The Orange meets Argentina in the World Cup quarterfinal: Australia beaten in Lionel Messi’s 1000th game

To become world champion, the Orange must deal with Argentina and Lionel Messi on Friday. The star player kept his own dream alive, that of tens of thousands of frenzied fans in Qatar and 45 million fellow countrymen at home, by guiding Argentina – in its thousandth game – past Australia to a squatter in the quarter-finals in Lusail: 2-1.

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