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Lionel Messi's Late-Game Heroics Are Hard To Believe; Not For Zlatan and Henry

Lionel Messi and Argentina's World Cup title defense couldn't be ended by Egypt, before the quarterfinals. That's not how Messi would go out in possibly his final World Cup appearance. Right? Yet that reality was slowly sinking in as Egypt extended its lead to 2-0 with Moustafa Ziko's 67th minute goal. But somewhere in the back of everyone's mind there was an inkling of disbelief that Messi and Argentina would once-and-for-all be ousted, and calculated hope that the greatest soccer player of all time would find a way. Because he always does. And, of course, Messi proved inevitable once again....