Argentinian team struggled to reach the 1/8 finals of the World Cup.

In the 3rd round of the group stage of Mundial, Jorge Sampaoli's wards barely defeated the Nigerian national team with a score of 2: 1.

The Argentines opened the account on the 14th minute of the confrontation - Lionel Messi after an exquisite transfer performed by Ever Banega calmly outplayed the opponent's goalkeeper and led his team forward in this confrontation. This take-off was 100 in this world championship. However, at the very beginning of the second half of the meeting, Nigeria managed to restore parity in the meeting - Victor Moses calmly realized a penalty, which earned himself Leon Balogun. It violated the rules of Javier Mascherano.

It is interesting that the draw was quite satisfied with the Nigerian national team. When it seemed that everything was going to end, the defender of the "albiselest" Marcos Rojo said his word 4 minutes before the end of the regular time, he perfectly closed the transfer from the right flank from Gabriel Mercado. Thus, after defeating Nigeria, Argentina scored 4 points in the group and took second place. Their rival in the next round will be the team of France. This game will be held on June 30.

_______________________________ Recall that 9 countries, including Ukraine, Australia, Finland, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, Great Britain, Poland, Sweden, declared a diplomatic boycott of the World Championship in Russia. The reasons for this were the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine and Syria, the poisoning of the Russian ex-intelligence agent Sergey Skripal in Britain, the starvation of Ukrainian political prisoners, including the director Oleg Sentsov, and the systematic violation of human rights in the Russian Federation.

Unlimited hunger strike Sentsov announced May 14, 2018. His main demand is the release of more than 60 Ukrainian political prisoners who are behind bars in Russia. This requirement of the director was supported by the US State Department, the EU, the Canadian Parliament and.

2015 Russian court illegally sentenced Sentsov to 20 years in a strict-regime colony. The actions in support of the director were held all over the world, including in Russia.