Following Argentina’s fiery penalty shootout win over Netherlands within the quarterfinal of the World Cup, tempers flared between the gamers and training employees of the 2 groups. Whereas Lionel Messi, man of the match on the day with a aim and an help, was doing an interview with TyC Sports activities after the sport, he had a run-in with Wout Weghorst, scorer of each Dutch objectives to get them again into the sport.
“What are you , idiot? Go away,” Messi was quoted as saying by the tv channel. The Argentine skipper added that he didn’t really feel ‘revered’ by the opposition on the day, not even by their coach Louis van Gaal, then took a dig on the Dutch supervisor’s philosophy.
“I don’t like to speak earlier than the video games. Since he entered the sport, he started to impress us, stumble upon us, inform us issues… It appears to me that this isn’t a part of soccer. I all the time respect everybody, I like that they respect me too. Their coach was not respectful to us,” he mentioned. “We undergo too unfairly. Van Gaal sells that he performs soccer after which places tall individuals in and commenced to hit balls.”
Weghorst was finally crowded out by a number of Argentine gamers, together with Lisandro Martinez, Lautaro Martinez, and former striker Sergio Aguero, who was additionally within the dugout. Aguero recounted the episode to the channel: “We have been simply coming into. He began to say: ‘Hey, Messi, hey, Messi’. And Leo rotated, have a look at him… That’s when he advised him that. The man advised him ‘come right here ‘ (‘I got here’).”
“I inform him to close up… He advised me: ‘You don’t say shut up’ (‘don’t inform me to close up’). I inform him: ‘Okay, you don’t speak to Messi’,” the previous Manchester Metropolis striker added.
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Argentina have been comfortably main 2-0 after Nahuel Molina’s first-half strike, and Messi’s second-half penalty, however after Van Gaal’s substitutions, Netherlands pulled one again within the 83rd minute. The Albiceleste grew to become a bit panicked following that aim, and after Leandro Paredes rocketed a clearance proper into the Dutch bench, the 2 groups clashed a number of occasions in a sport that grew to become more and more edgy. Argentina couldn’t deal with the stress, conceding a last-minute aim from a well-worked Netherlands set piece to take the sport into further time, and later penalties.
Referee Mateu Lahoz ended up brandishing a complete of 17 yellow playing cards to gamers and employees, with out sending any participant off. It was a World Cup document. After the sport, Messi additionally took intention at Lahoz, claiming he was not match to take cost of a sport of the magnitude of a World Cup quarterfinal.
“I don’t need to speak in regards to the referee as a result of they punish you later, you may’t be trustworthy, however I feel FIFA ought to take into consideration all this. You may’t put a referee like that for the same match, a World Cup quarterfinal”,” he mentioned to TyC Sports activities.