​Argentina are in high spirits after knocking the Netherlands out of the World Cup semi-finals in Qatar on Friday night with a late penalty shootout (2-2, 4-3 dld).

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The Cougars will meet Croatia in the semi-finals and have a great chance to reach the final again after the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Lionel Scaloni, confident after winning the match against the Netherlands

Although Louis van Gaal’s side bounced back from 0-2 down against the Argentines, Batavia were overwhelmed by the pressure of the game and succumbed in a penalty shoot-out where Emiliano Martinez was the star of the night.

On the eve of the duel with Croatia, the coach of the Argentina national football team, Lionel Scaloni, is very confident and believes that Argentina deserved to win in the main time.

“From my point of view, we didn’t deserve to go to the penalty shootout. It was a very difficult match. The Dutch made the match very strange. But that’s what makes football such a beautiful sport, when you think everything is played, nothing is played.

This Argentinian team has will, youth, pride, all that is necessary to never give up.

I will not say anything about the referee. I know him, I have a good relationship with him, let’s leave it at that. The goal is to go all the way.

Now that we dance, we want to keep dancing. It will be a great game against Croatia and we want to take it.” – said Scaloni.

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