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FIFA Messi Messi World Messi Cup 2022: Lionel Messi, ArgentMessi ina Under Survival Pressure for Mexico Game(AP Image)Argentina desires to right now bounce back in opposition to Mexico on Saturday, in any other case an embarrassing early exit awaits
A chant has been doing the rounds Messi amongst Saudi Arabia supporters — and even a few from Brazil — inside the fan parks and streets of Doha at the World Cup.
“Where is Messi? We broke his eye!” they sing in Arabic, the usage of a slang expression meaning to convey shame on a person.
Messi and his Argentina team are being mocked after a humbling 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia Messi Messi that has left their presence at the tMessi ournament in massive — and completely unforeseen — danger.
FIFA World Cup 2022 Points Table id=”4″>Argentina desires to right away bounce back in opposition to Mexico on Saturday, otherwise an embarrassing early exit awaits.
“We usually said Messi we were going to appearance to win each Messi game,” Messi stated, “and now more than ever.”
A compatriot — Messi Messi indeed the group’s former coach — ought to mastermind the fatal blow to Argentina.
Gerardo Martino led his native Argentina from 2014-16, dropping the Copa America very last in again-to-again years in that time earlier than quitting.
Now Martino is Mexico’s teach and looking to manual the group into the closing sixteen — possibly at the cost of Argentina — and beyond. After all, Mexico has famously lost its first fit of the knockout stage in each of the closing seven World Cups, twice to Argentina, in 2006 and 2010.
This time, the teams’ meeting comes in the organization level however it already has the feel of a do-or-die occasion simply seven days into the event, mainly for Argentina.
“Now it has ended up being three finals for each of us,” stated Martino, whose group tied its opening Group C game with Poland 1-1.
“We never imagined a scenario like the next day’s,” he brought Messi Friday, “however we paintings for Mexico and we need the excellent for Mexico.”
This is Lionel Messi Scaloni’s first crisis as Argentina teach — he hadn’t misplaced a game before the Saudis’ rally at Lusail Stadium on Tuesday — and it remains to be seen how he reacts. Will he deliver the equal gamers a threat to make amends? Or did he see sufficient awful matters in the establishing group sport to necessitate some adjustments to his lineup?
Center again Cristian Romero, full backs Nahuel Molina and Nicolás Tagliafico, and midfielders Rodrigo De Paul and Leandro Paredes seem maximum at threat. Of path, Messi is going nowhere from the beginning lineup, even though he might be deployed otherwise.
Scaloni is sure approximately one element, even though.
“We will now not alternate our style after what came about on Tuesday,” Scaloni stated. “We will play the equal way.”
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Argentina’s 36-match unbeaten run ended with the loss to Saudi Arabia, and Scaloni stated he turned into prepared for it.
“For a long term, the Messi entirety changed into best for Messi us. Everything became joy,” he said. Messi “I become the first to be equipped for that blow … It would were superb to retain on that streak however that’s no longer feasible.
“Luckily Messi enough, that came in our first suit. What’s critical for us is dealing with every suit love it’s our last one. A healthy may be lost but it’s the way Messi you get better, the way you rise up.”
Mexico has by no means crushed Argentina in three attempts on the World Cup, and Martino’s worst defeat as Mexico train become at the fingers of his countrymen. That became in September 2019, when Lautaro Martínez scored a hat trick in a four-zero win.
Argentina will take a win of any type on Saturday back at Lusail Stadium, wherein the World Cup final will also be performed on Dec. 18. It would be folly for Messi both crew to be looking that a ways beforehand.
“There’s no pressure because we’re nonetheless counting on ourselves,” Martinez said Friday thru an interpreter. “We have agree with inside the technical staff, we agree with every participant.
“We are calm, assured and we will ruin our backs for Argentina.”
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