Argentina Vs Egypt | 'Neither Respect Nor Fair Play': Egypt Coach Lashes Out At FIFA After WC Loss
Argentina Vs Egypt Highlights: It was another World Cup epic from an Argentina team that simply doesn't know when it's beaten. Trailing 2-0 against Egypt
Argentina Vs Egypt Highlights: It was another World Cup epic from an Argentina team that simply doesn't know when it's beaten. Trailing 2-0 against Egypt with 11 minutes of regulation time to play on Tuesday, the defending champions rallied for an improbable 3-2 victory and a spot in the quarterfinals. Argentina will play either Switzerland or Colombia in the next round on Saturday in Kansas City, Missouri. For much of Tuesday's game, it looked like it would be a painful exit for the 39-year-old Lionel Messi in what might be the last of his six World Cups. Egypt led after goals in each half from Yasser Ibrahim and Mostafa Zico and could have been ahead 3-0 if not for a video review that ruled out another score.
Argentina looked down and out, its bid to be the first team to win back-to-back World Cup titles since Brazil in 1958 and 1962 all but dead. "We were the best in everything, but the result was... there were factors influencing it,' Egypt coach Hossam Hassan said. Hassan said he would not watch any further games at this year's World Cup, believing his team should have had a penalty before Argentina broke away for the winning goal. "We had the right to win, and I don't want to say 'hard luck' to us—no. We left with honor, honor on our part. But the final result, aside from being heavily influenced, is a far cry from the 'fair play' that FIFA talks about, and far from respect.
There was neither respect nor fair play today. Today, there is no respect and no fair play." "Argentina's victory is entirely undeserved. And I promise you, once I return today, I will not watch football in this World Cup at all, because there is no justice in it. My personal protest is that I will not watch this World Cup again. When I get back home and back to our country, I am not watching it." About NDTV (English news channel) NDTV is India's Most-Trusted News Broadcaster with the latest updates in news, sports, entertainment and much more from within India and around the world. Watch big political debates, exclusive entertainment interviews, news bulletins, current affairs, talk shows and tech reviews with our 24x7 news live streams, packed with credible information across all platforms: TV, Internet and Mobile.
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