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Lionel Messi denied go-ahead goal by last ditch clearance

So close.

by Ryan Rosenblatt
Martin Rose

Argentina were a yard from a goal, the go-ahead goal of the final and maybe the defining goal of Lionel Messi's career, and then it was all ruined by a last ditch clearance.

So close. So very, very close. And then it was gone.

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