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Argentina was a giant created by Media based on past laurels
It was a star-studded dark day yesterday😉
It's time to move on, they will bounce back after this, I believe. Had hard luck on the field yesterday but it's better to taste such defeat in the early stages of the tournament than later, this should prepare them for the worse in the upcoming fixtures.
Vamos, Argentina!!
It's just one match....they will come back with a bang
Giant killers are often marvelled at the sporting arena. They make sports worth playing as well as worth watching.
It amounts to a lingering feeling that everything is possible in sports, and there are always unknowns to the exorcised to carry the day. Your might and talent alone won't always serve you right.
Messi’s mighty team went down to Saudi Arabia in their opening World Cup match at Qatar. Star-studded Argentina were last defeated by mighty Brazil three years ago on June 15, 2019.
Before they pulled off an unexpected victory, Saudi Arabia, ranked 51st in the world, hardly looked like they owned their pride of place in the global pecking order of footballing nations.
Then November 22, 2022 was a different day. What all didn’t happen? Messi had missed an unforgivable sitter, scored an early penalty, Argentina had three goals disallowed - one for him and two for Lautaro Martinez - for offside inside the first 35 minutes of the game alone.
The Saudis should have been packing by half-time.
Instead, they came back determined, almost possessed and scored two stunning goals. Well, sorcery? Who cares? But context makes giant killing fascinatingly alluring. Argentina are in their 18th World Cup, their 13th in a row. They’ve lifted it twice, in 1978 and 1986.
Since 1966, three of the 10 instances of a team failing to have a shot in the first half of a World Cup game have been Saudi Arabia. Argentina might have believed that they only had to show up to win and pocket three points. Then, the show must go on. What’s a show without giant killers?