Messi’s Argentina survive Cape Verde scare — meet the man who nearly beat them

He cut inside from the left, opened his body, and curled it into the far top corner. Cape Verde 2, Argentina 2, in the 103rd minute of a tie bookmakers had given Cape Verde as little as a 4 percent chance of winning outright. Sidny Lopes Cabral had just scored the greatest goal in Cape Verdean football history. He didn’t stay to admire it, running straight into the crowd to find his girlfriend before turning back for the pitch. Argentina won it in extra time, 3-2, in a match that never once behaved like a mismatch. But long after the scoreline fades, people will remember the goal, and that run into the stands.

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