Despite the loss against Saudi Arabia, which they carried on their backs starting from the opening game, the Argentina team celebrated tonight (between Tuesday and Wednesday) the 0:2 over Poland, which raised Albiceleste to the round of 16 of the World Cup from first place at home.
Alexis McAllister and Julian Albers scored the goals and Argentina will meet the surprising Australia this coming Saturday in the battle for a place in the quarter-finals.
Why can anyone on her?
Although Argentina missed a penalty they did not deserve, on the other hand Poland did not play well.
Nevertheless, both advance to the round of 16.
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At the end, Leo Messi, who received a questionable penalty in the first half that he actually missed, concluded: "I'm angry about missing the penalty, but our team came out stronger after my mistake. We knew that as soon as the first goal went in, it would change the whole game."
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"Now against Australia this coming Saturday, it's going to be very difficult, everything here is very equal," added the flea, "all the teams are good. We need to prepare in the best possible way, as we always do before important games. We must be calm, now another World Cup begins and the hope It is to continue what we did today."
After creating 5 chances today, Lionel Messi moves into second place on the all-time World Cup list of chances created, with 63.
The only player with more than him is a certain Diego Armando Maradona, with 67.
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On the fact that he played for the 22nd time in the World Cup tournament, and broke the record of Diego Maradona, who passed away two years ago, Messi added: The truth is that I did not know that.
Diego always compliments me in everything.
He was super happy for me.
Diego liked that things were going well for me."
Lionel Messi has now made more World Cup appearances for Argentina than any player in the nation's history, overtaking Diego Maradona.
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Coach Lionel Scaloni added: "It was not an easy game but now we are definitely satisfied, we had to beat a team that has achieved two good results so far.
Our talent won and not their mistakes.
We play one way and we are not going to change the way even if we lose a game.
We are not candidates for anything, we are a stubborn group that is going to fight until the end.
We don't have time to rest because we have another game coming soon".
Messi and Lewandowski.
The matchup was decided, photo: EPA
Midfielder Rodrigo de Paul added: "We've proven we have a lot of character and personality. I love the country I was born in and I'm going to defend this shirt to the death. I'll never change my attitude, I'll never stop running. That's what I always bring to the pitch."
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The media in the homeland were also very enthusiastic about the second victory in the World Cup when the Argentinian Ole noted: "Alexis McAllister and Enso Fernandezbalto were above all. A huge goal by Alvarez brought Argentina to the round of 16. You can continue to dream of the cup in Qatar. Our team presented its best game in the World Cup".
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