Ángel Di María suffers hamstring injury with PSG, could miss Argentina matches

1. I hear PSG is looking to show Neymar the door……..going from bad to worse the way I see it.

   • What’s worse.. Mbappe moving is worse…not Neymar.

     Brazil will play with Neymar…and not Vinicius..that’s good for opponent…

     Zidane can turn this team in to a top class…

     • I was talking about PSG losing overall talent…..Mbappe is going and the loss probably cemented that foreseeable outcome and his mom was sitting in REAL’s owner’s box its almost but confirmed.
       I’m sure Zidane will do a much better job being French and a winner than POCH but we are more concerned with the WC this year and next year is next year.
       PSG is going after Christina and will probably offer him some ridiculous amount of money to come……I called PSG a “LOOK AT ME CLUB” not a real footballing club and always looking for the BIG SPLASH

2. Ajax is closely monitoring argentine defender, Adonis Frias from Defensa, wow we have a lot great CB prospects: Romero, Licha, Senesi, Perez, Balerdi, Medina, Frias, Avila etc.

   • no surprise there. Frias had replaced Licha when he moved to Ajax and has adapted very well.

3. Btw Emi Martinez was impressive last night. 2 clean sheets in a row for him. Emi Buendia was a sub. It seems he has lost the competition as starter.

   As for Di Maria, I just hope he will still be in his prime until December 2022. After that, he can retire or even play for Argentina league, that’s fine. He’s done his wonderful part as someone who has more than 100 caps.

4. See many comments on Barca and Messi, just want to rectify that Barca actually had the money to renew Messi’s contract but Laporta decided differently, he wants to rebuild the club with the new generation of players(Pedri, Nico, Gavi, Eric Garcia, Ansu Fati) with some functional players for short term(Depay, Aguero and now Aub, …etc.). The salary budget breached excuse was a diplomatic way to get rid of Messi. Otherwise, how to explain the 50M deal of Ferran Torres 2 months ago and the 250M bid on for Haalnad? Of course they have money and they could have done it earlier, remember Griezemann’s exit was done in the last minutes after Messi’s transfer and Coutinho was only traded during this winter. Of course they could have managed those cases earlier but Laporta just didn’t want to.

   I don’t think Xavi will bring his friend back to Barca, it’s not him who can make that kind of decision without his president’s approval, remember his salary is 40M per year. When Messi signed at PSG, I said it was a lost lost deal for both of them. PSG could never get the best of Messi and Messi cannot play his best football at L1, which is much more physical and teams playing transition football with higher intensity, total opposite tempo of Liga. He didn’t really choose PSG because PSG was the only offer on the table. Sad to say, Pep’s Man City didn’t make any offer to him. Atletico was tempted but no official offer.

   However I don’t think it’s totally finished for him, he could be a great playmaker like his 1st half against Real Madrid. He just need to work on his physical conditions. He adapted already his playing style to his age which was a good start.

   • Pep style require high preasuring game from all his players, Messi wouldnt do any good to his team at this age. Pep idolized Bielsa and Gallardo.

     Even Aguero struggles in his last season, he said himself City sometimes didnt even play with out and out striker cause they prioritize possession which can only be achieve by preasuring to win the ball back quickly like Pep Barca used to do.

     I hate to say it , had Messi stays at Barca or moves to team like Inter, he’d still banging goals regularly even if he doesnt win CL.

     PSG is high pace team relying on high speed counter through players like Mbappe, Neymar and Di Maria. Even Neymar now already almost as slow as Messi despite being 5 years younger.

5. I think it’s a good thing that the world cup takes place during winter because 2021-2022 is not a good year for most of our top players at club. Messi physically very diminished, De Paul and Nicolas Gonzalez underperformed due to club changes, Di Maria frequently injured, Lautaro less efficient due to the internal changes of the team, Paredes and Lo Celso not enough playing time. The players performance at club shortly before the world cup usually reflects their future performance with the national team, there is very few miracle.

   I think Scaloni and his staff need to start working on the plan B, that kind of scenario could probably repeat. For example how to play the team if both Di Maria and Messi are injured. They should take it very seriously.

