Messi explained that the match against Mexico “It was a very difficult match. Mexico plays well, they handle the ball for you, we played the first half with a lot of intensity and we had opportunities”.
“When we calmed down and started to play the ball in the second half, the goal came and it was us again. We had to win to accommodate ourselves”added the Rosario.
Then, the PSG forward referred to the public and stated: “We can’t lower our arms now, we put them like this and we have to continue Now, we have all finals, we can’t make mistakes”.
“We knew what our response should be, we knew how our people were going to respond, our families who suffered so much and all the Argentines who are in Qatar and those who support us at home. We knew we were going to respond like this,” he said.
Regarding the goal and the rumors of an injury to his left ankle, Messi smiled and commented that “So many things were said, I had nothing on my ankle before the game with Arabia and at the last minute of the first game I doubled it. Then I recovered well and today I did well the effort that had to be made “.
Regarding the defeat against the Arabs, Messi pointed out that “the first game cost us a lot, we had to row because there were many conditioning factors, many boys who were playing their first game in a World Cup. We didn’t start as we should have started, we had opportunities, there was the VAR issue and they scored two goals against us in two isolated plays”.
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