Enzo Barrenechea and Facundo Buonanotte both did not make the Argentina bench.
Barrenechea and Buonanotte will not be on the Argentina national team bench for their World Cup qualifying match against Peru. Lionel Scaloni has left both players out of the team. Here is the starting eleven:
Emiliano Martínez; Montiel, Balerdi, Otamendi, Tagliafico; De Paul, Enzo Fernández, Alexis Mac Allister; Messi, Lautaro and Julián Álvarez.
We will score & win today. Just loved the jersey & hope this stays.
The positives i saw is that Enzo was playing well & Balerdi gets much needed minutes. He is another ball playing CB which is great in the post Otamendi era.
The issue i saw is that Lautaro was mostly outside the D. Some of our solid opportunities had Alexis ,Montiel , Tagli going for the final shot. Also Alvarez is being played too wide which reduces his impact. Lautaro & Alvarez closer to the goal & we will score.
One thing I’m convinced we are still looking for a player who can replace Di maria. No Garnacho, no Nico Gonzalez can match the level of Di maria. If possible Scaloni should try to convince Di maria to comeback before world cup just to play it. Otherwise with Messi and someone average players we have no chance.
This game needs players can dribble tight space taking risks I would take de Paul off for lo celso Lautaro off for paz or almada
Take montiel off for simeone
it isn’t a national team but a messi team or scaloni friends team .Unless their friends get injuries no one have chance to come in . Look at otamendi ,Montiel .They are friends of the coach surely have chance to play no matter how poor their performance.
Barrenechea and Buonanotte did not make the bench but Paz did because that kid is truly special.
A RB is starting for NT who is even a starter for NT. I mean I understand Scaloni doesn’t want to break wining team but this is crazy. I mean at least he should call players who are regular in club.