6. Man if you guys think garnacho is good then you should checkout how skilful and confident on the ball Valentin Carboni of Inter Milan is. His link up play is also very impressive.

   https://youtu.be/mrOZ5NvWgr8

   • Thanks Vimal. Valentine Carboni looks like a flamboyant playmaker to me. I see a glimpse of Pastore in him.

     • Welcome mate. Yes looks like a composed playmaker like Pastore, just that this kid seems physically superior.

7. Here is a good list from our current U20 players and their positions: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selecci%C3%B3n_de_f%C3%BAtbol_sub-20_de_Argentina#Plantel_actual
   Federico Gomes Gerth is 2.02m tall goalkeeper wow…

   • Wow this is what I have been looking for. Thanks man. It seems like there are 9 “foreigners” instead of 7. 2 others are Sarmiento of Man City and Oliva of Atletico Madrid.

     Man the last time we won the World Cup u20 was the Sergio Aguero team of 2007. Someone who has already retired. After that, Lamela, A Correa, Lautaro, Barco, and J Alvarez team lost. We gotta win it again this time.

     • Imo this is only a list only from possible players, not official one.

   • Somewhere else I saw that Gomes Gerth is 193 cm which not quite as gigantic as 2.02 but still not too shabby…

8. Very unclear for Di Maria’s career in the future, his contract will end soon on June and PSG probably won’t renew it. Now he got injured and the title L1 was almost done, guess the club would leave him off to find a club. I think AC Milan could be a good spot for him, probably as a rotation player.

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10. just read this interesting article on how AFA are sourcing young talents from Europe.
    This is solely the idea of Bernardo Romeo. Romeo if u remember was part of the 97 world youth cup winning team alongside the other guys he works with now at the AFA, Aimar, Samuel, Placente.
    He told this idea to Tapia when he joined AFA as a youth coordinator. Tapia was interested and created a new department exclusively for sourcing. Apparently, they are initially focussing on Italy and Spain mostly. The team led by Romeo would scan their targets and then Romeo will make the first move that is approach the parents to make sure of Argentine connection and know of their parents’ intentions next would be to approach the club and talk to them on why they are there before finally meeting with the players to talking to them.
    They are going about it in a professional and humane manner so as not to create any controversies.
    The chosen players are then invited to meet with Scaloni along with Aimar, Samuel, Placente to give the kids a briefing about the project they have at AFA.
    Absolutely fantastic.
    An example of the humane part Romeo is talking about is, they talked to Neal Maupay, who apparently is very keen on playing for Argentina but Scaloni told him that since he also has a chance to play for France he doesn’t want to rush him.

    • Excellent thinking by Romeo.

    • Excellent. This new system will ensure us a very bright future.

11. I noticed hamstring often happen when you dont warm up long enough and you try to sprint right away .

    As soon as he came in against for PSG yesterday , he started to sprint so fast trying to press Courtois. He did simliar thing early in the game against Chile back then. This is why Messi doesnt accelerate alot cause he must have known similar thing could happen , especially for players with as many caps as him or Angelito.

12. Acuna assisted Sevilla’s winner against West ham. Superb cross and finish.

13. No Surprised on Di Maria injured, it has become his trademark. We need him on WC rather than this last 2 WCQ. A right time to optimized Dybala, Julian Alvarez, Gio, Palacios and Lanzini.

    • Yes, it is too bad indeed, but offcourse this can happen to anyone and as we know Fideo’s past injuries as u mentioned, well like u said it is time to optimize others who can fill in and also like SorinXcrespO said it might be a blessing in disguise as it kind of forces Scaloni to expand and maximize every potential that there is available right now and maybe after theese 2 WCQ’s we might be a bit wiser again who will be at pole position for the race of the last WC spot’s for our beloved Albiceleste, though there is Still plenty of time til’ the world cup and in the real worst case scenario there might not be any WC at all if this conflict and attack by russians led Mr.Plutonium will escalete in war in Europe at all front’s as some from inside Kremlin are saying, as in the end hopefully just propaganda and blody politics as usual, but Still it won’t change a bit what is happening to Ukraine or what has been going around in different parts of the world all the time as different conflicts have constantly taken place for god knows how long and it just looks like every time something happening in the Europe people suddenly wake up and will demonstrate against war, though this has been happening at least around the world since i was born and much, much longer than that !

