Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Nigeria - Argentina (Group D)

Date and time: 26-06-2018, 11:30 pm
City: Saint Petersburg

Argentina needs to win this match in any case if they want to move on to the Round of 16. Not only that, Iceland shall not win the other simultaneous match against Croatia.

First Half:

00: Game begins with Argentina in blue-striped white and Nigeria in green
03: No real moves yet
Messi scores for Argentina (0-1)
06: Game is in a very slow pace. No shots or great moves
07: First Nigerian move, but stopped just short of the box
08: Tagliafico (ARG)'s shot goes wide, the first shot of the match!
09: Musa (NIG)'s shot goes above the bar
11: Threat in Nigerian box cleared successfully
13: NIG fails to capitalize on a wrong pass by ARG. Solo move stopped in the box
14: Messi scores for ARG (0-1)
18: ARG wastes a corner
19: Nigerian corner wasted. Headed back to midfield
26: Possession so far is NIG 37%, ARG 63%
27: Higuain (ARG)'s run to the goal is made futile by a brave block by GK
32: Nigeria is not able to seriously challenge ARG
32: Di Maria's challenging run was foiled by fouling him. Balogun (NIG) gets yellow card. A free kick for ARG from just outside the box
34: Messi's curling kick gets past GK, but hits post
39: Di Maria (ARG)'s shot saved
42: Etebo (NIG)'s wild kick goes way off the goal
45+2: First half ends after 2 added minutes. Nigeria disappoints by not able to threaten ARG. Iceland - Croatia match is still tied (0-0), which means that if this situation continues, ARG and CRO will move to Round of 16

Second Half:
47: Early ARG attack foiled by NIG defenders

48: ARG concedes a corner from a NIG throw-in
Moses (NIG) levels the score from a penalty (1-1)
49: Mascherano (ARG) gets yellow card for pulling down. Penalty for NIG
51: Moses (NIG) scores from the penalty (1-1)
52: Di Maria falls in NIG box, but referee allows to play on
53: Another corner for NIG. Wasted
59: Dangerous move by Musa (NIG), but nobody to support him
61: Perez (ARG) is replaced by Pavon
62: Ekong (NIG) deflects a kick over the bar, conceded a corner

63: Possession so far is NIG 37%, ARG 63%
64: Banega (ARG) shown the yellow card
68: NIG concedes a corner, immediately taken but no results
71: Ndidi (NIG)'s powerful shot goes inches above the bar
73: Corner for ARG. Wasted
75: Another corner for ARG. Couldn't convert
76: Ighalo (NIG) shot goes wide. Mascherano (ARG)'s hand ball suspected in the box. Video check goes on. Penalty not allowed
Rojo puts Argentina ahead again (1-2)
79: Clever Argentine move, but fails to use in the confusion
80: Tagliafico (ARG) replaced by Aguero
80: Higuain (ARG) misses a good chance by kicking much above the bar
82: Another attack by ARG, gets a corner, nothing happens
83: Ighalo (NIG)'s kick deflected by GK, Free kick for NIG from just outside the box
85: Free kick hits side of the net
86: Rojo (ARG) scores from a splendid cross (1-2)
90: In the other match, Croatia takes lead (2-1). ARG seems to be all set to move on
90+1: Mikel (NIG) gets yellow card
90+3: Musa (NIG) replaced by Nwankwo
90+4: Yellow card for Messi for time wasting
90+4: Game ends after 4 added minutes. ARG beat NIG to go in to the Round of 16

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