Argentina paid dearly for Spain’s effectiveness and will have to fight for bronze in the Futsal Final

The winning aura that maintained the Argentine national team at the very final level was interrupted in Futsal. This Thursday, at the Mary Terán de Weiss stadium in Parque Roca, the Albiceleste team suffered the effectiveness of Spain, who won 3-0 against Portugal, who beat Paraguay (2-1), in the final next Sunday. , in the first edition of this competition in relation to this sport.

The team led by Matías Lucuix, second in the world and reigning champion of the Americas, was accompanied by more than 6,000 people in the Villa Soldati stadium, but wasted the options it had against one of the best teams in the world, which came to this tournament to be third in the European Championship (Russia, the second, does not participate due to the UEFA sanction).

The captain of “Roja” Raúl Campos was the author of the two goals that opened the game in the first half, both after catching rebounds inside the area and after defining the empty goal, after a bad luck in defense of the ‘Argentina.

Albiceleste tried anyway, even with a player goalkeeper, but failed to beat goalkeepers Jesús Herrero and Dídac Plana, who entered the second half and condemned the scoreboard with a door-to-door shot in the last second.

The image of Argentina, beyond the result, was good, given that it generated several situations mainly in the first half, but by not specifying the game it made an uphill battle, as the AFA president Claudio Chiqui Tapia assisted.

Albiceleste have never been able to beat Spain in history, as they have achieved a draw (in a friendly before the 2021 World Cup) in only nine fights so far.

Argentina formed with Nicolás Sarmiento; Pablo Taborda, Ángel Claudino, Lucas Bolo Alemany and Alan Brandi.

Then came Lucas Tripodi, Maximiliano Rescia, Sebastián Corso, Gerardo Menseguez, Santiago Basile, Cristian Borruto, Constantino Vaporaki and Matías Edelstein. The only one who didn’t add minutes was substitute goalkeeper Matías Starna.

In the first round, Portugal respected the logic and made it to the final of the tournament after beating Paraguay 2-1, although they had to overcome the result in the complement. The Guarani were ahead of Racing de Avellaneda player Daniel Ozuna, but the Portuguese reacted against Pany Varela and goalkeeper Gio González.

Sunday will be the definition: Argentina will go to the bronze against Paraguay at 14:00, while Portugal and Spain will repeat the semifinal of the last European Championship starting at 16:30.