Over 12 years ago, Argentina had their Fantastic Four up front and in a World Cup qualifier, won 4-0 against Ecuador.
During the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, Alejandro Sabella’s Argentina hosted Ecuador at the Monumental stadium. Days before their 4-3 win against Brazil, Sabella lined-up Lionel Messi, Ángel Di María, Sergio Agüero and Gonzalo Higuaín and all four of them scored in the 4-0 win.
The first goal was a great team goal with Di María passing it to Messi who gave it back to Di María and he chipped it over to Sergio Agüero to score the first goal of the game. The second goal came from Gonzalo Higuaín after a through ball by Lionel Messi and Higuaín was one on one with the goalkeeper and scored.
Lionel Messi would also get his goal. Moments after Higuaín’s, it was a counter attack with Messi running towards Ecuador’s back line, he would pass it to Higuaín and Higuaín would return it to Messi who would score and make it 3-0 for Argentina.
Ángel Di María would get his goal and the last one of the match. Messi’s effort was saved by the goalkeeper and the ball would fall to José Sosa who would cross it to Di María and he would score.
Alejandro Sabella started these eleven players:
Sergio Romero, Pablo Zabaleta, Federico Fernández, Ezequiel Garay, Clemente Rodríguez; Fernando Gago, Javier Mascherano, Ángel Di María; Gonzalo Higuaín, Lionel Messi and Sergio Agüero.
