The U-20 team fell due to a landslide and complicated its ranking in the Maurice Revello tournament

The Argentine under 20 team received a blow in the Maurice Revello international tournament, losing 6-2 to France in the last match of Group A of the tournament. Now he will have to wait for a combination of results to know if he will play one of Thursday’s semi-finals.

The team led by Javier Mascherano had won the first two games against Saudi Arabia and Panama 1-0 and had shown an acceptable level in those two games. So he finished leading the zone and with good chances until the last appointment, but he found an opponent who easily overtook him from start to finish.

Before the first half hour of the duel was completed, the Albiceleste They were already losing 3-0.At 15 minutes and after a fine pass from Hugo Ekitike, Maghnes Akliouche had scored the first goal with a left foot. At 23, Adil Aouchiche had widened on a free-kick, with a shot that crossed a dismembered barrier and found a weak response from goalkeeper Francisco Gómez. And six minutes later, Sékou Mara had turned the win into a lash with a powerful cross-shot.

The locals continue to impose their superiority in the complement and double the dose of goals in the first quarter of an hour thanks to the irrepressible Nathanaël Mbuku, entered in place of Ekitike after the interval. The Reims striker scored a penalty and assisted Adil Aouchiche in another. They were joined by Sékou Mara for half a dozen French people.

It didn’t help much, but Alejandro Garnacho’s first free-kick was a pearl: he got animated from 25 meters and nailed a superb right foot in the right corner of the goal defended by Melvin Zinga. The Manchester United player also scored the second, from a penalty, two minutes from the end.

With this victory, France reached 7 points, finished first in Group A and secured qualification for the semi-finals, in which the three zone winners and the best runner-up will face off. Argentina (6 points and -2 goal difference) finished as shooting guard and will have to wait a couple of assists to advance.

Group B will be defined on Sunday. To keep their chances, Mascherano’s team needs Mexico (3 points and 0 goal difference) and Indonesia (3 and 0) to draw or Venezuela (6 and +2) to lose by four goals with Ghana (0).

If this happens, the fate of Argentina will be decided on Monday, when Zone C closes. Even there, things are not easy: it is necessary that the Comoros Islands (4 and 0) do not defeat Algeria (0) or that Colombia (4 and 0) +1) and Japan (4 and +1) tie.

Summary

France: Melvin Zinga; Thierno Baldé, Tanguy Nianzou Kouassi, Chrislain Matsima, Maxime Steve; Adil Aouchiche, Lucien Agoumé; Hugo Ekitike, Maghnes Akliouche, Yanis Cimignani; Sekou Mara. Trainer: Bernard Diomede.

Argentina: Francisco Gomez; Braian Aguilar Lautaro Di Lollo, Nahuel Genez, Franco Carboni; Maximiliano González, Gino Infantino, Matías Soulé; Mateo Sanabria, Luka Romero, Alejandro Garnacho. Trainer: Javier Mascherano.

Targets: PT 15m Akliouche, 23m Aouchiche, 29m Mara; ST 4m Mara, 9m Mbuku (penalty), 14m Garnacho, 16m Akliouche and 43m Garnacho (penalty).