Lionel Messi says it "hurt" after his punishment was spared amid Argentina's draw with Iceland. The 30-year-old Barcelona star's second-half spot-kick was effortlessly ceased by resistance attendant Hannes Halldorsson with the score at 1-1.

Messi was hoping to coordinate the effect his old adversary Cristiano Ronaldo has made so far with an incredible cap trap against Spain on Friday night.

"It would have changed the content. It was the preferred standpoint," he said.

"Clearly it harms me to have missed the punishment. They would have opened somewhat more and we could have discovered more spaces.

"We have the severity of not having the capacity to take the three focuses that we merited. To begin with winning is constantly imperative, now we need to consider Croatia.

"We will attempt to pass this rapidly. "

Messi said Iceland's strategy's made it hard for his side guaranteeing "they would not like to play" yet conceded that Heimir Hallgrimsson's group "shut well"