As Lionel Messi soared to the top of global soccer, and established himself as the greatest player the sport has ever seen, a noisy minority of skeptics, most of them British, would pose a silly ...

Messi’s punishment came as a result of grabbing ... Costigan then referred to Tanasijević’s challenge on Suárez as “silly,” while Mo Edu, Apple TV’s on-air analyst for that match, ...

And Martino agreed with forward Lionel Messi that the team has committed "silly mistakes" throughout the season, but insisted players can overcome the errors to triumph in the final game of round 1.