A late comeback wasn’t sufficient to propel Virgil van Dijk and the Dutch nationwide crew previous Argentina within the World Cup quarter-finals tonight. The Netherlands gave the impression to be down and out when Lionel Messi transformed a spot kick within the 73rd minute to offer Argentina a 2-0 lead, however Wout Weghorst scored within the 83rd and a hundred and first to ship the match to additional time.
Van Dijk helped protect the extent rating within the second half of additional time when he managed to deflect what seemed to be a certain purpose away from the web. The Dutch managed to get the match into penalty kicks, however sadly, the Liverpool defender opened the shootout with an effort that was saved by Argentina keeper Emi Martinez.
A Messi conversion was adopted by one other save by Martinez for Argentina, and shortly after Leandro Parades put Van Dijk’s Oranje down 2-0 after the primary two kicks. In the end, it was an excessive amount of of a deficit to beat for the Dutch and the Argentinians emerged with a 4-3 shootout victory to advance to a semi-final assembly with Croatia and ship Liverpool’s captain residence.
It was an all-around disappointing day for Liverpool gamers on the World Cup as within the day’s first match Brazil misplaced their shootout to Croatia, that means that Van Dijk, Fabinho, and Alisson Becker have all been eradicated within the quarter-finals.
At the least another LFC participant will see their World Cup journey finish tomorrow as Jordan Henderson and Trent Alexander-Arnold’s England face off in opposition to Ibrahima Konaté’s France. The winner(s) of that match will then transfer on to face both Morocco or Portugal within the semi-final on that facet of the bracket.