Revealed on 8 Dec 2022 10:37 am (United kingdom Time)
Netherland’s captain Virgil Van Djik has showered praise on Argentinian celebrity Lionel Messi who has performed a major position in aiding La Albiceleste reach the quarterfinals even so the 31-calendar year-old statements that they are not apprehensive about actively playing towards him in the impending quarter-ultimate match.
The Dutch have been the initially group to e book a quarter-ultimate location as they cruised earlier Usa in the spherical of 16. Targets from Memphis Depay, Daley Blind and Denzel Dumfries assisted the Dutch sign-up a 3-1 earn towards Usa.
In the meantime, La Albiceleste experienced sealed a quarter-closing location by beating Australia 2-1. Objectives from Lionel Messi and Julian Alvarez created all the big difference for the South American giants.
Lionel Messi who is earning his 5th and last globe cup visual appearance has bagged 3 aims and 1 assist in 4 matches for the South American huge. The 7-time Ballon’D’Or winner will be eager to raise the entire world cup with his nation even so they will deal with herculean worries ahead.
Van Dijk has lauded the Paris Saint-Germain attacker ahead of their clash on Friday (through metro) but statements his side is not fearful about him.
He also reiterates that the Netherlands will choose on Argentina and not only Lionel Messi.
“He’s just one of the ideal players of all time, obviously. He has finished it for so a lot of several years,’ the Liverpool defender mentioned of the PSG talisman.
‘I would say he and Cristiano Ronaldo have been the standout players of the previous two decades. There is only respect toward what they have obtained but, for us now, it is not a circumstance of planning just to confront him.
‘We are preparing to defeat Argentina. Certainly, we know how large a component of their success he has been about the years but it’s not about me, or the Netherlands, in opposition to Messi, it’s about the Netherlands from Argentina.
‘[We’re not] fearful no, but cautious of what Argentina can carry to the video game. They are a excellent crew with superb gamers, and we are heading to have to do perfectly in all departments of the match”.
How have both of those the teams faired in their previous encounters?
The two teams satisfied just about every other 5 moments in the Globe Cup remaining the most noteworthy match was in 1978 when La Albiceleste defeat the Dutch by slotting 3 aims previous them. The last scoreline was 3-1 which noticed Argentina lift the entire world cup in 1978.
Their the latest assembly was in the 2014 semi-final in which the South American giants booked a finals location by beating the dutch in a penalty shootout. Virgil Van Dijk insists that his group is ready if the match goes once more to a penalty shootout.
“It does not assurance in a recreation, exactly where you perform in a entire stadium with 80,000 people and there is a semi-ultimate at stake that every little thing will go the exact, but we try to do as a great deal as feasible in order to be completely ready for it,’ the 31-yr-outdated additional.
‘Hopefully, we will not occur to that phase and we can make your mind up the video game just before acquiring to further time or penalties, but if the time comes we have to be all set for it. We have practiced as significantly as possible”
The quarter-ultimate match among the Netherlands and Argentina will be a thrilling 1 as it could have in retail outlet a ton of pleasure and drama.
