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Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni speaks on the match vs. Paraguay

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Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni spoke about the team’s match against Paraguay.

Lionel Scaloni held a press conference after the team’s 2-1 loss against Paraguay in the World Cup qualifiers. Speaking to the media, here is what he had to say:

“I’m not here to criticize my players, I’m here to support them. We knew it was going to be a complicated match. We are here to move forward and give confidence to many new players.

“In the first half we played a good game and the first action at the beginning of the second half made everything difficult. We have to congratulate the opponent who defended very well.

“We are playing and we hope to get back on the right track. The team always tries, always gives its best in the matches. The players don’t give a ball away. Afterwards, we will analyze what we can do better.”

Scaloni also spoke about the World Cup qualifier against Peru on Tuesday:

“Peru will be a totally different opponent, but they also have their difficulties. We are going to prepare well and hopefully we can give our fans a good time. We are confident in what we have been doing.”

Lautaro Martínez comments on Argentina’s loss against Paraguay in World Cup qualifiers

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Lautaro Martínez commented on Argentina’s 2-1 loss against Paraguay in the World Cup qualifiers.

Martínez scored for Argentina in their match against Paraguay, bringing him higher up in the all time leading goal scorers with the Argentina national team. Speaking to the media after the match, here is what Lautaro had to say:

“We came to a difficult pitch that the national team has always found difficult. In general terms, we played a good game, we had good ball control. We have to think about what’s to come.

“We have to correct a lot of things that we did wrong in this match, but in general we are doing well, we are in the lead and we have to think about Tuesday’s match”.

Lautaro Martínez enters top six Argentina all time top goal scorers

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Lautaro Martínez has entered the top six all time top goal scorers for the Argentina national team.

Martínez scored for Argentina in their 2-1 loss against Paraguay in the World Cup qualifiers. He has now scored 31 goals with the Argentina national team, the same amount of goals as Gonzalo Higuaín.

He is one goal away from tying Diego Maradona at 32 goals and four goals away from Hernán Crespo who is on 35 goals. Here are the top Argentina goal scorers:

  1. Lionel Messi: 112 goals
  2. Gabriel Batistuta: 54 goals
  3. Sergio Agüero: 42 goals
  4. Hernán Crespo: 35 goals
  5. Diego Maradona: 32 goals
  6. Lautaro Martínez and Gonzalo Higuaín: 31 goals

Argentina lose 2-1 against Paraguay, Lautaro Martínez the goal scorer

Argentina lost 2-1 against Paraguay in the World Cup qualifiers with Lautaro Martínez the goal scorer.

The first half saw Argentina have much of the ball but Lionel Scaloni’s team did not create too many chances. One real chance was created and it got them a goal.

Enzo Fernández played a ball over to Lautaro Martinez and he scored to give Argentina the 1-0 lead. The goal was initially not given but the referee went to VAR and it was overturned.

Paraguay would draw level minutes later. They were awarded a corner kick and a header hit the crossbar but Paraguay continued with pressuring. They would cross inside the penalty area and Antonio Sanabria would score a bycicle kick to draw them level.

The seconnd half would end and Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni would make a change at half time. Leonardo Balerdi was substituted in for Cristian Romero.

It was a free kick at the start of the second half for Paraguay and Omar Alderete would score a header and give Paraguay the 2-1 lead. Scaloni would make more changes, bringing on Alejandro Garnacho for Alexis Mac Allister.

Alejandro Garnacho would start a counter attack, passing it to Julián Álvarez and he would play it to Rodrigo De Paul but his effort would go high. Scaloni would bring on Leandro Paredes for Enzo Fernández and Gonzalo Montiel on for Nahuel Molina.

Scaloni’s last change was Tatty Castellanos for Julián Álvarez. Castellanos came close to scoring off a Lionel Messi corner kick but his effort went high. The match would end with Paraguay getting the 2-1 win but Argentina do remain first in the World Cup qualifiers.

Argentina starting XI vs. Paraguay, Lionel Messi, Lautaro Martínez, Julián Álvarez

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Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni has announced his starting eleven against Paraguay and Lionel Messi, Lautaro Martínez and Julián Álvarez all start.

Lionel Scaloni is going with three forwards against in Thursday’s World Cup qualifier against Paraguay. Enzo Barrenechea and Nehuén Pérez do not make the bench. Here is the starting eleven:

Emiliano Martínez, Molina, Romero, Otamendi, Tagliafico; De Paul, Enzo Fernández, Alexis Mac Allister; Messi, Lautaro Martínez and Julián Álvarez