The matches of the second round (final price) of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar doubled the excitement and suspense that characterized the World Cup in the group stage.
The following is the harvest of the first day of the World Cup final price matches.
The day ended with a difficult victory for Argentina over Australia, 2-1, after a match full of excitement at Ahmed Bin Ali Stadium, in the second match of the final price.
And Lionel Messi succeeded in deciphering the defense code of the Australian national team, after exchanging the ball with Nicholas Otamendi, before he hit it on the floor to the right of Ryan in the net at the 35th minute, which is Messi's first goal in the World Cup elimination rounds.
Argentina's goal "35": # Argentina 1-0 # Australia # Qatar 2022 # World_Cup_Qatar_2022 # Cup_Channels @Socceroos #Qatar2022 #FIFAWorldCup @Argentina @afa #TodosJuntos #Argentina pic.twitter.com/mDf7Pe1jcM
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In his 1,000th match, Messi broke up his partnership with his late compatriot Diego Maradona, to finish second in the race for the historic scorers for the Argentine national team in the World Cup, by reaching the ninth goal, and a single goal separates him from equalizing Gabriel Omar Batistuta's number.
After the break, Ryan made a fatal mistake that gave the Argentine national team a second goal, after fierce pressure from Rodrigo de Paul, so that Julian Alvarez grabbed the ball and put it easily into the net at the 57th minute.
Argentina's goal "57": # Argentina 2-0 # Australia # Qatar 2022 # World Cup_Qatar_2022 # Cup_Channels @Socceroos #Qatar2022 # FIFAWorldCup @Argentina @afa #TodosJuntos #Argentina pic.twitter.com/NKuDZ7J6iq
- Al-Kass channels (@alkasschannel) December 3, 2022
And from the first real threat, Australia managed to reduce the difference from a powerful shot from outside the penalty area by Craig Goodwin, which hit Enzo Fernandez, to change direction and settle into Martinez's net in the 77th minute.
Australia's goal "77": Argentina 2-1 Australia # Qatar 2022 # World Cup_Qatar_2022 # Al-Kass Channels @Socceroos #Qatar2022 # FIFAWorldCup @Argentina @afa #TodosJuntos #Argentina pic.twitter.com/iJUAWrVC4B
- Al-Kass channels (@alkasschannel) December 3, 2022
Argentina faces the Netherlands in the quarter-finals of the World Cup
The Argentina national team will face its Dutch counterpart (who beat America 3-1) in the quarter-finals of the Qatar World Cup, on Friday, December 9, 2022, at the Education City Stadium.
The task of the Netherlands in defeating America in the first round of the final eight matches was less difficult.
And advanced "mills" early in the tenth minute.
After a set of passes, the ball reached Denzel Dumfries on the right, who crossed it into the penalty area, and Memphis Depay met it with a focused shot that settled to the right of goalkeeper Matt Turner in the net.
Netherlands goal “10”: Netherlands 1-0 America .. # World Cup # Qatar 2022 # Qatar2022 # FIFA WorldCup # USA # NEDUSA #NED @OnsOranje #NothingLikeOranje pic.twitter.com/a8M9s7FzmM
- Al-Kass channels (@alkasschannel) December 3, 2022
In the same way as the tactical sentence for the first goal, Dumfries passed another cross into the box, this time Danny Blind hit it in the same way as Memphis, to score the second goal for the Netherlands national team in the 45 + 1 minute.
Daley Blind adds the second goal for the mills
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And the American substitute, Haji Wright, reduced the score for his country, after winking at Pulisic's cross in a strange way, so that the ball rose up and went into the Dutch net in the 76th minute.
America's goal "76": Holland 2-1 America .. # World Cup # Qatar 2022 # Qatar2022 # FIFA WorldCup # USA # NEDUSA #NED # USMNT@OnsOranje @USMNT#NothingLikeOranje pic.twitter.com/pktqks8Dyb
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The joy of the American team did not last long, because Dumfries left the goal-making task and scored a third Dutch goal in the 81st minute, after an elaborate cross from Blind, which the uncensored Dutch full-back sent it into the net to the right of Turner, and the match ended.
Netherlands goal “81”: Netherlands 3-1 America .. # World Cup # Qatar 2022 # Qatar2022 # FIFA WorldCup # USA # NEDUSA #NED # USMNT@OnsOranje @USMNT#NothingLikeOranje pic.twitter.com/AtyYPsPkZI
- Al-Kass channels (@alkasschannel) December 3, 2022
Biden encourages the US national team
The United States' match with the Netherlands was preceded by the participation of US President Joe Biden, through his account, with a distinctive video clip in support of his country's national team.
And Biden appeared during the clip while catching a ball sent by Taylor Adams, captain of the team, to catch it, confirming the slogan adopted by the fans of the national team, “It is called Soccer,” which is the name that America contradicts football fans everywhere.
Good kick, @tyler_adams14.
Let's go @USMNT!
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— President Biden (@POTUS) December 3, 2022
Record numbers for the World Cup Qatar and Ronaldo
FIFA published on Saturday a set of records and statistics for the group stage matches in the World Cup in Qatar, including that Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo set a new record in his match against Ghana, and became the first player to score in 5 different versions of the World Cup.
FIFA said that 2.45 million fans attended the matches, at a rate of 96% of stadium capacity, which exceeds the number of 2.17 million fans recorded in the World Cup in Russia 4 years ago.
The match between Argentina and Mexico in the second round of Group C competitions - in which Lionel Messi and his companions achieved a fateful victory (2-0) after a shocking defeat against Saudi Arabia (1-2) - was the highest attendance in the stands since the 1994 World Cup in the United States, as the number of The crowd at Lusail Stadium is 88,966 spectators.
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- FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) December 3, 2022
FIFA said, "Many matches set records in terms of the number of views in their countries, and the confrontation between England and America became the most watched men's football match on American screens."
And the International Federation highlighted on Saturday that the group stage resulted in the qualification of teams from all continents to the final price for the first time in the history of the World Cup, including 3 under the banner of the AFC (Australia, Japan and South Korea) for the first time as well.
Only two African teams qualified for the second time (Senegal and Morocco), after the first time in 2014.
French referee Stephanie Frappar also became the first woman to referee a World Cup tournament, and she also formed - along with Noza Pak and Karen Diaz - the first women's trio to officiate a match in the history of the tournament.