Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni has named his starting eleven for the match against Switzerland and Lionel Messi starts.
Lionel Scaloni has not made any changes to the team which won 3-2 against Egypt. Here is the starting line-up:
Emiliano Martínez; Molina, Romero, Lisandro Martínez, Tagliafico; De Paul, Paredes, Enzo, Mac Allister; Messi and Julián Álvarez
I don’t recognise this team. Even with 10 men Switzerland can beat us I feel
Here we go again. The jitters are coming back. God damit. We wont have a single match without this drama isnt it.
This game is a good example of what it looks like playing shitty football with no plan. Argentina resembles Paraguay playing France.
We should score now.They are down to 10 men.
Once again we got very lucky. Does Scaloni have the brains to take advantage?
He doesn’t deserve to win it for God’s sake, are we kidding ourselves.
We don’t deserve to win this game at all. Not untill what we saw
Totally agree. I can be a diehard Arg supporter but what I saw today is negative football. No effort, can’t string 3 passes. Trying to defend a 1 goal lead. Same fuc*ing line up.
Madonna’s deeper and deeper and deeper should be argentinas tune
Any deeper there defending back home why not defend back at the training camp or on the plane
wtf Argentina what on earth tactic is this
It doesn’t work playing with the same old folks from previous world cup. Simple formula I’m football.
Nothing wrong with are talent it’s pressure mental block and riding luck
There making the most problem scared of the ball in there box Whitch greed more fear and more fear
Dibu is a scared shit house
Scaloni is a worst reader of the game! Why the fcuk are you letting the opponent have so much ball!!
This guy’s plan was to defend a 1 – 0 lead seriously???
The whole world know its coming when giving space to midfielders by backpediling 🥲
This is disappointing… defending 30 minutes without attack is senseless.
wtf are we playing i don’t know anymore to be honest. Just don’t understand the game plan. We will lose for sure today
Hang back and let opponent score. World class tactical genius defending on display.
Fu** Scaloni up side down
Fuking statues again
Same mistakes same statues same deep deeper deeper same ball watching
Same not looking over shoulders
Same same same same same
Nothing changes no plan no desire no movement
It seems Scaloni, the mfu**, has no clue what’s going on. It seems a matter of time before disaster strikes.
Switzerland is playing very poorly, lacking the final bit of quality. Only reason it is still 1-0. Not due to great tactical defending. Way too many free runs, free headers, free crosses. That is not what good defending looks like.
De Paul is shit….he needs to be benched
Yes
That cross from Molina showed his true class. No serie B team will buy him even..
Can’t believe a team like Argentina don’t have player to play in left wing / left attacking mf. I cant remember when we played with 4 cm in any wc.
There is one thing which won us trophies which was defending hard. That was missing this tournament. Seems Scaloni and co wants to bring that and see that performance, he has always been comfortable defending after 1-0 lead and then score at counter if possible to raise it to 2-0.. I don’t understand the outrage here with this style of play.. we have been playing this style for a long time now and produced results which matters..
Yes
Second half begins, and immediately two horrendous miss passes.
If Argentina qualifies for the semifinals, scaloni must drop Rodrigo DePaul
Mother fucker
Fuck this madarchod Scolani
Lisandro martinez is trying but he is struggling because of his body weight. I see random foul done by him. Also because of him too much pressure on Romero in arial ball. What is the meaning of giving so much pressure to any single CB. I think lisando martinez is a great player no doubt but very risky for Argentina.
Mcallister backpass the ball in attacking chance.. hahahaha this team is a joke.
Depaul tactics is succesful as messi’ bodyguard, scaloni don’t have balls to separate him from messi
He was looking for Messi but Akanji blocked Leo!
We need one more goal.. but people crying here for btfl football.. pls dont expect that.. I could not care less.. lets win this.. thats it. Tahts what is imp in tournament football. As of now they have not created any threats.. lets go for one more and thats it.
Yes the typical south american mentality to win stylish has been outplayed by european teams.What worked in the past may not work now.Play to win the game,that’s it.
Constantly playing longball to Alvarez or Messi, because we can’t get through Swiss press is hard to swallow….Scaloni need’s to change something as if we just keep sending longballs to Swiss half and just defend our lead Swiss’s chance’s to get back to the game is very high. Scaloni clearly want’s us to defend and look for counters, which are not working….