      Anyhow never liked war or never wanted to talk about it so, please forgive me all for reminding everyone about this never ending subject !

      Better, to concentrate on Arg and for the last 2 WCQ’s as there is not much more we can do as only hire ourselfs as volunteers and go fighting against russians in Ukraine,
      Well i won’t recomend that seriously to anyone as some friends of mine are stucked in there as being Ukraine citizens as also professional boxers and coaches for boxing etc,,

      So if no Di Maria what will be Scaloni’s line up against Venezuela as i personally would like to see as many of those that have not played so much yet with Leo for example as i want Leo to play and forget about all this nonsense talk about his PSG career as i do not care about that at all only it make’s me sad to hear unfair things said about him etc

      Could Arg maybe play with 2 keepers as starting with one and changing at half time and also do the same against Ecuador as i want those 2 Musso and Rulli to have as much experience as possible specially as we know allready what Dibu can give us etc

      Also iwould like to see Cuti playing with Licha at least for 45 min and give also chance for Foyth at some point etc as more they all as defenders can share playing time the more better it will be for the future as we never know who might get injured etc

      And at middfield i would also like the playing time shared as much as possible by theese following players :
      Leandro Paredes (Paris Saint-Germain)
      Guido Rodríguez (Real Betis)
      Rodrigo De Paul (Atletico Madrid)
      Exequiel Palacios (Bayer Leverkusen)
      Manuel Lanzini (West Ham United)
      Giovani Lo Celso (Villarreal)
      Emiliano Buendía (Aston Villa)
      Alejandro Papu Gómez (Sevilla)
      Nicolás Gonzalez (Fiorentina)
      Lucas Ocampos (Sevilla)

      And up fron the same philosophy that only Leo will play as much as he can and the rest will share the playing time as much as possible by theese following players:

      Paulo Dybala (Juventus)
      Lautaro Martínez (Inter)
      Ángel Correa (Atletico Madrid)
      Julián Álvarez (River Plate)
      Giovanni Simeone (Verona)
      Lucas Boyé (Elche)

      As offcourse i would like to see Luka Romero or Matias Soule, but i think for that i’m bit too optimistic, perhaps?

    • Except Dybala has been injured more often than ADM in last few years, sadly.

14. Barca drained Messi dry by over working him for 4 seasons straight!! For 4 consecutive seasons he carried that dead club on his shoulders and we were lucky he didn’t arrive at Copa like Dimaria in 2014 WC. Yes his scoring has been abysmal since his move to PSG but you gotta understand Messi’s style of play is total opposite. He receives almost 50% less passes and very few chances to score and he hasn’t been able to capitalize on those few scoring opportunities and also extremely unlucky hitting the framework 9 times this season.

    Yes, he has lost a lot of pace and his first touch hasn’t been up to the mark that is why he hasn’t been able to score . Another thing I would like to add is ever since he was tackled by the Venezuelan defender where he almost broke Messi’s leg , his dribbling has taken a big hit. Messi is clearly avoiding unnecessary tackles. Coutinho looked like a total failure during his time at Barca but as soon as he moved to Villa which suited his style of play , he again looks like the player who was Liverpool’s best player once!! I am really looking forward to how Messi plays in national shirt again where he will be the center of our attack!!

    • Di Maria totally blew his hamstring in that 120 minutes CL final where he’s still run like crazy even in extra time. I mean , he beat 3 players to setup the winning goal near very end of the game. Also, the game against Switzerland went 120 minutes and he’s still sprinting to scored the winner at 118th minutes.

      He better manage his physical condition well this year at least for one last shot at glory.

15. It may be a blessing in disguise that fideo is injured. We can try more new players. I just hope it’s not an injury he will carry for some time.
    I’m excited to see all these new players on the list, but I’m also not expecting any of them to get any minutes either. 😂

    • @sorinxcrespo : -It may be a blessing in disguise that fideo is injured. We can try more new players. I just hope it’s not an injury he will carry for some time.
      I’m excited to see all these new players on the list, but I’m also not expecting any of them to get any minutes either.

