Not even half an hour had passed before the final whistle of Argentina-Saudi Arabia (1-2) and FIFA, on its Twitter account in Spanish, was already wondering: "What was the biggest bump in the history of the World Cup? world?". "Derrumbe", headlined La Nación in Argentina after the disappointing debut of the albiceleste, who even took the lead in the 10th minute and saw how they came back.
Hence, the first thought of Leo Messi, who showed his face, was to ask for unity and calm. "It's been a long time since we've been through a situation like this. We have to be closer than ever to go out. There are two games left”, pointed out the Argentine captain, looking to the future and closing ranks.
The 10th also analyzed the nerves and anxiety that reappeared in the Argentine team as soon as they saw themselves losing on the scoreboard, although there were still many minutes to go. “We lost him in five minutes. We got 2 to 1 down and it was all uphill and we started to mess up, ”he sought explanations.
After the defeat in the premiere, Argentina has lost the streak and is already facing two match-balls to continue in the tournament. The final word is already in everyone's head to refer to the next two games. "What are coming are two finals," Lautaro Martínez predicted ahead of the duels against Mexico, on Saturday, and Poland.
"It's a sad day," confessed Lionel Scaloni. The Argentine coach revealed the status of his players in the locker room. "They are like everyone else, in pain, thinking about the adverse result and already thinking about turning" the situation around, said the coach, who insisted on turning the page as soon as possible. “Losing is never good, especially giving the feeling that the game escapes us with nothing. You don't choose when to lose. Luckily we still have two games ahead of us and we are going to take it out ”, Scaloni predicted.
However, some footballers could not forget so quickly and kept reviewing the defeat. “We could have won 5-0 but we lost”, declared Di María. "We had the fatality of those five minutes and we could not reverse it," blamed Papu Gómez.
“It is clear that we lost the game due to our mistakes, more than anything in the second half. Defeat hurts a lot because we wanted to start the World Cup by winning, it was a great hope”, lamented Lautaro Martínez, scorer of two of the three goals that disallowed Argentina in the first half. "Before we were not the best and now we are not the worst," the Fideo called for a truce, still optimistic.