We dont have potential. This team is totally dependent on Messi. Can’t believe we are playing with 4 cm because we dont have proper winger or attacking mid to play left side. This is strange team selection
Alvarez, Molina, Enzo are the weak links so far. They are struggling against the tall and physical presence of the Swiss defence. IMHO we should have replacements for them soon. Why not Lopez, Lo Celso and Palacios?
Who will support messi and alvarez? Playing with 4 mf is unnecessary. It’s very unfortunate that after di maria there is no winger available. Almada flop, nico Gonzalez is not reliable. Who will play in left side to support striker?
Buendia, Soule – potentially world class wingers never given a chance to integrate into the national team.
They are not putting the free kick into the box instead passing all the way to the goal keeper. What on earth?
Pathetic morons. Macallister is completely exposed. He has nothing to offer. Has had a horrible World Cup and yet starts all the matches. RDP and Molina are Cyprus level.
Scaloni and Tapia need to be investigated. There is something seriously wrong with this whole thing. The Egypt coach.is perhaps right about Scaloni after all.
Scaloni is playing safe and is waiting for Swiss team to push forward and hit them on counters. However, we allowing too much of the ball to Switzerland! Overall a much better display compared to last two matches!
Swiss team is already pushing forward and we have had no counters.
If the scoreline remains the same for next 20 mins they will push more players forward. However we have to get the second one otherwise a late equalizer will create immense pressure!
They have no quality to hit on the counter. The Swiss players are faster and fitter.
Swiss team is in control. We are losing out the midifleld battle. Messi is without any help from the midfield.
Our midfield is shit that is the biggest problem.and we don’t have the players for fast counters maybe only Alvarez can run there is essentially no runner in the team except alvarez.we don’t have young messi dimaria etc
I didn’t understand why in press conference nobody ask scaloni about picking his favourite player same old players instead of the new emerging one 🤔 really disturbing to see our team like this…scaloni has to take the criticism for this…very much disappointing performance 👎
It is the same mindset you see in many people here. Because of 2022, these people are pathologically incapable of criticizing or questioning Scaloni. They would rather stop using their eyes and ears and their brain rather than doubt Scaloni.
Some people want PlayStation football this World Cup quarterfinal, and Switzerland has no mocks.
Where is Enzo fernandez….
Scaloni please sub Enzo fernandez and Rodrigo de Paul
Argentina are hanging there by a thread.
We need Lo Celso or Nico Paz in place of Enzo. How many touches did he have so far? He seems to be still living in the happy shadows of the last goal in the previous match.
3-4 free kicks wasted, the last one messis took was surprising when 3 players waiting for the cross inside the box he took it short and then side passes
Its a tight game, hopefully they will kill the game, Clinging onto the 1-0 lead is highly risky. Kill it…
haha, you made me laugh, killing the game? That’s not the DNA of this team.
Molina, De Paul, Macallister they don’ Deserve this stage. Pathetic. They are shame for this level of football. Scaloni and sissy staff are pathetic. This team can’t string 3 passes.
So many freekicks wasted by passing back or passing short. Seriously what was the thinking?
With such pathetic performance, probably it would be better to be out with some respect in this round or semi. Otherwise, against Spain or France it might be a humiliation like the Brazil-Germany game in 2014.
No!
Grow up
Fake supporter
Agree with u brother
It’s to boring to see the display form the Scolani Favourite boys ….
Switzerland dominated the whole game & we are playing like a 100 ranking team
They dominated nothing you don’t see understand football
Doesn’t matter as long as we don’t concede.
Swiss bullying Argentina. Play acting time wasting all in first half by Argentina. Scaloni you crap piece garbage. Worst team in the last 3 decades.
Other than RDP, I see others slowing gaining some momentum but still a long way to go.
What momentum? Argentina has been MIA since the hydration break.
That’s what I said,it is a long way to gain full momemtum!
There is zero momentum. Not full. Not some. Not any.
May be for you! I respect your opinion.
Last world cup, even France and Netherlands were afraid of Argentina. That’s why they were hesitant to attack all out when 2 goals down until near the end of the match. Even after equalizing they went back into the shell rather than exploit Argentina’s defending panic.
