The match between teams classified for the highest FIFA competition will be played this Tuesday from 8:30 p.m. simultaneously with the other four of the 18th. date, will be refereed by the Brazilian Raphael Claus and broadcast on Public TV and TyC Sports.
With 100% capacity enabled, the stage will be the Banco Pichincha Municipal Stadium of the Barcelona club, a bastion of good memories for Argentine football because it was the place of consecration in the Copa América ’93, during the first administration of Alfio Basile.
right there, the “Scaloneta” will have the possibility of reaching a historical mark established by the “Coco” National Team at that time: 31 games without losing, a series that began to build on July 2, 2019 after falling to Brazil (0-2) in Belo Horizonte for the semifinals of the Copa América.
On that tour, the “Albiceleste” captained by Lionel Messi won the Copa América Brasil 2021 and ended a 28-year drought, which lasted from the coronation in Guayaquil with the team that, among others, included Sergio Goycochea, Oscar Ruggeri, Fernando Redondo, Diego Simeone and Gabriel Batistuta.
Argentina thrashed Venezuela (3-0) last Friday in the farewell before the Argentine public before the World Cup and was on the threshold of the greatest undefeated in its history, which manifests itself as a symptom of its full current status.
However, the unforgettable night at La Bombonera left a feeling of anguish-concern for the subsequent manifestations of the two greatest emblems of the current Argentine team.
Messi, captain of the team, sowed doubts about his future by assuring that he will have to “rethink many things” after Qatar 2022 and Ángel Di María -scorer of the famous goal of the Maracanazo 2021- slipped his retirement from the national team when he wrote on Instagram that the victory against the “Vinotinto” was surely his last match with the light blue and white in the country.
The possible end of the cycle of the Paris Saint Germain players, both 34 years old, was firmly installed on the National Team’s agenda in the final stretch towards Qatar, so the DT Lionel Scalloni sought to dissipate those concerns so as not to alter the climate of absolute harmony.
“After playing a World Cup, everyone makes assessments. I’m not in the mind of Messi and Di María, I don’t know what they think, you have to enjoy them now. You have to stay with that, you don’t have to think about the future. Why think about the future if there is a spectacular present? There is a long way to go, there is still a World Cup, you have to enjoy them, it doesn’t make much sense. One day it will happen that they are gone”, advised the coach.
In the countdown to the World Cup, Scaloni will also take the match in Ecuador as a test bench to observe players with little continuity or little action in recent times. For that reason, there could be modifications in all the lines of the team in relation to the game with Venezuela.
The goalkeeper Juan Musso; defenders Gonzalo Montiel and Lucas Martínez Quarta; midfielders Guido Rodríguez and Exequiel Palacios plus forwards Julián Álvarez and Lucas Ocampos are evaluated to start the game in Guayaquil.
After the end of the Qualifiers, Argentina has only one confirmed match (vs. Italy in London, on June 1), with the possibility of adding a second immediately after and another two in the last window of September.
Ecuador is preparing for a full stadium party this Tuesday, after securing its classification despite the defeat against Paraguay in Asunción (1-3).
The “Tri”, led by the Argentine Gustavo Alfaro, will play the World Cup for the fourth time, after giving the present in Korea-Japan 2002, Germany 2006 and Brazil 2014.
probable formations
Ecuador: Hernan Galindez; Byron Castillo, Piero Hincapié, Robert Arboleda and Pelvis Estupiñán; Carlos Grueso and Moises Caicedo; Alan Franco, Gonzalo Plata and Romario Ibarra; Michael Strada. DT: Gustavo Alfaro.
Argentina: Juan Musso; Gonzalo Montiel, Germán Pezzella or Lucas Martínez Quarta, Nicolás Otamendi and Nicolás Tagliafico; Rodrigo De Paul, Guido Rodríguez and Exequiel Palacios or Alexis Mac Allister; Lionel Messi, Julián Álvarez or Joaquín Correa and Lucas Ocampos. DT: Lionel Scaloni.
Referee: Rafael Claus (Brazil).
Stadium: Municipal Bank Pichincha (Guayaquil).
start time: 8:30 p.m.
TV: Public TV and TyC Sports..
Source: Ambito
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