Iceland begin their first world cup experience campaign against two-time winner Argentina at the Spartak Stadium in Moscow on Saturday.

Ahead of the clash, Iceland and Burnley midfielder Johann Gudmundsson is hoping they can frustrate La Albiceleste captain and star player Lionel Messi like they did to Cristiano Ronaldo in Euro 2016 in which they secured a 1-1 draw with Portugal in the group phase.

Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel have won the last ten balon d’ors with both of them considered as the greatest players on the planet, the midfielder is hoping they can frustrate the Barcelona forward as they did to the Portuguese.

“Ronaldo was obviously pissed off because they couldn’t score a second against us,” Gudmundsson said during Iceland’s press conference monitored by stakegains.com in Kabardinka.

“It was our first game in a major tournament and they couldn’t beat Iceland so it was not nice for them. He’s a winner so he got a bit angry. “It will be tough to play against him [Messi] but as long as he is frustrated and can’t score, we’re happy. Let’s just go out there and try to beat them and make him even more angry [than Ronaldo was].

“When the draw was made I said I wanted Brazil or Argentina and we got one of them. In the first game in the Euros we played Ronaldo and now it’s Messi. We kept Ronaldo quite quiet so hopefully will do the same with Messi.

“We know we’re probably going to be defending a lot of the time and Messi can turn it on but we just have to see where it takes us. “Attacking wise they’re one of best in tournament but they have a few in defence who are maybe not at the highest level like their attackers so hopefully we use that to our advantage.

“This is going to be bigger than the Euros but I think we will know more what’s going to happen now that we didn’t know in France. I think that will help us a bit.”

After facing the Argentines, Iceland will then face the Super Eagles of Nigeria before facing Modric’s led Croatian team in last group game of the mundial.

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