Despite his team’s qualification against the Netherlands, the Argentine number 10 had harsh words regarding Spanish referee Miguel Mateu Lahoz.
Joy but also anger. Leaving the Losail stadium on Friday evening, Lionel Messi was torn between the drunkenness of qualifying for the semi-finals of the World Cup after a victory against the Netherlands and the frustration of having been refereed , according to him, by an incompetent man in black. “We can’t put a referee like that for a match of this magnitude,” lambasted Lionel Messi after Argentina’s victory over the Netherlands (2-2, 4 t.a. b. to 3) in the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup.
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“I think Fifa should take care of this“, urged Messi at the microphone of beIN Sports, after a meeting marked by 14 warnings (6 yellow cards against the Dutch and 8 against the Argentines) and several early fights. “The referee cannot fail“, stormed the Argentine strategist. “We suffered what we had to suffer but we got there and that’s the best part“, he commented on the victory to the snatch of his family.
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An opinion shared by Emiliano Martinez, the goalkeeper of the South American team: “As this referee is crazy, arrogant… You say something to him, he talks badly to you. He gave ten minutes of additional time, he wanted us to concede the equalizer. Honestly he is the worst referee in the World Cup by far“Explained the doorman of Albiceleste.
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