00:06Good morning everyone, especially to those of you with headphones in at work, there are 64 teams and 831 other
00:14players in Qatar vying to be world champions over the next month, but if the romantics have their way, Argentina
00:23will win it, and Lionel Messi will ride off into the international sunset, having played
00:30a pivotal role, the World Cups break hearts as often as they get them thumping, and it will only happen
00:41if everyone else in the Argentina team finds their rhythm too, Messi has won.
00:54There's Messi, first save, that goalkeeper might be busy, didn't take long for them to get in the groove, well
01:05dare I say he should score virtually his first kicker.
01:10Messi's delivery, there was a bit of pushing going on inside the box, and I thought Hamid was involved in
01:16it, has given the penalty.
01:23Well Argentina, 15 games in World Cup qualifying, but he hasn't come up against the player like this.
01:30It's Messi for Argentina, it's simple, it's easy, it's 1-0.
01:40And you rather suspect that Saudi Arabia are facing an uphill battle now.
01:46Well Joe Cole said it, stay in the game as long as you can, all of a sudden, nine minutes
01:53gone, they feel the worst for Saudi Arabia.
02:09Get to get it under control.
02:13Here come again, I can't.
02:16It's a half dated opportunity as well.
02:18Slepting towards that near post, and TEAM has had to be alert after Abdul Hamid got up for the chiefly
02:24and Gomez now has found Messi.
02:27looks like that was offside
02:28but Lautaro Martinez is taking no chances
02:32has now been called back
02:33for an offside flight
02:37Messi from getting the ball
02:39has it stopped him now
02:42Paredes
02:45Gomez
02:46going for goal
02:50missing the target by
02:51some way
02:54Gomez trying to release
02:55Messi
02:56he's scampering in behind here
02:57he's in behind
02:58he's only got the goalkeeper to be
02:59and he wasn't going to foul
03:01but the offside flight may well have come to Saudi Arabia's rescue
03:08going to be a nervous moment of waiting now
03:12it's a mistake by Rodrigo de Palt
03:15run by Al Farage initially
03:18and there was a foul right at the very end
03:21by remarkable feet really
03:22talking of remarkable feet
03:28it's actually a big goal
03:32slip through
03:33big chance
03:35and Argentina
03:36and Argentina are back
03:39on the world stage
03:41and back amongst the goals
03:44Lautaro Martinez
03:48has added to his international tally
03:50awarded but I'm not sure that it is
03:54it's been ruled out for offside
03:56it's been ruled out for offside
03:59Lionel Messi
04:01spreading it immediately
04:03but not finding
04:04the perfect pass to Alejandro Gomez
04:07we'll come back to it in just a second
04:09because Messi is releasing
04:10Lautaro Martinez
04:12who this time has gone round the goalkeeper
04:14has finished
04:15and once again
04:16is flagged offside
04:19and once again there's a nervous
04:21weight amongst the Argentine supporters
04:30Daniel Finko is stretching
04:32terrific the other night
04:32against the UAE
04:33lovely little reverse ball
04:35Christian Romero getting higher
04:39Di Maria
04:43Messi couldn't bring it down
04:45before Abdul Hamid
04:46was in again
04:48Messi's delivery
04:49towards Paredes
04:50as it comes back out of the edge of the box
04:52and Rodrigo De Paul
04:55Paredes
04:56oh that's beautiful
04:57Di Maria
04:58can't get enough contact on the ball to Corsha
05:02Can I?
