- Messi: – Argentina have to keep improving

Messi: – Argentina have to keep improving



With the Albiceleste wrapping up their spot

in the next round thanks to a perfect group-stage record,

their star forward vowed that there is still more to come

Lionel Messi pledged that his Argentina side would keep

improving after they finished top of their group at the World

Cup.



La Albiceleste defeated Nigeria 3-2 to finish

top of Group F with wins in all three games,

meaning they will face one of France, Switzerland or

Ecuador in the next round.



Messi, who scored twice against the African

side to take his tournament tally to four,

did not hide his desire for the team to step

up their performance level as the competition enters its

tougher phase.



“We saw a good Argentina, despite the two

Nigerian goals. Now we want more, we have to keep

improving,” he said to reporters.



“I think we have improved from the last [two] games. We

played against a team that was going forward with good

players.



“We said before: our strikers had to move a little bit more

because we weren’t finding

spaces.



We had that today and we have to work, so the next game

we won’t concede goals.”



The Barcelona forward also revealed that he was enjoying

the atmosphere surrounding the tournament, as he bids to

lead Argentina to their first World Cup trophy since 1986.



“It’s great to see so many people here. We were expecting it

and in the previous games it was like that,” he continued.



“It’s beautiful what we’re living through these days, I hope

we can keep giving them joy.

“It’s a strange World Cup, with results we weren’t expecting

to see. We have to keep calm. We’re still behind our dream,

the dream we all want.” Messi scored four of Argentina’s six

goals

in the group stages and will be expected to lead his side out

for their round of 16 fixture on July 1.



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