The quarterfinal duel of the World Cup Qatar 2022 among those selected from the Argentina y Netherlands at the Lusail stadium he was heating up as the minutes passed and near the end of the game, he completely derailed. But the most unheard of thing happened in the middle of the skirmish that broke out between the footballers of both sides and it was regarding of the unusual object that was thrown at an Argentine player and that was recorded in a photograph. It was no longer just a matter of a referee showing yellow cards as you rarely see. The conflict between the two teams had set in and he was getting out of hand.
43 minutes into the second half elapsed and Argentina defeated the Netherlands 2-1. It was a tense moment of the game, and Leandro Paredes came under Nathan Aké. The Spanish referee Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz charged the offense and the Juventus midfielder took the fight with the ball, kicking it squarely into the Dutch substitute bench where several footballers from that team were, but the ball hit the back of a seat that was empty.
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The Argentine midfielder’s attitude angered the Netherlands players, who immediately jumped on Paredes. In addition, Virgil van Dijk attacked him with a push. The one who also linked her was Nahuel Molina, because the right side was close to the action and jumped in defense of his partner. But the striking thing came later: the Atlético Madrid footballer they shot him with a pen who headed from where the European players approached.
It is not yet known who the material author might have been, but it is assumed that the person who threw the pen would have been someone from Louis van Gaal’s coaching staff or even the coach himself. The pen did not hit Molina and following a while of clashes, everything calmed down with the yellow cards that the Spanish judge gave Paredes and Van Dijk. The image corresponds to the official photographer of the Argentine team @tatografias.
It was clearly a very tense match between both teams. Judge Mateu Lahoz did not know how to take the reins and that seemed to shake things up even more. The numbers are impressive: he drew eight yellow cards for the Argentine players – in addition to Paredes, Marcos Acuña, Nicolás Otamendi, Cristian Romero, Lisandro Martínez, Gonzalo Montiel, Germán Pezzella and Lionel Messi – and six for the Dutch, plus one expulsion for Denzel Dumfries for the second warning, applied in the middle of a penalty shootout for having disturbed one of the white-and-blue performers.
Strictly speaking, from the time the game was “stung” until the teams went to the locker room, nothing was the same. The image of the outcome, with Di María, Otamendi, Paredes, Mac Allister, Pezzella and Montiel celebrating in the faces of the opponents in the circle when they began their festive run towards where Dibu and Lautaro Martínez were, was a reflection of the tension that was lived in an unexpectedly spicy quarter-final.
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