ARGENTINE NATIONAL TEAM
Julián Álvarez played from the start practically in Messi’s place, he could not convert and was replaced by the best of all.
Updated on 10/13/2023 – 05:23hs ART
© Argentine National Team PressJulian Alvarez
The Argentine National Team faced Paraguay in the 100th match between them, and in the new double qualifying round, Lionel Scaloni continued to express his idea of the game. Two former River players, the pride of recent years, were starters: both Enzo Fernández and Julián Álvarez started on the field.
In the absence of Lionel Messi in the starting team, there was just enough space for the current Manchester City forward to accompany Lautaro Martínez without needing to modify the scheme much. In a duel that started electric due to Otamendi’s goal, Julián played 50 minutes and lived up to expectations.
Paraguay, a always tough rival, did not give many spaces in attack for the former River led a throw by the National Team from the right, enabled Lautaro Martínez and he hit the body of a rival, so the ball went over the crossbar. Subsequently, he hit the ball twice but neither Nicolás González nor Rodrigo De Paul could get it clean to stay one-on-one with the goalkeeper.
The only shot he had at his feet was bitten and on the right side of the area. The task of high pressing, chasing defenders and making good passes to his Argentina teammates was done well as usual. The truth is that, although she was not ready to go out because her physical condition was too much, she had to leave the field so that the idol Lionel Messi could enter in the last 40 minutes of the game.
Messi entered for Julián. (Photo: Getty).
Julián Álvarez’s numbers in the Argentine National Team
Julián Álvarez is a world-class footballer and his time at Manchester City is more than remarkable. On the first date of the double round of Qualifiers he could not convert Paraguay. In total he has played 25 games in the Argentine National Team (not all of them as a starter or completing 90 minutes), of which he scored seven goals.
It should be remembered that four of them were in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and that the last time the former River scored a goal with the albiceleste was against Croatia on December 13 of last year for the semifinals of the World Cup event.
2023-10-13 08:23:36
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