Thiago Almada, Nicolás González and Lautaro Martínez are all competing for one spot in the Argentina starting eleven.
One of Almada, Nicolás González and Lautaro are set to start for Argentina against Colombia on Tuesday. According to Gastón Edul, one of them will start alongside Lionel Messi and Julián Álvarez in Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier.
Almada started in Argentina’s 1-0 win against Chile while Nicolás González was suspended due to his red card against Uruguay and Lautaro was rested.
On this day in 2012, Lionel Messi scored a hat trick for Argentina in a 4-3 win against Brazil.
On June 9, 2012, Lionel Messi had his second hat trick with the Argentina national team. It was Brazil who scored the first goal to take the 1-0 lead in New Jersey.
With Brazil leading 1-0, Gonzalo Higuaín would play a pass in to Messi and he would score to draw Argentina level. Three minutes later, Ángel Di María would play a pass to Messi and he would dribble around the goalkeeper, similarly to Claudio Caniggia in 1990 against Brazil, to score and give Argentina the 2-1 lead.
Brazil would score two more goals to make 3-2 going late in the match. Alejandro Sabella’s team were awarded a corner kick and this was their chance.
Sergio Agüero would take the corner kick and it would find Federico Fernández who scored to draw Argentina level. Minutes later, there was one more goal in the match.
Lionel Messi would receive the ball down the wing and dribble towards the Brazilian team and his effort from distance would beat the goalkeeper and he would score his third goal of the match.
Messi would run towards the Argentina national team bench to celebrate with the team. There would be fireworks after the goal.
Before the end of the match, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Marcelo would get into an argument, with both men getting red carded.
This was the Argentina line-up:
Romero; Clemente Rodríguez, Fernández, Garay, Zabaleta; Sosa, Mascherano, Gago, Di María; Higuaín and Messi
Agüero, Lavezzi, Hugo Campagnaro and Pablo Guiñazú were substituted into the match with Agustín Orión, Mariano Andújar, Leandro Desábato, Marcos Rojo, Matías Rodríguez, Rodrigo Braña, Augusto Fernández and Eduardo Salvio on the bench.
Franco Mastantuono will join Real Madrid in August for $45 million.
Mastantuono is going to be playing with Real Madrid. According to Fabrizio Romano, the 17 year old is going to join Real Madrid on a six year deal.
It will be for $45 million which will be paid in installments. River Plate are asking for him to play the Club World Cup with them and to join Real Madrid in August.
The Argentine is presently with the Argentina national team and played his first match with Argentina in their 1-0 win against Chile.
On this day twenty years ago, Argentina won 3-1 against Brazil with Hernán Crespo scoring twice and Juan Román Riquelme scoring a memorable goal.
June 8, 2005, José Pekerman’s Argentina qualified for the 2006 World Cup with a 3-1 win against Brazil. Lucho González would play the pass in to Crespo who would score three minutes into the match to give Argentina the 1-0 lead.
At 1-0, it was Juan Román Riquelme who would score the goal of the match. He would start it all with a back heel flick in the air and the ball would get back to him where his left footed effort from distance would beat Dida for Argentina’s second goal of the match.
With Argentina leading 2-0, it was a short corner kick taken by Riquelme. He would pass it to Javier Saviola and Saviola with a low cross into the penalty area which found Crespo who scored a header for his second goal.
Brazil would score one goal but it was Argentina with the 3-1 win. Here was the line-up for the match:
Abbondanzieri; Sorín, Heinze, Ayala, Coloccini; Kily González, Mascherano, Lucho González; Riquelme; Crespo, Saviola
Javier Zanetti and Carlos Tevez were both substituted on with Germán Lux, Gabriel Milito, Lucas Bernardi, Pablo Aimar and César Delgado on the bench.
Leandro Paredes spoke about Lionel Messi’s injury at the Copa America final.
Paredes was on the bench when Lionel Messi was substituted out in the 2024 Copa America final with an injury. He would go on to be substituted into the match and play an instrumental role in the winning goal scored by Lautaro Martínez to win Argentina the Copa America.
Lionel Messi was shown crying on the bench with a swollen ankle while Paredes was sitting next to him. Speaking in an interview with Telefe, here is what Paredes had to say about Messi’s injury:
“I didn’t look at Messi because I couldn’t hear him cry. I was surprised that he cried like that because it is very difficult for him to show what he is going through. Seeing him like that made me feel bad.”
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