Julian Alvarez: Argentina has a great match to go through the semi-finals

Argentina striker Julian Alvarez has scored twice at Qatar 2022 and looks ahead to the quarter finals of 2022 World Cup against Netherlands.

“I tried to prepare myself physically, mentally for when the moment comes to me, to take advantage of it and help my team-mates as much as possible,” Alvarez told FIFA, talking of how he had to settle for a seat on the bench in Lionel Scaloni’s first two team selections.

“Netherlands are a great and strong team, but with our weapons and doing what we have been doing, we believe that we can have a great match to go through the semi-finals.

“Obviously the dream is always there and we always want to achieve everything, but as we always say: step by step. We know it's a difficult game, but obviously to enter the semi-finals, to be among the four best in the world, it would be something very important for us as a group and for the country. It would give us incredible joy.”