00:06good morning everyone especially to those of you with headphones in at work there are 64 teams and
00:13831 other players in Qatar vying to be world champions over the next month but if the romantics
00:20have their way Argentina will win it and Lionel Messi will ride off into the international sunset
00:28having played a pivotal role
00:35the world cups break hearts as often as they get them thumping and it will only happen if everyone
00:41else in the Argentina team finds their rhythm too Messi has won
00:54there's Messi first save that goalkeeper might be busy
01:01didn't take long for him to get in the groove
01:05well dare I say he should score virtually his first kicker
01:10Messi's delivery there was a bit of pushing going on inside the box
01:13and I thought Hamid was involved in it
01:18has 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
01:32it's simple
01:33it's easy
01:34it'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
01:50all of a sudden nine minutes gone they feel the worst for Saudi Arabia
02:06born out
02:07Di Gomez to Di Maria who can't get it under control
02:16it's a hard decent opportunity as well
02:18slipped in towards that near post and any Martinez had to be alert after Abdul Hamid got up for the
02:24cheaply
02:24and Gomez now has found Messi
02:27looks like that was offside but Lothario Martinez is taking no chances
02:32he has now been called back for an offside flight
02:37Messi from getting the ball
02:39he hasn't stopped him now
02:42Paredes
02:45Gomez
02:46going for goal
02:50missing the target by Sunway
02:52he's trying to release Messi
02:53he's scampering in behind here
02:55he's in behind he's only got the goalkeeper to be
02:58and he will from the offside come to Saudi Arabia's rescue
03:03going to be a nervous moment of waiting now
03:07that's a mistake by Rodrigo de Paz
03:10run by Al Farage initially
03:13and there was a foul right at the very end by
03:17remarkable feet really
03:18talking of remarkable feet
03:24tagliafico
03:27slip through
03:28big chance
03:31and Argentina on the wild stage
03:35and back amongst the goals
03:37Laucaro Martinez
03:41has added to his international tally
03:43awarded but I'm not sure that it is
03:47it's been ruled out for offside
04:12it's been ruled out for offside
04:15and the Argentine supporters
04:23Tagliafico is stretching terrific the other night against the UAE
04:26lovely little reverse ball
04:28Christian Romero getting high up
04:32Di Maria
04:41Messi's delivery towards Paredes
04:43it comes back out on the edge of the box
04:45and Rodrigo de Paz
04:48Paredes
04:49oh that's beautiful
04:50Di Maria
04:51didn't get enough contact on the ball to Corkha
04:55can I
04:56through the left
04:57there is the half-time whistle
04:59well Argentina have come with the intention of winning this tournament
05:02so beating Saudi Arabia
05:05missing
05:07the team is trying to intervene but they've worked the ball to
05:10now Sherry
05:12who's got a shot on target
05:13and scored for Saudi Arabia
05:22what a magic moment
05:26for the fans from the Middle East
05:38the Green Falcons take flight
05:42Saudi Arabia
05:42on the scoreboard
05:44and it's 1-1
05:45against one of the favourites
05:46well they're winning the ball back in midfield
05:48and it's just a long ball down the middle
05:49but once he gets away
05:50Romero can't stay with him
05:52for Argentina
05:53look to them
05:54they all have their hands on their head
05:55they've got another problem here
06:06Ferris
06:08and they've gifted it
06:09and they've gifted it
06:10straight back towards the substitute
06:11Alabi
06:12his effort is repelled
06:14and Saudi Arabia
06:15are becoming difficult to contain
06:17Aldoussari
06:20oh my word
06:24who saw this coming
06:321-0 down at half time
06:34Saudi Arabia lead against one of the tournament favours
06:37Argentina
06:38by two goals to one
06:41and whatever happens tonight
06:43you suspect that
06:45Lionel Scaloni's Arabian night
06:48will be a sleepless one
06:53wow
06:55Aldoussari when he caught in
06:57there's so many bodies in front of him
06:59it looked from here like it got some sort of deflection
07:02because he went in the goal so slow
07:05the first shot comes in
07:07looks for the tournament
07:08oh one of them
07:09Messi
07:10helping it on
07:11Martaro Martinez
07:12returning it back to Messi
07:13that's a brilliant intervention
07:15Al-Tambakti has celebrated that
07:17as if he
07:19Julian Alvarez of Manchester City
07:21is about to
07:22come on to beef up the Argentine attack
07:25here's the changes
07:26Cristian Romero is off
07:28I do wonder whether or not the injury that he has been carrying
07:32played a part in the concession of the first goal
07:36looks on the pitch as a result of that change
07:40here's Lautaro Martinez
07:42and Al-Tambakti has gone down
07:45and Lautaro Martinez is being penalised
07:51and Lautaro Martinez diving towards it
07:55and he wasn't
07:56and he cycled well and it comes through to one of the substitutes
07:59that's a brilliant save
08:00and Alessandro Martinez has been denied in athletic fashion
08:08and he's been chased
08:10and he's used to get it towards
08:19he's used to get it towards
08:19good self-catch for Mohamed Al-Az
08:21there was a little bit of pressure but
08:23don't know if he wants it played down this left side but it's that race there is
08:31towards that near post and martinez i think just lost his place on the map di maria
08:40so fernandez flashing it through the messi immediately surrounded but finding a really
08:46good pass and it's well stopped by the goalkeeper and always it was never really too much trouble for
08:53him now tara martinez goalkeepers come miles out and did well angel di maria has spotted him off
09:01his line not enough strength or power in the shot as argentina steamed forward with di maria
09:12messi flipping it into an area which no one is going into there was a collision on the edge
09:16of the box and messi's been given a free kick and they're furious about it cano is berating the referee
09:26is this the first part of the rescue act
09:37no
09:37di maria
09:39in towards messi with a header planted straight into the arms but a great fall for hamid
09:46meanwhile di maria is scampering down the left and looking for latardo martinez it's in
09:55a great fall for the goalkeeper and winning a free kick rodrigo de paul
10:02for a searching for which the goalkeeper comes and gets and alvarez has his effort cleared off the line
10:10well the goalkeeper's getting a yellow card here
10:14and there's some confusion
10:18what a remarkable achievement in the worlds and held a high line still
10:25it's not over here it's a free kick the referee's not giving him one the goalkeeper's out of his goal
10:29lionel messi being tracked but still keeping track of them to be that saudi arabia are going to have to
10:37hold on
10:38alvarez
10:40another big block another big moment from abd al-hamid
10:44di maria
10:46towards julian alvarez
10:49and mohammed al-alais grabs the ball gratefully from the sky
10:54and says there's no more chances
11:00there are upsets
11:03and then there is this
11:07argentina one of the favorites getting beat by a country ranked outside the world's top 50
11:18usa's win over england 72 years ago
11:22senegal beating the holders france in 2002
11:25in 2002
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