‘I knew God was with us’: Lionel Messi hails Argentina’s salvation

• Late Marcos Rojo goal secures victory over Nigeria
• ‘I don’t remember having ever suffered so much’

Lionel Messi said that he had never suffered as much as he did in St Petersburg but insisted that he never feared Argentina being knocked out of the World Cup because God would not allow it.

Messi scored a superb opening goal to give Argentina a 1-0 lead and put them in a position to progress to the last 16 but a second-half penalty from Victor Moses left them on the verge of elimination until the Manchester United defender Marcos Rojo volleyed in a dramatic 87th-minute winner.

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