Messi and Mateu Lahoz will face each other again in the World Cup quarterfinals

The commitment between Argentina and the Low Countries by the quarter-finals of the World-wide of Catar will bring achieve some important reunions for both groups. By a part Lionel Messi will see again the faces with Frenkie of Jong, one of his excompañeros when it dressed the elastic of the FC Barcelona. By another, will cross again with the collegiate Mateu Lahoz, designated by the FIFA to direct the commitment.

Both keep an important record in LaLiga, with situations that benefited and prejudiced to the Argentinian in important moments of his career. One of them was when Leo saw the yellow in the party between Barça and Osasuna of the season 2020/21 for removing the T-shirt. This occurred in his first so much after the death of Diego Armando Maradona, where lució the elastic of the '10' albiceleste when it played for Newell's Old Boys.

Another unlucky meeting was in 2014 in a Barcelona-Athletic where the title of League was at stake. Mateu Cancelled him a so much to Messi in the Camp Nou that it could mean the victory and championship for the Barcelona, but the reverse of the played meant the equality (1-1) and the trophy for the group colchonero.

In fact, the sentence of the judge was not hit and the own referee's assistant would approach later to Jorge Pautasso, one of the members of the technical body of the Tata Martino, to apologise him for cancelling of wrong form a so important goal. It is necessary to stand out that for the moment the VAR was not in operation, by what the decision was taken according to the criterion of the referees in the moment.

In search of the pass to 'semis'

Like this the things, will be the Valencian referee the one who will direct a duel in which both groups will look for to advance to the following phase. The Argentinians want to achieve the Glass that evaded them in 2014, whereas the Dutch want to open step to a new final in search of the star.