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Argentina and
Messi
play crying on the inside and emotional on the outside.
They fight for so many things that it seems impossible that they will ever truly enjoy everything they do.
They run and look for the ball as if there was no other way to survive the story.
To relieve all those fans who dream of
Maradona
and who live for Messi.
Leo told the Mexicans that this was not the time to finish.
His left foot stopped time in Lusail.
Nailed to the front, and with three defenders in front, he found the hole through which the illusions of a country can still slip through.
Argentina not only avoided elimination, but can already aspire to go to the round of 16 as the first group.
Messi has no end.
Still in the changing room tunnel of the Lusail vessel, minutes before the game began, the
ten
remained petrified for a while listening to how the Argentine fans sang out there.
In those screams, more than emotion, the fear of the night was lodged.
And
Tata Martino
, from Rosario like Messi, and who knows that idiosyncrasy fueled by extremes like no one else, knew how to take advantage of it as the unnatural leader of that Mexico that he doesn't even want to see.
The Aztec fans did not hesitate to boo their coach before one of the most important matches of his future in the World Cups began.
And also after he left El Tri without the chance of his life.
The stage seemed to suit Tata that.
With the coach sheltered in his defensive line of five and a midfield prepared for the tow, he knew how to play with Argentina's anguish throughout the first act, until turning one of the teams that arrived as favorites in Qatar into a team incapable of thread more than two passes.
patches
And that
Lionel Scaloni
, after the sad match completed in the opening defeat against Arabia (1-2), tried to revitalize his eleven as much as he could.
But Argentina's problem might not even be the names, but rather the ghosts that haunt it.
He introduced the albiceleste coach five changes.
He patched up more than half of the defense (
Montiel
,
Lisandro
and
Acuña
joined the defense),
Guido
took the place from
Paredes
(when
De Paul
is offering the worst performance), and
Mac Allister
took the position lost by a
Papu
for whom football starts to happen too fast.
But if Messi misses someone, it is the injured
Lo Celso,
who was the player who understood and deciphered his needs.
Without his presence, Argentina plays without a compass.
Mexico was more than clear about its debatable plan.
The more tangled the game, the more hits that occurred, the longer they would keep the Argentines away from the vicinity of
Memo Ochoa
.
The Aztec goalkeeper was a strange entity in the small area, no matter how much his outlandish clothing (red shirt, pants and blue socks) kept him in the shot.
Alexis Vega
, a striker who plays like demons are tied to his boots, did his best to stretch Mexico in search of
Emiliano Martinez
's box .
But he couldn't find help in
Chucky Lozano
, the Napoli striker, so he almost always had to start wars that he couldn't win alone.
At least he was able to rehearse a foul to which Martínez resisted.
But Messi already went to rest warning that, despite that absent bearing with which he deceived non-believers so many times, he was still alive and in the game.
Ochoa had to put out his fists in a lateral free kick, without an angle, to which the Rosario wanted to add pepper.
Release
Mexico, which paid for
Guardado
's injury , and increasingly tired before the defensive aid that had to be fulfilled to maintain the web, no longer left their field in the entire second half.
Scaloni saw it, who gave more value to the quality of his squad with the entry of
Enzo Fernández
, and taking a blurred Lautaro off the field so that the young
Julián Álvarez
hunted some.
It was not necessary.
Because no one but Messi knows that Argentina's success and failure depend on their left booty.
And his ability to resist.
Di María
, before earning the break, he did what he had to offer the ball to
ten
.
And Messi, with his left foot to the net, tied to the skin of the ball all the demons that stalked him.
Tata's Mexico was left speechless by the anger of fans who didn't even need to see Enzo Fernández's final thread to convince themselves that Argentina will continue to be their worst scourge.
Messi already knows the same as Maradona.
There is no firmament without Mexico.
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