No shortage of eyebrows were raised due to comments from Barcelona and Brazil Raphinha before the Selecao took on Tuesday evening in Buenos Aires Argentina. His claims that Brazil would give the Albiceleste a beating in a spectacular way.
“We are going to play against Argentina. Now, thank goodness, without Messi,” Raphinha noted in a podcast with Romario, who asked, “Are we going to give them a lot of beating?”
“A beating, without a doubt, if necessary on the field,” Raphinha replied, one of the different Brazilian players to express trust in a big result.
Things can hardly have gotten worse for Brazil. After four minutes through a Julian Alvarez -goal, Argentina dominated from start to finish, with Enzo Fernandez, Alexis Mac Allister and Giuliano Simeone all came on the score sheet. The strike of Matheus Cunha in the first half made the score 2-1, but that was the only real resistance from Brazil. It could even see that manager Dorival Junior loses his job.
“It was historical because of the context and everything that was said, because we played a great game for our fans at home, and because we qualified for the World Cup,” Julian Alvarez explained, as quoted by MD. He noted that Raphinha's words were not a party for their hard work.
How much has Raphinha's pre-match herbs influenced us? “It is clear that this way of speaking adds herbs to a match like this, but with humility and our hard work we had them on strings.”
In the meantime, Raphinha had a handling with the Argentina's Nicolas Tagliafico during the game, with Nicolas Otamendi who screamed 'less speaking, speak less'.
Atletico Madrid had a leading role in the victory of Argentina and Rodrigo de Paul also noticed that it was time that the Albiceleste was paid any respect.
“It's fine. It stays there, on the field. We never respect anyone. And yet we have not been respected over the years. We have been the best team of all time for five or six years. Let them respect,” he told the same outlet.
Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni gave the chance to rub salt in the wounds of Raphinha.
“I forgive Raphinha because I know he didn't deliberately. He defends his national team, nothing more. Whether he made a statement or not, we were going to play our game, and Brazil was also that he was absolutely sure that he didn't hurt anyone.”
Raphinha was the object of offensive singing at the monumental, in which the home fans 'raphinha singing, raphinha turned on, the whore you gestured.' Although much less offensive, Real Madrid star Rodrygo also received something from Leandro Paredes during the game. After the game he also had words for Raphinha, as told by relevant.
“You don't have to talk in advance, you shouldn't say things like this if you can't prove it on the field. They sent it to the WhatsApp group and we discussed it. When things like this happens, we come up for ourselves and we have done it again.”
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