‘This result gives us an advantage’: Green Falcons keep hopes alive in tough group
MIAMI: For 80 minutes, with a storm brewing high above the Miami Stadium, it looked like lightning might strike twice.
Saudi Arabia, in the opening match of a World Cup and against blue-and-white-shirted South Americans once again, appeared destined to cause another shock, four years after their last.
At World Cup 2022 in Qatar, Saudi winger Salem Al-Dawsari wrote global headlines when his rocket proved the difference, delivering his Green Falcons a 2-1 win over Argentina to become the first — and, it would prove, only — team to defeat the eventual champions.
Images of jubilant Saudi supporters went viral as, having made the short trip across Qatar’s southern border in their masses, they repeatedly asked anybody who would listen: “Where is Messi? Where is Messi?”
