We Were Good Against Nigeria: Messi

Having scored the highest tally in a single World Cup game against Nigeria, Lionel Messi has applauded his fellow Argentine mates and recommends improvement.

Argentina recorded its 5th victory over Nigeria in all senior competitions at the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the two goals hero Lionel Messi has praised his Albercelestes teammates for the result and further encouraged them for improvement as the team prepares for the second round phase of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

"We played against a team that wanted to play.

"I think we saw a good Argentina. We need to continue on this path."

“I think we have improved from the last two games. We played against a team that was going forward with good players.

Messi opened scoring the first 3 minutes of the game before Ahmed Musa equaled within the next one minute.

“We saw a good Argentina, despite the two Nigerian goals. Now we want more, we have to keep improving.

“We said before: our strikers had to move a little bit more because we weren’t finding spaces. We had that against Nigeria and we have to work, so the next game we won’t concede goals.”

Messi recorded 7 shots with 4 goal netting in two of them before Rojo made it 3, minutes after Nigeria's second, the Argentine coach admitted: "I think we had a lot of chances, and could have scored a few more goals.''

Argentina last won the World Cup in Mexico 86 and Lionel Messi the Brazil 2014 tournament is “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.''

The team will face Switzerland in the last 16.