The Argentina national team will play Austria at the World Cup on Monday and Lionel Messi is set to start.
Lionel Messi scored three goals for Argentina in their 3-0 win against Algeria at the World Cup and is set to start against Austria. Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni will be without Gonzalo Montiel for the match against Austria and he could make one change to the team which start the win against Algeria. According to SportsCenter ESPN, here is the rumored eleven:
Emiliano Martínez; Molina, Romero, Lisandro Martínez, Medina; De Paul, Mac Allister, Enzo, Almada; Messi and Lautaro Martínez
Why again almada?? He is awful
So basically the same team vs Algeria except Molina. I understand not tinkering with the winning team, but I would just like Alvarez to start. Almada also combines better with Alvarez. I guess he is still not 100 percent and coaching team will slowly integrate him especially as we are comfortable with the win in the first match.
I am also not overtly worried on the montiel situation, he should be good to go vs Jordan but may still be rested to give some more time. The bigger worry is that Argentina is not producing enough talent at the wing back positions. The coaching staff tried everything from Foyth to kevin Macallister to capaldo to augustin but nobody impressed them enough over a half fit Montiel who himself is quite mediocre. I believe foyth, if not injured would have been selected over Balerdi and he could have covered for a couple of matches till montiel recovered. Hopefully Molina does not get a suspension.