The 2022 FIFA World Cup witnessed unarguably the largest upset of the event to this point on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia surprised Argentina 2-1 within the Group C. It was Lionel Messi who opened the scoring within the match however Argentina did not do sufficient to construct on their lead. Early into the second half, Saudi Arabia bagged two wonderful objectives to take the lead and there was no turning again. After the match, a couple of Saudi followers have been additionally seen mocking Messi whereas a reporter was doing a present from exterior the stadium.

The nature of the end result was such that the Saudi King even introduced a vacation within the nation on Wednesday. Plenty of movies of outrageous celebrations in Saudi Arabia have emerged on social media. Here’s one the place a couple of Saudi followers interrupted a reporter reside on digicam and requested “where’s Messi?”

“where’s messi” pic.twitter.com/JYRQXGxesN

— J. (@TotalKroos) November 23, 2022

Speaking after his workforce’s defeat, Messi didn’t give any excuse for the end result however urged that the workforce is not going to surrender simply but.

“It’s a very heavy blow, a defeat that hurts, but we must continue to have confidence in ourselves,” stated Messi, who has by no means received the World Cup.

“This group is not going to give up.”

The second match that came about in Group C noticed Poland and Mexico taking part in out a goalless draw. As factor stand, Saudi Arabia have 3 factors to their identify and are prime of the group whereas Poland and Mexico have one every. Argentina are backside of the group with 0 factors to their identify to this point.

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Messi’s males are subsequent scheduled to face Mexico and Poland. They would wish to win each the matches to be able to be in a strong place to qualify for the knockouts.

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