Video: Lo Celso is already paying for his pass and scored in the Villarreal win

Giovani Lo Celso is a fixed appointment for the Qatar 2022 World Cup and, consequently, appeared in the preliminary list that Lionel Scaloni gave away for the friendlies against Honduras and Jamaica. And the steering wheel had no better way to celebrate it than with his first goal of the season for Villarreal, where he continued after a new agreement between the Spanish club and Tottenham.

Crucial to Unai Emery since joining the Yellow Submarine at the beginning of the year, his continuity has been agreed upon with the competition that has already begun. And this Sunday he had the pleasure of turning into the landslide 4-0 against Elche: He scored the second goal with a left that overcame Badía’s resistance (Moreno, Coquelin and Morales were the other scorers of the local team).

So far Lo Celso has played five games (the last four as a starter) between the championship and qualifying for the Conference League. For this continental tournament he will play the next match: on Thursday he will make his debut in the group stage against the Polish Lech.

Meanwhile, in the local tournament, Villarreal have started very well, with three wins and a draw, a harvest that sees them second together with Barcelona, ​​two points behind leaders Real Madrid.

The other Argentines

Together with Lo Celso, Geronimo Rulli He was also a regular at Villarreal. While Lucas Boyé and Ezequiel Ponce played from the start for Elche, which he had on the bench Javier Pastore, Federico Fernandez and Axel Werner.