An unusual mistake by a Kazakhstan player that resulted in one of Argentina’s goals at the Futsal World Cup

The Argentine team continues its steady pace at the Futsal World Cup and remains one of the favorites to lift the trophy. Those led by Matías Lucuix defeated Kazakhstan 6:1 in the quarter-finals and sealed their progress to the semi-finals.

During the first half of the match, the national team received a gift, ending with the second Albiceleste goal from the hand of Ángel Claudino, who took advantage of a gross and unusual mistake by the number ten Asian team.

The match started with warm weather for the albiceleste as the competition takes place in Uzbekistan and set the whole public against him Smoke sand from the city Tashkent. Despite the intensity noted in the first half, in which no one could change the result and there were no big emotions, everything changed at the beginning of the second half.

Two minutes after the start of the supplement, Matías Rosa was able to parry Pablo Taborda’s fierce shot to open the scoring for Argentina. From this moment on, the South Americans took control of the game and began to dominate the pitch. Until that disaster for the Asian team.

After good defensive pressure from the Lucuix players, five minutes after the first goal, Chingiz Yessenamanov tried to pass the ball to his goalkeeper Higuit – who is a real star in the Kazakh futsal world – but the number ten’s touch was a perfect lob that went past his team-mate. Due to the inability of the goalkeeper to get the ball and the disbelief in which all Kazakh footballers remained, the ball hit the post and was served to Claudine, who had to push it into the net after checking with his thigh.

This play marked a break in the confrontation and the national team began to control the match at their mercy. That the result continued to increase after a clear penalty that was capitalized Kevin Arrieta. Due to impending elimination, Paulo Figueroa He put the player’s keeper in the Kazakh box in an attempt to reduce the score and stay alive in the series, but it led to another clear failure.

After moving the ball from side to side in an attempt to break down the albiceleste defence, Sebastian Corzo He stole the ball and scored 4-0 into an empty goal from his own field. Dauren Tursagulov He scored an honorable goal for the Kazakhs, but Argentina quickly responded to the opponent’s answer and equalized 5-1 with a holy scream. Lucas Alemany. A few minutes later and with the exclusion of the goal scorer of the Asian team, Arrieta He completed his double with the second penalty and sealed the win 6:1.

After the win over Kazakhstan, the Argentine team will have to face France, who just eliminated Paraguay 2-1, in the semi-finals of the Futsal World Cup. This match will be played on Thursday 3 October from 12 noon. On the other side of the table, Brazil won 3:1 over Morocco and Ukraine won the same 9:4 against Venezuela.

The Albiceleste will be looking to return to the finals of the competition for the third time in a row, having just been crowned champions in 2016 after beating Russia 5-4 in the decider and losing 2-1 to Portugal in the final in the 2021 competition.