Argentina are struggling at the end but Messi is in the quarterfinals

The run and the whoop. The clenched fists. The sign in the sky. This is for you, Diego. Leo shares this with you. It screamed with him. Messi is there in a state of total celebration, in his 1000th official match, enjoying his ninth World Cup goal, the first in a kill-kill… He just beat Maradona; one left to match Batistuta… That Australian wall lasted more than half an hour. It fell on the 10th. The captain did it again. He took out the key from the happiness chest and opened it again.

Then came the crowning of the classification with agony and uncertainty at the end triggered by a cursed carambola that reduced the victory to just a difference of goal. Argentina does not deserve to suffer so much. And Messi doesn’t deserve to suffer. In that delicate period, Leo flew and served three assists that were wasted by Lautaro with a closed arc. Then, to avoid extra time, Dibu Martínez had to appear at the last breath with a save from the world champion goalkeeper, with a spectacular cover in a one-on-one against Kuol.

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Messi and his teammates ended up singing with the crowd, jumping, enjoying themselves. Now quarters. Next stop, the Netherlands, on Friday. There is Argentina and its captain, with a spirit for heaven, who dreams like the dreams of great candidates. The underlying concept remains beyond fear.

Dibu Martínez was not kicked. Argentina didn’t finish Australia’s goal either. The first half hour passed. Until Messi loosened that ultra defensive and applied the knotted pose of the Oceanic team.

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Moments after pressing, forcing the winger and grappling with Beihch, Leo played in behind and Mac Allister hit a vertical pass that made Otamendi uncomfortable, inside the area and with his back to the opposition goal. Defender control is bad, long. Then, with quick thinking, attentive to reading the game, the 10 sped towards the ball, arrived before everyone else and nailed his left foot into a corner, between a pair of opposing feet.

Australia’s proposal went through withdrawal, order, severe marking, physical contact, unscrupulous cutting, everything that was imagined, aiming to fight and get some valuable albiceleste gifts.

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Argentina showed concentration at the back and patience to explain. Without the contracted Di María, Scaloni chose Papu Gómez. In his patient search, the albiceleste appealed from time to time to high pressure, knowing that Australia, with its individual limitations, could fail at the beginning when they drowned. And so, after De Paul’s touch, at the start of the second half, goalkeeper Ryan failed and the tireless Julián Álvarez celebrated his second goal in a row at World Cups.

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Argentina seems to be walking to the end. Messi drew several piled up in amazement. Scaloni took Julián out and brought in Lautaro to see if he would snap out of his losing streak. Australia have no cards to react. The feeling is that there is no room for uncertainty. However, in the 75th minute, a shot from Goodwin that went wide of the goal hit Enzo Fernández and went away from Dibu Martínez.

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With that cursed carambola, Australia were just one goal away. There was a magical stop by Lisandro Martínez (he replaced Papu Gómez) that prevented a draw. Only this amazing game can change so much and suddenly. Lautaro did not squeeze what Messi invented and Dibu Martínez had to appear. It’s not bad either. A team that claims to be world champions also needs a goalkeeper to save it.

ARGENTINA

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AUSTRALIA

Argentina: Emiliano Martinez; Nahuel Molina (Gonzalo Montiel, m.80), Nicolás Otamendi, Cristian Romero, Marcos Acuña (Nicolás Tagliafico, m.72); Enzo Fernández, Rodrigo de Paul, Alexis Mac Allister (Exequiel Palacios, m.80); Papu Gómez (Lisandro Martínez, m.50), Leo Messi and Julián Álvarez (Lautaro Martínez, m.72).

Australia: Matthew Ryan, Milos Degenek (Fran Karacic, m.72), Harry Souttar, Kye Rowles, Aziz Behich; Matthew Leckie (Garang Kuol, m.72), Aaron Mooy, Jackson Irvine, Keanu Baccus (Adjin Hrustic, m.58); Mitchel Duke (Jamie MacLaren, m.72) and Riley McGree (Craig Goodwin, m.58).

Goals: 1-0, m.35: Messi; 2-0, m.57: Julián Álvarez; 2-1, m.77: Enzo Fernández, own goal.

Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland). He showed yellow cards to Jackson Irvine (15′) and Milos Degenek (38′)

Incidents: Round of 16 match of Qatar 2022 World Cup played at Bin Ali stadium in Al Rayyan before 45,032 spectators.

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