According to Tasnim news agency, on the third day of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, starting at 13:30 today (Tuesday – Tehran time), the national football teams of Argentina and Saudi Arabia from Group C met each other. This game, which was held at Lucille Stadium in Al-Ryan city, ended up with a 2-1 victory for the students of Air Renard Red of the Saudi national team.
In this game, which was the fifth game of the Qatar World Cup; First, Lionel Messi scored for Albi Celeste from the penalty spot in the 10th minute. Saudi Arabia, which was completely transformed in the second half, scored a goal in the 48th minute and Salem Al-Dosari in the 53rd minute and won a valuable victory. In this way, Lionel Scaloni’s students finally tasted defeat after 36 games without defeat in various competitions.
With this goal, Messi became Argentina’s second-oldest scorer in World Cup history (at 35 years and 151 days old, after Martín Palermo, who scored against Greece at the age of 36 years and 227 days in the 2010 World Cup).
In this match, Lionel Messi scored in the 22nd minute and Lautaro Martinez scored in the 27th minute, which was disallowed by the referee using video assistant referee (VAR) technology. Lautaro also scored in the 35th minute, but the referee was offside and declared the goal rejected.
At the end of the game, Saudi defender Yaser al-Shahrani was seriously injured in a collision with the home goalkeeper and left the game. The Saudis had a forced substitution in the first half.
After the 7-minute extra time in the first half, the second half also had 14 minutes of extra time so that this game will have a lot of wasted time like the match between England and Iran.
FIFA President Johnny Infantino was present at the stadium and watched the game closely.
Argentina will visit Mexico in its next match on December 5th. Eroy Renard’s students will play their next match against Poland on December 5th.