the Guardian. I can only hope Guardian reader “snafuclarke” has fully recovered from such a scorchingly terrible take:

don’t kid yourselves. messi is currently hugely overrated. the amount of hype this lad gets has never matched his performances on the pitch the last game aside.

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