Analyzing Messi's Play in Zone 14

Welcome to Titi's L'Art du Football.

Listen, we talked about Lionel Messi

living, breathing, sleeping, having a coffee in that zone.

Zone 14.

Let me explain it to you.

Zone 14 is a central area right outside the opponent's box.

Exactly where I am right now.

We all know that zone 17 is the zone

where you score the most goals.

Unfortunately, obviously, that's where the goal is.

But...

If you know how to hang around here and understand the game,

you can score a lot of goals.

And Lionel Messi knows exactly how to stay here.

This is his house.

This is where he scores a lot, a lot of goals,

as we're going to see here.

This is him against Algeria.

Algeria playing in a mid-block situation.

And now, ball's going to come out.

We all know that ball's going to arrive to him from De Paul

and here in that zone.

14. Strikers make runs. If any of the defenders comes out,

they would have had to deal with a pass of Lionel Messi and then he scores and buries it.

Now, against Algeria, different one.

In transition, he's in zone 11, entering zone 14, ball goes to zone 13, ball goes back to him.

Nobody can defend that when you are in transition.

It's tricky because when the ball enters zone 13 or can enter zone 16,

everybody will crash the box with runs and if you're clever enough to step out...

Receivez le ballon et vous aurez la qualité de Lionel Messi.

Vous pouvez scorer.

C'est moi dans la zone 14.

C'est assez confortable. Je ne sais pas où vous êtes Rebecca,

mais c'est là que je suis.

Revenons à vous.