      Yes, hopefully the injury is not an long one and that it will be taken care of propably as there is nothing for PSG to literally play for as they most propably won the league and, Ok i’m not sure about the French Cup, but anyhow they are loaded with players so let them rest and nurse Fideo propably as we don’t want him injured even a slightly bit when the WC starts and hopefully this timehe will last til’ the end as i’m referring to the sad scenes and memories for him and rest of Arg what happened in Brazil at 2014 etc..

      Great move indeed from Scaloni and the crew include and scout all theese promising youngsters and include them in the list, though as u said none of them will most certainly play, only if some crazy bug or sickness will hit the whole squad, which is quite unlikely, though we are Still living in Covid world etc…

      At least they can be around the first team and hopefully Mascherano will utilize them properly etc…

      Though i would not Mind to see a glimpse of, maybe at least one of them as infact i would loveto see them all playing, but i do not have that kind acces or source/link where to watch Mascherano’s U20 team etc…

16. Homie was in the game for 5 mins, C’MON lousy luck!
    I thought the first game was on the 25th??
    Neymar and Gigi fighting in the dressing room and had to be separated.
    Owner and GM going after the game officials for not calling a foul on Benzema that led to the 1st goal…..apparently it was a shouting match……..wild wild west up in PSG world.

    Messi is the victim here and not the instigator as many haters/non-haters have suggested…..the man was FORCED to LEAVE….can we establish that HUGH detail here first?
    and PSG came running with Money and star power/friends when nobody else could and he went for it but PSG being the hot-mess its been for the past many years……..where the general thinking of amassing stars will lead to success when it never did.
    We ARGENTINA fans care about one thing and ONE thing ONLY, winning the DAMN WC or at the very least getting the Most out of the talent they have, including Messi and the rest is left up to GOD to decide.
    Let them say what the hell ever they wanna say about Messi, Barcelona with their Stupidity ruined his chances of winning the UEFA by hiring unworthy coaches and squandering beaucoup $$ on shitty players that contributed next to zero and THEN fell into financial hardship because the club was run by thieves and clowns….
    I like Xavi and wish him the best because one he’s a class-act and 2nd he’s a good friend to Messi but aside from that, FUCK Barcelona and PSG for all I care.
    Said it before and I’ll say it again, I’d rather have the current Messi than one that is tired/injured with lots of miles before the WC.
    They say its gonna get worse before it gets better…..Messi is in the Worse phase now and hopefully he’ll be in the better when he comes back to the NT and to himself again.
    Get that damn Trophy first and retire, become a school teacher, a dancer I don’t give a damn what he does after that.

    • @Dfox1942 :- Messi is the victim here and not the instigator as many haters/non-haters have suggested…..the man was FORCED to LEAVE….can we establish that HUGH detail here first?
      and PSG came running with Money and star power/friends when nobody else could and he went for it but PSG being the hot-mess its been for the past many years……..where the general thinking of amassing stars will lead to success when it never did.
      We ARGENTINA fans care about one thing and ONE thing ONLY, winning the DAMN WC or at the very least getting the Most out of the talent they have, including Messi and the rest is left up to GOD to decide.
      Let them say what the hell ever they wanna say about Messi, Barcelona with their Stupidity ruined his chances of winning the UEFA by hiring unworthy coaches and squandering beaucoup $$ on shitty players that contributed next to zero and THEN fell into financial hardship because the club was run by thieves and clowns….
      I like Xavi and wish him the best because one he’s a class-act and 2nd he’s a good friend to Messi but aside from that, FUCK Barcelona and PSG for all I care.
      Said it before and I’ll say it again, I’d rather have the current Messi than one that is tired/injured with lots of miles before the WC.
      They say its gonna get worse before it gets better…..Messi is in the Worse phase now and hopefully he’ll be in the better when he comes back to the NT and to himself again.
      Get that damn Trophy first and retire, become a school teacher, a dancer I don’t give a damn what he does after that.

      Yes, pinpointed fully every single word ! I’m also starting to get sick from this toxicness against Leo again as he do not need to show anyone anything more that he has allready show’n the rest of the world at least since 17 year old kid !

