>>149844827
Durin Qatar 2 different things happen
1. The amount of Argies that travel to the games made it convenient for the organization to keep Argentina all the guy to the final as they were going to sell out Lusail every single game.
2. Infantino pretty much gave the order that Messi had to win the world cup, if a Reff dares to screw Argentina he is not getting more matches, easy as that, that's why you got all those soft pens and calls in your favor
So yeah, is not like the arabs gave money to the reffs, but the reffs were conditioned to help Argentina.