Argentina vs Saudi Arabia world cup 2022: Saudi Arabia stuns Argentina with a comeback victory

The first match of the world cup 2022 group B has just finished with Saudi Arabia recording a surprise 2-1 victory over Argentina.

Line ups

 

Argentina 

Saudi Arabia

Argentina led 1-0 into the first half courtesy of a Lionel Messi penalty after paredes was tripped in the penalty area. The score should have been more as Argentina had three goals disallowed by Var for offside.

Just early in the second half, Saudi Arabia scored two quick fire goal to turn the game around. They held on for the rest of the game to claim this famous victory.

Stats

Argentina saw much of the ball, 78 possession. They also had more shots on goal 8. Saudi Arabia only had two shorts on goal and those two were goals. There were six yellow cards shown in the game and all goes to the Green Falcons.

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