Netherlands vs Argentina live score, FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar: Argentina win a heartstopper on penalties

So that brings to an end two pulsating quarter-final games both of which went to penalties. We have two more coming up tomorrow. Do join us for those. Till then take rest and be ready for tomorrow. I need to sleep! Bye for now.

5 - Argentina have won the most penalty shootouts of any side in World Cup history (5 wins from 6). Self-control. pic.twitter.com/i4h6t57ZTm
— OptaJean (@OptaJean) December 9, 2022

⚠️ | QUICK STAT

Argentina's goalkeepers have now saved 10 shootout penalties in #FIFAWorldCup history, two more than any other nation:

🇦🇷 Sergio Goycochea (4)
🇦🇷 Carlos Roa (2)
🇦🇷 Sergio Romero (2)
🇦🇷 Emiliano Martínez (2)

Dibu continued La Albiceleste's tradition tonight. 💫 pic.twitter.com/mRzqHhyFnH
— Sofascore (@SofascoreINT) December 9, 2022

In 2014:
Netherlands: ✅❌✅❌
Argentina: ✅✅✅✅

In 2022:
Netherlands: ❌❌✅✅✅
Argentina: ✅✅✅❌✅

When it comes to penalty shootout against the Netherlands at the #FIFAWorldCup, Argentina reign supreme 🥶 pic.twitter.com/oxdZdv1kUX
— SuperSport 🏆 (@SuperSportTV) December 9, 2022

We will sign off. Before that we will leave you with a couple of tweets.

So tears from Netherlands while Argentina are singing and dancing along merrily. That's the story of the shootouts in a nutshell.

Emiliano Dibu Martinez saved the first two penalties to give Argentina a heavy cushion and despite Enzo's miss, Lautaro held his nerve to close out the deal. We saw Martinez be the hero in the Copa America semi-final in the shootout against Colombia and he came up with unbelievable saves to take his side to the semi-final.

That goal took the game into extra-time and Argentina threatened as they brought on Angel Di Maria. Enzo hit the post with the last kick of the game. And the dreaded penalty shootout came.

OH MY HOLY DAYS! WHAT A GAME! Unbelievable. Argentina were cruising at 2-0 with 10 minutes of normal time and additional time left. But Netherlands never gave up and Wout Weghorst scored twice as they resorted to longball tactics. A superbly worked free-kick off the last kick in the 11th minute of added time, saw Netherlands equalise.

As we saw in the Croatia-Brazil game, heartbreak and ecstasy on both sides. Phew. I can't type. I need to sleep!

PENALTY SCORED BY Lautaro Martinez! Netherlands 5 Argentina 6. Lautarooooooooooo! He sends Noppert the wrong way by finding the bottom-left corner. Right into the side-netting. Very well placed and Argentina celebrate and roar in delight.

ARGENTINA WIN!

Lautaro Martinez with the last kick. Score and he will take Argentina through. Miss and then it is sudden-death.

PENALTY SCORED BY Luuk de Jong! Netherlands 5 Argentina 5. Netherlands stay alive still. Luuk de Jong sends Martinez the wrong way, sliding it into his left.

PENALTY MISSED BY ENZO FERNANDEZ! Netherlands 4 Argentina 5. Pressure! And Netherlands are still in it. Enzo takes a long run and drags this wide of Noppert's right-hand post with the keeper going the right way.

PENALTY SCORED BY Wout Weghorst! Netherlands 4 Argentina 5. Good penalty that as it is placed into Martinez's right-hand post. Right in the corner.

PENALTY SCORED BY Gonzalo Montiel! Netherlands 3 Argentina 5. Such a calm and reassuring penalty. Side-footed into the corner sending Noppert the wrong way - diving to his right.

PENALTY SCORED BY Teun Koopmeiners! Netherlands 3 Argentina 4. Martinez does not dive and the penalty is to his left.

PENALTY SCORED BY Leandro Paredes! Netherlands 2 Argentina 4. Right into the side-netting from Paredes as Noppert dives the right way to his right. Unstoppable penalty that.

PENALTY SAVED FROM Steven Berghuis! Netherlands 2 Argentina 3. My word what a save. To his left this time as Martinez dives and parries the powerful kick. He celebrates wildly as well.

PENALTY SCORED BY Lionel Messi! Netherlands 2 Argentina 3. Messi sends Noppert the other way with a slide-rule pass to the keeper's right.

PENALTY SAVED FROM Virgil van Dijk! Netherlands 2 Argentina 2. Martinez dives to his right to make a flying save. He is pumped. That was into the corner from Martinez came up trumps.

Netherlands to take the first kick.

Time for either Andries Noppert or Dibu Martinez to become their nation's heroes.

EXTRA-TIME ENDS! Netherlands 2 Argentina 2. Argentina created chances and Enzo hit the post in the last minute of second half extra-time. Netherlands were surviving and now it's to penalties.

WE ARE GOING TO PENALTIES.

Enzo Fernandez HITS THE POST. From a corner, Messi passes to Enzo who shoots from outside the box but with Noppert beaten, the shot hits the outside of the post and goes out for a goal-kick. So so close.

Great turn by Lautaro Martinez and he shoots but Noppert does well to dive and palm it away. That was a stinging drive.

From a corner, German Pezzella's header is powerful and on target but just over the crossbar.

And now Enzo Fernandez's shot takes a deflection and just loops over the crossbar.

What a chance for Lautaro Martinez but the ball hits Virgil van Dijk and goes away for a corner.

Netherlands make a substitution: Noa Lang on for Cody Gakpo.

YELLOW CARD TO German Pezzella for bringing down Cody Gakpo.

Argentina make their last change: Angel Di Maria on for Lisandro Martinez.

YELLOW CARD TO Gonzalo Montiel for saying something to the referee. He will miss the next game if Argentina get through. Silly again.

Argentina make a change: Gonzalo Montiel on for Nahuel Molina.

Second half of extra-time begins.

Both sides have two changes remaining. Remember for extra-time you get an extra substitution.

Nothing in that half and we are 15 minutes away from penalties.

First half of extra-time ends.

A free-kick from Messi and it's dinked to the far stick where Otamendi at full stretch can't get there.

A total of 11 players have been booked in this game.

STAT courtesy BBC: Netherlands have scored five goals in the last 15 minutes of matches in Qatar, more than any other team in the 2022 World Cup.

First half of extra-time begins.

So another 30 minutes of this. And if not then we go to another penalty shootout.

FULL-TIME! Netherlands 2 Argentina 2. When it looked dead and buried Wout Weghorst came up with two goals in the last 20 minutes to force extra-time. Argentina just wilted under the longball tactic from Netherlands. Direct and firing crosses into the box, and it worked. On to extra-time.

WE ARE GOING TO EXTRA-TIME!

GOAL! Wout Weghorst in the 101st minute! Netherlands 2 Argentina 2. What a cleverly worked free-kick that was. When everyone was expecting a shot, Koopmeiners passed the ball to Weghorst who held off a defender and then slid it in past Dibu Martinez. Argentina were not expecting that at all and are caught napping. Practically off the last kick of the game, Netherlands level. What.A.Game.

The 10 minutes are up. Last chance for Netherlands.

YELLOW CARD to Lionel Messi for protesting that decision.