The Argentine National Team will face his counterpart on Thursday Ecuadorfor the quarterfinals of the Copa America 2024 in a match that will be played from 10 p.m. in the Houston NRG Stadiumwith capacity for 72,220 spectators.
In recent years, the Argentine national team He chained together a series of very good results against Ecuadorwhom they beat in six of their last seven matches (the other was a draw).
This streak began in 2017when the Selection He won 3 to 1 Ecuador on the last date of the South American Qualifierswith a hat-trick of Messito classify the Russia World Cup 2018.
Then, at the end of 2019 and now with Lionel Scaloni As a coach, the “Albiceleste” beat their Ecuadorian counterpart 6-1. The streak continued in 2020when the Argentine national teamwho had not yet shown their best level, won 1-0 with a goal from Messi from the penalty spot.
The fourth consecutive victory came with a 3-0 win in the quarter-finals of the Copa America 2021which would be the beginning of the great successes of this litter of the Selection.
Ecuador was able to end this streak of victories for the Argentine national team in the Qualifiers for Qatar 2022in a match that the Argentina won by the minimum by a goal Julian Alvarezbut that finally ended in a tie thanks to the score of Enner Valencia at 92 minutes.
They were then measured on the first date of the Qualifiers for him World Cup 2026which ended 1 to 0 in favor of the Argentina after a goal from Messi at 78 minutes.
The last match between the two was in the run-up to the America Cup and ended with a 1-0 victory in favor of those led by Scaloni thanks to the goal of Angel Di Maria.
The last time Ecuador he beat the Argentine national team It was at the beginning of the Eliminatory rounds for him Russia World Cup 2018October 8 2015when he achieved a historic 2-0 victory in the Monumental. At that time, the Argentina coach was Gerardo “Tata” Martino.
The record is clearly leaning toward ArgentinaThat They won in 24 games, only lost 5 and tied 11 times.
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