Messi was avenged at the World Cup. It’s come to a fight!

The main on the field should be the referee, not the players. Otherwise, the match will no longer resemble football and will look more like a hard felling between the players. So in the match of the ¼ finals of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar between the national teams of Argentina and the Netherlands, the players began to play aggressively. The Spanish referee of the meeting, Mateu Laos, gradually lost control of the situation. The referees lacked perseverance and confidence when talking to the players, and they quickly felt it: the number of fouls and violations began to increase.

And it almost led to a mass brawl!

Revenge for Messi

The decisions of Laos in the interpretation of game moments began to set fire to the players of the Netherlands national team. The Dutch obviously didn’t like the fact that when the game was equal, the referee whistled more often in favor of the Argentines. This was especially evident in the episode with Lionel Messi. In the 55th minute, the Argentine responded to the transfer and rushed into the free zone. However, the pass from a partner turned out to be inaccurate, and it was quickly intercepted by a player from the Netherlands national team. The Dutchman decided to send the ball back towards the Argentine goal with one touch, but Messi interrupted his throw, deliberately playing with his hand.

On the one hand, the legendary football player broke the rules in the center of the field and interrupted the opponent’s unaddressed pass. On the other hand, it’s a handball anyway. Laos, on the other hand, considered the episode not in favor of the “oranges”: he blew a whistle, but did not show a yellow card. The decision, of course, outraged the players of the Netherlands, who after that moment began to go harder at the joints against the opponent when fighting for the ball.

And as it always happens, one team always responds with another rudeness to rudeness. Laos did not react, but continued to let the players play. By the 70th minute, he showed only four yellow cards – two for each team.

A few minutes later, the Spaniard appointed a penalty against the “orange”, which was confidently converted by Messi. After that, even the spectators began to feel a high degree of tension on the field. And the captain of the Argentine national team felt the dissatisfaction of the Dutch.

In the 88th minute, while fighting for the ball in the air, Nathan Ake crashed roughly into Messi’s back. Due to an unexpected collision, the Argentine landed hard on the lawn. However, Laos ignored this episode as well. But the reaction from Messi’s teammates was not long in coming – Leandro Paredes decided to answer for the captain. First, Paredes interrupted the attack of the Dutch in a hard but clean tackle, knocking the ball towards the defender of the Netherlands Ake. For the Argentine, it was a great chance to almost instantly avenge the cap: Leandro flew at speed at the feet of Messi’s offender. And after a hard tackle, he hit the ball towards the opponent’s bench.

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The Dutch players immediately reacted to the daring act of the Argentinean. Literally the entire bench threw itself on Paredes. However, Virgil van Dijk got to him first: the defender rammed Leandro at speed, knocking him down. A second later, the Argentines also joined the brawl, who began to defend their football player.

It seemed that things could come to a mass brawl, but the players pushed around a bit and soon dispersed. Although the Dutch still had claims, however, to the Spanish referee. Laos gave a yellow card to Paredes, but for a foul on Ake, but he ignored the unsportsmanlike behavior of the Argentinean.

As a result, Leandro achieved his goal with little bloodshed – he showed that you can’t play like that against their captain.