Portugal vs Argentina 2-2 | All Goals & Extended Highlights (Last Matches)

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Straight away, let's have a look at the two teams.
Argentina 7 changes, Portugal 4 changes to the team that won 1-0 at home to Armenia.
But both he and Messi are the centrepieces of tonight's match.
Messi again, the ball to Di Maria!
Lonely, just wide for Mangel Di Maria.
Set-up from Messi, Lionel Messi.
The debutant, Thiago Gomes, Biliat, looks for Messi again, flag stays down!
Oh, and right across the face!
It was such an acute angle, he just couldn't find the back of the net.
But that little burst of acceleration from Lionel Messi,
how often we've seen it onside, Pepe playing him on.
To his right, run from the full-back.
Pastore!
Not better, equal to the Javier Pastore header.
But again, Facundo Roncaglia doing well, the right-back.
Moutinho guides the header nicely for Posinga.
There's Jose Posinga, he's in behind Argentina here, excellent ball in.
Taking up the turn, Ronaldo, but he's there again!
Ronaldo!
And it's over.
Well, he was twisting, turning, almost sending Biliat out of the ground.
But couldn't hit the target, Posinga in behind the left side of that Argentina defence.
Roncaglia did enough to hold Ronaldo up, and he's still got his shot away.
And the first sight of goal, Old Trafford lights up to mobile phone cameras.
Can be seen all around the stadium as Messi delivers!
But over.
Pastore's head back in slight disappointment there.
Got some velocity in the shot.
Martin Atkinson blows for half-time.
Javier Mascherano has taken over the captain's armband in place of Messi.
Walking inroads into that Portugal defence, Nicolas Gaitan, here's Ansaldi.
Di Maria!
And that's lifted the atmosphere at Old Trafford, a shot on goal.
Ansaldi with the set-up here for Di Maria, who struck it well.
Beto in the Portugal goal, always dealing with it.
Mascherano, good run here from Gaitan!
That's an excellent effort from Nicolas Gaitan.
Lovely ball this, though, from Mascherano.
Speared onto the head here of Gaitan, and plenty of Argentina in these positions.
Can they make the breakthrough this time? In goes Gaitan.
It's never troubling Beto, and he's certainly got the beating of Guerrero in the air.
Spears, a terrific pass, pass of the night.
Not a bad take either by Coresma.
Into Edere!
Well, that's so much better from Portugal.
We've really been flat for most of the evening, but what a pass from Bruno Alves.
Wonderful take as well from Coresma.
Space now for Silva.
Oh, it's struck Edere, turns into a pass for Coresma.
Three-header!
And it's Rafael Guerrero!
And a wry smile passes the lips of the coach, Fernando Santos.
And what a moment for the 20-year-old Rafael Guerrero.
He bought a ticket for the raffle and wins his debut only last Friday against Armenia.
And the left-back from Lorient in France stoops to conquer.
And Portugal surely have won it.
A thrilling moment for that young man.
There's no time for the comeback.
Rafael Guerrero, the toast of Portugal.
Their first win over Argentina for 42 years.
And it came in stoppage time.
Almeida 26, Ronaldo 26, Nani 24.
This another team that could be up among the upper echelon for quite some time.
That much stop in a national team performance.
Here's Di Maria, deflected off the back.
Header! Messi off target.
Well, he scored a brilliant goal and almost another with his head just a week ago.
He's fabulous with his head.
Step-ups offside.
Two against four, but one of them is Messi.
Gets around, Mireles, tucks it in!
Lifted by Di Maria!
A masterpiece from Messi!
Genius! That's the only word you can use.
They should name the constellation in the heavens after Lionel Messi.
This run is uncontainable.
His pass is unstoppable.
Look at this, how far wide he gets it.
Cutting in pass player after player in any of the touch.
Lays it through an absolutely golden needle.
It's immaculate touch from Lionel.
It doesn't need an extra touch from Di Maria because the pass is perfection.
He actually puts negative spin on the ball.
Messi wide.
Vanega, back for Messi, on his right.
Saved by Eduardo.
Being one of Diego Maradona for a lot of these players seems to be proving to be a very big...
Glancing header and Ronaldo from Almeida has tied it up.
Wonderful play, he stabs it home and it's a difficult one to make contact on.
They keep it alive here and Cristiano just reaches in because of his quick razor-sharp instincts.
Again in the right place at the right time.
Nani's brilliant out wide and the ball gets fed in beautifully.
It's well contested by Almeida and then it falls.
Beautiful backheel, ball flighted in to Pereira.
And then Almeida gets the slightest touch on it.
And then again Cristiano sharper than a carpet tack to bury it.
Ball whipped in, too high for Bordiso.
Ronaldo off the check and go.
Has help left and right, holding off Mascherano.
Ronaldo, the shot almost spins in off the deflection.
Brave play this by Cristiano.
Driving through, holding off Mascherano and Ronaldo doesn't go down.
Gaby Melito comes across and it...
Levetsi for Banega.
Back to Rojo, nicely.
Outside, finds Levetsi who gets the shot put over the bar.
Fabulous play by Marcos Rojo here.
The ex-Studiantes man is absolutely brilliant.
He pulls it back here and with the left foot.
That's wonderful finding of his teammate Levetsi who can't direct it down.
Banega time here, I would imagine.
Rifles this one towards the corner.
What a beautiful trajectory this is.
A fabulous hit by Ewa Banega.
Again, it's a very controversial decision to exclude Tevez.
But top class goal, Kubert again.
And the Genoa boy, I thought, had a good performance in keeping this scoreline down.
I'd say Levetsi and Banega especially seemed to struggle a bit.
Banega perhaps overcame it by the half.
Inside and headed up and over by Almeida.
Good work by Ronaldo.
As always, the Provader is beautiful with it.
That wonderful pace to release himself and give him that...
João Pereira.
Keeping it alive, Almeida slapped away by Romano and Ronaldo sends it high.
What a beautiful header from Hugo Almeida.
When you see this one again, you wonder how it doesn't go in.
This is a tremendous header. Beautiful direction.
Zabaleta wants it back, gets it back.
Into the box, play on, and another collision.
Pointing to the spot as Quintral tried to reach free.
And it's the substitute Martinez who's turned that spark into a blazing fire.
The 90th minute.
The clock ticking with the drumbeat.
Messi from 12 paces against Rui Patricio.
Messi.
Calmly sluts it home.
He might have been the calmest man in the park.
There's no neutrals at this stadium.
Argentina with the lead.
Written in the stars, no less.
See if Dani can produce something out of this world.
Produces a bad ball.
Might have been deflected a bit, but off to the races.
They're going to pull him back with the final whistle.
Messi with the winner from the penalty spot
as Argentina invades Europe and comes away with the trophy.
Wonderful game led by Lionel Chepo Batista's Argentina man.
Rock and roll in this wonderful game of football.
