Just watching Argentina at this World Cup is a gruelling, emotionally-draining experience. ARG want to end their World Cup drought for Lionel Messi — but their high-strung emotions might doom them, writes OliverKay.
Argentina celebrate and taunt the defeated Dutch players at the end of the shootout
two decades ago. He then walked up to Van Gaal and his assistant Edgar Davids and whispered something that seemed to take them aback.In a television interview at the side of the pitch, Messi would say Van Gaal “sells that he play good football and then he puts forwards in the box and starts throwing long balls forward” — a fair reflection of his tactics in the second half, but an unnecessary dig on a night when the 71-year-old stood down from what could prove to be his final coaching role.
It has often felt chaotic with Argentina at this World Cup — moments of genius from Messi interspersed with spells when it all feels so emotionally overwrought that absolutely anything could happen.It looked like plain sailing at 2-0 up against the Dutch, but then Van Gaal brought a little disorder of his own — sticking on 6ft 2in and Weghorst, all 6ft 6in of him, and putting crosses in, just like Messi said — and it ended up 2-2 .
That sounds more like a description of Croatia, the team they will meet in the semi-finals on Tuesday.
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