Argentina In The Semi-finals Of The FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar

Argentina in the semi-finals by defeating the Netherlands in the quarterfinal: Fifa World Cup 2022.

In the second quarter-final of the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Qatar, Lionel Messi-led Argentina defeated the Netherlands on Friday night to make it to the semi-finals.

Both the teams had scored 2-2 goals in the stipulated time, so the match reached extra time. With no goals scored in extra time, the match was decided by a penalty shootout, where Argentina won 4–3.

Lionel Messi played an important role in Argentina’s victory, he not only scored a goal for the team full-time but also in the penalty shootout.

There was also an incident in the match in which the manager of the Netherlands expressed his displeasure. There has been a ruckus on social media too on this incident related to Messi.

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In the 55th minute of the second half of the Argentina-Netherlands match, football was caught by Lionel Messi.

However, the match referee did not give a yellow card to Messi for deliberately not doing so.

At this time Argentina was leading 1-0 in the match. Netherlands manager Louis Van Gaal looked angry for not showing the card to the Argentine captain.

Louis Van was also angry with Messi being given a penalty in the first half of the match. After the match, he said that I want to see the penalty call back.

Video of ‘Hand of God’ moment going viral.

The video of the ‘Hand of God’ moment of the Argentina-Netherlands match is going viral on social media. Some users trolled the match referee for giving the decision in favor of Argentina.

One user said, I understand, this is Messi’s last World Cup, but he needs to be treated equally, this referee seems one-sided.

Another user wrote, Messi deliberately stopped the ball with his hand. He was not given a yellow card, it is wrong.

One user even said that Argentina did not win the match by playing, but the referee gifted it the semi-final.

Some users are also comparing it with the ‘Hand of God’ goal of Argentine great footballer Diego Maradona.