José Manuel López scored for Palmeiras in their 3-0 win against Fortaleza.
López was back with Palmeiras after the World Cup final with the Argentina national team and scored a goal in their win. The Argentine did not start the match but was substituted into the match.
With Palmeiras leading 2-0, it was a cross into the penalty area but the initial effort on goal was saved. The ball fell to López and he scored to give Palmeiras the 3-0 lead.
Alexander Barboza started the match for Palmeiras and Agustín Giay was an unused substitute.
I watched the river/central match yesterday and it explained a lot about the final. At one point they had Ota, Martinez Quarta, Montiel, Lautaro Rivero playing. It’s astonishing to me that Scaloni thought any of these guys are NT players. To be kind, they are either washed up, not in form, or too young. What the hell was Scaloni thinking? The wonder kid Freitas left me wondering if he is even any better than an average player. I know it’s one game, but basically the rebuild is going to be about 13-15 new players. It’s going to be a heavy,heavy lift. If this is one of the premier teams in Argentina, they are thousands of miles away from the same team that produced Julian and Enzo. As supporters, let’s not get stuck in past glory. The road ahead is difficult based on player development that’s currently lacking.
I agree, Argentine league players can no longer feature in a WC winning Argentina team. The league sucks, and the AFA is a disgrace.
Please watch Tomas Aranda and Leonel Flores of Boca Juniors
I will. Thank you for the information. I was very discouraged when I saw the quality of play in that game. It was awful.
How it’s even logially possible to bring the names who were not there (in the final) to prove they should not be there? You have the losing team of all but one (Montiel had a solid game actually) European league players and blaming the other from Argentina league.
“they are thousands of miles away from the same team that produced Julian and Enzo”. Are you sure not like two tousand miles? Just give me the reason the teams would have fallen so badly, so rapidlly, not being able to produce another Julian or Enzo. Do some retrospection and you will see same defetism before 2021. Most of the Scaloni’s new crop before 2021-2022 have little or no exerience in European football back then. They’ve become the wanted ones not before winning Copa and WC. Some names were quite anonymous for people showing the double standards in estimating who’s NT material (for Freitas few minutes in NT is enough but for Mastantuono it’s way to little I suppose). The stars from Europe has failed because Scaloni had tried to reproduce same effects with same names unlike in 2022. The new cycle started and the beginnings will as humble as it was when Scaloni took over.
WC final is a failure LOL, the chances with a brand new team and young players to playing WC final in 26WC would have been less than 10-15%, failure is my ass, it was closer to a miracle. NT failures are Batistuta, Crespo, Higuain, Aguero, Tevez, Riquelme, Aimar, Veron, Ortega, Simeone, Zanetti, Sorin, Samuel, Ayala and a lot more loosers from our dark banter era.
No one has said to send brand new team for WC final alone. What’s been said is he didn’t take the risk seriously, the risk of introducing fresh blood before the WC and take them there finally. 0 risk strategy is always punished. His strategy was max conservative and as such quite the opposite to that of 2022. The title defenders got the starting line up position for granted. Having 3-4 more experienced ones in starting eleven is matter of course. He just replicated the previous’ titles WC defender basic mistake. Nothing new and expected.