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Nowhere is that more true than in football - a world fuelled by statistics, noise, and the endless urge to crown the next Lionel Messi.

It was Lionel Messi's Inter Miami in the last 16 and Kylian Mbappe's Real Madrid in Wednesday's one-sided last-four tie.

In the Club World Cup, he has won Superior Player of the Match twice and, perhaps fittingly, impressed against Lionel Messi's Inter Miami, having earned the nickname Messinho - 'Little Messi' - in Brazil.

For 1984’s “Against All Odds,” he selected Phil Collins to sing the title cut, a song released three weeks before opening; the song soon went No. 1. 1985’s “White Nights” had two No. 1 songs, Lionel Ritchie’s “Say You Say Me” and Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin’s duet “Separate Lives.”

"That's the touch of the tournament from Lionel Messi," said Dazn pundit Don Hutchison, the ex-Scotland midfielder.