The Anglo-German battle has become the talk of fans around the world, and the match between Argentina and Mexico, the favorites to win the championship, is just around the corner.

Previously, the two sides had met 25 times before, and Argentina had an obvious advantage of 11 wins, 10 draws and 4 losses, especially in the last 4 meetings!

The two sides met twice in the World Cup finals, and in 1930, Argentina defeated Mexico 6-3 in the group stage; In 2006, Argentina eliminated Mexico in extra time in the quarterfinals.

Ball king Maradona returned to the starting line-up, and Mexico also made three changes in the starting line-up.

At half past eight o'clock in the evening of the 27th, at the Football City Stadium in Johannesburg, the match between Argentina and Mexico officially began!

Johannesburg's Soccer City Stadium is arguably the heart of the powerhouses, with the Netherlands beating Denmark by five goals, Argentina beating South Korea by three goals, Germany topping the group by a narrow one-goal win over Ghana in the final game and Brazil beating Ivory Coast 3-1 here.

Both sides looked cautious from the start of the game, and it wasn't until the sixth minute that Mexico's Hernandez opened the attack with a long-range shot.

In the eighth minute, Mexico made a comeback, midfielder Guardado made a pass in the heart of the opponent's hinterland, Salcido took the ball on the left side and shook off the defense and shot from a distance!

Football flies to the Argentine goal!

In an instant, the football flew past the fingertips of Argentine goalkeeper Romero!

The air in the stadium is getting tense!

"Pong! ……”

With a bang, the ball hit the crossbar and flew off the line, and Mexico missed a golden opportunity to open the scoring.

The goal sparked momentum for Mexico, who continued to shoot back in quick succession over the next four minutes to put pressure on the Argentine goal.

After holding off a wave of Mexican onslaught, Argentina steadied themselves and began to counterattack.

In the twelfth minute, Messi's hanging shot from 20 meters from the goal was saved by Oscar Perez and confiscated!

A minute later, Di Maria's shot from in front of the box was deflected wide by Burdisso.

In the 26th minute, Messi made a direct pass in front of the penalty area, and the football flew to the Mexican penalty area.

Mexican goalkeeper Oscar Perez struck in time to save the ball from Tevez's feet!

The football rolled towards the outside of the penalty area, Messi reacted very quickly, took two steps forward and directly picked up a pass!

Tevez's header in an obviously offside position is a little bit!

The ball is in!

It was an obvious offside goal, but the referee signalled that the goal was valid, and the Mexican players were very unhappy and immediately appealed.

However, the referee firmly believed that the goal was valid!

ESPN's commentator sarcastically said: "The South Africa World Cup has become a stage for referees, they dominate the game again and again, such an obvious offside goal, they even think this goal is valid!" ”

Argentina took the lead by a goal in a referee's misjudgment, which made the Mexican players very unhappy and also made their mentality unbalanced.

Argentina came back seven minutes later, and the attack was eventually defended by Mexico, but Mexican defender Osorio made a big mistake.

His pass was tackled by Higuain halfway due to a line problem!

After the Real Madrid star got the ball, he went directly into the Mexican penalty area, and in the face of the Mexican goalkeeper Oscar Perez who abandoned the goal, Higuain made a false move, and then hit an empty goal!

Two to zero!

With a two-goal lead, Argentina was even more imposing, and they rushed to the Mexican defense again and again, and Mexican goalkeeper Oscar Pérez resisted the opponent's offensive again and again.

Argentina went into the second half with a two-goal lead.

In the seventh minute of the second half, Argentina attacked Mexico again, Tevez passed the ball to Higuain in the box on the right side of the box, and the ball was blocked by the Mexican defender.

Tevez took two steps forward and shot straight away!

The ball arced in the air and flew past the fingertips of Mexican goalkeeper Oscar Pérez and drilled into the top right corner of the goal!

It's a world wave!

Three to zero!

Argentina seal the win!

For such a wonderful goal, Maradona, the king of the ball standing in the command area, shouted: "Kneel and lick!" ”

This sentence was spread by the media after the game and became another evidence of the domineering of the football king!

With a big lead, Maradona commanded his team to control the pace of the game, and Mexico had a decent attack.

In the 26th minute of the second half, Mexico attacked, and Torrado made a diagonal pass in the heart of the opponent.

The football flies to the left side of the Argentine penalty area!

Mexican veteran Hernandez turned away from Demichelis and fired a powerful shot from 12 meters from goal!

The soccer ball flies to the near corner!

Argentine goalkeeper Romero couldn't make a save, and the football drilled into the net!

One to three!

Mexico scored a face-saving goal!

Argentina never gave Mexico a chance to score again, maintaining a two-goal lead until the end of the game!

Three to one!

Argentina defeated Mexico bloodlessly and advanced to the quarterfinals!

After the match, players from both sides got into a verbal altercation and even clashed in the players' tunnel......

Mexico are clearly full of opinions about this game, and if it wasn't for the referee's misjudgment, then they would not have conceded the first goal and would not have been on the back foot early.

Mexico's "Reforma" newspaper said angrily: The Mexican players were so angry that they surrounded the referee to ask for an explanation.

'It was an illegal goal, it was a blatant mistake!' The Mexican players shouted.

There may have been some kind of shady deal between Argentina and Italy, as it was Argentina's referee Elizondo who sent Zinedine Zidane off in the final at the 2006 World Cup.

It is worth mentioning that at that time, Elizondo made the decision based on the replay of the big screen in the stadium, and now, Rossetti refuses to make a judgment based on the replay of the big screen in the stadium!

The Spanish newspaper ABC even ran the exaggerated headline "Maradona controls FIFA".

"Our reporter sent back from the scene that referee Rossetti disintegrated Mexico with an offside goal, and after conceding this goal, Aguirre's disciple lost his composure and eventually lost the game.

Something strange has happened in this World Cup, Maradona has gone from being banished by FIFA to being the darling of FIFA, he has almost become the master of FIFA, with great control power.

Maradona could not comply with FIFA's rules when it came to holding a press conference, and FIFA was also deaf and dumb about it.

In every game, Maradona often jumped out of the coach's command zone to command, but the fourth official also kept a blind eye.

Now, Argentina scored an offside goal, and referee Rossetti still pointed to the deer and declared the goal valid, but the Mexican still can't get out of the trap set by FIFA. ”

Argentina won, much to the displeasure of the British media, with the Guardian targeting Messi.

"After another 90 minutes, Messi still can't get a goal, he has only scored one goal for Argentina in the last 457 days, such a person also deserves to compete for the number one player in the world?

Look no further than Chen, who also played in his first World Cup, scoring twice on his World Cup debut! Kicked off his World Cup journey with the fastest World Cup goal in history!

Not only that, but he scored a hat-trick in the second match against Japan!

Let's not talk about Chen, let's talk about Messi's biggest rival in La Liga, Ronaldo, Ronaldo's performance in the group stage is also very average, but he has goals.

Messi, where are your goals?

Maradona said that Messi was just a little bit of luck away from scoring, is that really the case?

Why is Messi able to call for wind and rain in Barcelona and no luck when he returns to Argentina? Coming to the stage of the World Cup without form?

This only shows that the Argentine star was not born for big scenes!

Argentina is in the quarter-finals, Messi, your supporters are still waiting for your first World Cup goal, when are you going to make them wait?

Wait until the next World Cup in Brazil? ”[.]