The Round of 16 at the Club World Cup begins on Saturday with 10 Argentine players available to play in the two matches.
In the first match of the Round of 16, it is Agustín Giay, Aníbal Moreno, José Manuel López and Palmeiras who finished first in Group A against Álvaro Montoro, Alexander Barboza and Botafogo who finished second in Group B.
Saturday’s second game is Ángel Di María, Gianluca Prestianni, Nicolás Otamendi and Benfica against Enzo Fernández, Aarón Anselmino and Chelsea who finished second in Group D. For Enzo Fernández, he will be playing against his old club.
The winners of both sets of matches will play against each other in the quarter finals.
Over the past few years clubs from Brazil did better internationally than clubs from Argentina.
Hopefully Scaloni and his team will look at Argentine players doing well in Brazil.
Barboza should be called next time to give him a chance. He looks a better option than Foyth.
Bernabei has proven himself. Maybe he should be chosen before Barco who failed to secure a spot in England and Spain.
Giay is an option too. Montiel is a fighter but not such a good player.
As Lomonaco’s strength is going forward, the back line in 2026 good look like this: Bernabei Romero Barboza Lomonaco.
Let’s keep Otamendi and Balerdi as backups for the CB position and Tagliafico and Maffeo for the LB and RB position.
Welcome back Richard…
Thanks Chintu Paul.
In reality I never left and checked here almost every day. For a long time I could not access my account, nor create a new one. I suspect this happened to many posters that were here in previous years.
But, glad to be back!
Prestianni is the reason benfica lost this match
Watching Prestianni play the guy can’t make a single pass and he is a midget. Can we produce a freaking player over 5’8”? These guys look microscopic.
That’s a strange rant hahaha….Garnacho 5’9., Nico Paz, Valentin Carboni both around 6’1 🙂 Mateo Pellegrino 6’4, Lomonaco and Trolio also 6’4.
Argentina club teams need a reality check. Boca and River both played like trash. The league honestly looks like trash. We sell players way too young and they die on the bench due to lack of minutes or we don’t play them at all waiting to sell them. Sad state. I mean Jesus it’s embarassing how bad they performed. The product is worse than MLS.
Anyone paying attention to Giay at Palmeiras this club wc? He’s a regular, sometimes a RB, sometimes a RCB in a back 3 or 5. Is he a viable option?
No he is not as good as we think…
J. Correa still have some magic
Little underrated
Alexander Barboza the iron wall
But
Alavaro Montoro
Something Boss
Very much talented
Just need to be strong in physically
What the hell are you talking about? Giay is good defensively. That player is workaholic. You trash him then go on to overhype Tucu correa, on of the worst inter Milan flop? That’s a bad joke
I watched the last 50mins. Good he played entire 120mins. While his sofascore rating looked relatively low, I felt he comes out as an energetic fearless defender. Didn’t see much of him attacking..but that is more of a team tactic as there were 2 players in his wing who played very advanced. He definitely should atleast be given a good chance in NT remaining games to evaluate closer.
If Chelsea beats Benfica today they have a solid chance of advancing to the semi finals. Also Enzo will be playing against his old club.