Nahuel Lanzillotta
06/08/2021 10:55 PM
ClarĂn.com
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Updated 06/08/2021 10:55 PM
It was a victory of those that marked the way towards the final objective. They were three gold points for the work and for a great first half, one of the best of the Lionel Scaloni era, who again surprised with several name changes between game and game. It was the opportunity to start cutting with Brazil at the top and stretch the difference with the rest.
It was ... But it wasn't by very little.
The National Team had a voracious start, took a two-goal lead very quickly, although later it
crashed into an Ospina insurance
, it could not liquidate it and due to its own failures the local snatched a victory that it deserved. He improved compared to the meeting with Chile, but the final harvest of two points out of six leaves him with a rather bitter taste.
Not even with his most optimistic thoughts Scaloni imagined that his team was going to have that devastating start that the game accommodated before the first ten minutes were up.
Cristian Romero's header
, who beat him in the jump to the highest on the pitch, Yerry Mina (1.97 meters), after Rodrigo De Paul's free kick from the right was a reward for the 23-year-old defender who It took hold quickly and in turn meant unexpected relief so that the National Team could handle the times with greater calm and personality.
Not to mention,
the great goal by Leandro Paredes
, who captured a ball that was capricious and without an owner from one side to the other, went to pure pasture dribbling between one, two, three Colombians and defined left-handed, crossed and below.
In seven minutes, Scaloni seemed to have resolved the duel, always tough in the humid and hot Barranquilla.
But the virtue of his leaders was in turn knowing how to play with spaces after the need of a rival who from his training showed caution.
🏆 #Eliminatory
🎥 Accurate header by Cristian Romero to score the first Argentine goal 👇pic.twitter.com / 1SzADvm2c8
- Argentina National Team 🇦🇷 (@Argentina) June 8, 2021
Reinaldo Rueda chose to have a single striker, Duván Zapata, to try to contain Lionel Messi and company with a 4-1-4-1. However,
the papers were quickly incinerated and he soon included Luis Muriel
to keep Zapata more company upstairs. Juan Cuadrado was his most destabilizing footballer at all times, in fact, he gave Marcos Acuña a great job down the left-handed alley.
The National Team gathered its best legs in the central zone. The presence of
Giovani Lo Celso
once again gave Paredes support in the recovery and at the same time
a partner with whom Messi could play in an area
where he is building looking at the area in front. It also provides a filtered pass,
Gio
, like that millimeter that he gave to Lautaro MartĂnez, who could not define well before the departure of David Ospina.
Every time he has to play, Lo Celso strengthens the football of this new National Team, something that gives him almost the ownership of the left internal midfielder position.
Argentina, reassured by the premature slack on the scoreboard, found a fluidity of touches and ideal mobility by sections, although it was difficult for them to translate that into more clear arrivals, apart from a free kick by
Leo
that the goalkeeper contained.
THE GOAL THAT MADE WALLS, PLEASE!
Argentina beats Colombia 2-0 in just 7 minutes.
CRAZINESS!
#EliminatoriasEnTyCSports.
pic.twitter.com/6SSKKw7pDl
- TyC Sports (@TyCSports) June 8, 2021
Speaking of 10 ... The pending account that Scaloni's cycle maintains remains the same as his predecessors: to
manage to exploit Messi in the fire zone.
This National Team tries so hard not to be
messide-dependent
and to treat the best in the world as one more to reduce pressure, which even sometimes makes the Rosario go unnoticed, who has to go back to take action.
Likewise, Lionel searches for them and always takes something out of the galley or, rather, from his left foot, such as another free kick deactivated again by Ospina and
the masterful assistance for Lautaro
, who did not have an inspired night to solve in hand-to-hand .
At that point, Colombia's position had already changed out of obligation.
Between Muriel and Zapata they had warned at the end of the first part that the blue and white were the broad dominator.
And after the break came the discount for
the avoidable penalty of Nicolás Otamendi on Mateus Uribe
that Muriel changed for a goal against AgustĂn MarchesĂn, the goalkeeper who had to replace the beaten Emiliano MartĂnez.
Otamendi lowered Uribe, they charged a penalty and Muriel changed it for a goal.
Now Argentina wins 2-1.
#EliminatoriasEnTyCSports.
pic.twitter.com/qWhxsBpAPr
- TyC Sports (@TyCSports) June 9, 2021
COLOMBIA'S GOAL!
Muriel discounted a penalty and now Argentina wins 2-1 in Barranquilla. # EliminatoriasEnTyCSports pic.twitter.com/Ok5yf9pD4c
- TyC Sports (@TyCSports) June 9, 2021
Scaloni rearranged his chips and
with the changes he put together a line of five in the background
.
Argentina could have killed him on a counterattack, but he ran into an immense Ospina who once again drowned out Messi in spectacular fashion.
And when it was all over, an impeccable center from Cuadrado landed on Borja's head (Foyth didn't even jump) and
Colombia stole the victory from the Albicelestes in the last minute.
This is how Colombia tied it on the hour.
In the last of the game, Borja made it 2-2 against Argentina with this header.
#EliminatoriasEnTyCSports.
pic.twitter.com/sPuC55nAGq
- TyC Sports (@TyCSports) June 9, 2021
Look also
The hard injury ofdra MartĂnez that forced him to leave the court for the entry of MarchesĂn
Argentina's 1x1 against Colombia: Messi's sacrifice and Romero's confirmation
