Argentina, led by Lionel Messi, stormed into the final 16 of the continued version of the Qatar World Cup after beating Poland 2-0 on Thursday.
Messi, who has scored two objectives thus far within the event, saved a penalty however his facet nonetheless beat Poland after second-half objectives from Alexis McAllister and Julian Alvarez.
Argentina completed first in Group C and can now face Australia – a shock qualifier for the knockout stage.
Messi rolls into Saturday’s sport in what is probably going his last World Cup, out of the blue in a powerful place.
“I can feel here that everyone, the people of football, want to see Messi lift the World Cup trophy. Whatever Messi has given to football, football should reward Messi by giving him the trophy,” Mauricio Pochettino instructed talkSPORT.
“I always hear people talking about it and people who were playing against Messi, it was impossible to stop,” he mentioned.
“It’s actually, actually robust. He’s a genius, the most effective participant on the earth. Things like that you may simply be fortunate and attempt to get the ball again from him.
“I think that is something that is going to be good and let’s see how tough the competition is going to be for the whole team,” he added.
“Of course for England as well, why not a final? Argentina vs England should be amazing. England is doing well too,” concluded Pochettino.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
