00:10in international football with their officials good to see
00:18well the team news one change from the starting 11 against algeria so right back nakuel molina
00:25the regular in the last world cup he comes in for the injured montiel rodrigo de paul is a teammate
00:30of leo messi at club as well as country with inter miami alexis mcallister and enzo fernandez
00:37made their argentina breakthroughs at the last world cup they're still in tandem today
00:42and for the great man cap 201 hard on the heels of his 11th international hat-trick
00:49austria brought kevin danso into the center of their events but look at the position of conrad
00:54limer switched from up the field to left back he's a tough tough cookie with messi in mind
01:01i'm sure paul vanna fills the vacancy of limer further up the pitch and he's just been cleared
01:08to play for austria former german under 21 international
01:13countdown done game on
01:17rafanick has said andy that this has to be the best performance of his managerial career of austria
01:24if they're going to get anything against argentina yes look they are the underdogs no doubt about
01:29that martin today first real surge
01:35there was a little bit awkward to just find him
01:41right on the wire of being offside on side but
01:46as he wants him to feed he knows where the space is
01:50and so fernandez it's a terrific challenge
01:53as well as well argentina wants a penalty
01:57rafi now has blown the whistle just to attend to him
02:02doesn't make it easy
02:05if anybody i think it's one of those had he given a penalty var wouldn't have overturned it now he
02:11hasn't given it looks like javaslaga didn't wait
02:31it's leno messi oh history beckoned
02:39so i think he gave the goalkeeper a chance by the little casual run-up
02:47towards martinez as we join now tara martinez of course there are three of them in the argentina
02:56all's up in the air it's got miss andro coming having a bite at it
03:00most of the players are going to be the greatest of all time put it on the money
03:06danso's header stroke just declined to use it here
03:13a free kick banner it was that fed towards the ball
03:19market here just driven it into posse of players friends and foes
03:26back by sewold
03:30messi
03:36here is leon messi
03:44look watch he goes again he wants to put everyone down on the floor
03:49maybe when he dragged it with his left foot forsaken germany for austria
03:59averslager posh piece of the cross
04:04might have just got a little nudge in the back
04:07which was just enough i think it was it was molina
04:11plenty of movement those in the red shirts
04:14averslager got to it it was all notorious depending on your point of view when maradona scored twice in the
04:21azteca
04:22in 1986
04:27movement in there again partially cleared
04:43this one here look yeah maybe it would have been a close call
04:49it might have been good the triggering attack here with almada
04:53medina coming up on the outside
04:57oh yes there it is
05:00there it is
05:04in terms of scoring in world cup finals
05:09and
05:11it just seems so right so fitting that he's a master of the facial gesture and we never quite know
05:18what
05:18he's thinking it could be a mime artist really in front of the camera on the pitch he's uh it's
05:25just a master
05:39made a really positive run through the middle it might have been time for one ball over the top
05:46the end of the first half well first the reprieve and then the record
05:52he teased us with a missed penalty and then scored supremely superbly
06:01second half underway this year with a job on their hands just
06:09wondering whether argentina could feel that they could play better than they did in the first half just
06:13bringing in the leading
06:17this is cross martinez has some work to do
06:25they go up here but we'll see what happens first
06:27and if it gets a bit tough they've got to grind it they can do that
06:36just sort of adapt their game
06:40it's either of those things oh he's outside the box market for sure it is a foul
06:48it goes for goal
06:50and it pushes martinez into his hardest piece of work in the game so far
06:55yep so a couple of changes just to inject i think a little bit more
06:59more energy in this argentinian team so for mandez i see trying to find an angle for the shot
07:08i'm not sure it was going in but the goalkeeper definitely get a handle
07:18it's a captain well as there has to go across he hasn't dealt with it going in towards uh
07:26stands that cross up with his left foot look at medina really close just doing enough
07:34there's maxi rodriguez in the front row there might have played against him andy
07:40very good player
07:42massive assist
07:47it really could well have been lovely ball in as well lovely flight on that
07:54gonzalez she should have hit the target
08:02that's a straight one gonzalez
08:10oh now we've got something it's liner involved
08:15i think has seen it as a yellow
08:20what do you make of it well look again i think lime has gone in a little too heavy
08:26handed there and then there's this house pushing and shoving and they both end up with a yellow card
08:33it's ready to get it wide and get down the outside and limer
08:38hard to get there he could have got a cross and he could have got a corner
08:41i don't think he's got either yeah it was a long way for him to travel there wasn't it conrad
08:46limer
08:48really was he was stretched to the limit there trying to keep that in
08:52it was a bump on the head
09:02institutions giving fresh legs
09:04and of course the prize of victory or getting a draw when you're the underdogs
09:11and of course
09:16big center forward there did well to look get that on his chest
09:21he's looking for his teammate there just in behind is andro martinez
09:27desperately seeking an equalizer here last which
09:34died here
09:38still plenty in the box it's in again
09:42and martinez a towering figure
09:45make them maybe serve it forward and then mop it up from there that's a great ball down there
09:51there's gonzalez to wrap it up
10:14he's been busy hasn't he since he come on miko
10:16as he has a header that he just flashed wide in the post he had that chance when he stepped
10:21in on
10:21his right foot it's a size and concentration for austria not to ship a second
10:25up to the test
10:33emmy martinez
10:46he's going for the ball
10:50he would say i'm going for the ball austria might equalize this could be one of them though
10:56he's going for the ball there so they've got another chance for a very very late goal
11:06short goal
11:08danzo
11:13those are the margin we're dealing with
11:16in there knock it up to kevin
11:18danzo and let him attack it
11:22he doesn't get there anyway
11:24it breaks for a loitering leo messi who's got bags of options coming from the opposite flank
11:32and a great stop by schlager but uh is he going to crown it all himself he has to
11:45well this truth is stranger than fiction
11:52well four or five austrians in the way
11:56but he found a way because he works miracles
12:02and here is leonel messi
12:05they broke and he was the only one forward and then what happened after that how did it end up
12:10with him putting it in the net astonishing yeah great switch of play to alvarez goalkeeper does
12:16terrific there then the follow-up parade is then they give it to him and now all of a sudden
12:20he's
12:21got four or five to go through and yet and yet look through one pair of legs skips past danzo
12:29on the
12:29line in the back of the net just amazing it's just meant to be when this guy's here martin isn't
12:37it
12:37it's just meant to be he is truly magnetic
12:43he is truly magnificent
12:49and argentina are on the march
12:52well they may not be finished yet there's not a hat to play i think here
12:55he wants another
12:56he does
12:58he's got a free kick that will give him the chance
13:01he's gonna give him the chance this is
13:05particularly if this goes in
13:11and that's the last kick of the game from the man of the game from the footballer on the planet
13:20just when you think he's done everything he does more
13:26there isn't a thesaurus with enough words of praise to describe this man
13:32and he missed a penalty there's a human touch in that as well but two wonderful touches with that
13:39one of the left foot and argentina leave austria behind by two goals to nil they are through
13:45today round of 32
13:47you
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