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Messi does try and stay on his feet because he is confident in his own ability and the thought of feigning is not in his mind. He is a genuine player and always gives of his best. The more footballers have been paid and feted and put on a pedestal, the lazier and more dishonest they have become...

I wondered that. Clearly, Van Gaal is a manager who will employ every trick in the book and he will have briefed his keepers before the game. He must have felt that Krul was the ' stronger character ' in terms of employing gamesmanship and that this tactic could unsettle one or two Costa Rica...