To remind Louis van Gaal of Riquelme, Messi stood right in front of the dutch and cupped his ears, emulating the celebration of the Argentine icon.
Speaking after the match, Sport caught Messi's statements on van Gaal, where the Argentina captain continued to feud.
"Van Gaal sells those that play football well and he began to put tall people on and launch the ball at them."
At the end of the game, Messi could be seen gesticulating at the 71-year-old Van Gaal and also went face to face with Edgar Davids, a member of the Dutch technical staff.
Messi was one of 17 people - players or coaching staff - to be given a yellow card, which is a record for a World Cup game. He received his booking in the final seconds of regulation time for dissent, though it could have come much earlier when he patted the ball away deliberately with his hand.
Finishing the game with a bloodied and slightly puffy top lip after running into Netherlands defender Jurrien Timber, Messi took aim at Spanish referee Antonio Mateu, saying he was not "up to the standard" and was "very harmful for us," and also broke off from his post-match interview on the field to shout abuse at Wout Weghorst, the scorer of the Netherlands' two goals.
"It was a very hard match, I have to say," Messi said through an interpreter. "From the very beginning, we know it would be this way as we had a big national team in front of us.
"We suffered a lot and we didn't deserve that. We played the way we had to play."
It was mayhem at times, notably when the Netherlands bench emptied onto the field after Leandro Paredes smashed the ball toward the dugout from close range. Netherlands defender Virgil van Dijk sprinted up to Paredes and barged him to the ground as a melee unfolded.
Mateu struggled to maintain control of the game. After blowing the fulltime whistle to take the game to extra time, he was immediately confronted by Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni, who got in Mateu's face and had to be held back by colleagues.
"Estos videos son todos de usted. Es el mejor jugador del mundo cuando tiene la pelota pero cuando no la tiene jugamos con uno menos", Louis Van Gaal a Juan Roman Riquelme en 2002.
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