The Argentina team gave everything on the field and left it with a place in the semi-finals, after leading 0:2, saw the Netherlands come back to 2:2 and win on penalties. At the end, Leo Messi and Ameliano Martinez concluded.
Leo Messiwho scored, scored and scored the first penalty, said: “We suffered too much, but this is the quarter-finals of the World Cup. We shouldn’t have gone to extra time. Much relief, we suffered too much along the way, but the main thing is the journey itself. The journey is the most beautiful thing. I don’t want Talk about the judge, because you are being punished. Despite this, the judge did not rise to the level of the class.”
Towards the end, Leo Messi scolded Holland coach Louis van Gaal and told him that “you look stupid”, later his assistant Edgar Davids separated the two. Later, the flea admitted that “Van Gaal said they play good football, but they brought in tall players and sent long balls”.
Emiliano Martinez, the hero of the penalties, added: “I could have saved more than two penalties. We are in the semi-finals because we have passion and heart, we are excited like fans. We play for 45 million people. Making them enjoy like this is the greatest thing there is, we are motivated by emotion” , Martinez added. “We had the worst referee in the World Cup by far.”
The Argentinian media continued in the same atmosphere: “We suffered, we suffered a lot, but we must go to the next level,” it was written in “tyc” The Argentinian. “Emiliano Martinez saved the team after a disappointing draw, we almost lost hope but Martinez saved us with penalties.”