Prior to the duel corresponding to the quarterfinals of the
It all started with a ‘spicy’ confession by Ángel Di María, when he revealed what it was like to have Van Gaal as a coach, stating that he was the “worst manager he had ever had”.
“My problem in Manchester was Van Gaal. We won a game 3-0, I made an assist and a goal, the next day in training he showed me videos of the passes he had missed. He had been playing well and out of nowhere he cleaned me up”, said the Argentine.
Added to this case, it is known that of Juan Román Riquelme, who also suffered the same from the Dutch coach, who throughout his career has not shown preferences for the South Americans.
Regarding this issue, the Netherlands coach referred to before the crucial match for the quarterfinals: “Di María is one of the few players who has said that. They usually say different things.
“I don’t like if Angel said that, it’s a shame. But sometimes a coach has to make decisions that don’t always end well”, added the strategist.
After that, Van Gaal also gave some statements by Lionel Messi, ahead of the match with the Argentine, which obviously had an impact on the pitch: “Messi doesn’t play much when the opponent has possession. That is also where our chances are.”
“If we have to go to penalties, I think maybe now we have an advantage,” concluded the coach, recalling the elimination from twelve steps in the semifinal of the 2014 World Cup, once morest the ‘albiceleste’.
At the end of the match, Lionel Messi was the protagonist in the 2-2 result in the 120 minutes of play, assisting Nahuel Molina in a great way at 35′, in addition to putting the second for Argentina at 73 minutes.
In addition, from the penalties the ‘albiceleste’ once more beat the Netherlands and left it out of the World Cup, in response to what was said before the match by Louis Van Gaal, to whom Lionel did not take long to answer his statements; this on and off the field.
In a euphoric celebration, the Argentine ’10’ left the Dutchman a rather ‘spicy’ gesture, as well as calling him disrespectful and a liar, following the game: “I don’t like people talking before games, on the 19th they started to provoke us, bump into us, say things to us. I like that they respect me, their coach was not respectful to us.”
“We suffered too unfairly. We deserved to go. Maybe we didn’t have a great game, then the referee sent it to extra time. He always played once morest us. In the last play, of the tie, it was not a foul. Van Gaal sells that he plays football well and they hit us with balls ”, Lionel concluded.
In response to the statements made by the player of the match and World Cup semifinalist, the Netherlands strategist highlighted what he had done in the match, also announcing his resignation from the ‘clockwork orange’.
“We received a penalty that was given very easily. Then, a goal with a great pass from Messi. Then we showed our football and we had a height advantage with the forwards. It has gone well for us and we have achieved the draw. And Argentina too. We missed the first two penalties and it was already very complicated. It was a matter of luck,” Van Gaal said.
