Argentina, the defending World Cup champions, were very close to being dethroned -by Egypt, of all teams- in the Round of 16, but came back to get the win. They were down 2-0 in the 79th minute before Cristian Romero scored a goal to get them on the board. Argentina started pressing and eventually, found an equalizer from the greatest to ever do it, Lionel Messi. There were 7 minutes of added time. Would it go to extra time? Would Egypt dethrone the champions? Or would Argentina complete the incredible comeback? They would complete the incredible comeback. Enzo Fernandez found the back of the net and the Argentinians moved on to the quarterfinals to face Switzerland, who won later that day.
This Argentinian team just doesn't quit, and love them or hate them, you've gotta respect it. It sucks that Egypt couldn't finish the job, but what can you do? The thing you DON'T do is blame the refs. And that's just what Egypt did. Yes, the refs took a goal from Egypt, a goal that probably should've counted. But at the end of the day, that goal was not at all the reason Egypt lost. Egypt lost because they couldn't stop the best team in the world even though they had them right where they wanted them. You have to close them out, and they didn't.
So now, Argentina will try to become the 3rd team to win back to back World Cups. Will they do it? We'll see.
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