World Cup is on in its full glory and we already have two semifinalists already. Brazil and Netherlands will end their World Cup campaign in the quarterfinals as they fail to do better than Croatia and Argentina, respectively.

Argentina was ahead by 2-0 till the 83rd minute, but a goal then and a goal in the 90+11th minute assured that the game will go for a penalty shootout. There were heated moments during the game, which resulted in very cold words by Lionel Messi in the post-match conference.

Argentina’s Nahuel Molina opened the goal tally in the 35th minute, giving Messi a record-breaking assist. Lionel Messi now has the most assists ever in World cup knockout stages, this was his 5th assist and he surpassed Pele.

In the 73rd minute, Messi got a penalty, and he put the ball in the post effortlessly, breaking another record in the process. Messi now is the leading goal-scorer for Argentina. The Netherlands crawled their way back to the game and managed to get it to 2-2.

Cold Words by Lionel Messi to the Netherlands camp

This match was very close, and the pressure was very clear as players got into a fight and the bench joined. this match had a total of 14 yellow cards and a red card. Denzel Dumfries from the Netherlands got the red card in the 128th minute of the game.

Argentinian goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez became the hero of the match after saving 2 shots from the Netherlands during the shootout. Messi had some harsh words for Duch camp after the match was over.

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Lionel Messi said, “What are you looking at, stupid” to Netherlands’ striker Wout Weghorst during a post-match presentation.

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Fans have mixed reactions, but mostly they are saying that Wout did something to entice Messi. We know Messi for being a calm player, but today the pressure got the best of him.

Semifinals of FIFA 2022

We have got 2 of our semifinalists already and we will get 2 today. Argentina will be playing against Croatia, who must be feeling good about themselves after beating Brazil. Today, in the quarterfinals, Portugal will face Morocco and England will face France.

While England vs France will be a close match, Morocco has surprised everybody this year, and Portugal has to be a little careful. Who will win and who will go home, predict the remaining two semifinalists in the comments below.

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