Argentina faces Paraguay for the date 11 of the South American Qualifiers on the way to the Qatar World Cup 2022. With the arbitration of Brazilian Anderson Daronco, the match can be followed by TyC Sports and the Public TV.
It is not an easy game that they dispute Lionel messi and the rest of the Argentine team in Asunción. The latest information indicates that the Paraguayan team of Eduardo Berizzo It has been a tough rival for Scaloni’s team: it was a draw in the Copa América 2019, equality on the Boca Juniors court due to the World Cup qualification and a tight victory in the group stage (1-0) of the last national team tournament that it consecrated to the Albiceleste in the mythical Maracana.
Faced with this scenario, The selected team seeks to maintain its unbeaten streak of matches – there are already 22 with 14 wins and eight draws-, but more importantly, he went out onto the stadium playing field Defenders of the Chaco with the intention of adding three points to consolidate it behind Brazil (24) in the standings that grant four direct tickets to the next World Cup.
Waiting for the resolution taken by FIFA after the classic truncation against Tite’s team in São Paulo, Argentina has 18 points And it is followed by Uruguay with 15 units, Ecuador and Colombia (13), and further behind its rival tonight, Paraguay, which has 11.
As has been happening in the last calls, and even for the last Copa América, the Argentine DT already has a base of footballers in its squad. “80 or 90 percent of those summoned are the same,” he said in statements prior to the start of this new triple qualifying date. In that sense, and according to what was exposed yesterday in the press conference prior to today’s duel, the team will be the same as the one that played the definition against Brazil for the title of best team in America on July 10, except for some last-minute setback.
It is important to note that 10 soccer players from the Albiceleste squad are at the limit: if they get one more yellow card, they will miss the classic next Sunday in Buenos Aires against Uruguay. Of that ten players, five three starters today: Nicolás Otamendi, Rodrigo De Paul and Giovani Lo Celso.
Argentina’s rival comes from achieving an important victory in Asunción against Venezuela (2-1) that deactivated the questions against Berizzo after the elimination in the Copa América and the six games without winning for the qualification to the World Cup in Qatar 2022.
The record between the two in qualifying has Argentina as the dominator, who won six of the 19 crosses. The last victory in Paraguayan territory was in 2013 for qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil: on that occasion, Alejandro Sabella’s team triumphed 5-2 with a brace from Messi.
Formations
Paraguay: Antony Silva; Robert Rojas, Gustavo Gómez, Júnior Alonso, Omar Alderete; Mathías Villasanti, Santiago Arzamendia, Jorge Morel; Miguel Almirón, Ángel Romero and Antonio Sanabria. DT: Eduardo Berizzo.
Argentina: Emiliano Martínez; Nahuel Molina, Cristian Romero, Nicolás Otamendi and Marcos Acuña; Rodrigo De Paul, Leandro Paredes and Giovani Lo Celso; Ángel Di María, Joaquín Correa and Lionel Messi. DT: Lionel Scaloni.
Referee: Anderson Daronco (Brazil)
Stadium: Defensores del Chaco Stadium, Asunción (Paraguay)
TV: Public TV and TyC Sports
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