A pre-tournament favorite, the South Individuals fell to one of many greatest upsets in World Cup historical past as Saudi Arabia scored twice early within the second half to earn a surprising victory.Saudi Arabia are the second-lowest ranked workforce within the event, made up of gamers who all play of their home league, however Messi insists Argentina didn’t take them flippantly.He instructed reporters: “We knew they had been a workforce who would play if we allow them to…They didn’t shock us, we knew they might try this.”
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He continued to Argentina media: “It is a scenario that this group of gamers has by no means been via, it has been some time since we suffered such a troublesome blow, we did not count on to begin like this.”Messi opened the scoring with an early penalty and shortly after had a second dominated out for offside. Strike companion Lautaro Martinez then had two of his personal flagged by the assistant referee earlier than half-time.However Argentina had no reply to Saudi Arabia within the second half, telling Todo Noticias: “In 5 minutes of errors that we made, we went 2-1 down after which it was actually robust and we misplaced group and began punting the ball.”READ MOREArgentina now need to give attention to beating Mexico and Poland of their subsequent group video games in quest of the one main title that has eluded Messi in his in any other case glittering profession.”Clearly we have now to win or win now. It is as much as us to repair what we did mistaken and get again to the fundamentals of who we’re,” stated Messi, whose workforce had been on a 36-match unbeaten run previous to the shock outcome on the Lusail Stadium in Qatar.”We’re OK, clearly harm by the outcome, very bitter. However individuals should belief that this workforce won’t allow them to down and we’re going to go for it within the subsequent two video games. We have performed video games of this nature earlier than and we’ll carry out properly.”Now’s the time to be extra united than ever, to indicate how actually robust we’re.” Extra reporting by Reuters.