José Manuel López and Aníbal Moreno could both start for Argentina against Puerto Rico on Tuesday.
The Argentina national team will play Puerto Rico on Tuesday and Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni could be making some changes to the team. According to Maximiliano Grillo, the two players could start against Puerto Rico.
Lionel Scaloni’s team won 1-0 against Venezuela and Scaloni stated before the match that the new players would get some minutes in the two matches.
Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni spoke about Matías Soulé.
Lionel Scaloni has not called-up Matías Soulé to the Argentina national team for the two friendly matches against Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Scaloni held a press conference on Monday where he commented on if Lionel Messi will play against Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Scaloni also spoke about Matías Soulé. Here is what he had to say:
“Soulé is on our radar, like so many other young players who we believe can contribute to the team. He has been with us, as have Buonanotte, Garnacho, and Carboni. These are young players who we see having a future with the national team and we will call them up as and when we see that they have the potential. That’s the idea.”
Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni spoke on if Lionel Messi will play against Puerto Rico.
Lionel Messi did not play with the Argentina national team in their 1-0 win against Venezuela. Messi was rested and played on Saturday with Inter Miami, scoring two goals against Atlanta United.
The Argentina national team will play Puerto Rico on Tuesday in Miami. Scaloni spoke at a press conference on Monday about if Lionel Messi was going to play. Here is what he had to say:
“I saw him play on Saturday, but I haven’t spoken to him yet. Now we have our last training session and as we always do, I’ll talk to him and if he’s fit, he’ll play tomorrow.”
The Argentina U20 national team are back in the semi finals of the U20 World Cup for the first time in 18 years.
Diego Placente’s team won 2-0 against Mexico in the quarter finals and will play Colombia in the semi finals on Wednesday. This marks the first time that Argentina are in the semi finals of the U20 World Cup since 2007 where they won 3-0 against Chile.
The starting eleven for that match was the following:
Sergio Romero; Emiliano Insúa, Matías Cahais, Federico Fazio, Gabriel Mercado; Éver Banega, Claudio Yacob, Maximiliano Moralez; Ángel Di María, Sergio Agüero and Pablo Piatti
Ángel Di María, Claudio Yacob and Maximiliano Moralez scored the goals for Argentina. The team would go on to win the 2007 U20 World Cup, winning 2-1 against Czech Republic with Sergio Agüero and Mauro Zárate scoring.
Argentina have won the most U20 World Cup tournaments, winning it six times with the last time being in 2007 against Czech Republic in the final.
Lionel Messi is back training with the Argentina national team.
Messi did not play with the Argentina national team in their 1-0 win against Venezuela. The Argentine was rested and took part in Inter Miami’s 4-0 win against Atlanta United where he scored two goals in the match.
The Argentina national team trained on Sunday at Inter Miami’s training ground and Messi was with the team. Lionel Scaloni’s team will play Puerto Rico on Tuesday.
