After the confirmation of the list for the tournament that will begin on June 20, Lionel Scaloni already has an eleven in mind in which the starters would not vary much from those who competed in the World Cup in Qatar.
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Coach Lionel Scaloni defined the list of those called up for the America Cup —Of the 29 he named for the friendlies against Ecuador and Guatemala, there are now 26 left. The one born in Pujato, who surprised on the roster with the inclusion of Valentín Carboni, took advantage of the meetings to plan what would be an ideal formation for the majority of the matches that the team will face. Argentine National Team in the contest that will begin on June 20.
The Albiceleste will play the opening match against Canada in group A, which will also include Peru and Chile, and surely that day the coach will arrange what he considers the best possible eleven with the aim of starting with a victory and not suffering the setback he went through in the World Cup against Saudi Arabia.
Everything indicates that the performers available to the Santa Fe player will be the same ones who added the greatest number of minutes possible in Qatar, although it is true that throughout his entire cycle Scaloni always changed a protagonist according to the rival.
In fact, if something marked the coach’s successful cycle, it was not having eleven starters, but rather there were between twelve or thirteen players who rotated according to the characteristics of the teams they had to face. For example, the last match at the height of Bolivia, in which lto Albiceleste thrashed 3-0Lionel Messi did not play and Ángel Di María, who had been a substitute the previous day against Ecuador, was a starter.
Fideo’s last years with the national team shirt are the ones that most demonstrate this trend of the coaching staff because although the former Rosario Central player is remembered for the good performance he had in the World Cup final against France, in which he started , In the semifinals against Croatia he did not even enter.
In the press conference he gave, after the 1-0 victory against Ecuador in Chicago, Scaloni referred to the number of positions in which there is no undisputed starter (although one of the two has an advantage over the other), with the dispute between Julián Álvarez and Lautaro Martínez as the clearest exponent. “In this National Team we have many positions like this: Tagliafico – Acuña, Montiel – Molina, Enzo – Lo Celso, De Paul – Palacios, Paredes – Mac Allister”revealed.
Therefore, although it will be difficult to get used to seeing the same starting team day after day, and if the team gets good results in the first games there could even be a rotation on the last day of the group stage, For Scaloni, an ideal eleven could have: Draw Martinez; Nahuel MolinaCuti RosemaryNicholas OtamendiNicholas Tagliafico; Rodrigo From PaulLeandro Walls or Enzo FernandezAlexis Mac Allister; Lionel MessiLautaro Martinez or Julian Alvarez and angel Say Maria.
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