The Argentina national team have scored seven free kick goals at the World Cup.
Giovani Lo Celso and Lionel Messi both scored free kicks for Argentina in their 3-1 win against Jordan, making it seven free kicks scored for Argentina. Luis Monti scored Argentina’s first free kick at a World Cup in 1930 against France.
Ernesto Belis scored four years later at the 1934 World Cup against Sweden. Miguel Brindisi would score for Argentina at the 1974 World Cup against Brazil.
At the 1982 World Cup, Daniel Passarella would score for Argentina against Italy. Lionel Messi would score his first free kick at the World Cup in 2014 against Nigeria.
Lo Celso and Messi would score the two free kicks against Jordan. Lionel Messi has two free kick goals for the Argentina national team at the World Cup, the most scored by an Argentine player.
Yesterday was fool’s gold. Beating up on minnows means less than nothing. They didn’t score on open play and that is a problem when better teams don’t commit stupid fouls. I’ll say it now, Scaloni made some poor decisions not just on player selection, but on integrating new players into the starting team. We haven’t had wing play in two years and all we can muster up is pushing in the middle? If there is no choice you should have just talked DiMaria in playing because he is better than the shit that’s out there now.
In player selection, how the hell do you call up Otamendi who just sucks and leave Senesi home barring injury to Balerdi? Which moron looked at Ota’s play and said yeah he better than Senesi? This is clear favoritism which is bullshit decision making by a manager. Also, wtf is Palacios doing here. If the best you can say is he was solid, what is he doing that Buendia, Barranchea, or Perrone can’t do? Palacios is just the worst version of Lucas Biglia reincarnated. I don’t know what happened to this guy but he is far from the creative player at River. Should have left his sorry ass in Germany. There’s 50 guys nobody has heard of that can perform just like him.
Also, no Argentina player should ever go play at Atletico. Diego Simeone is the vile cancer of Argentina football. Any player he gets becomes the worst version of himself. As far as I’m concerned they should revoke this POS citizenship and never let him near another Argentina player again. Alvarez looks like he forgot how to score and these bozos are complaining as to why he wants to leave? All this and I haven’t even talked about Montiel being called up which is a joke, along with Manuel Lopez who could clearly be stocking shelves at a store and nobody would care who he is. I hope I am wrong but unless these guys wake the hell up they are going to be dog walked on a leash by the likes of France. Disappointed and pathetic but hoping for the best.
I didn’t like conceding a goal but that will keep their memory fresh incase there is a hint of overconfidence for the games to come.
I don’t know if there is was or in the future will be a NT more hated than ARG!!!!
Every foul, pass, tackle, goal, PK, FK, dive jump…………etc that ARG performs is dissected, analyzed, measured and criticized just for one purpose: to discredit them because of jealousy and envy.
Although you’re right that conceding the goal will keep us grounded, I didn’t mind conceding that goal, given that we had an entirely new defensive setup with a makeshift right-back. That back line had never played together before. Of the five defensive players involved (the back four plus Paredes), only Tagliafico is likely to start in Argentina’s strongest XI.
Defense requires more coordination than any other area of the pitch because a single lapse in communication or positioning can be enough to concede a goal.
My bigger concern is the forward duo. Getting Lautaro and Julián back into form was my main expectation from this game, and I think it was Scaloni’s as well—that’s why he started both of them. Unfortunately, that objective wasn’t achieved. Neither of them looked sharp, and they’ll need to improve quickly before the knockout stage.