World Cup Group C Group Stage, Argentina VS Saudi Arabia game, for this game, many people thought that it would not be too difficult for Argentina to win. After all, the overall strength of the two teams is too far apart. Argentina ranks third in the world and is the favorite team to compete for the championship in this World Cup. Before this, they have maintained an unbeaten record of 36 games. In contrast, Saudi Arabia is only ranked 51st. They are the lowest-ranked team in Asia for the World Cup. However, the result was unexpected. Saudi Arabia defeated Argentina 2-1, thus causing the big upset of this World Cup.
Argentina lost in its first World Cup game back to 1990. That is to say, after 32 years, Argentina lost in the first round of the World Cup, setting a shameful record for the team. Interestingly, two teams that defeated Argentina in the last three World Cups won the championship, namely the German team in 2014 and the French team in 2018; and one team won the runner-up, and the Croatian team in 2018. So, what kind of results will the Saudi team achieve? It is also very exciting.
From this game, Argentina played very well at the start. In the 10th minute of the game, he got a penalty kick. Messi scored 2 penalty kicks, helping Argentina lead Saudi Arabia 1-0. Next, Argentina entered a tide and continued to break through the Saudi team's goal. However, the goals were blown offside. At the end of the first half, Argentina led 1-0. In the second half, Saudi Arabia scored 2 goals in a row within 5 minutes, thus reversing the score 2-1. Next, although Argentina played tenaciously, it could not score. In the end, Argentina lost the game 1-2 and was blackened by the opening goal.
Alovais: No one is optimistic about our
being able to defeat the third-place Argentina team in the world. The Saudi players are also very happy and feel extremely proud. After the game, Saudi goalkeeper Alovais said that almost no one is optimistic about us before the game, so some people think we will definitely lose, of course, except for the people in our country! However, we are full of confidence in ourselves and will not be afraid of any opponent.
Alovais said this, "No one is optimistic about us. Except for the people in our country, everyone thinks that Argentina can easily defeat us. Because they have Messi, they are traditional strong teams. But we have always had confidence in ourselves. When we come to the World Cup, we will not be afraid of any opponents." In fact, Alovais is right. Before the game, almost everyone thought that Argentina would definitely win.
In addition, Alouis also said, "I am proud of my teammates. We defeated the impossible. We broke all doubts. We brought our country the first victory of the World Cup. When the final whistle sounded, we were all excited and we burst into tears. This is a very meaningful victory. This will not be the end, this is just the beginning, we will qualify in the group, and now, we have greater confidence."
Di Maria : We could have won 5-0
Di Maria : We could have won 5-0
Argentina lost the first World Cup game, Di Maria was also unwilling to give up. He thought the team could have won 5-0 , and he also made some sense to say this. The team scored many goals in the first half, but they were blown away by the referee. It seems that he has some objections to the video referee.
Di Maria said after the game, "This is the World Cup, not everything is beautiful. We were not the best before, and now we are not the worst. Winning streak will always end at some point. We could have easily won 5-0, and there are two more games in the final (he means playing the last two games of the group stage as the World Cup final), and we will do our best to advance."
Messi: I didn't expect that the World Cup started this way
This World Cup may be the last World Cup in his career for Messi, after all, he is now 35 years old.Many people believe that if Messi can win a World Cup championship, then he can become the "King of Football". If there is no World Cup championship, it will become very regrettable for his career. It can be seen that this World Cup is really important to him.
After the team lost to Saudi Arabia, Messi also seemed very frustrated. He said he did not expect to start his World Cup journey in this way. Messi said, "This game is a huge blow to each of us. We didn't expect to start the World Cup in this way. But everything has its reasons, we have to prepare for the next game. We have to win, it depends on ourselves."
In addition, Messi also said, "Saudi is a team with excellent players, their conduction balls are very good and the defense is playing very high. But there is no excuse at present. We have to be more united than ever, and this group is very strong, which is something that has been proven. Today's defeat is a situation we haven't encountered for a long time, and now you have to prove that this is a real group." So, what will the Argentina perform next? Can they qualify from the group? Let's wait and see.
