A chant has been doing the rounds among Saudi Arabia supporters 바카라” and even some from Brazil 바카라” in the fan parks and streets of Doha at the FIFA World Cup 2022. (More Football News)
바카라śWhere is Messi? We broke his eye!바카라ť they sing in Arabic, using a slang expression meaning to bring shame on a person.
Lionel Messi and his Argentina team are being mocked after a humbling 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia that has left their presence at the tournament in big 바카라” and completely unforeseen 바카라” danger.
Argentina needs to immediately bounce back against Mexico on Saturday, otherwise an embarrassing early exit awaits. 바카라śWe always said we were going to look to win every game,바카라ť Lionel Messi said, 바카라śand now more than ever.바카라ť
A compatriot 바카라” indeed the team바카라™s former coach 바카라” could mastermind the fatal blow to Argentina.
Gerardo Martino led his native Argentina from 2014-16, losing the Copa America final in back-to-back years in that time before quitting.
Now Martino is Mexico바카라™s coach and looking to guide the team into the last 16 바카라” perhaps at the expense of Argentina 바카라” and beyond. After all, Mexico has famously lost its first match of the knockout stage in each of the last seven World Cups, twice to Argentina, in 2006 and 2010.
This time, the teams바카라™ meeting comes in the group stage but it already has the feel of a do-or-die occasion just seven days into the tournament.
Especially for Argentina.
바카라śI don바카라™t think the result they had (against Saudi Arabia) changes their way of playing,바카라ť said Martino, whose team tied its opening Group C game with Poland 1-1.
With Argentina, something has to change, that바카라™s for sure. This is Lionel Scaloni바카라™s first crisis as Argentina coach 바카라” he hadn바카라™t lost a game before the Saudis바카라™ rally at Lusail Stadium on Tuesday 바카라” and it remains to be seen how he reacts. Will he give the same players a chance to make amends? Or did he see enough bad things in the opening group game to necessitate some changes to his lineup?
Center back Cristian Romero, full backs Nahuel Molina and Nicolás Tagliafico, and midfielders Rodrigo De Paul and Leandro Paredes seem most at risk. Of course, Messi is going nowhere from the starting lineup, even if he could be deployed differently.
바카라śThere is no other choice but to get up and move on,바카라ť Scaloni said. 바카라śWe continue to think in the same way. Before the game (against Saudi Arabia), they made us favorites, but in a World Cup these things can happen. You have to work on the aspects that didn바카라™t go well.바카라ť
Mexico has never beaten Argentina in three attempts at the World Cup, and Martino바카라™s worst defeat as Mexico coach was at the hands of his countrymen. That was in September 2019, when Lautaro MartĂnez scored a hat trick in a 4-0 win.
Argentina will take a win of any kind on Saturday back at Lusail Stadium, where the World Cup final will also be played on Dec. 18. It would be folly for either team to be looking that far ahead.
