Lionel Messi is human after all, and Spain had his measure from the start. Even at a leisurely stroll in this World Cup—the best he could manage most of the time at his age—the Argentine maestro had lit up stadiums with his virtuosity, making a specialty of rescuing his side from the brink time and again. Both in the quarter-finals and the semis, his interventions were key to the Argentinian advance. So the pundits named him as the danger man, the spoiler to Spanish ambition. But L