Few times there was such an unexpectedly uneven ending. Argentina, accustomed to giving up the initiative and then winning almost all of its matches in the last few minutes, could not fulfill the second part of the libretto. The statistics are unappealable: 65 percent of possession, 12 casts to the bow against none, 774 passes against 357. With Messi reduced to his minimum expression and three of the four pickers replaced by injury, the Scaloni …
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Few times there was such an unexpectedly uneven ending. Argentina, accustomed to giving up the initiative and then winning almost all of its matches in the last few minutes, could not fulfill the second part of the libretto. The statistics are unappealable: 65 percent of possession, 12 casts to the bow against none, 774 passes against 357. With Messi reduced to his minimum expression and three of the four pickers replaced by injury, the Scaloni …