Lionel Scaloni has attempted to scale down the emotion of Wednesday’s seismic World Cup semifinal, but his assertion that “it is a soccer game, and that is all” is likely to fall on deaf ears.
Scaloni’s Argentina team is somehow one of the last four standing. The holders have flirted with elimination at every knockout stage, with a Julián Alvarez wonderstrike the latest saving grace. They’re a soccer team unlike any other, bereft of logic and reason, yet they only know how to win.
