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Argentine Champions League preview: Lionel Messi vs. Paulo Dybala, more

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Lionel Messi and FC Barcelona vs. Paulo Dybala and Juventus headlines this week’s Argentine Champions League preview with both teams looking to top the group.

Messi managed a goal in the first match but he wasn’t the only Argentine to manage to get on the score sheet. Sergio Aguero and Alejandro Gomez also each managed a goal each. Here are the matches for this week:

Tuesday:

Lokomotiv Moscow vs. Bayern Munich

Shakhtar Donetsk vs. Inter Milan (Lautaro Martínez)

Olympique de Marseille (Leonardo Balerdi, Darío Benedetto) vs. Manchester City (Sergio Agüero)

Liverpool vs. FC Midtjylland

Borussia Monchengladbach vs. Real Madrid

Atletico Madrid (Ángel Correa) vs. Red Bull Salzburg

FC Porto (Agustín Marchesín) vs. Olympiacos (Maximiliano Lovera)

Atalanta (José Luis Palomino, Alejandro Gómez, Cristian Romero) vs. Ajax (Lisandro Martínez, Nicolás Tagliafico)


Wednesday:

FC Krasnodar vs. Chelsea (Willy Caballero)

Istanbul Başakşehir F.K. vs. PSG (Leandro Paredes, Mauro Icardi, Ángel Di María)

Ferencváros vs. Dynamo Kyiv

Juventus (Paulo Dybala) vs. FC Barcelona (Lionel Messi)

Club Brugge vs. Lazio (Joaquín Correa, Gonzalo Escalante)

Manchester United (Marcos Rojo, Sergio Romero) vs. RB Leipzig

Borussia Dortmund vs. Zenit Saint Petersburg (Sebastián Driussi)

Sevilla (Lucas Ocampos, Marcos Acuña, Franco Vázquez) vs. Stade Rennais

As we reported earlier, Sergio Agüero is out injured which means he will miss Manchester City’s match against Olympique de Marseille. Leonardo Balerdi, who scored in Marseille’s last match and Dario Benedetto would be the only Argentine representatives in the match.

Atalanta hosting Ajax will be the match with five Argentine players, some of which are in contention of making the Argentina national team.

Sergio Agüero could miss Argentina World Cup qualifiers due to injury

Sergio Agüero is set to miss next month’s World Cup qualifiers for Argentina due to injury.

After missing the October World Cup qualifiers due to injury, there were reports that Agüero would be included in next month’s team. However, the Manchester City striker was injured and had to be substituted off for his team in their last match and per reports, Agüero will not be available for the World Cup qualifiers next month.

Agüero may not be included but as we reported earlier, Angel Di Maria is set to be back in the Argentina squad for the matches.

Angel Di Maria to return to Argentina national team

Angel Di Maria is expected to be called to the Argentina national team for next month’s World Cup qualifiers.

Di Maria missed out on the October matches but it now looks as if he will be included for next month’s team. Per a report by TyC Sports, Di Maria will be returning for the matches against Paraguay and Peru.

Gio Simeone scores for Cagliari in 4-2 win vs. Crotone

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Gio Simeone scored for Cagliari in their 4-2 win vs. Crotone.

Simeone cannot stop scoring. Now on four goals in five games this season, the Argentine has been prolific in front of goal. With the score at 1-1, a through ball found Simeone and he would beat the goalkeeper to give Cagliari the 2-1 lead.

Lisandro Martínez scores for Ajax in 13-0 win vs. VVV

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Lisandro Martínez scored for Ajax in their 13-0 win vs. VVV.

Martínez got on the score sheet with his team winning 11-0, his striker from distance beat the goalkeeper for his second goal of the season. Lisandro was brought in at half time for fellow Argentine Nicolás Tagliafico with the match result clearly in their favor.