Boca Juniors and River Plate fans embrace. From Racing and Independiente too.
Stadium 974, in Doha, looked more like the junction of Bombonera and Monumental de Núñez, or that Avellaneda was, in fact, one. Without exaggeration, 85% of the stadium was in blue and white.
Lionel Messi was at risk of saying goodbye to the World Cups in his fifth participation.
From somewhere came the sound muffled by the “hinchas” of Carlos Gardel’s voice: “Por una cabeza”, he sang, getting better and better.
Robert Lewandowski, no relation to the STF minister, was willing to put an end to the globalist adventure of the little big rival who didn’t vote for him for the best in the world.
Fortunately, luckily for the World Cup, he didn’t make it.
“Con el corazón en la punta de la bota”, even nervous and anxious, with mistakes that the Argentine school cannot commit, “los pibes” did not give the Poles a break.
Messi delivered a round and received a watermelon, but, with Job’s patience, he didn’t give up.
There was clearly a question of “jerarquía” on the field, and the two-time world champions would prevail.
Until goalkeeper Szczesny, who closed the goal, made Messi a penalty, taken by himself and defended by the new Tomaszewski, the monstrous Polish goalkeeper in the 1970s.
Definitely, Messi would not deserve to leave the Cup and still miss a penalty. The stadium gods can’t be that cruel.
Hence, it was fair that Mac Allister, at 47 minutes, hit the crossbar, with the right to scrape the crossbar, to put Argentina in front and Poland in the wheel, because he no longer saw the ball, “pie en pie”.
And that’s how the 2-0 score was built, with a great goal by Alvarez.
All saved. Messi included.
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