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26-11-2022, 12:23 PM
World Cup 2022 briefing: what history tells us about Argentina v Mexico
Old results shouldn’t influence the present, not logically, but they invariably doArgentina and Mexico go back a long way. All the way to the very first World Cup. They met in the 1930 group stage and it was quite the match. Three penalties were awarded, two of them scored by Mexico, one missed by Argentina, yet amazingly that wasn’t the main story. Step forward Guillermo Stábile, who notched a hat-trick for La Albiceleste on debut. Argentina won 6-3 and Stábile kept rattling them in all the way to the final, in which he put his side 2-1 up before Uruguay stormed back to win. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/football/202...a-v-mexico
#World_Cup_2022 #World_Cup #Football #Sport
Old results shouldn’t influence the present, not logically, but they invariably doArgentina and Mexico go back a long way. All the way to the very first World Cup. They met in the 1930 group stage and it was quite the match. Three penalties were awarded, two of them scored by Mexico, one missed by Argentina, yet amazingly that wasn’t the main story. Step forward Guillermo Stábile, who notched a hat-trick for La Albiceleste on debut. Argentina won 6-3 and Stábile kept rattling them in all the way to the final, in which he put his side 2-1 up before Uruguay stormed back to win. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/football/202...a-v-mexico
#World_Cup_2022 #World_Cup #Football #Sport
