{"id":1263976,"date":"2022-12-11T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T10:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/11\/lionel-messi-blasts-referee-after-argentinas-world-cup-win-always-against-us\/"},"modified":"2022-12-11T10:27:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T10:27:46","slug":"lionel-messi-blasts-referee-after-argentinas-world-cup-win-always-against-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/11\/lionel-messi-blasts-referee-after-argentinas-world-cup-win-always-against-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi blasts referee after Argentina\u2019s World Cup win: \u2018Always against us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/9d4f88644b914618a90d9978f4231d31\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi was irate over the officiating in\u00a0Argentinas penalty shootout win over the Netherlands on Friday, criticizing referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz.<\/p>\n<p>The game featured 16 yellow cards, multiple scraps between the two teams, a late tying goal from the Netherlands and multiple controversial moments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter they got the draw, I felt a lot of anger,\u201d Messi said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about the referee, because they immediately reprimand you or sanction you, but I think people saw what happened.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA has to review that. It can\u2019t give a referee like that a match of this importance, when they\u2019re not up to the task.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Messi was especially upset at the call leading to Wout Weghorst\u2019s\u00a0equalizer, which came from a free kick after German Pezzella committed a foul. That tied the score 2-2, setting up a dramatic 30 minutes of extra time.<\/p>\n<p>We didn\u2019t have a great game, and then the referee sent it to extra time,\u201d Messi said. \u201cHe was always against us. In the last play, it was not a foul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Argentina eventually pulled\u00a0out the win on penalties, with goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez saving two spot kicks from the Dutch. Lautaro Martinez scored the penalty winner, with Messi notching an assist and a goal from open play.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: KwadwoSarfoGh (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nArgentinas<br \/>\nFIFA<br \/>\nMessi<br \/>\nNetherlands<br \/>\nWorld Cup<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi was irate over the officiating in\u00a0Argentinas penalty shootout win over the Netherlands on Friday, criticizing referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz. The game featured 16 yellow cards, multiple scraps between the two teams, a late tying goal from the Netherlands and multiple controversial moments. \u201cAfter they got the draw, I felt a lot of anger,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14745,3215,262,11937,2297,1423,309,784],"class_list":["post-1263976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-argentinas","tag-blasts","tag-cup","tag-lionel","tag-messi","tag-referee","tag-win","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}