Argentina marks two years since Maradona's death and is ready for Mexico: "Our first final" | Israel today

After the painful loss to Saudi Arabia in its opening game in the World Cup in Qatar, the Argentina team will go up tomorrow (Saturday, 21:00, here 11) for its second game and one of the most important of Leo Messi's career against the Mexico team.

The Albiceleste know they need three points to depend on themselves in the final round against Poland and not to fly already in the group stage, something that hasn't happened to them since 2002.

"This is the first World Cup final for us in the tournament," Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez said at the press conference before the game, "The loss to Saudi Arabia hit us hard. We expected to play like a real final, but we didn't. Our first goal calmed us down too much. On Saturday it will be Otherwise, it will be a real final."

Despite the loss to Saudi Arabia and quite surprisingly, the media in Argentina are reporting that Lionel Scaloni does not intend to make changes to the team.

On the other hand, there are a number of journalists who claimed that Manchester United stopper Lisandro Martinez will replace Christian Romero in the 11.

Former players of Argentina pay respect to Maradona, today in Qatar, photo: AFP

In Argentina today they mark two years since the death of Diego Armando Maradona and hope that the spirit of the legend will be with them tomorrow.

Also, the blue-whites rely on the statistics that say that in their last ten meetings against Mexico they are undefeated, and have won six of the last seven games.

By the way Maradona, in Qatar a special ceremony was held in one of the fan complexes in his memory, which was attended by former stars of Argentina including Mario Campes, Jorge Borchaga and Jorge Waldano, while the legend of Bulgaria - Hristo Stoichkov also paid tribute to his former friend.

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