Well-known journalist Roberto Morales still believes in the Argentina national team, despite their defeat by Saudi Arabia (1:2) in the opening match of the 2022 World Cup. In the second round of the World Cup group stage, the Argentines will face Mexico.
“Argentina went to Qatar as one of the main favorites of the tournament, but in fact “burned out” to Saudi Arabia, 1:2. Of course, this is far from being a cross on her expectations. In 1990, the then reigning world champions started with a loss to Cameroon and reached the final.
There was an impression that in the opening match Messi and the company were only physically enough for a little more than one half. During this time, they scored four goals, but three of them were rightly not counted, and then the Saudis took their toll on endurance and one hundred percent acclimatization.
As for Argentina's next opponent, Mexico looked somewhat contraversive in the match against Poland (0:0). She could have lost if Robert Lewandowski had converted a penalty, but in terms of the content of team actions, the Latin Americans were in no way inferior to the opponent.
Argentina vs Mexico has quite a rich history of matches. They have a complete advantage for the "albi-celeste": 16 wins, 14 draws and 5 losses. At the world championships, these teams faced each other three times, and each time Argentina came out the winner. The most memorable was the 2006 playoffs and Maxi Rodriguez's extra-time miracle-winning goal,” Morales said.