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“I think even if we don’t want to admit it, because it always feels like an excuse, and we would never talk about it, but I feel that the game in Mexico, the altitude, the travelling, we lost a complete amount of sleep, and the game in the heat in Norway in extra time and was smaller than.
“So I felt that, and I think it is part of the development of the game. The players; these players are very important. They will literally gain everything physically in every single match.
“If you see these data drop, there must be a reason behind it because the motivation was through the roof, like for every other team who made it into.
“We could not reach these kind of intensities. I think Argentina found another year, found another moment, found another belief.
“They built something over several years and have of course the experience of overcoming these kind of moments and these kind of matches and winning titles together. So this came into play. Messi was on the other side.”
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