Argentina In Final

 

In the first game of the semi-finals of the World Cup in Qatar, ARGENTINA played CROATIA. Both teams had to go to penalties in their quarter-final games.

The game started with both teams on equal terms with their attacks and defence until the Croatian goalkeeper Livakovic takes out Alvarez in the penalty area and the ref gives a penalty. Messi is the man for the job and in it goes in the 34^th minute. That is Messi’s 5^th goal of the tournament. It was not long after that Argentina scored their second in the 39^th minute by Alvarez. Argentina nearly had a third but what a fantastic save by Croatia’s goalkeeper Livakovic. Argentina lead at half time 2-0 and they have now scored in all of their seven games. Argentina was very much in control in the second half as Croatia struggled to get any decent moves going. In the 69^th minute Alvarez scored his second goal and it’s all going wrong for Croatia. Argentina made some substitutions in the second half but they could not extend their score line. Croatia played well in the last few minutes before full time. Argentina won 3-0 with their biggest result of the tournament and they are in the final. They are now on a total of 12 goals. It’s not yet over for Croatia as they will play in the 3^rd/4^th play-offs on Saturday.