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Who will be the David?

AFP, Salvador
If Argentina's Lionel Messi has anything to worry about at this World Cup it should be a goalkeeper known as "the Tarantula* he has failed toscoreagainst in their last sevenclashes.
Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and Messi will have the latest of their epic battles when their countries meet in the World Cup quarterfinals in Brasilia on Saturday.
It is almost a David and Goliath tale. The question is which is which?
The 1.99 metres (6 feet 6 inches) tall Courtois towers over his 1.69m (5ft 7 inch) rival Messi.
The Argentine winner of four Ballon d'Or awards is a giant among attackets though, scoringfour times already at th is World Cup.
Courtois is known as "-lhe Tarantula" because foes believe he has eight arms to keep all angles covered. And he has done it with style.
Still only 22, Courtois racked up his 100th career dean sheet against Russia in their Group H match last week. 1 le played a key role in Atletico Madrid's Spanish title-winning campaign this season, which is why his parent dub Chelsea say they want him back for 2014-15.
It is the matches between Messi's Barcelona and Courtois's Atletico that makes their rivalry so special.
In their first meeting in September, 2011, Messi humiliated Courtois with a stunning hat-trick in a 5-0 win at Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium. The following February, a quick free-kick flummoxed the Belgian to
secure victory in the return Spanish championship game. In December 2012, there was another Messi brace in a 4-1 win.
Since then there have been seven games in the Champions League, La Liga and the Spanish Super Cup where Courtois and fate have denied the Argentine leading Atletico to the Spanish title and Champions League final at Barca's expense.
In two games, Messi went off injured. He slammed a penalty against the crossbar in another and in May this year got the ball past Courtois but was ruled offside
Courtois, who inspired the word Thibauting’ when a wave of social media photos were posted of fans re-enacting his saves at home or work, remains confident of keeping up his spider's web proteaion.
"I know him well from Atletico's games against Barcelona, so it'll be nice to play against him for our countries," Courtois told ESPN television in an interview this week.
"The good thing is that 1 don't have to watch videos of him because I know him so well. But even if you watch videos of him, he's so unprediaable that it's impossible to study him to know what he's going to do.
"As soon as he finds a way to shoot, he will shoot, so the only thing you can do as a goalkeeper is concentrate at all times," he added.
"Hopefully we can win, butwe'll see."
Bookmakers seem to favour Messi in the match and the tournament. He is still number one contender to win the Golden Boot for the top scorer at this year's World Cup. Another part of history also favours Argentina. Belgium lost to Argentina 2-0 in