Neymar has shown that there is no love lost between himself and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, while Argentina needed to win Ecuador in Quito on the final day of the CONMEBOL qualifiers they required Brazil to do them the favour of beating South American champions Chile.
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Brazil were 3-0 victors on the night against the continental champions and that result gave life to Lionel Messi's exploits for the alibiceleste in the Ecuadorian capital. The emotions exhibited by the Argentine team after the victory only showed how close the 2014 finalists were close to missing out on next year's World Cup.
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After Brazil's game v.Chile Journalists asked Neymar if he was happy Argentina made it through to the World Cup and the 25-year-old replied "yes, very happy" and with a huge smile. There's a huge rivalry between Brazil and Argentina in football but it seems Neymar put his personal ties with Messi first as Brazil played professionally. The selecao finished the qualifiers with a 10-point lead on top of the log table.
There were talks and rumours of bad blood when Neymar seemingly took a €222 million step to PSG all in a bid to be away from Messi's 'shadow', the Brazilian captain repeatedly shutdown those talks but after the final South American qualifying round there's little or nothing to show that Neymar has a problem with Messi. In Neymar's absence Barcelona has made a 100% start to life in the Spanish league this season while Neymar who now has the company of Edinson Cavani and co. has scored eight goals in as many games.
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