Lionel Scaloni said he was looking forward to taking on Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal in the World Cup quarter-finals after his Argentina side beat Australia 2-1 on Saturday.
Goals from Lionel Messi and Julian Alvarez gave Argentina a winning cushion at the Ahmad bin Ali stadium in Qatar before an Enzo Fernandez own goal set up a frantic finish.
Argentina will face the Dutch in the last eight on Friday after the Netherlands beat the United States 3-1 earlier in the day.
It will give Scaloni, 44, the chance to come up against a coach he already idolised when he was still a player.
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