It’s typically hard to say a team “won” a draw, but what happened Saturday morning in Russia is a rare exception.
Iceland miraculously played Argentina to a 1-1 draw in the two teams’ 2018 FIFA World Cup Group D opener. The result really is a tale of two perspectives: Iceland will celebrate earning the first World Cup point in the country’s history, while Argentina and its superstar captain, Lionel Messi, will mourn the squandering of so many great scoring chances.
Chief among them was Messi’s missed penalty kick in the second half, but we’ll get to that later.
First, watch Sergio Aguero give Argentina a 1-0 lead early in the f…