The mission entrusted to the football god, save the country in crisis in the second game

[골닷컴] Reporter Park Moon-soo = Football god Lionel Messi leads the hunt for Mexico.

The Argentina national team will face Mexico in the 2nd round of the Group B group stage of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, which will be held at 4 am on the 27th in Korea.

All Argentina needs are 3 points. It shouldn’t be raining. The land is practically cleared.

Even before the tournament, Argentina was scheduled to play in the first round, Mexico and Poland in the second round, and Saudi Arabia in the first round.

When I opened the lid, the results were very different. Argentina’s progress to the round of 16 was not optimistic as they were caught by Saudi Arabia. Mexico and Poland also drew, making Group B an unintentional death group.

The most urgent team among them is Argentina. Saudi Arabia, considered the weakest team in Group B, was captured. We have to play the remaining 2nd and 3rd games with 1 defeat. I risked counting the number of cases while looking at the final result. Above all, already before the tournament, Argentina was a strong candidate for the championship together with Brazil and France.

It is not a step to give up. Once the two remaining games have been won, the passage to the round of 16 is confirmed. If you miss even once, you have to look at the results of the other teams.

Luckily(?) Argentina showed a good performance against Mexico. In the World Cup, they won all three of their head-to-head matches. Also in the 21st century, they met in the round of 16 of the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, and Argentina won both.

Messi also scored three goals against Mexico. Since the 2007 Copa America, he has tasted goals in two friendlies. The last H2H match was in September 2015. Since the World Cup in Russia, he has not participated in all three recent A matches. And during this time, Argentina won 3 matches against Mexico.

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