4hw.com.cn: on June 22, the most important game of the World Cup group match, winning the top Argentina team and losing 3-0 group rivals Croatia. Croatia won two games in a row and came out ahead of schedule. Argentina drew 1 and lost 1. The situation of going out is in danger. After the game, lost, helpless, angry, desperate, mixed feelings, Messi went back to the dressing room alone from the lawn of Nizhny Novgorod stadium with a gloomy face and no words.
In the first half of the match, although Argentina exposed some problems, such as Mascherano's retreat to play in the center, which led to the team losing the connection between attack and defense in the midfield, Croatia did not seize these opportunities, and the two sides ended the first half of the match 0-0.
The turning point of the game was in the 53rd minute. After Argentine defender melcado passed the ball back to goalkeeper cavaliero, leibic was in pursuit. Cavaliero could choose to drive the ball to the front court with big feet, but he chose to carry the shot back to melcado, but the power was not enough. The ball fell down in front of leibic. The opponent did not hesitate to smile, and he raised his legs and volleyed through the door.
One goal behind the opponent, Argentina began to appear a little impatient, especially coach sampoli. In two minutes, Aguero and salvio were replaced by Higuain and Pavin, with the intention of increasing the offensive firepower and trying to score quickly. However, Croatia, who is close to Messi and Higuain, risked being booked, fought fiercely in the middle and front court, which didn't make sampoli do what he wanted.
In the 68th minute, sampoli was replaced by dimila, who played for Juventus. When he used up three positions, he also exposed the problem of backcourt disconnection in Argentina. In the game, Croatia, after many attacks on the sidelines, was in a situation of no one, and in the 80th minute, a world wave from the front edge of Modric's restricted area hit the dead corner, making Argentina, who had already fallen one goal, even worse.
Anxiety began to spread in the hearts of all Argentines -- sampoli took off his coat and began to pace anxiously on the sidelines, shouting at the players from time to time to try to arouse everyone's morale; the players on the field were gradually losing their mind on the offensive side, Otamendi and acunia were booked for malicious fouls; Messi was angry after stumbling over strinici Meanwhile, he quickly climbed up and pushed his opponent's legs away; Maradona, the former coach and king of Argentina, also bited his fingers anxiously; the Argentine fans either hissed loudly or covered their eyes with their hands, as if they didn't know the Argentina team in front of them.
At the stage of injury stoppage and repair, anxiety gradually turns into despair in the hearts of Argentine players. Except for Messi, Higuain and dibala on the front line trying to attack the door again, the players in the middle and back field are no longer actively competing, running back and forth on the field, doing useless defense, and even stop after lachitic kills the ball into the middle of the forbidden area and shoots it out by the goalkeeper 。 Unexpectedly, Croatia didn't give up the attack. Kovachic passed the ball saved by the goalkeeper to lakitic, who was still in the penalty area. The latter shot the ball into the empty goal and locked the score at 3-0.
At the final whistle, Messi left without turning back. After the two games, Argentina, a South American team, scored only one point and was on the verge of going out. Gong Lei, a CCTV commentator, said that if Iceland is tied with Nigeria in another round, Iceland will score more points than Argentina. If Argentina wins Nigeria in the last round, it is also hoped that Croatia will not lose to Iceland.
According to Gong Lei, if Iceland beats Nigeria in another round, then Iceland, who has 4 points, will only have to draw with Croatia in the third round, which has already qualified, and will occupy another qualification right stably. In other words, even if Argentina can erase the disadvantage of the goal, their fate is not in their own hands.
If Nigeria can beat Iceland, even if Argentina beat the African eagles in the final round, it will also depend on Iceland and Croatia. If Iceland beat Croatia, they will be compared with Argentina in terms of goals and other factors, and decide to qualify.