05:03through the letter
05:05there is the half-time whistle
05:06well Argentina have come with the intention
05:08of winning this tournament
05:09so beating Saudi Arabia
05:11Messi
05:14the team is trying to intervene
05:16but they've worked the ball here
05:17Al-Cherry
05:19who's got a shot on target
05:20and scored
05:21for Saudi Arabia
05:32what a magic moment
05:36for the fans
05:37from the Middle East
05:48the Green Falcons take flight
05:52Saudi Arabia on the scoreboard
05:54and it's 1-1 against one of the favourites
05:56well they're winning the ball back in midfield
05:58and it's just a long ball down the middle
05:59but once he gets away
06:00Romero can't stay with him
06:03Argentina look to him
06:04they all have their hands on their head
06:05they've got another problem here
06:06Paris
06:18they've gifted it
06:19straight back towards the substitute
06:21Al-Abi
06:22his effort is repelled
06:24as Saudi Arabia
06:25are becoming difficult to contain
06:27Aldoussari
06:30oh my word
06:34who saw this coming
06:421-0 down at half time
06:44Saudi Arabia lead against one of the tournament favours
06:47Argentina
06:48by two goals to one
06:51and whatever happens tonight
06:53you suspect that
06:55Lionel Scaloni's Arabian night
06:58will be a sleepless one
07:03wow
07:05Aldoussari when he caught in
07:07there's so many bodies in front of him
07:09it looked from here like it got some sort of deflection
07:12because he went in the goal so slow
07:15the first shot comes in
07:17looks for the tournament
07:18oh one of them
07:19Messi helping it on
07:21Martaro Martinez returning it back to Messi
07:23that's a brilliant intervention
07:25Al-Tambakti has celebrated that
07:27as if he
07:29Julian Alvarez of Manchester City
07:31is about to
07:32come on to beef up the Argentine attack
07:35here's the changes
07:36Cristian Romero is off
07:38I do wonder whether or not
07:40the injury that he has been carrying
07:42played a part
07:43in the concession of
07:44the first goal
07:46looks on the
07:47pitch as a result of
07:49that change
07:50here's Lautaro Martinez
07:52and Aldoussari
07:53Al-Tambakti has gone down
07:55and Lautaro Martinez
07:57is being penalized
08:00Di Maria bending one
08:01Lautaro Martinez
08:03diving towards it
08:05and he wasn't
08:06he cycled well
08:07and it comes through to one
08:08the substitute
08:09that's a brilliant save
08:10Al-Tambakti has been denied
08:13in athletic fashion
08:18being chased
08:20he's just to get it towards
08:29good self-catch
08:30from Mohamed Al-Ores
08:31there was a little bit of pressure
08:32but
08:33he was
08:33he was
08:36he was
08:36he was
08:36he was
08:36he was
08:36he was
08:37he was
08:37he was
08:37he was
08:37he was
08:38he was
08:51he was
09:04he was
09:07he was
09:07he was
09:18he was
09:20he was
09:23he was
09:31he was
09:33he was
09:36he was
09:38of the rescue act
09:39no
09:47Di Maria
09:50going towards Messi with a header
09:52planted straight into the arms
09:53of a great fall for Hamid
09:56meanwhile Di Maria
09:58is scampering down the left and looking for
10:00Lattaro Martinez
10:00Di Maria
10:05Dazzling and wandering forward and winning
10:07a free kick, Rodrigo De Paul
10:09looking for a searching ball which
10:13the goalkeeper comes and gets and Alvarez
10:15has his effort cleared off the line
10:20the goalkeeper is getting a yellow card here
10:24and there's some
10:25confusion
10:28what a remarkable achievement
10:30in the world
10:31and held a high line still
10:35it's not over here, it's a free kick
10:37the referee's not giving him one, the goalkeeper's out of his goal
10:39Lionel Messi
10:41being tracked but still keeping track
10:43of them to be
10:44that Saudi Arabia are gonna have to hold on
10:48Alvarez
10:50another big block
10:51another big moment from
10:54Hamid Di Maria
10:56towards Julian
10:57Alvarez
10:58and Mohamed
11:00Alvarez
11:01grabs the ball gratefully from the sky
11:03and says
11:06there's no more chances
11:10there are upsets
11:13and then
11:14there is this
11:17Argentina
11:18one of the favorites
11:19getting beat by a country
11:22ranked outside the world's top 50
11:28USA
11:29USA's win over England
11:3072 years ago
11:32Senegal beating the holders France
11:34in 2002
11:35and then
11:36in 2002
11:36a
11:36and
11:36and
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