      I know this toxicness and i been aware of it since Diego was 17 year’s old, but now the level of it is just gone way beyond anything as it is so absurd that what is going on attendo moment or in the past year since Arg won finally deservedly Copa at Maracana, well all this same old bulkshit started from FIFA, UEFA AND ALK TJOSE CORRUPTED TEAMS OWNED BY SUPER CORRUPTED MULTIBILLIONAIRIES ETC…INCLUDING THE YELLOW MONKEYS AND THEIR MIND GAMES WITH FIFA, CONMEBOL OR WHO SO EVER IS IN CHARGE AND RESPONSIBLE WHAT HAPPENED IN BRAZIL WHEN THE BLODY HEALTH AUTHORITIES INVADED THE PITCH ETC…WHAT AN JOKE IS WHAT INDEED, JUST SCARED AND PISSED THAT TEY LOST AT MIGHTY MARACANA AND SINCE ARG AS TEAM HAS GROWN THEIR OWN CONFIDENCE AS WORKING HARD AS A REAL UNIT OF A REAL TEAM, WELL THE REST OF THE WORLD OWNERS ”SURPRISINGLY” STARTS IT’S WARFARE ALLREADY AGAINST ARG AND WILL TRY THAT BY ANY COST AS POSSIBLE THEY WILL TRY TO STOP ARG WINNING THE WC

      There will never ever be any player like Leo in the world as there will be also none like El Diego too !

      For us as fan’s of Argentina for life there is only that one more wish that Leo would be able to win the WC for Arg and after that as u said let him have his peace and rest and enjoy life with his family and do what ever he want’s to do !

      Ir it is Barca or PSG, who gives a fuck ! As we fan’s of Argentina are only intrested winning more trophy’s and hopefully one more with Leo !

      And if not, well Still it would be completly stupid and ignorant to crucify him as the french and also Catalan media+rest of of whole world football pundits, who in fact most are more than super stupid in the end and don’t actually know jack shit even most them are X-players etc..

      As they have a saying about real Guru’s or Spritual leaders or what so ever that ” there is so much quantity, but very little quality”, well this saying also fits with all these MORON’s talking trash about Leo and giving their oppinion’s about world football and stupid predictions about ”who will win the WC ” etc…blah blah blah is all in the end what they can really say about anything and what comes to their prediction and knowledge of football, well i would only say that it is never good to predict anything, but to be prepared for everything etc..,Yes, i know it more easy to say than actually to acomplish, but anyhow i think everybody intelligent enough will get the point !

      In a way or another they can’t stop Arg forever as i’m pretty sure Arg will lift the WC for the 3rd time DESERVEDLY ! But, if it will be in Qatar or when, well i won’t predict on that, but forsure one day it will happen again and if i’m allready gone til’ then, well at least i know as my father knew once that like his son i was lucky to witness both of the WC’s Arg has won, and off ourselfs we allways wish and wished for much more, but now as being father of my 8 year old son and 10 year’s old daughter at least i can reat in peace any knowing that they will allways support only Arg, never Mind what will happen in this crooked world etc…

17. Next generation Argentina team WC 2026:
    FW:Julian alvarez
    LW:Alejandro Garnacho
    RW: Matias soule,Luka Remero
    AM: Nico paz

    LB: Franco carboni
    CB: Senesi,Romero

    • Good team. Goal keeper will be Franco Armani

    • CB – Romero & Lisandro Martinez 🔥🔥 not only for WC 2026 also for WC 2022….

18. PSG fucking argentina.

19. Too bad indeed, i wish him a speedy recovery. Di Maria was not just on fire but we have the priveledge to have a legend who is still playing for us.

    Seems that Nico and Lucas will be fielded together.

    • Big No. Dybala will take his role, Ocampos is average. Nico is an asset

20. Too bad, Fideo has been on fire for us lately.

    Palacios and Alario facing off a formidable opponent in Atalanta.

    • how did Alario do ? Saw that his rating was bad & he was subbed.

      • He is not a international material to be Frank…his injury and lacks of consistent is the main factor…my backup striker for lautaro would be Simmone, Alvarez and angel correa 👍

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