The coach of the Argentine national team, lionel scalonirevealed that the replacement of the captain Lionel Messi by Exequiel Palacios two minutes from the end of the victorious match against Ecuador Occurred “because he asked for it”and he anticipated that now the Rosario “They will do studies to see if he can go to play in Bolivia.”
“I don’t know what Lionel has. He asked me for the change, it wasn’t that I decided to take it out. We will see when they do studies this Friday if he is ready to travel to Bolivia”he warned Scaloniextending a question that was discussed all week, regarding the presence of the Argentine captain in the 3,650 meters of altitude of Peace Next Tuesday.
“Those who are best are going to play there. But it was not that today we reserved some players thinking about Bolivia. It is useless to talk about height. We will go with the best that is available and ready”he clarified Scaloni at the post-match press conference.
And continuing with the topic, he highlighted that “In each game there will always be the best, and those who are absent will be due to injuries. Because here there is no time to try. The young players who are with us will play when it is their turn, but we have a good base with the U-23s by Javier Mascherano”.
“What happens is that this is because the South American qualifiers are the most difficult in the world, and anyone who thinks otherwise should prove it. We already had complicated games like this one in Ecuador in the last qualifier. That’s why there was the challenge of not rest on our laurels, although we must improve some things,” he said.
“But note that I am proud of the game we played, since we played to the limit, as we had to, and we won the duels, like for example Alexis Mac Allister, who played only in the middle, but won many duels”he said.
And about one of the figures on the field, Christian Romerohighlighted that “he played an incredible game, but sometimes he thinks he is He Man, especially when people carry him around. But he must also see that sometimes, when he goes up, we are left badly behind.”
“But luckily the setback we made was incredible, and that is because we have a team that gives us tactical variants, and that is the good thing. And that is why our coaching staff has had to live good moments since we took office five years ago. , and with experience we improve and do what we should do,” he reflected.
“What we needed today was to find Nicolás González more in the first half. It was from the start because we thought that on his side we could hurt Ecuador. We had studied it and we believed in that”he concluded.
Source: Ambito

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