Lionel Messi strongly criticized Brazilian referee Anderson Daronco during Argentina’s defeat by Paraguay (2-1) in World Cup qualifying.
Lionel Messi loses his calm with Argentina. The captain of the selection, frustrated by a contested decision, lost his temper at half-time, criticizing the referee for not having sent off a Paraguayan player.
Messi made rude remarks to him. “You’re shitting yourself, I don’t love you,” he said according to several Argentinian media. This defeat marks the second setback for the Argentines, who had already challenged an arbitration decision during their first defeat in Colombia in September.
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Lionel Scaloni, Argentina coach, also attacked the referee during the match, but preferred to calm things down at a press conference. “I can say a lot of things,” he said. “It doesn’t make sense and would seem like an excuse. I prefer not to say it so that it’s not an excuse and people don’t interpret it that way. That’s it, we all saw what happened on the pitch. But that has nothing to do with the outcome. That’s all, I learned a lot from these things. It seems that we are making excuses, that we want to justify something and that people can interpret something else. Let’s leave it there. »
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