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Published 18:53 27 Jun 2018 BST
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Pointing to Portugal's game with Iran the previous night, where Carlos Queiroz's side were awarded a late spot-kick for a similar incident, Mikel told reporters he felt Nigeria were unfortunate.
"It was a clear penalty for me," he said.
"If you look at the Portugal game yesterday, this wasn't close to that. This was worse. We have seen it again in the dressing room. It was a clear handball."Mikel also claimed that Çakır couldn't explain to him why he decided not to award his team the penalty.
“The referee looked at the VAR. He said it hit the hand. I asked why he didn't give the penalty, but he said he didn't know.”The victory was Argentina's first of the tournament. After drawing their opener with Iceland and being comfortably beaten by Croatia in their second game, they will now face France in the last 16 stage next Saturday. Croatia, who won the group, will take on Denmark.
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