India, July 4 -- Lionel Messi is incomparable. It's unfair to compare anyone with a freak of nature like him, and it's equally unfair to the player being measured against him. Messi has nothing left to prove, yet he continues to remind the football world why there is no meaningful debate left. On the biggest stage, when the pressure is at its highest, he keeps delivering moments that only he seems capable of producing, and he did that yet again vs Cape Verde in the round of 32

That said, if you look beyond Messi's brilliance, Argentina were far from convincing. Cape Verde pushed the reigning world champions to their absolute limit and came within touching distance of producing one of the greatest upsets in World Cup history. Argentina ha...