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Mauro Icardi injury time winner, Angel Di Maria assists for PSG vs. St-Etienne

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Mauro Icardi scored an injury time winner for PSG with Angel Di Maria providing the assist.

Icardi goal, Di Maria assist as the two men from Rosario link-up to help give Mauricio Pochettino’s team the full three points. Five goals in the second half or even five goals in the last 20 minutes with two coming in injury time provided all the late drama.

Angel Di Maria and Mauro Icardi both started the match on the bench for PSG and were second half substitutes. It was St-Etienne who took the 1-0 lead but Kylian Mbappe would draw level just two minutse later. It was Mbappe again who would score in the 87th minute to give PSG the 2-1 lead. St-Etienne would draw level in the 92nd minute which looked to be the final score.

However, there were two Argentine’s on the pitch who were going to play a role in the match. PSG were awarded a corner kick and it was Angel Di Maria who took it as the 33 year old’s cross found Mauro Icardi and the Argentine would head the ball into the net to give PSG the 3-2 win. That win means PSG are one point behind league leaders Lille, with both teams having played the same amount of matches.

Rodrigo de Paul scores twice and gets sent off for Udinese in 2-1 win vs. Crotone

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Rodrigo de Paul went from hero to villain as he scored twice and got sent off for Udinese in their 2-1 win vs. Crotone.

De Paul would give Udinese the 1-0 lead right before half time. A shot by Nestorovski was saved by the goalkeeper but the Udinese captain would get to the ball, position himself and his right footed shot would beat the goalkeeper for the first goal of the match.

Roberto Pereyra would play a part in the second goal in the Argentine connection. With the score at 1-1, Pereyra would cross it over to De Paul and the 26 year old would dribble into the penalty area and once more his right foot would beat the goalkeeper to give Udinese the 2-1 advantage.

The Argentine would get sent off for dangerous play. De Paul would go for the same ball as Molina of Crotone and De Paul would raise his right foot as his boot would hit Molina. The referee gave him a straight red card.

Now on 8 goals this season, de Paul has been an integral part of the Argentina national team and has been linked with several teams across Europe.

Lionel Messi scores twice, a golazo, as Barcelona win Copa del Rey

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Lionel Messi scored twice, one of which will go down in his never-ending list of incredible goals as Barcelona won the Copa del Rey.

It was 2-0 Barcelona when the Barcelona captain received the ball and went on to score one of the greatest goals in Copa del Rey final history. Messi would get the ball in his own half, play a one-two with Pedri, dribble forward, play another one two with Frenkie de Jong, give it back to de Jong, the Dutchman would hold up the ball and pass it back to Messi as he would skip pass a defender and pass the ball into the back of the net.

A truly incredible goal as words cannot do it any justice. However, Messi was not done just yet. He would score a second just minutes later. Jordi Alba would play a pass back to Messi who would score off the edge of the penalty area and make it 4-0 for Barcelona.

Messi has now scored 31 goals this season, the same amount of goals as he scored all of last season for Barcelona. This is also his seventh Copa del Rey final win.

Congratulations to Lionel Messi on winning the Copa del Rey!

Defensa y Justicia win Recopa Sudamericana in dramatic penalty shootout vs. Palmeiras

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Defensa y Justicia got the 2-1 win on penalties (4-3 on aggregate) vs. Palmeiras with a lot of drama involved in the second leg.

It was Defensa y Justicia, the winners of the Copa Sudamericana up against Palmeiras, the Copa Libertadores winners in the second leg of the Recopa Sudamericana. The first leg ended 2-1 in favor of the Brazilian club.

It was Hernan Crespo, currently managing Sao Paulo in Brazil, who coached Defensa to their first international championship a few months ago. Now the responsibility fell to one of the best coaches in the country, Sebastian Beccacece to lead them to a second one.

The final at the Estadio Norberto Tomaghello in Argentina proved to be a memorable one. A penalty within the 90 minutes, a red card, extra time and more penalties made for constant drama. The defending Copa Libertadores champions would take a 1-0 lead after a foul in the penalty area. Up stepped Raphael Veiga as his penalty went in and the Brazilians had the advantage.

However, just seven minutes later, a lovely through ball would find Pizzini inside the penalty area and it was Braian Romero who was at the end of the pull back to draw Defensa level but they still needed one more goal.

Adonis Frias would bring Matias Vina of Palmeiras down but the Uruguayan would kick Frias in the back as the referee would go to VAR and Palmeiras would be down to 10 men. In the 93rd minute, Benitez with an effort from outside of the penalty area which the goalkeeper would not be able to block and Defensa would get their goal. A 2-1 score in regular time would mean extra time.

Braian Romero would turn from hero to villain. The scorer of the first goal would get himself sent off and Palmeiras would be awarded a penalty kick after getting fouled by the goalkeeper. However, Unsain would make up for his error and save the spot kick. The match would remain at 2-1 and go to penalty kicks.

Both teams would score their first penalty and it was Luiz Adriano who would miss his as Miguel Merentiel would scorehis to give Justicia the 2-1 lead. The next two for each team would be converted with Weverton Pereira da Silva missing his as Defensa y Justicia would be crowned as the 2021 Recopa Sudamericana champions.

 

Five Argentine players remain in the Champions League

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Five Argentine players remain in the Champions League as we reach the semi finals.

One coach in Mauricio Pochettino and three players in Angel Di Maria, Leandro Paredes and Mauro Icardi make up more than half of the Argentine representatives left in the tournament. A 1-0 second leg win vs. holders Bayern Munich means that we are guaranteed new champions. They will face Sergio Aguero and Manchester City as Kun looks to make the final of the Champions League for the first time in his career.

Willy Caballero and Chelsea play record champions Real Madrid in the other semi final. Caballero will be on the bench for Chelsea as he is not their starting goalkeeper or even their back up.

We are guaranteed at least one Argentine in the Champions League final with PSG and Manchester City having at least one in each team. We could have a total of four in the final or zero.

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