With a few hours of rest after the celebrated victory over Poland which allowed the Argentina national team to advance to the round of 16 of the World Cup in Qatar 2022 as first in Group C, Lionel Scaloni is already at work on the Qatar University ground with his eyes on Saturday’s match against Australia . The Albiceleste coach hopes to recover all of his players and above all Ángel Di María, who has triggered the alarms due to a quadriceps discomfort.
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Ángel Di María, moved and against the clock: the great concern of the national team waiting for Australia
Di María in the preview of the match against Poland. Photo: Fernando de la Orden / Special Envoy
The euphoria and joy of qualifying for the round of 16 remained in the early hours of Thursday. Tranquility is the feeling that now dominates the albiceleste bunker because after a start with strong turbulence, it was possible to level the ship again and resume the football course to step on Qatar 2022. But time leaves almost no room for anything.
Argentina has just over 48 hours to prepare for another decisive round of 16 match against Australia, which will take place this Saturday at 16:00 (Argentine time). And Lionel Scaloni already knows that he will have to wait to find out if he can count on everyone since Ángel Di María ended up being touched at stadium 974. Read more here.
Australia are confident in their chances: “It will be an 11 against 11 match, there are no 11 Messis, there is one”
Milos Degenek of Australia celebrates after defeating Denmark. Photo: Xinhua.
“It will be an 11-on-11 game, there are no 11 Messis, there is only one,” Australia defender Milos Degenek said ahead of the Qatar 2022 World Cup Round of 16 match against Argentina.
“I’ve always loved Messi and I think he’s the best I’ve ever played with,” said Degenek, who added: “But it’s not an honor to play against him, because he’s only human, like all of us are. It’s an honor to be in the round of 16 of a World Cup. That’s the honor in itself.”
The Argentine national team returns to work with Australia in mind
The Argentine team rested this Thursday in the Qatar University bunker and from 16:30 local time (10:30 in Argentina), the team led by Lionel Scaloni will work behind closed doors with their eyes on Saturday’s match against Australia .
The first training session after the victory against Poland will be behind closed doors. The Argentine team will undergo a first test in which those who have played will only do regenerative exercises and Friday will be the last formal training session before the match against Australia.
The new record that Lionel Messi is looking for
With his appearance in the 2-0 win against Poland, Lionel Messi reached his 22 World Cup appearances mark and overtook Diego Maradona, up to that point the most capped player for the Argentina national team.
However, the absolute record belongs to the German Lothar Matthäus, with 25 matches. The only one who can match and even surpass him this season is Messi himself, who will reach that number of appearances if he advances to the semi-finals, while surpassing him if he advances to the grand final or the third-place match.
The x-ray of the best collective goal in the history of the national team
Julián Álvarez celebrates his goal, his first in a World Cup. Photo: Fernando de la Orden / Special Envoy – Clarín
Julián Álvarez’s great 2-0 goal included 28 passes, including the Manchester City forward’s exquisite definition that opened his right foot. And so the national team converted the goal with the most touches in its history at the World Cup. Read more.
Antonela Roccuzzo was angry with Ciro Messi in the Argentina-Poland preview and her challenge was told in photos
One of the photos of Antonela Rocuzzo and Ciro Messi. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes photo
A few minutes from the start of the match between the Argentine national team and Poland, in the last match of Group C which defined the ticket for the round of 16 of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, Antonela Rocuzzo challenged Ciro Messi decisively, as many mothers do with their children. The difference is that her anger was portrayed in a sequence of images that soon went viral on social media. Read more.
Lionel Messi’s game: from anger over missed penalty to joy at qualifying and another record
Messi is the Argentine player with the most games played at the World Cup: 22. Photo: Fernando de la Orden, special correspondent
Far from burying his head in the ground, the captain looked ahead and continued. Lionel Messi gave a strong wave of anger when Polish goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny saved him well with a change of hands the penalty with which the Selection would have started with the victory in the first half. But, far from stooping and mentally abandoning the game, the 10th kept up the pace and was the best on the playing field of the 974 stadium, where the national team won 2-0 and qualified for the round of 16. For Leo it also meant breaking a new record. Read more.
The Polish goalkeeper lost an unusual bet with Lionel Messi in the middle of the match with Argentina
Lionel Messi and Wojciech Szczesny shake hands before the penalty kick. Xinhua Photo/Cao May
Wojciech Szczęsny not only had to regret Poland’s 2-0 defeat by Argentina at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar on Wednesday, but he also suffered another fall, not so important but no less hard.
Is that the goalkeeper of the European team bet a hundred euros on Lionel Messi that the Dutchman Danny Makkelie would not sanction a penalty in favor of the Argentine team in the action in which he accidentally rammed the albiceleste captain, when the game was still going 0- 0. Read more.
The Qatari hospitalized with oxygen for the defeat against Saudi has tracked his car with Leo Messi and assures that Argentina “will go from less to more”
Not only in Bangladesh or India are there fans of Argentina and Lionel Messi. A Qatari showed images of how he ended up hospitalized after the defeat of the national team against Saudi Arabia, traced his car with Messi and assured that Argentina “will go from less to more”.
“I ended up in hospital the day Argentina lost. They had to put me on oxygen,” says a Qatari citizen – anonymous for the moment – in a viral video circulated in the last few hours. The shots taken by an Argentinian contain laughter and the Qatari from his car assures: “I swear, it’s not a joke” and shows the photos.
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De Paul responds to criticism: “I am this and it brought me here”
Rodrigo De Paul and Lionel Messi. Xinhua photo.
The midfielder of the Argentina national team has responded to the criticisms that had been leveled at him after the first two matches played by the national team. “I’m happy to wear this shirt, I love the country where I was born, I defend it to the death,” he defined.
“I will always give an edge. Sometimes things are worse and other times better, but I will never hide. I will not negotiate my attitude or stop running. I am this and it brought me here,” the Atlético midfielder said of Madrid.
Talking about Qatar’s group stage progress, De Paul said that “you also learn from defeats”. “We are in a position that was not usual for us and there we also showed that we have a lot of character and personality,” he explained.
“Although the national team has accustomed us to many things, the way they finished first in the group and the way we played, we have to give them great value,” he continued.
And he defined: “We have never negotiated what brought us here because it gave us a lot of joy”.
Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s not, but I think that from Mexico’s second half before the goal we started seeing the national team we’re all used to.
Nicolás Otamendi, the national team captain without a ribbon who canceled Lewandowski: “This team gets stronger under pressure”
The defender was solid and lucid in every intervention. Photo: AFP.
The Argentina national team beat Poland 2-0, with goals from Alexis Mac Allister and Julián Álvarez, in their third match at the 2022 Qatar World Cup. With this victory, Albiceleste reached the round of 16, qualifying as leaders of the league Group C, and will take on Australia this Saturday from 4pm.
The national team’s World Cup run has had some unwanted setbacks. In the previous one, the injury to Giovani Lo Celso, a regular fixture in Lionel Scaloni’s starting eleven, complicated things. Then came the surprise defeat on his debut against Saudi Arabia 2-1, just ten days ago, and doubts began.
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Madness of Bangladeshi fans for Argentina: so they celebrated in a local Once
They are of Bengali origin, supporters of Argentina and celebrated the victory of the national team against Poland. German photo Garcia Adrasti
The 150 Bangladeshis in Argentina live and work in the neighbourhood. The experience of watching the match with real fans of the national team.
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