After Friday’s quarter-final match, Argentina’s star player and captain Lionel Messi set the coach, scorer and referee of the match.
The men’s World Cup quarterfinals are underway. On Saturday, Morocco and Portugal will play ( TV2, 17:00) and England and France ( TV2, 21:00). Croatia and Argentina advanced to the semi-finals on Friday.
Argentina beat the Netherlands in a penalty shootout and advanced to the semi-finals. In the next round, they will face Croatia, who beat Brazil in the previous match on Friday.
However, the victory did not fully satisfy the Argentine players, who were seething with rage after the quarter-final match. Especially the captain of Argentina Lionel Messi opened his verbal chest.
– What are you staring at, fool? What are you staring at, fool! Go, go there, fool. Go there! Argentinian media TyC Sports says (you switch to another service) Messi shouted.
The object of the booing was the scorer of both of Holland’s goals Wout Weghorst. In addition, TyC Sports says that after the end of the match, Messi gestured with his hands to the head coach of Holland for Louis van Gaal. The Argentine media estimated that Messi’s gesture meant “you talk too much”.
– Van Gaal believes he is playing football, but then puts tall players on the field and tells him to hit balls (into the penalty area), Messi evaluates the Dutch pilot’s game tactics.
“The worst referee of the tournament, by far”
In addition, the Argentinians barked at condemning the game By Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz. Messi scolded the referee with harsh words of TyC Sports (you will switch to another service) in the interview.
– We were scared during the game because we knew what the (judge line) situation was like. Fifa needs to review this match. A judge who is not ready for the task cannot be appointed to such a position, Messi said.
In his opinion, the International Football Association Fifa must see the mistakes made by Lahozi.
There are plenty of hot situations in the match between Argentina and Holland. Warnings were also handed out during the scrimmage when players tried to confuse their opponents. Argentina head coach Lionel Scaloni also received a warning at the end of the game.
In addition Denzel Dumfries got another yellow card after the penalty shootout and then a red card.
Statistical service I opt in (you switch to another service) the match became the match with the most warnings in World Cup history. The yellow card waved 16 times, if you count the coaches.
For example, in the well-known match between Portugal and Holland in the 2006 World Cup, according to many statistical services, 16 warnings were issued. However, according to Opta, this is not true, because for the same player, two yellows turn the warning into red.
Thus, in the 2006 “Battle of Nuremberg” eight yellow and four red cards were dealt, i.e. 12 cards.
Messi’s frustration is partially understandable. For example, who was in the tournament as a credit player for Argentina Marcos Acuna unable to play in the semi-final against Croatia because his card account was full.
Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez agreed with Messi’s opinion. He said he did not understand how the referee could give ten minutes of extra time at the end of the second half.
– We wanted to play a draw. “The truth is, he was the worst referee in the tournament, by far,” Martinez said.