Messi’s partners took the best in the Netherlands, Friday 9, after a crazy meeting completed in penalties (2-2, 4-3), and will face Croatia on Tuesday, December 13.
by Clément Martel (Lusail, Qatar, Special Envoy)
Since the start of the World Cup, Lautaro Martinez misses everything. Even the infusion of the mate, we would be ready to bet, as the awkwardness of the Argentinian striker seems natural. Muet since the start of the competition, demoted on the bench after two games, the inter -Milan striker could, Friday, December 9, put an end to the torture of Argentinian supporters. At the very end of the extensions, twice, the 25 -year -old striker struck, but found on his way a defender, then the gloves of the Dutch goalkeeper.
However, Lautaro Martinez did not miss her most important shooting of the evening: the shot to the decisive goal, allowing Argentina to eliminate the Netherlands, and to keep the dream of global title alive de Lionel Messi, hoisting himself in the semi-finals (2-2, 4-3). “When Lautaro scored, and qualified us, it was a huge relief, blown Lionel Messi after the meeting. We suffered, and we could have been eliminated.” Like his captain, the Argentine team Has let his joy burst and communicated for long minutes with his many supporters in the Lusail stadium (Qatar).
Because the Albiceleste won a “good victory” in “a ugly match”, as the coach Lionel Scaloni summed up. A formula that also applies to the Argentinian tournament, constantly on the breach, since their defeat – surprise – inaugural against Saudi Arabia (1-2). On a mission since the start of the competition to “win the” Tercera “” (third world star) and offer Messi the title he is missing, the Argentines, in the absence of a licked game, display a brass unit and this suspicion of madness capable of taking everything.
hold the shock
It was necessary on Friday to hold the shock against Oranje to philosophy having nothing to do with its predecessors. With 48 faults – divided between the two camps – and 18 yellow cards distributed in total (including two transformed into red), the game has not recalled the total football of Johan Cruyff. The course of the meeting then was responsible for raising the decibels in the Qatari enclosure, transformed into branch of the Bombonera de Buenos Aires.
Argentina, however, thought it had done the hardest, with, as always since the start of the competition, a catalyst called Messi. After more than half an hour of a closed match, the number 10 Argentinian took care of shearing the defensive nasse set up by Louis Van Gaal, finding, in a pass that no other would have seen, its side Law Nahuel Molina, ideally placed to open the brand. A penalty transformed by Messi a quarter of an hour from the end, and the Argentines began to think of the semi-final against Croatia, falling a few hours earlier from their Brazilian neighbors.
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