10/10/2024 13:58hs.
The Argentine National Team does not have much margin to suffer another loss. not after having lost five footballers of the initial call due to injury, which were added to the suspensions of Emiliano Martínez (outside the double date) and Cristian Romero (will return against Bolivia). And that’s why Those players who are at the limit of yellow cards must treat their situation with special caution: if they receive another yellow card, they will not play on Tuesday.
Selection: Enzo, Paredes, Palacios and Lautaro, at the limit of yellows
Currently there are four Argentine footballers who have a warning: Enzo Fernández, Leandro Paredes, Exequiel Palacios and Lautaro Martínez. All, to a greater or lesser extent, important both as possible first alternatives or as replacements. And in a context of thin variants, accumulating another one will represent a headache for Lionel Scaloni.
For example, the deté himself was emphatic when asked about the losses of Dibu and Cuti. “As a coach I don’t like losing players and we have to emphasize that. In that the player, when he is sanctioned or expelled, that it is worth it or that it was for something in the game itself,” he pointed out.
With those words, Scaloni referred both to the sanction imposed by FIFA on the goalkeeper -he put the Copa América trophy in his pelvis during the celebrations; against Colombia he slapped a camera – like the yellow one that the Tottenham defender saw in Barranquilla.
A card, for example, was avoidable: in the heat of post-defeat anger, the defender approached to argue – like other teammates – with referee Piero Maza. And in that tumult, the judge showed him the yellow card. These types of actions, like the one from Mar del Plata at the Monumental when celebrating the two-time championship, are what Scaloni intends not to be repeated. Especially at this juncture.
Lautaro, one of those who is at the limit of warnings. (Photo: AFA Press)
Because when leaving due to sanctions, The National Team has already lost Nico González for this qualifying window (distension), Paulo Dybala (flexor discomfort), Marcos Acuña (left hamstring contracture), Alejandro Garnacho (discomfort in left knee) and Franco Carboni (blow to the left knee).
Alexis Mac Allister was close to joining that combowho arrived from Liverpool with muscle fatigue. An annoyance that would leave him out of the heads-up in Maturín. That is why there is not much room for another creative central midfielder (Paredes, Palacios, Enzo) to be dropped due to an avoidable action.
A similar scenario is experienced with Lautaro: Another yellow card would leave him out of the match against Bolivia and, if he suffered a problem with Julián Álvarez, the National Team would be left without an area reference to complete the double date. Hence the caution.
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