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Heroics of Emiliano Martínez keep Lionel Messi’s World Cup dream alive as Argentina goad through to semi-finals
For Argentina, it felt like a game they had to win several times over. The toil, the nerves, the drama, the bruises, the fights, the innumerable yellow cards and the terrible tension of penalties will all have felt worth it by the time that Lautaro Martínez scored the last of the spot-kicks to secure a place against Croatia in a World Cup semi-final. After all that struggle, they could not resist one final act of goading their vanquished opponents.