Having watched his side lose 1-0 to their bogey team Marc Wilmots insisted Argentina were only an ordinary outfit as Belgium exited the World Cup at the quarter-final stage.
Gonzalo Higuain's goal in the first-half sent the South Americans through to the semi-finals and made it four wins out of five against Belgium, but Wilmots refused to concede Lionel Messi and co had been the better side on the day.
And the former Belgium international went further, criticising referee Nicola Rizzoli for being too lenient on Messi and allowing the Argentinians to slow down the game with a series of soft decisions.
"If I played that way I would have been destroyed by the Belgium press," he said. "We were not impressed by Argentina, they were just ordinary.
"They can distort the rhythm, they take 30 seconds to take a throw-in and the referee doesn't do anything.
"I don't want to be a cry baby, but every time there is a little foul it was always in favour of Argentina.
"Every time something happens with Messi the referee gives him a free-kick.
"I notice he made three fouls and no yellow card, we made one foul and one yellow card."
Defeat denied Belgium's so-called golden generation a place in last four, with their last appearances in the World Cup semi-finals back in 1986.
Belgium had entered the game full of confidence after winning all of their group games and beating the USA 2-1 in the round of 16 but they failed to trouble Argentina keeper Sergio Romero.
Chelsea star Eden Hazard was particularly troubling, the forward failing to impose himself in any of the games.
Manchester United's Marouane Fellaini had arguably their best chance late on as Belgium belatedly pushed for an equaliser, but he headed Jan Vertonghen's pinpoint cross from the left over the bar in the closing stages.
"They didn't give us any space, this was a World Cup quarter-final and their extra experience probably counted for something," admitted Wilmots.
"I'm very proud of the boys, I have told them 'you guys are the youngest of all the last-eight teams'.
"There was a great deal of emotion, some of my staff were crying in the dressing room, because there is so much passion."
