Van Gaal was embarrassed. If the Dutch squad can unite behind the boss and maintain the same caliber, then Van Gaal's scripted argument, even if illogical, is more or less influential because there is a team behind the creation of potential. But his eldest disciple Van Dijk had to stand up and play against his mentor and speak to Messi, which is indeed a bit of a faceless face, and even a little dismantled.
In fact, the Qatar World Cup, for Argentina's victory, many influential football circlers have voiced doubts. For example, during the World Cup, after Portugal eliminated, Pepe bluntly said that FIFA directly awarded the Hercules Cup to Messi in advance. But like Van Gaal, things have passed for so long, and they still hold on, and they feel a little bit of a broken thought. In fact, it is not difficult to understand that Van Gaal, who is in his 70s, does not have the physical strength or energy to lead the national team to play the World Cup in the future, and his last World Cup trip is ruined in Argentina's hands, his heart must be unwilling, and the Netherlands only lost to Argentina in a penalty shootout. Perhaps in his opinion, if everything is not arranged, he and the Netherlands may even have a chance to climb to the top of the world and get the Hercules Cup. However, Van Dijk stood up and contradicted him, and Van Gaal's questioning voice was a bit illogical.
In fact, many doubters, including Louis van Gaal, about Argentina's victory were directed at Argentina getting too many penalties. Indeed, with so many penalties mixed in with the victory, it is indeed a bit pretty. But the problem is that if you commit a foul in the box, you will have to award a penalty. If you commit 10 fouls, you will be awarded 10 penalties. Of course, when it comes to the game, it is necessary to consider all aspects of the situation. So, instead of blaming Argentina for so many penalties, it's better to blame teams like Saudi Arabia, Poland, the Netherlands, Australia, Croatia, France, why they always send penalties. As for whether these penalties are reasonable, whether they are misjudged, whether the referee deliberately sent points, it is a matter of opinion.
If you have to say that Argentina's victory is a script, it can be. But this script is by no means the kind Van Gaal understood.
Van Gaal's script may have been designed by FIFA. But in fact, the whole process of Argentina's victory is more like providence, in other words, this script is more like the arrangement of fate.
Argentina's upset defeat to Saudi Arabia in the first game has already shown the counterattack structure of this script. To be honest, if fate had not arranged Saudi Arabia to give Argentina the first blow, maybe Argentina would have released water in the final round of the group stage like France, Brazil, and Portugal to relax its tense nerves, so that maybe there would be no subsequent championship story.
Historically, any World Cup champion cannot lack the gift of luck on the road to winning the championship. In fact, Argentina has encountered great trouble with Mexico, Australia, the Netherlands, and France, and if you are unlucky, you may end the road to the championship. Sometimes, the team that wins the championship is the team with the best luck. In this sense, Argentina is just copying the previous winning routine.
In terms of strength, Argentina is actually inferior to France. But France in the final, the first 70 minutes are simply sleepwalking, that is by no means the ability and state that France should have. It is said that many French players were sunny before the match, which also seriously reduced their fighting ability. How can this be explained? It can only be said that God is helping Argentina and arranging for them an opponent who is not in form. The final was full of twists and turns, but instead of saying that this was Van Gaal's script, it was better to ask Muani why the quasi-killer before the final had to hit Martin's leg impartially?
In fact, one of the most wonderful foreshadowings of this fate arrangement script is that Messi finally became Argentina's big brother after more than ten years. Before the World Cup in Qatar, some people were optimistic about Argentina winning the championship, not because of strength, but because of cohesion. This is the first time since Messi joined the national team that he can control the whole team. In the past, Messi was either because of his junior qualifications or because his teammates were not satisfied, in short, he did not achieve an absolute central position in the team. But in the Qatar World Cup, Messi is surrounded by a group of fans, willing to go to the soup for him, and those players who were not willing to give him green leaves are long gone. It can be said that this is the most comfortable World Cup for Messi.
In short, for Argentina, the Qatar World Cup, everything is the best arrangement. And it is not FIFA that arranges their way to the title, but fate itself. To put it bluntly, this is a World Cup that belongs to Argentina, and everything should be there.
And Van Gaal's questioning, unwillingly, is also part of this script.