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This Saturday, from 9 p.m. (Argentine time), the national team faces Peru in a match corresponding to the last date of group A of the Copa América 2024. The match, which will be refereed by Mexican César Ramos, will be played at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States, and can be watched live on television through DSports, TyC Sports, TV Pública and Telefé. In addition, there is the possibility of following the minute by minute with statistics updated in real time at canchallena.com.
The team led by Lionel Scaloni, which will not have Lionel Messi (he has an adductor problem in his right leg), comes into this match as the leader and with an ideal score, after the 2-0 victories against Canada (goals by Julián Álvarez and Lautaro Martínez) and 1-0 against Chile (goal by Lautaro Martínez). The Inca team, for its part, is last with just one unit: tied 0-0 with Chile and lost 1-0 against Canada thanks to a goal by Jonathan David.
At the end of the duel against Chile, Scaloni affirmed that he will put an alternative team against Peru. Messi has a muscle discomfort which prevented him from playing at 100% against the Argentine team, although he completed the 90 minutes. The substitutes will play, those who have not yet had opportunities. Alejandro Garnacho, Valentín Carboni and Exequiel Palacios, among others, will most likely get minutes. “We are going to make those who did not have experience play and they also deserve it.“, he anticipated.
The captain’s situation is worrying. Age is not just a number and it is starting to take its toll. Various ailments have kept him out of several matches so far this season. (even in the Inter Miami preseason he missed, among others, the friendly against Hong Jong XI, which led to a flood of criticism towards the organization and towards the ’10’ himself by the spectators who bought their tickets). He was not present at seven games with the Herons and neither in the friendlies of the Argentine team on the double FIFA matchday in March against Costa Rica and El Salvador.
On Thursday he did kinesiology work and this Friday he will have studies to determine if it is a simple contracture or if there is something more. Initially, the X-rays were going to be done on Wednesday, but it was decided to wait until the affected area had gone down. “It bothers me a little, but I was able to finish playing, so I hope it is nothing,” said Messi after the match against Chile. He added: “It came out of the blue. I have had a sore throat and fever for a couple of days, maybe a bit of that took its toll on me today (Tuesday), but it is nothing old or anything that I had, just a contracture and we will see,” he concluded.
On the main sports prediction platforms around the planet, The Argentine team has an advantage to win this Saturday’s match. If Peru wins, bookmakers are paying odds of up to 1.49 against the 7.40 that would be paid for a hypothetical victory by Peru. A draw, on the other hand, is quoted at around 4.15.
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