“” You have to beat them! Without hesitation. On the ground and outside if necessary! »» Interviewed in the podcast of the former emblematic player of Seleçao, Romario, Raphinha had had very hard words when approaching the impact at the top between Argentina and Brazil. “In Argentina, you really have to hit, hurt. They are assholes. I'm going to mark! That they go fucking ”, Had he still let go. Enough to put oil on the fire and no doubt give, if necessary, a surplus of motivation to Argentines.
While Argentina was ensured, even before the kick -off, of its qualification for the next World Cup, a consequence of the draw between Uruguay and Bolivia, the world champions have made a point of “beat up” its best enemy. At the end of a dominated end-to-end match, the Albiceleste took it 4-1.
In the absence of Lionel Messi, Lionel Scaloni had indeed chosen to densify his midfielder since Rodrigo de Paul, Leandro Paredes, Alexis Macallister, Enzo Fernandez and Thiago Almada were aligned behind Julian Alvarez. However, four minutes were enough for Argentines to open the scoring and set the tone for the evening. Served by his Lyonnais teammate Nicolas Tagliafico, Lyonnais Thiago Almada served in the surface Julian Alvarez, who was playing Murillo and Guilherme Araba to score.
Argentina far ahead, Brazil in the fight
And less than ten minutes later, Enzo Fernandez took advantage of a bad Murillo dismissal to double the bet. Brazil certainly managed to reduce the brand shortly before half an hour of play thanks to Matheus Cunha following a loss of bullet by Cristian Romero, but Alexis Mac Allister, with a nice volley on a nice center of Enzo Fernandez, gave air to his team ten minutes later.
The Argentinian occasions were going to multiply in the second half but only Giuliano Simeone, who came into play a few minutes earlier and well served by Nicolas Tagliafico, was going to take advantage of it to join the addition and capsize the spectators of the monumental.
Thanks to this victory, Argentina comforts its first place at the top of the qualifying group, now eight points ahead of the Ecuador, forced to draw in Chile (0-0), while Brazil retrograde in fourth place. In the other matches, if Venezuela won 1-0 against Peru and maintained his qualification dream, Uruguay drew in Bolivia (0-0) and Colombia also had to be satisfied with a point sharing against Paraguay (2-2).
