Goals and Highlights: Argentina 2-1 Australia in FIFA World Cup 2022

Martinez saves Argentina's goal, it was almost going to be Garang Kuol's goal. The match is over and Argentina qualifies to the quarterfinals, they will play against the Netherlands. 
Australia came close to sending this to overtime.

Lautaro misses again and Messi cannot finish the rebound that goes wide.  

Again Lautaro Martinez misses, the goalkeeper Ryan covers, Messi assisted the bull and missed it. Seconds later Lionel's shot goes wide. 

Seven more minutes are added to the game and Australia is looking for a miracle to tie the game. 

Lautaro Martinez misses it, misses the pass Messi gives him and was close to the third of the night. That would give Argentina the calm. 

Lautaro misses the goal, shooting across and wide of Ryan's goal.

5 minutes left in the game, Australia tightens in these final minutes, it remains to be seen how much is added in the match.

The second was almost there!
Australia almost scored the second, but the Argentinean defense cleared the ball, we are close to the 85th minute.

Australia's goal!
Goodwin scores the goal that makes the Australians dream, although the shot bounces off Fernandez, the goal goes to Craig.

Julián Álvarez comes off for Lautaro Martínez, Acuña drops out for Tagliafico. Apart from that, Australia makes changes in its eleven.  

This is how Julián Álvarez scored the goal that gave Argentina the victory, the spider took advantage of Ryan's mistake. 

TWO FOR ARGENTINA 🇦🇷

Julián Álvarez adds on to the lead 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Ugvb3OMZwX

— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) December 3, 2022

We are approaching the 65th minute, Argentina is dominating the game and taking possession of the ball, Australia is looking for space and Messi drives the ball but gets a corner kick.

Argentina's second goal!

GOOOOOOOOOOLLLL

Julián Álvarez scores the second goal of the night. Taking advantage of goalkeeper Ryan's mistake, De Paul pressured him, but the spider takes advantage of the mistake and scores the goal.

It was a close call!
What a mistake the Argentines were about to make, Martinez had to clear the ball because striker Mitch Duque was coming. 

Gomez leaves and Lisandro Martínez enters, seconds later Messi appears again and his shot is very weak in Ryan's hands. 

In his 1000th game Messi has scored 789 career goals, a historic mark for the Argentina national team ten. 

We go to the break, Argentina wins for the moment in this first half, with Lionel Messi's goal they go up.

We are close to halftime, Argentina is winning with Messi's goal at 35, two minutes are added and the match will end.

Messi scored the first of the night. Two minutes before halftime, Argentina wins it. 

MESSI MAGIC ✨🇦🇷

That's the first knockout stage goal in Messi's FIFA World Cup career pic.twitter.com/wyzfdVfby3

— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) December 3, 2022

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!

Messi finds space near the six-yard box, Lionel sends it into the back of the net, goalkeeper Ryan can't stop it.

Australia gets a free kick, Mooy's cross goes wide, it goes to Molina for a throw-in, Argentina recovers the ball.

Argentina has made a mistake in the ball out, Australia recovers the ball in the albiceleste's territory. They get a corner kick that ends up near Martinez's goal.

Possession of the ball for the Australians, playing in their defensive half, the Albiceleste waiting for a mistake to steal the ball from them.

Papu Gómez hits it from long distance, but it goes just wide of Ryan's post.
 

Julián Álvarez was getting close in the box, but the Australian defense clears the ball and Argentina gets back on the ball.  

Australia recovers the ball at times, but the Argentines play on the side of Gomez and Acuna. 

Argentina dominates the ball position, the closest was a dangerous play by Papu Gomez that hit the defender's body.  

The ball is rolling at Ahmad bin Ali Stadium

Both teams take the field, minutes before the anthems of Argentina and Australia are played.

Ryan, Degenek, Rowles, Souttar, Behich, Baccus, Mooy, Irvine, Leckie, Duke and Mcgree.

Martinez, Molina, Romero, Otamendi, Acuña, De Paul, Fernandez, Mac Allister, Messi, Gómez and Alvarez.

For this game, the referee will be Poland's Szymon Marciniak, along with his teammates from Poland, Pawel Sokolnicki, Tomasz Listkiewicz and Mario Escobar from Guatemala.

The VAR will be manned by Marco Frtiz of Germany, Alessandro Giallatini of Italy and Frenchman Benoit Millot.

Both teams are already doing stretching exercises, prior to the start of the game between Argentina and Australia in the round of 16 at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium

For Mathew Leckie the player of the moment for this Australian team, he believes that this team has shown something important more for people who did not believe in them.

"A lot of people didn't expect us to be in the World Cup, probably thought we didn't have a chance of getting out of the group, we keep proving people wrong and believe within the group and anything can happen."

"The belief is that it's a 90-minute game, maybe 120 is a knockout game, you know I think like I said nobody expected us to be here, you know we throw everything at them, there is no pressure on us, we just need to enjoy the moment, nobody expects us to win, so we are going to surprise the world."

Rodrigo De Paul believes that the match against Australia will be the same as the one against Poland, and that there are no excuses for losing.

"Australia we have already seen enough, we have seen videos, in a short time from one match to another, it will be a similar match against Poland, they will give us the ball, it will be a great match for the midfield upwards".

"It is an atypical case, only Thursday and Friday to rest, we are fine, we are used to playing often, tomorrow there are no excuses, the team must go out as it has been doing".

The Socceroos fans have already arrived at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, waiting for their national team to warm up. 

The two teams have already arrived at the stadium, just minutes away from warming up, after which the action will begin at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium.

Everything is ready for the arrival of the players of both teams, the dressing rooms are already complete with all the players' accessories.

