Argentina will be training on Friday evening. This will be the first training session in New Jersey ahead of the final.

Following the training session, two players will hold a press conference.

With DI MARIA’s injury relapse, it looks all but set that Erik LAMELA will start. No news on Nicolas GAITAN but it doesn’t look like he will be good to start or even play for the final.

The referee for the final of the Copa America is Brazilian Heber LOPES. He was also the referee when Argentina defeated Chile 2-1 in Santiago in the World Cup Qualifiers in March.

Argentina’s bench for Sunday’s Copa America final is looking very thin due to the injuries.

Ezequiel LAVEZZI and Augusto FERNANDEZ are both officialy ruled out of the final. Javier PASTORE is all but ruled out as well, making it 3 players who would not be able to take part in the match. Nicolas GAITAN doesn’t seem to have recovered from his injury and is unlikely to play.

That would leave the team with 19 players. Out of those 19, 2 are goalkeepers which brings it down to 17. And with 11 of those 17 starting, it means only 6 outfield player substitutes for Tata MARTINO.

Those 6 would be Angel DI MARIA (who is not fully fit), Sergio AGUERO, Facundo RONCAGLIA, Jonathan MAIDANA, Victor CUESTA and Matias KRANEVITTER.

I wrote DI MARIA as Erik LAMELA looks to be the starter. Out of those 6, only 2 are attack minded players and one of them is not fully fit.

Hey everyone,

Wow what a game last night!  It’s nice to see us perform like that, isn’t it? We definitely deserve to be in this final again that’s for sure.  Anyhow, the news is that DI MARIA has practiced normally with the rest of the team this morning without any issues.  He actually scored a few golazos!   He is doing a lot better than GAITAN who may or may not be ready as he is still being evaluated.  AUGUSTO FERNANDEZ is out and will not return and it doesn’t look like PASTORE is available either.  The word is that MARCOS ROJO will recover and will be available for the final as well.  We all know what happened to poor LAVEZZI.  He was having a great game too!  It’s pretty much now just up to Tata.

VAMOS ARGENTINA!!