Just days after Argentine celebrity Lionel Messi stated that Spanish referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz mustn’t have officiated Argentina’s tempestuous shootout victory over the Netherlands within the World Cup quarter-finals at Lusail Stadium, experiences recommend that Lahoz has been despatched residence from Qatar and that he won’t officiate in any of the remaining 4 matches of the match. A report in the Mirror states that after a number of complaints emerged towards the referee, it has been determined that he will not take any additional half within the match.

After they received the draw I felt lots of anger,” said Messi. “I do not wish to speak in regards to the referee, as a result of they instantly reprimand you or sanction you, however I feel folks noticed what occurred.

“FIFA has to review that, it can’t give a referee like that a match of this importance, when they’re not up to the task.”

He added: “We didn’t have a great game, and then the referee sent it to extra time. He was always against us. In the last play, it was not a foul.”

Mateu Lahoz confirmed 16 yellow playing cards in whole, with Netherlands wing-back Denzel Dumfries despatched off after the penalty shootout for a second reserving.

Messi had scored his fourth purpose of the match from the spot within the 73rd minute after an earlier help for Nahuel Molina’s opener.

Goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez was the hero, saving the Netherlands’ first two penalties earlier than Lautaro Martinez struck the profitable kick.

“We didn’t want extra time or penalties,” stated Messi. “We suffered too much because of how everything happened, but it is the quarter-finals of a World Cup.

“We knew methods to undergo when it was our flip, however we received by way of to the semi-finals. It’s lovely, one thing spectacular.”

(With AFP inputs)

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