The one MLS player embarrassing Messi in the MVP race | OneFootball

Lionel Messi is the best player to ever grace the pitch. Without a shadow of a doubt, he is the GOAT.

This might be difficult for MLS fans to believe. Probably because, and if we're being completely frank, he doesn't play as much as a GOAT should. But there was once a time.

Anyway, Messi's career in MLS might not have gone the way the big investors would have hoped. However, that doesn't mean Messi has been a bad player. Messi being bad doesn't exist in any universe, and he's still put in some magical moments while wearing Heron pink.

As we approach the end of this MLS season, the debate everybody will he having is who the MVP award should go to. The voting period opens after the MLS season concludes, and naturally, Lionel Messi will be in the conversation.

Lionel Messi might win MVP award, but Anders Dreyer deserves it

Messi won the MVP award last year, and he might win it again. However, if he does, it will be completely unjust. One player is quietly outshining Lionel Messi right now.

Anders Dreyer is having a phenomenal breakthrough season in MLS. The Danish winger joined expansion team San Diego FC this year, and he's completely set MLS alight.

In just 29 MLS appearances, Anders Dreyer has returned 14 goals and 16 goals. That's over one goal contribution per game, which, for an expansion team, is unheard of.

Despite every effort being made to define the MVP award, fans will naturally have their own definitions of the award.

However, by its very nature, the MVP award should go to the most valuable player. And this doesn't mean monetary value, it means individual value to the team.

Looking at the award this way, nobody can deny that Dreyer has been far more valuable to San Diego than Messi has been to Miami.

At this point in time, San Diego is top of the Western Conference. Inter Miami, on the other hand, are sixth in the Eastern. Need we remind you? San Diego is an expansion team, no less.

San Diego has to go down as the best expansion team MLS has ever seen, and the excellent acquisition of Dreyer is largely to thank for it.