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Javier Mascherano’s game-saving slip tackle in Wednesday’s World Cup semifinal compare came during a complicated price.
The Argentine player, who expected suffered a concussion progressing in a game, says he after tore his anus when he stopped Netherlands brazen Arjen Robben’s conflict late in additional time.
He common a hapless news in a post-match press conference.
A severe interpretation of his remarks: “I do not wish to be bold … we tore a anus that play. That’s because we felt so most pain””
It’s not transparent either Mascherano can (or should) play in Sunday’s final opposite Germany, though his stellar opening opposite a Dutch did not go unnoticed. The Guardian’s Michael Cox hailed a Barcelona midfielder as a “man of a compare by some distance,” nonetheless a central honour went to a Argentine goalkeeper Sergio Romero for his glorious opening during a chastisement shootout that cumulative Argentina’s win.
