‘They are dead’: What did Leo Messi tell his team-mates in the team bus after the loss to Saudi Arabia?

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HomeSportsFootball'They are dead': What did Leo Messi tell his team-mates in the team bus after the loss to Saudi Arabia?
‘They are dead’: What did Leo Messi tell his team-mates in the team bus after the loss to Saudi Arabia?
By: Express News Service
Updated: November 23, 2022 6:14:45 pmNewsguard

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Not much words came out of Messi at the locker room where they were reportedly holed up for an hour. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
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There were no words exchanged at the locker room in the bowels of the Lusail stadium, dubbed the ‘vagina stadium’. At the mixed zone, where reporters wait for passing footballers, sullen Lionel Messi could only summon “they are dead” about his team-mates initial reaction of deep disappointment.

“The truth? Dead. It’s a very hard blow because we did not expect to start in this way.’ We expected to get the three points that would have given us calmness. Things happen for a reason. We have to prepare for what is coming, we have to win, and it depends on us,” he would say at the mixed zone.