Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Match Argentina vs Croatia in the semifinals World Cup 2022 overshadowed by Team Tango’s crushing defeat four years ago.
Argentina and Croatia met in the group stage of the 2018 World Cup. A match that left Lionel Messi and his friends embittered because they were humiliated by three unanswered goals.
Faced with the challenge for the 2022 World Cup final, the Albiceleste team no longer thinks about the Nizhny Novgorod massacre.
“Although four years have passed, we see it today. Croatia are still in the final stages of the World Cup, which means they are doing a good job. It’s a fairly cohesive team, there are similarities and different players with different characteristics.” he said. Nicolas Tagliafico.
“We are also a different team, so I think it will be very different from what happened four years ago. The matches will be different. But we also have to be careful. We have experience in that game and we have to try to use it,” he continued.
Tagliafico was one of the players who played four years ago when they lost to Croatia. In addition to Tagliafico, there are Nicolas Otamendi, Marcos Acuna, Lionel Messi, Angel Di Maria and Paulo Dybala, also called up to strengthen Argentina in this World Cup.
The left-back, who currently plays at Olympique Lyonnais, said the team’s focus at the moment is on their own strengths without underestimating their opponents.
“They have very good quality players. We try to focus on ourselves, both players, as a team, on our strengths. We know the quality of Croatia,” said Tagliafico.
The former Ajax defender also believes that the match is going to be tough and every player needs to pay attention to every little thing on the pitch in order to win.
(nva/ain)