These year, even Cape Verde, Egypt, Switzerland are not afraid. So many errors. So much passivity. Such lack of effort. No team is afraid. Never thought I would see the day when a team like Switzerland would dominate Argentina despite being a goal down, in the middle of the first half.
May be out of topic,every team feared brazil a lot in the 2006 world cup.But did they win the world cup? No.We should just win 7-8 matches,the equation is simple.Doesnt matter if our opponents fear us or not.Italy was not feared in the 2006 world cup but still they won it.
Yes but you think this argentina defence is same quality of 2006 Italy defence??
Did I say that ? I just said they were’t feared the most.
Licha with the crucial block.
Piece of s*** Scaloni.
Start supporting the swiss you crybaby.. no one give a fuck abt nice play.. go and watch old 2006 foitage for that.. need to win games tahts it.
Ya sabya! I may sound arrogant but some members in this forum just blame Scaloni ,his tactics,players bla bla as if we are losing badly.I could see some improvement in most of the players ,it’s not that I am too optimistic but that’s the way it looked.Dibu made some saves,only RDP seema a bit off color.We will have to see how it goes in 2nd half and as somebody commented regarding rdp run and run get tired till 70 mins and get substituted.This might be a plan for him as he is off color for the moment.
Same line up, same boring football. Really lucky to come this far. Among all the teams, our midfielders are the laziest. Just stand and keep passing the ball back or side ways.
De Paul & Enzo is on competition to lost ball ….
Very much annoying
Pathetic.
De Paul is the weakest link, should be subbed.
Yes
De paul losing ball from free space unlike him
We are consistently scoring from headers.Any thoughts on this plz?
VAMOS🇦🇷⚽️🇦🇷 MAC ALLISTER⚽️👏🇦🇷
⚽️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽…. 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
As we have the lead now,plz continue the tempo.1-0 is not a safe bet anytime.
Mac scores
The same lineup and he still doesn’t learn. Switzerland. Today might be the end of the road unless a miracle happens. At this point it may be be pure favoritism or scaloni has different plan to silence us
The same starting line up. Hence, we would again be left inefficient, controlless and slow.
Scaloni is horrible…
Don’t have any plan
Just Messi save him….
VAMOS ARGENTINA🇦🇷✨🇦🇷
EMI to come out off his goal line to catch the ball.
Defend tight.
Our chances will come.
Extra motivation because they will want to play and beat England.
Scaloni is a horrible manager. He still has his job because of Messi’s magic. This guy clearly has no idea how to manage the players, and his tactics are horrible. How can you start MLS De Paul, the out of form Molina, and Mac? He is a disgrace. Argentina will have a hard time winning because of Scaloni.
Thanks for letting us know Messi starts mundo
Rolls eyes
I don’t understand why the coach not play the wingers instead of middle side no days football goes the two sides after discount maria retire the football there is no wingers i am very upset
Rumoured lineup is the same as starting 11.Why no surprises like last worldcup? Anyways,as stated earlier whoever starts doesn’t matter to me as long as Argentina wins 💪
Disappointing lineup.now only messi and Alvarez can save us
This team have no idea.. Scaloni is a joke.. I have no fate about this line up.We will not go to semifinal. I fastated scaloni team.selection may be Today messi will play his last international match..
It’s switzerland so we may win but the coaching is so poor from scaloni this world cup.clearly he has no idea
We will win 3-1. I believe ChatGPT predictions are spot on.Just the England vs Norway match didn’t end at 2-2 and went on to penalties where England won.It predicted England’s win correctly though.
Chatgpt prediction?
I saw a random video in youtube a couple of days back where it predicted the quarter final results.All the 3 completed matches had its prediction spot on.
We are going to win
Yes!!!!!
Depaul, Enzo, Molina! These three need to step up today!!
Enzo scored vs Egypt,IMO Molina improved a bit as he didn’t lose the balls unnecessarily.Only depaul has to get his mozo back
De Paul will burn all his energy and he will be subbed out at about 70 minutes. I believe that’s the plan.
Correct! He is doing all the running in this match,still his passes aren’t that sharp.
Depaul is definitely off color.
Real Argentina please show up. I lost confidence in our defence like every time ball goes towards our goal I feel ohhh crap. I know the team is there but they ain’t performing their potential yet.