We are just minutes away from the start of this game between Argentina vs Australia, from the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, corresponding to the round of 16. In a few moments we will share with you the line-ups of the teams, with many surprises on both sides.

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This is the start time of the game Argentina vs Australia of December 3 2022 in several countries:

Argentina: 16 hours in DIRECTV Sports App y TyC Sports Play.

 

Bolivia: 15 hours in Tigo Sports Bolivia.

 

Brazil: 16 hours in NOW NET e Claro y GloboEsporte.com

 

Chile: 16 hours in DIRECTV Sports App, y DIRECTV Sports Chile.

 

Colombia: 14 hours in DIRECTV Sports App y DIRECTV Sports Colombia.

 

Ecuador: 14 hours in CNT Play y DIRECTV Sports Ecuador.

 

Spain: 19:00 hours in Gol Mundial.

 

USA: 14 hours in Telemundo Deportes y FOX Sports App.

 

Mexico: 13 hours in TUDN, Azteca 7, Canal 5 Televisa, Blue To Go Video Everywhere y VIX+.

 

Paraguay: 16 hours in Tigo Sports Paraguay.

 

Peru: 14 hours in DIRECTV Sports App, y DIRECTV Sports Peru.

 

Uruguay: 16 hours in DIRECTV Sports Uruguay, DIRECTV Sports App, MCGo Live y Antel TV.

 

Venezuela: 15 hours in DIRECTV Sports App, DIRECTV Sports Venezuela y Televen.

The Argentines have faced the Australians on different occasions, from international friendlies, confederations cup and replay matches in 1993.

Their last meeting was in 2007, with a goal by Martin Demichelis. In 2005 in the confederations cup Argentina won with four goals to two.

Australia has only beaten Argentina in 1998, by four goals to one in a friendly match.  

Mathew Leckie, the Melbourne City striker was the scorer who gave Australia the qualification, with his goal against Denmark, and he also has an assist against France. With 7 games in his club, the winger has made two assists and a goal with Melbourne. 

Lionel Andrés Messi is one of the players who is in the eye of the hurricane, for being in this instance of getting the World Cup with Argentina, being his last World Cup, but in this season in Ligue 1 he has scored more assists than goals, with 10 assists and 7 games. In the Champions League in 5 games he has scored 4 goals and 4 assists.

In the cup games he has only had a minuscule participation, with 1 goal, being 12 goals and 14 assists in more than 1,657 minutes.

The ten has scored two goals in three World Cup games, with one assist against Mexico. Messi came close to scoring his third goal, but missed the penalty against Poland.

Matthew Ryan, Milos Degenek, Harry Souttar, Kye Rowles, Aziz Behich, Mathew Leckie, Jackson Irvine, Aaron Mooy, Craig Goodwin, Mitch Duke and Riley McGree.

Emiliano Martínez, Marcos Acuña, Cristian Romero, Nicolás Otamendi, Nahuel Molina, Rodrigo de Paul, Alexis Mac Allister, Enzo Fernández, Julián Álvarez, Lionel Messi and Ángel Di María. 

They were out, but the Argentines got into the round of 16 again, suffering the well-known Scaloneta, they got through the group stage after starting with a stumble against Arabia, with two victories they got the six points.

With Mexico they won by two goals, as well as against Poland being their last test, where they were obliged to win and seal their pass.

The scorer of the moment of this Albiceleste team has been Lionel Messi with two goals, but the ten comes to this meeting with a missed penalty against goalkeeper Tomasz Szczęsny, which could have given Messi his third goal in a World Cup.

The Argentine national team will seek to break its negative streak of the last World Cup in Russia 2018, with that elimination against France, the Argentines want to reach again a final since Brazil 2014 have not achieved it and being in 1986 the last time they were champions.

But before the forecasts that place Argentina as a candidate to take the World Cup, coach Lionel Scaloni extinguishes the illusions, being clear that nothing is won yet.

"We played a good game and we have to continue. We are not candidates for anything, we are a difficult team that will fight. It's not right to think that by winning today we will be champions".

In addition, captain Lionel Messi clarified that the match against Austria will not be easy, they will try to prepare in the best way, thinking that they must go game by game.

"The match against Australia will be very difficult. Anyone can beat anyone, everything is very even. We have to prepare the match in the best way as we always do. We have to take it one game at a time, now another World Cup is starting.

The Australians come to this match after a defeat against France, in their first game the French beat Australia by four goals to one, but in the second game a victory against Tunisia gave them hope to qualify, in the last game against Denmark they won their ticket to the round of 16 with a goal by Mathew Leckie.

But before this surprise, the Australians were close to being out of the World Cup, because of that play-off against Peru, which was resolved on penalties and today Australia can celebrate this great feat.

Midfielder Riley McGree spoke to the media after giving that pass to goal Leckie, the Australian considers himself ready for the next game and is very happy for the achievement to reach the round of 16.

"We are very proud to achieve this, to be Australian and we really appreciate the support from the fans. We're ready to face the next game, we'll go out there with the same belief in ourselves and see what happens."

The Socceroos had not advanced to the round of 16 since the 2006 World Cup in Germany, in 2010, 2014 and 2018 they crashed out in the first round. This feat in Qatar 2022 will be repeated again by being second in their group D.

The Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, the venue for this round of 16 between Argentina and Australia, located in Rayan Qatar, has a capacity of 45 thousand spectators, it was opened in 2003, but was remodeled between 2016 and 2020. It is also the home of the Al-Rayyan club and the Qatar national team.

It has witnessed different competitions, club world cup, Arab cups and the current world cup.

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