Louis van Gaal

Argentina beat the Netherlands 4-3 in a penalty shootout to keep Lionel Messis World Cup dream alive; Messi: Louis van Gaal says that they play good ...

The Argentina fans need to find their voice in the semi-finals as they played a huge part in this victory." "When the referee did the coin toss to choose which side we had the shootout there was even a tetchiness then. "He took that last penalty and it's one of the best I've seen in the history of penalties. He's one of those players who if you give him a brick he'll build a house with it, but there are other players in the Argentina side." "The pressure is heaped on and Lautaro ends up losing his place in the side. You thought the game was all over after the penalty. "It emphasised the point that it's not only Messi. "A lot of joy, a lot of happiness. "They get a good header, and then it turned upside down, the ref gave 10 minutes for no reason. When Brazil got to the final in 2002 against Germany, an opinion poll in Argentina revealed that more Argentines were supporting Brazil than Germany. Argentina will next face Croatia, who beat Brazil on penalties earlier, on Tuesday for a place in the final. "I don't want to talk about the referee because you can't be honest.

Louis van Gaal has confirmed he is stepping down as the Netherlands manager — adding he “does not care” who goes on to win the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

[Lionel Messi added](https://theathletic.com/3987214/2022/12/09/messi-martinez-argentina-referee/): “We were scared before the game because we knew what this was. I’m not on the pitch.” [Emi Martinez afterwards calling Antonio Mateu Lahoz, the referee, “useless”](https://theathletic.com/3987214/2022/12/09/messi-martinez-argentina-referee/). He said: “I wasn’t there. The Netherlands scored 51 goals during that time and conceded 17, giving them a goal difference of plus 34. “I only did it for this period of time.

Leo Messi might have decried it as 'long balls and tall players' but that's possibly coming from a man who fretted if his dream was over when the two Dutch ...

When I came up with that more defensive system in 2014 (at the World Cup in Brazil), I also received a lot of criticism but now half the world plays like that. On whether deep inside he prefers the old Dutch attacking way as he did earlier in his coaching career. “Argentina had a hard time with our opportunistic game, but I think it was also logical that Van Dijk went back again.” Logical, in Van Gaal’s world. Van Gaal was structured and believed in control of the system Van Gaal was able to mould a group of players like a machine. Ruben Jongkind, a coach who in his 30s had worked with Cryuff to turn around the famed club Ajax’s fortunes, had told this newspaper about the fundamental difference between the two men.

Louis van Gaal praised the Netherlands for fighting back from two goals down to force the penalty shootout in the World Cup loss against Argentina.

We thought we'd win on penalties because of the training we've done." I tried to solve it at half-time and we then changed our tactics three times in the second half. "I had asked the players to train penalties at their club and they did that.

A downcast Louis van Gaal answered a handful of questions after the Netherlands' quarter-final defeat by Argentina, rose from the podium and exited left – a ...

The coach revealed in April he had received 25 radiation treatments for an aggressive form of prostate cancer, having kept the diagnosis from his players during the World Cup qualifiers. He had been brought out of retirement when Frank de Boer was fired after elimination in the last 16 of the European Championship by the Czech Republic for a third spell in charge of the Dutch. The 71-year-old, who has battled with cancer over the last year, concluded his third spell as the Netherlands coach with their penalty shootout loss and will be replaced by Ronald Koeman.

LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — The Dutch were outnumbered in their quarterfinal match at the World Cup. Argentina had one Lionel Messi and the Netherlands had none.

“Dutch team and Louis van Gaal and goal difference.” Back in the World Cup this year after failing to qualify for 2018, they entered the quarterfinal with a 19-game unbeaten streak. And then came the biggest twist of all. Their next generation won a European Championship title in 1988 with Ruud Gullit and Marco van Basten leading them over the Soviet Union 2-0. “They gave everything, and I’m incredibly proud,” coach Louis van Gaal said. Wout Weghorst, at 6-foot-6, was flat on his back in the center circle as Messi danced with teammates in front of tens of thousands of singing supporters.