^{Note: The set-up for this puzzle is all a fiction. (Or is it…?!) (Yes, it’s.)}

I’ve this buddy who retains banging on about how this 12 months’s World Cup was all a giant repair, that the entire thing was rigged in order that Messi would get his large bow-out on the worldwide stage with Argentina lifting the trophy.

It appears like I’m relentlessly firefighting their ludicrous theories about referees being genetically altered to breed bias in the direction of specific groups, pitches being tilted mechanically to maneuver the ball in sure instructions, and the Belgian facet being changed by cardboard cut-outs (really, that one would possibly nicely be true…).

My buddy’s newest concept is totally bunkum. Apparently, particular matches earlier within the event had been rigged in a method that conveyed the top results of the ultimate itself (which might even be rigged) in order that a global betting syndicate may make large bucks!

This is the record of matches my buddy raised as ‘suspect’:

Poland vs Saudi Arabia
USA vs Netherlands
Canada vs Morocco
Morocco vs Portugal
Senegal vs Netherlands
Tunisia vs France
Ghana vs Portugal
Ecuador vs Senegal
France vs Poland
Switzerland vs Serbia
Japan vs Costa Rica
Netherlands vs Qatar

When my buddy identified the ‘hidden message’ they’d discovered throughout these matches, I simply shook my head. It’s a major instance of cherry-picking data to fit your personal agenda. To show it I mentioned they might simply as simply have plucked out:

Argentina vs Croatia
Belgium vs Morocco
Mexico vs Saudi Arabia
Tunisia vs France
South Korea vs Portugal
Ecuador vs Netherlands
Switzerland vs Cameroon

At which level my buddy shouted, “See?! This entire World Cup was a repair!”

Give me energy.

TASK: Find the hidden messages within the two lists of matches on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.