The first forwards, due to obvious closeness, since they work for Atlético de Madrid, were Rodrigo DePaul and Angel Correawho just this Sunday were the authors of the goals with which the “Colchonero” closed the LaLiga de España season by defeating Real Sociedad 2-1 as a visitor.
The one who came after both of them was Christian Romerotaking advantage of the fact that he did not play in English Tottenham Hotspur in the last two days of the Premier League as a result of a blow suffered in the iliac crest that casts doubt on his presence against the Italians.
“Cuti”, who turned 24 on April 27, is a regular starter for the national team and the same goes for Leandro Paredes, but unlike the Cordovan, the Paris midfielder Sain Germain was disaffected by Scaloni in the court of half a dozen players that the Pujato coach had initially summoned.
Thus, of the 35 players originally called up, in addition to Walls, who is still not recovered from an operation for pubalgia, were cut last Friday Lucas Martínez Quarta, Nicolás Domínguez, Lucas Ocampos, Emiliano Buendía and Lucas Alario.
In this way, the 29 that remained for this kind of preseason that the Argentine team will carry out with a dozen days of training in Bilbao and the Italian game in the middle, are:
Goalkeepers: Emiliano Martínez (Aston Villa), Franco Armani (River Plate), Juan Musso (Atalanta) and Gerónimo Rulli (Villarreal).
Defenders: Gonzalo Montiel (Seville), Nahuel Molina (Udinese), Juan Foyth (Villarreal), Germán Pezzella (Betis), Nehuén Pérez (Udinese), Cristian Romero (Tottenham), Nicolás Otamendi (Benfica), Lisandro Martínez (Ajax), Marcos Senesi (Feyenoord), Nicolás Tagliafico (Ajax) and Marcos Acuña (Seville).
Midfielders: Guido Rodríguez (Betis), Alexis Mac Allister (Brighton), Rodrigo De Paul (Atlético de Madrid), Exequiel Palacios (Bayer Leverkusen), Giovani Lo Celso (Villarreal), Alejandro Gómez (Sevilla) and Ángel Di María (PSG) .
Forwards: Paulo Dybala (Juventus), Lionel Messi (PSG), Lautaro Martínez (Inter), Julián Álvarez (River Plate), Joaquín Correa (Inter), Nicolás González (Fiorentina) and Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid).
Of this list, 26 of them, with the captain Leo Messi at the head, they will start training tomorrow, around the evening, in the Bilbao town of Lezama.
The three who will be absent and will only be able to travel next Thursday to Spain will be the riverplatenses
Armani and Alvarezwho will have to play on Wednesday, May 25 against Alianza Lima, from Peru, for the last date of Group F of the Copa Libertadores, and Senesi, who will play with Feyennord, from the Netherlands, the final of the European Conference League against Roma, from Italy, that same day at the National Arena stadium, in Tirana, the capital of Albania.
With the match on June 6 against Israel, in Haifa, in doubt, and with no certainties regarding the pending match with Brazil in the last South American Qualifiers that the FIFA ordered to play next September 22 and the AFA does not want to play and is therefore willing to appeal to the TAS not to do so, the prospects of playing more games before the World Cup in Qatar are increasingly diluted.
Previously, another friendly had also been suspended that was supposed to be played on June 11 in the city of Melbourne and had been promoted by the Australians themselves, among Argentina also against Brazil, but the associations of both countries were unaware of the origin of that announcement and then everything came to nothing.
Thus, the only possibility of playing a pre-World Cup friendly points at this time to face, according to Scaloni’s own wish, against a Concacaf team that will not be Mexico, since the two matches they intended to play with those led by Gerardo Martino fell at the same time that the World Cup was drawn and both teams will share Group C in Qatar.
Before this panorama, Scaloni wants to win “time over time” and that is why this concentration in Bilbao will extend after the match with the Italians, since the national team will return from the English capital to the Spanish city as soon as the game with Italy is over, to continue training until on Sunday June 5.
That day, if the friendly match against the Israelis does not take place, this concentration period will end and the players will be released to formally start their vacation.
If it weren’t so hot in Qatar at this time of year and the World Cup was held as usual between June and July, today Argentina would not be preparing for the match with Italy but for its debut in Group C against Saudi Arabia. But what has been exposed, that will happen only on Tuesday, November 22, within six months.
Source: Ambito
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