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1. Scaloni arrives at the stadium and gets off the team bus in tears.
2. Messi and all the players come out of the locker room with their heads down.
3. During the pre-match team talk, Messi says: “Let’s forget about everything. Let’s just play. Forget about everything.” Enzo Fernández and Lisandro Martínez can clearly be seen crying. Nobody applauds the speech. Everyone looks sad.
4. During the warm-up, Messi keeps deliberately kicking shots wide of the goal.
5. The referee doesn’t show Spain a single yellow card. Oyarzabal hits Messi directly on the knee while the ball is nowhere near them, and Messi just looks at him without saying anything.
6. Cucurella covers his mouth and is not sent off. Enzo Fernández receives a red card, even though the Spanish player does a backflip to simulate the contact.
7. Scaloni uses a completely different tactical approach from all his previous matches: no midfield, leaving Messi and Julián Álvarez isolated up front while Spain dominates the game. Lautaro Martínez, who is usually an important option, never comes on.
8. Cuti Romero and Lisandro Martínez leave the match “injured,” but they don’t appear to be in pain or emotional. They are known as two of the toughest players on the team, and many fans find it unusual.
9. Leandro Paredes’ visible anger.
10. The Argentine players turn their backs on the Spanish players during the trophy ceremony.
11. Cuti Romero and Lisandro Martínez do not shake hands with Trump.
12. Spain barely celebrates.
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