While
Lionel Scaloni
's
Argentine National Team
returned with the mission accomplished after the 3-0 defeat to El Salvador, in Philadelphia,
Javier Mascherano's Sub 23
, which is preparing for the
Paris 2024 Olympic Games
, began to build the good victory over
Mexico
4-2 in a friendly played in Mazatlán.
Thiago Almada
, from a penalty,
Matías Soulé
and
Lucas Beltrán
, in duplicate, scored the goals for the national team, which left a very good impression against Mexico, while
Ayón
and
Jordán Carrillo
managed to give partial equality to their team, which had started 0 -2 on the scoreboard.
Almada, who has just been a figure of the team that achieved Olympic qualification, opened the account from the 12 steps after an infraction suffered?
by the former River Beltrán, who fought for position with rival defenders.
It was 12 minutes into the initial stage.
Soulé, having a great season in
Frosinone
, was in charge of stretching the distance thirteen minutes later with an acrobatic finish after a cross from Joaquín García.
It was all winds in favor for Mascherano's boys until Mexico woke up and managed to even the story.
Ayón approached first, with a nice left foot shot that entered next to the goal defended by
Fabricio Iacovich
.
And later, in injury time, the Estudiantes goalkeeper - he started because Leandro Brey stayed with Boca - excelled against a tackle from Ayón, but the rebound fell to Carrillo, who only had to blow it to reach the 2 -2.
Already in the second half, Argentina reacted and not only dominated its rival, but achieved it with goals thanks to two appearances by the relentless Beltrán, a luxury reinforcement for Mascherano who also has the services of
Luciano Gondou
and
Santiago Castro
.
Argentina had a great chance to increase Argentina at the feet of Claudio Echeverri, who came on in the second half and finished off with a phenomenal pile-up that could have been a goal - and viral -.
On Monday, at the Cuauhtémoc Stadium in Puebla, the two teams will meet again.