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Champions League Argentine preview: Alejandro Papu Gomez receives Liverpool

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Atalanta host Liverpool in the main match as Alejandro Papu Gomez will try to steal the show while Lautaro Martinez will try to give Inter the three points against Madrid and keep them ahead in the standings.

Despite not scoring in the last match, Alejandro Gomez has been in great form for Atalanta. Gomez will try to make it five goals in six matches this season on Tuesday. Lautaro Martinez and Inter find themselves in third place ahead of last place Real Madrid who have yet to win a group stage match.

Lionel Messi will try to make it three wins out of three as Barcelona host Dynamo Kyiv on Wednesday.

Here are the matches for this week:

Tuesday:

Shakhtar Donetsk vs. Borussia Monchengladbach

Lokomotiv Moscow vs. Atletico Madrid (Ángel Correa)

RB Salzburg vs. Bayern Munich

Real Madrid vs. Inter Milan (Lautaro Martínez)

Manchester City (Sergio Agüero) vs. Olympiacos (Maximiliano Lovera)

FC Porto (Agustín Marchesín) vs. Olympique de Marseille (Leonardo Balerdi, Darío Benedetto)

Atalanta (José Luis Palomino, Alejandro Gómez, Cristian Romero) vs. Liverpool

FC Midtjylland vs. Ajax (Lisandro Martínez, Nicolás Tagliafico)

Wednesday:

Istanbul Başakşehir F.K. vs/ Manchester United (Marcos Rojo, Sergio Romero)

Zenit Saint Petersburg (Sebastián Driussi) vs. Lazio (Joaquín Correa, Gonzalo Escalante)

FC Barcelona (Lionel Messi) vs. Dynamo Kyiv

Ferencváros vs. Juventus (Paulo Dybala)

Club Brugge vs. Borussia Dortmund

Sevilla (Lucas Ocampos, Marcos Acuña, Franco Vázquez) vs. FC Krasnodar

Chelsea (Willy Caballero) vs. Stade Rennais

RB Leipzig vs. PSG (Leandro Paredes, Mauro Icardi, Ángel Di María)

Lucas Alario scores twice for Bayer Leverkusen in 4-2 win vs. Freiburg

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Lucas Alario scored twice for Bayer Leverkusen in theit 4-2 win vs. Freiburg.

Alario continues his great form for his club. With Freiburg leading 1-0, the 28 year old was onto the loose ball and scored to draw Leverkusen level. The Argentine would double his tally, a ball played into the penalty area found Alario who would score to give Leverkusen the 2-1 lead.

Now on 5 goals in his last 3 games in the league, he now has six goals in his last five matches.

Gio Simeone scores for Cagliari, reaches 5 goals in 6 games in 3-2 loss vs. Bologna

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Gio Simeone scored for Cagliari in their 3-2 loss vs. Bologna.

Simeone made it five goals in 6 games as he scored for the third match in a row. With the score at 1-1, Simeone would give Cagliari the 2-1 lead. The ball would be pulled back into the penalty area and would find the Argentine who would score for Cagliari.

Simeone was selected for the Argentina national team squad for the World Cup qualifiers in October and is expected to be called once more for the November games.

Juan Foyth injured, expected to miss Argentina World Cup qualifiers

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Juan Foyth has suffered an injury and is expected to miss Argentina’s World Cup qualifiers in November.

Foyth was substituted off for Villarreal in their Euorpa League match against Qarabag FQ as the club have confirmed his injury. Per a statement by Villarreal, Foyth has suffered muscular damage to his biceps femoris on his right leg.

Argentina have two World Cup qualifiers in November and while the 22 year old was going to make the team, this would mean he would miss out on the two games as he will be out for 2-3 weeks.

Alejandro Papu Gomez talks about Argentina national team, Lionel Messi, more

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Alejandro Papu Gomez spoke about making the Argentina national team, Lionel Messi and more.

Papu Gomez was selected for the October World Cup qualifiers for Argentina after a three year absence from the team. Speaking in an interview with ClossContinental, here’s what he had to say:

“It had been three years that I hadn’t been back. For me, it’s spectacular being back because it’s not easy at my age. Obviously I would have liked to have had some minutes but that’s how it was. Getting to the Argentina national team with one day of training is not easy. The match against Ecuador was asking for another player but the coach selected someone else.”

In regards to Lionel Messi:

“I saw Messi very happy with this Argentina national team group. If he is happy, we will all be happy. We know what he lived the past few months at Barcelona, surely he’s not comfortable with the way the team is playing.”

Gomez also spoke about the team:

“This group of Argentina national team players has to have about 30-40 games behind them. I believe that Argentina have an obligation of making the quarter finals of a World Cup. You can’t demand to be a World champion now. I don’t pretend for us to be Germany but when you can work three or four years with the same people, things come out better. I hope this happens with Scaloni.”

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