The seas open for Argentina in the World Cup

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The seas opened up for Argentina in the World Cup and it begins to find reasons to dream.

Where before there was propaganda and hysteria, game and sanity finally appeared.

Because

finally showed that this team can be something more than

, back to the torment of penalties.

And because he has youngsters like

and

on his team , who play without the weight of history tied to their boots.

Poland was no match for the albiceleste, who not only qualified as first in the group, but also envisions a grateful path, with Australia in the round of 16.

In some hypothetical rooms his rival would be the winner of the Netherlands-United States.

The Poles, meanwhile, finished the game hugging each other and jumping for joy in one of those contradictions that only football can offer.

Despite his depressing game, and after

and

collided their bodies -as if both needed to play and face their careers in a setting like no other-, he passed the round thanks to the goal scored by Saudi Arabia that left Mexico out (1-2) at sunset.

And that Argentina was able to feed its tremendousness because of

, a goalkeeper turned into a

, with tentacles instead of arms, and that was about to swallow all the Argentines who approached its seas.

Messi, faced with such a presence, was overwhelmed by all the demons that had always awaited him at the penalty spot.

There where he was most earthly during his entire career.

The man from Rosario did not know how to save the opposition from the Polish goalkeeper.

This one, who surely had studied Messi well, knew that the best way to disturb the ten in maximum penalties was to wait for him until the end.

It is then that the striker looks for his safety corner, to his right.

And up there Szczesny flew with his left hand turned into an iron plate.

Messi's penalty

The World Cup is not an appropriate territory for poetic justice.

Although surely the action would have gone down in the black history of the tournament had the Rosario scored it.

Szczesny had flown in search of a center that Messi, very forced, managed to finish off.

The goalkeeper stretched out his hand in search of the ball and it lightly touched the face of the Argentine striker.

The Dutch referee

, warned by the VAR, went to the monitor.

And far from attending to the requests of the Poles, he granted the maximum penalty to Argentina.

Messi did not score, and perhaps, although he did not notice it at the time, he would help keep the memory clean.

Such an episode, in any case, occurred in the best act of the albiceleste in this World Cup.

It was wonderful for the coach Lionel Scaloni to entrust the team's handle to the young Enzo Fernández, a boy with as much class as personality and who corrected as much as he could the serious deficiencies in

's circulation .

Julián Álvarez, who took the position of striker from Lautaro, offered with his unchecking an endless number of corridors that Messi took advantage of beautifully.

Szczesny made up to seven saves in the first half in which, in addition to

, Acuña -always loose on the left bank-, Julián Álvarez and

tried , from whom the goalkeeper scored an Olympic goal.

El Noodle remained on his knees at the corner, trying to understand how long the goalkeeper's fingers were.

Although Poland's deployment was so disappointing, that he neither wanted to attack nor knew how to defend, the consequence was logical.

You just had to see how Lewandowski walked from one side to the other, with his arms dropped, and so frustrated that if he had left the field no one would have noticed.

So Argentina settled the matter as soon as possible.

Right after the start of the second half, and after a combination between Di María and

,

found the moment of his life in the most unusual way.

He wanted to finish off with his right foot, but he did it with the tibia on his left.

Little mattered.

The ball finally escaped Szczesny, and Scaloni was able to sigh.

And dedicate yourself to enjoying, now yes, the symphony conducted by Enzo Fernández.

The Benfica midfielder was the one who gave meaning to a great collective play to assist Julián Álvarez, whose control and caress of the ball closed the night to give way to ecstasy.

Messi, in the dark Qatari night, went towards his fans and began to wave his hands.

Singing he denied the hysteria.

Maybe the time to live has come.

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