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Sports for Qatar, after Argentina's victory over Mexico (photo: Paz Hasdaei, video editing: Tal Reznik)
The Argentina team stayed alive in the 2022 World Cup thanks to the excellence of Lionel Messi, who scored and scored in a 0:2 win over the Mexico team and placed his team in second place in Group C before the deciding round.
The South American champion was under pressure throughout most of the game and was looking for solutions, until Messi shot in at the 64th minute and towards the end he also added a assist to Enso Fernandez who turned his debut goal into a tie.
The decision will be on Wednesday, when Argentina meets Poland.
The problem: the second place will probably lead to a meeting with the strong, the only perfect France so far.
Watch Lionel Messi star and lead Argentina to a 0:2 victory over Mexico courtesy of Kaan 11 - the official broadcaster of the 2022 World Cup. Live broadcasts, recaps, statistics and more await you on Kaan's World Cup page
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the scenarios
- A win for Argentina over Poland will lift them anyway.
He will be enough to rise from first place as long as Saudi Arabia does not win by two more goals than it does in its game against Mexico.
- Argentina's draw against Poland will advance both together (with Poland first) as long as the corresponding match also ends in a draw or Mexico wins by less than four goals.
- If Mexico wins for example 0:3 and Argentina finishes 0:0, the two will be equal in the balance of points and goals, then the internal balance will be determined with Argentina's advantage due to tonight's victory.
- Poland will move up from first place if they win and even if they end in a draw and at the same time Saudi Arabia will not get three points.
It will move up from second place if it loses by a minimal margin and the corresponding match ends in a draw or if Mexico wins it by a smaller margin.
- Saudi Arabia will definitely go up if they win.
A draw will only be enough for her if Argentina loses or Poland is defeated.
- Mexico needs a win along with a loss for Argentina to advance without goal calculations.
If Argentina get a point, they have to win by more than three goals and if Poland lose then they have to win by an aggregate margin (including the Polish loss) of five goals.
- If Mexico wins 0:2 and Poland loses 2:0, there will be absolute equality between the two teams and then the identity of the second winner from House C will be decided on the number of tickets.
The one with fewer tickets will go up (currently Mexico has six yellows and Poland only four).
the numbers
* Messi's record now in the World Cup: 8 goals and 7 assists in 21 games.
Almost like Maradona's record: 8 goals and 8 assists in 21 games.
* Messi with eight World Cup goals so far, like Maradona as mentioned, and in front of him is only Gabriel Batistuta with 10 conquests.
* Messi scored four goals with kicks from outside the box in his World Cup matches, just like Germany's Luther Mathews and Uruguay's Diego Forlan.
Before him, only the Brazilian Rivalino remained, who had done it five times.
* Messi is both the youngest (age 18 and 357 days against Serbia in 2006) and the oldest (age 35 and 155 days tonight against Mexico) to score and score in a World Cup game since data collection began in 1966.
* At the age of 21, Enso Fernandez became the youngest player to score for Argentina in the World Cup, since Messi in 2006.
* Lionel Scaloni coached against Mexico four times and won all of them.
Goal difference: 0:8.
* Argentina scored three goals against Mexico with kicks from outside the box as part of the World Cup.
Only Brazil (against Italy) and Austria (against Switzerland) have scored more per opponent's net: four goals each.
* Mexican Andres Guardado, who was injured and replaced in the first half, became the sixth player to appear in five different World Cups.
Three of them are from Mexico: Antonio Carvajal, Rafa Marquez and now him.
The responses
Lionel Messi
said right after the final whistle: "We can't give up, we can't make any more mistakes - every game from now on is over for us. In the second half we were united and went back to playing the way we know. It was a tough game, the conditions weren't easy either, but we all played As it should be - both those who started and those who entered and responded excellently. We have another game ahead of us and we only have to think about it and thinking that we haven't done anything yet, this is only the beginning of the road. Before the tournament we were euphoric and it cost us, especially in the first game because it was for many players the first in the cups The world and we didn't play the way we wanted and needed to. Even in the first game we were inches short of celebrating 0:2."
About his ankle, which was recently reported to be bothering him: "I don't know why so many are talking about it, the truth is that everything is fine. I was in pain in the final minutes (after Saudi Arabia), but I'm fine, I trained as usual and made every effort because now is not the time give up".
Lionel Scalloni
, who shed a tear or two in the second goal: "We knew that we were in for a tough game and we suspected that Mexico would change the formation to five players in defense. The first half was not good for any of us, but in the half we corrected things and started playing better, we managed to balance the game in the middle. Then you already saw what happened - number 10 decided the game and there's a whole bunch behind him that supports him. Mexico played with five players in defense and another four in midfield, it's hard to play like that, but I'm glad the substitutes also did their job. This is a team that's fun to watch and everyone He who doesn't like her probably doesn't like Argentina," he concluded.
Scaloni is moved to tears by Fernandez's goal
Enso Fernandez
, the scorer of the second goal: "As a child I always dreamed of playing with this shirt and today I also fulfilled my dream of scoring a goal in the World Cup.
Emiliano Martinez
, the goalkeeper in the first half provided a beautiful save and prevented Mexico from taking the lead with a free kick before halftime, added: "We knew that a loss eliminated us from the World Cup , but we didn't doubt ourselves for a moment.
We went through difficult days and today we showed that we are ready.
Also playing with 'number 10' is always much easier," he said, and of course he meant Messi who scored and scored.
Angel Di Maria
, the first goal scorer: "I'm happy for the team, everyone worked hard even when we weren't doing so well. Today we managed to bring happiness to our people, ourselves and our families, who came in the previous game and saw us as bad. We've been here for years in the team and always give our all, we'll continue Fight until the end. This victory gives everyone a bit of peace. We knew it would be a tough game against a strong opponent, we knew there wouldn't be too many situations and it wouldn't be very pretty. The most important thing is that we won."
Watch the celebrations in Buenos Aires
Celebrations in Buenos Aires after Lionel Messi's goal against Mexico (Twitter)
third house
Group
games
victories
draw
losses
gates
points
1
Poland
2
1
1
0
0-2
4
2
Argentina
2
1
0
1
2-3
3
3
Saudi Arabia
2
1
0
1
3-2
3
4
Mexico
2
0
1
1
2-0
1
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