The Argentine national team, led by its star Lionel Messi, strikes a date with its Saudi counterpart, in the match that brings the two teams to the “Lusail” stadium, at twelve noon Cairo time, in the first round of the third group of the World Cup finals hosted by Qatar during the current period and will continue until 18 Next December, with the participation of 32 teams from different continents of the world.
And that confrontation is very important to the green, as this World Cup will enter the intention of qualifying for the final price in a repetition of the completion of the 1994 edition, where the Herve Renard battalion participates in the World Cup for the sixth time in history; After its first participation in the 1994 edition in the United States of America, while the Argentine national team had previously won this tournament twice, and that was in 1978 and 1986.
As for the Argentine national team, led by Messi, it hopes at a strong start to achieve the title for the third time in its history, and for the first time in the path of Messi, which may be the last World Cup, where the Tango is in the third group accompanied by the teams of Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Poland.
The Saudi national team will be on a date with history, especially as it is the first Arab team to face Argentina in the course of the World Cup, which will hold it an additional responsibility to present an honorable face to the Saudi and Arab football in front of “Tango dancers”, and the Saudi team has a tremendous opportunity to break the historical series of the Argentine team who arrived For 36 games without a loss, to become one match from breaking the number of Italy as the most history team in the “defeat” series.
The first match between them in 1988 was the Australian Gold Cup hosted by Australia, and ended in a positive tie with two goals for them, and the second match was in the 1988 Australian Cup of Gold Championship, to determine the third place in the tournament, and Argentina won the meeting with a clean double.
The Saudi team lost from Argentina in the 1992 Confederations World Cup, specifically in the final match of the tournament, with a result of three goals against a goal, while the last confrontation was in 2012 at King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh, in a friendly framework, and ended in a negative tie without goals.
Lionel Messi had previously faced the Saudi team once in 2012 and ended in a 0-0 draw between the two teams..
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