Messi van Gaal

Cupping his ears, he emulated the celebration of Juan Roman Riquelme, an Argentine icon, by doing his trademark 'Topo Gigio', a reference to a cartoon mouse.

Equally, it shows the different, emotional The Dutch coach often played him out of position before stopping playing him at all. The World Cup quarter-finals are important enough to bring drama to any match regardless of how it goes.

Argentina superstar Lionel Messi was unusually vocal about his displeasures with Netherlands boss Louis van Gaal and match referee.

- Starting price: $4.99/mo. - Price: $9.99/mo. The referee cannot fail to be up to the task.“ - Price: $14.99/mo. It cannot put a referee like that for a match of such magnitude, of such importance. The quirky Spanish ref handed out 17 total yellow cards throughout the historic game. However, Messi showed a more ruthless side following his team’s [World Cup](https://worldsoccertalk.com/category/world-cup-2022/) quarterfinal win against the [Netherlands](https://worldsoccertalk.com/nations/netherlands-national-team-tv-schedule/) on Friday. Along with the comments on Van Gaal, the player was also not happy about match referee Antonio Mateo Lahoz. “We deserved to go through and that’s what happened.” [Argentina](https://worldsoccertalk.com/nations/argentina-national-team-tv-schedule/) superstar Lionel Messi is normally known as a more reserved player. Prior to the matchup, Van Gaal had claimed that Messi does not help out his teammates while out of possession. “I feel disrespected by Van Gaal after his pregame comments and some Dutch players spoke too much during the game,”

The Argentine settled an old score on behalf of a former team-mate when he put his nation 2-0 up against the Netherlands during the World Cup quarter-final ...

[HAVE YOUR SAY!](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/messi-vangaal-celebration-argentina-netherlands-28700540#comments-wrapper) Was Messi's celebration a pointed message to Van Gaal? The 35-year-old was hardly shy and reserved when stood, holding his hands to ears directly in front of the Dutch bench. However, Leo would only look at him because he was very shy, you had to force words out of him." As the thousands of fans of La Seleccion erupted with joy following Messi's spot-kick, the player himself seemingly only had one thing on his mind - revenge. Comment [below](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/messi-vangaal-celebration-argentina-netherlands-28700540#comments-wrapper) [Argentina captain](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/argentina-football-team) and football icon [Lionel Messi](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/lionel-messi) was more fired up than usual on Friday night when he helped guide his country to the last four of the [World Cup](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/world-cup-2022?service=responsive) at the expense of the Netherlands.

ARGENTINA captain Lionel Messi tore into Holland boss Louis van Gaal for his long ball approach to their World Cup quarter-final.The South American ch.

[France are taking on England ](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/20645854/england-france-live-stream-free-tv-channel-time-kick-off-time-world-cup-2022/)for a spot in the semis. [beating Euro 2016 winners Portugal](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/20673538/morocco-vs-portugal-stream-free-tv-channel-team-news-kick-off-time-world-cup-quarter-final/). Their coach was not respectful to us either. [World Cup](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/) 2018 finalists Croatia for a spot in next Sunday's finale. [branded 6ft6 Weghorst "stupid"](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/20711378/messi-abuses-weghorst-argentina-holland-world-cup/) in a post-match press conference. [beating the Dutch on penalties](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/20709249/argentina-messi-netherlands-world-cup-weghorst-martinez/) after seeing their two-goal lead evaporate late on in normal time.

Things got out of control during and after Argentina-Netherlands yesterday with former Serie A midfielder Edgar Davids who had to separate Leo Messi and ...

"I was angry about the pre-match [comments] because a coach like Van Gaal, with the experience he has ... it doesn't make sense and I felt he disrespected ...

"I was angry about the pre-match [comments] because a coach like Van Gaal, with the experience he has, with the games and the battle he's had throughout his career, who speaks the way he did, who disrespects the way he did.... It is a defiant and vindictive action that in the imagination of many Argentine fans is linked to the former footballer Juan Román Riquelme, who clashed with Van Gaal when he played for Barcelona. Argentina, however, had the last laugh. World Cup fever strikes again as two million fans vie for tickets to Argentina’s homecoming match](https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/sports/una-locura-world-cup-fever-strikes-again-as-two-million-fans-vie-for-tickets-to-argentinas-homecoming-match.phtml) I think it didn't have to be like that. The image, captured by cameras and quickly shared on social media.

Lionel Messi confronted Dutch boss Louis van Gaal after Argentina's win over the Netherlands, and later said he felt "disrespected".