Futsal World Cup: Argentina's National Team beats Serbia in a very hot match

09/17/2021 11:50 AM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 9/17/2021 3:01 PM

The Argentine futsal team plays its second match at the

2021 World Cup in Lithuania

, where after defeating the United States by a categorical 11-0, it faces Serbia in a match corresponding to the second date of the tournament.

Those led by

Matías Lucuix

aim to continue on the path of victory, while the Serbs will seek to recover from the narrow defeat they suffered against Iran on the first date of Group F.

The "Albiceleste" cast has the objective of revalidating the title obtained in the 2016 World Cup in Colombia, and for that they must overcome a complicated group stage.

After successfully passing the test against the Americans,

both Serbia and Iran represent much more risk in the face of qualifying.

🏆 #FutsalWC # Lituania2021 🇱🇹

🇦🇷 This is how the national anthem was sung 🇦🇷

💪 Come on, guys!

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- Argentina National Team 🇦🇷 (@Argentina) September 17, 2021

The match started

That forecast was present at the Avia Solutions Group Arena, a stadium located in the city of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. From the start, the Balkan team set out to put pressure on the Argentine team up high, trying to cause some error at the start and keep them away from their own goal.

In this way, after an infraction, the first came for Serbia through Stefan Rakic, who gave the surprise.

Shortly after,

a hard tackle from Stojkovic on Argentine goalkeeper Nicolás Sarmiento

caused him to be

sent off

and saw the champions play for a couple of minutes with one more player.

That superiority allowed him to reach the equalizer: a point from

Matías Edelstein

from a distance that hit the post and reached the net after bouncing off the face of the Serbian goalkeeper for what was counted as a goal against Aksentievij.

GOAL FROM ARGENTINA!

With the help of the stick and the goalkeeper Aksentievij, Matías Edelstein (@matiedel) puts the 1-1.

Let's go Argentina!

#FUTSALenDEPORTV |

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- DEPORTV (@canaldeportv) September 17, 2021

But the difficulties continued because soon after, a counterattack and a subtle definition by Jovan Lazarevic put Serbia ahead again.

With a lot of courage and increasingly loose, the Argentines began to show their best weapons and quickly turned it around thanks to goals from

Alan Brandi

, one of the tournament's top scorers, and from Kiki 

Constantino Vaporaki

.

GOAL FROM ARGENTINA!

At the exit of a free kick and a good prepared play, @alan_brandi makes it 2-2.

#FUTSALenDEPORTV |

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- DEPORTV (@canaldeportv) September 17, 2021

ARGENTINA TURNED IT BACK!

Borruto's great recovery, first.

Great definition after @kikivaporaki for 3-2.

Like this, Argentina, like this! #FUTSALenDEPORTV |

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- DEPORTV (@canaldeportv) September 17, 2021

The following minutes showed an Argentine team with many chances to expand the score, especially thanks to the deployment of

Ángel Claudino

and the experience of former Boca

Santiago Basile

.

However, the first half went with a firm score at 3-2, a somewhat meager advantage for what Argentina proposed.

And that will have to be taken care of in the second part.

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Futsal World Cup: Argentina's National Team debuted with a historic win over the United States

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