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Full of the Scaloneta, five months from the title in Qatar: world champions in all the finals of Europe

2023-05-19T00:07:43.992Z

Highlights: In the Champions League, the Europa League and the Conference League there will be Albiceleste footballers. Most of them champions in the 2022 World Cup. Lautaro Martínez, Joaquín Correa and Julián Álvarez will settle Champions League with Inter and Manchester City. In Europa League will face Sevilla with Paulo Dybala's Roma. Nicolás González's Fiorentina will clash with West Ham of England, which has Manuel Lanzini.


In the Champions League, the Europa League and the Conference League there will be Albiceleste footballers, most of them champions in the 2022 World Cup. A review that ratifies the good moment of Argentine football.


"I don't worry about the other players in Argentina, because they're not going to win anything else. Messi won everything and will be remembered." The phrase of the Swedish verbiage Zlatan Ibrahimovic was repeated several times this week on social networks. And much was remembered this Thursday, after the semifinals of the three main European competitions were closed and the presence of Argentine footballers, most of them world champions exactly five months ago in Qatar 2022, in the match for the title of the Champions League, the Europa League and the Conference League was confirmed.

Yes, Lautaro Martínez, Joaquín Correa and Julián Álvarez will settle the Champions League with Inter and Manchester City, respectively, on June 10 in Istanbul. In the Europa League will face Sevilla (Marcos Acuña, Papu Gómez, Lucas Ocampos, Gonzalo Montiel and Erik Lamela) with Paulo Dybala's Roma, and the Conference where Nicolás González's Fiorentina will clash with West Ham of England, which has Manuel Lanzini.

Therefore, the phrase of Ibrahimovic, whose team Milan just lost its chance of final by a goal of Toro Martínez in the rematch, is already obsolete. Yes, Zlatan, there will be Argentine champions and that will not be Lionel Messi (he has only almost assured the Ligue 1 of France with PSG.

Six world champions (and two more who were until the last moment in the squad and were ruled out by Lionel Scaloni due to injury), who just six months later, will have the chance to increase the Albiceleste palmares in European lands.

Three (plus two) by the Orejona

The Champions League trophy will once again make contact with the hands of an Argentine footballer on June 10 at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, where Manchester City and Inter will play the final of the competition. Two of the candidates for that privilege are Julián Álvarez and Lautaro Martínez, two men who a few months ago bid for a place in the attack of the Argentine team and celebrated the title in the World Cup in Qatar.

In Inter, in addition, there is Joaquín Correa, who due to a last-minute injury missed the appointment in Arab lands. In addition, the youth Valentín Carboni (played 14 minutes in the group stage against Bayern Munich) and Máximo Perrone (just a couple of times on the bench with City) are part of the squads but will not be because they are with the Argentine National Team for the Under-20 World Cup.

The Europa League, to break a record

Dybala celebrated in Leverkusen. AP Photo/Martin Meissner.

In the second step of importance is the Europa League, which has an appointment for May 31 in Budapest. There, Jose Mourinho will have a chance to capture a sixth European title at the helm of Roma, but must find a way to stop a Sevilla side that will try to win it for the seventh time.

It will be the final with more Argentines, because in the Italian team will be the Cordovan Paulo Dybala, if he recovers from a discomfort that has him to mistreat in recent weeks, and in the Andalusians a true Albiceleste Legion. On Thursday he had no minutes in the rematch against Bayer Leverkusen, in Germany.

Photo: REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

The absentee with notice will be Marcos Acuña, for his childish expulsion in the supplementary of the game this Thursday, where he was being an exclusive figure of his team. In Sevilla there are also Erik Lamela -converted the goal of the classification against Juventus of Angel Di María and Leandro Paredes-, Lucas Ocampos -was a starter-, Gonzalo Montiel and Alejandro Papu Gómez, who like 'Coco' entered from the bench of substitutes.

The first time in a Conference

Photo: Sebastien Bozon / AFP.

The second edition of the Conference League will have an Argentine champion for the first time. Mourinho's Roma beat Marcos Senesi's Feyenoord last year, but La Albiceleste will have revenge on June 7 in Prague.

With Nico González as an emblem, and author of a double in the comeback of the semifinal rematch, Fiorentina of Italy returns to a European definition after 33 years.

Manu Lanzini climbed to 'caballito' of a companion in the celebration of West Ham. Photo: AP/Peter Dejong.

Opposite will be West Ham of England, which has the Argentine Manu Lanzini in its squad. The emerged in River Plate celebrated from the bench of substitutes the agonizing goal of the Spanish Pablo Fornals, who secured the victory in the series for London, who had won 2 to 1 at home.

David Moyes' team will play their fourth continental final: they won the defunct Cup Winners' Cup in 1965, against Munich, and lost the 1976 one, against Anderlecht. Then came the Intertoto, his last presence in a European final.

See also

Lautaro Martínez and Julián Álvarez, face to face in the Champions League final between two world champions

Roma, without Dybala, defended the whole match in Leverkusen and will play the final of the Europa League

Coco Lamela put the Sevilla of the Argentines in the final of the Europa League: eliminated Juventus in the lengthening

Conference League: Nico Gonzalez's double for Fiorentina and full presence of the world champions in the European finals

Source: clarin

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