Argentina’s football team defeated the United Arab Emirates 5-0 on Wednesday, with two goals from Ángel Di María and one from Lionel Messi, Julián Álvarez and Joaquín Correa, in a friendly in Abu Dhabi ahead of the World Cup in Qatar.
The coach of ‘la Albiceleste’, Lionel Scaloni, took advantage of the fact that his side won 4-0 in the first half and tried a line-up with five defenders in the second half.
After 16 minutes, Di María assisted Messi, who was in front of the goalkeeper and, instead of defining, assisted Álvarez, who made it 1-0.
The second goal came after 25 minutes, after a cross from Marcos Acuña from the left, which Di María, who trained the box on the right, hit with a volley.
Ten minutes later, Di María made it 3-0 after dribbling, inside the penalty area, first a defender and then the goalkeeper.
Messi’s goal came after 43 minutes. ‘La Pulga’ got a pass3 in the croissant, hooked to the right to get a man off him and defined, cross, from the right to make it 4-0.
Already in the second half, a shot from Harib Abdalla Suhail hit the crossbar at medium range.
Correa, who came on in the second half, was the author of the 5-0 after 59 minutes.
‘El Tucu’, assisted by De Paul, defined smoothly before the goalkeeper took off.
Most clearly for the United Arab Emirates came ten minutes from time, when Caio Canedo was in prime position to score, now without the goalkeeper present, but Germán Pezzella cleared on the line.
La Albiceleste has been drawn in group C of the World Cup in Qatar, along with Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Poland.
Argentina will debut on the 22nd against the Saudis, on the 26th against Mexico, whose coach is former Albiceleste and Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino, and on the 30th they will close their participation in the group stage against Robert Lewandowski’s Poland.
United Arab Emirates are not participating in the World Cup.
– Data sheet:
5. Argentina: Emiliano Martinez; Juan Foyth, Nicolás Otamendi (m.46, Germán Pezzella), Lisandro Martínez, Marcos Acuña (m.46, Joaquín Correa); Alexis MacAllister (m.46, Gonzalo Montiel), Leandro Paredes (m.74, Guido Rodriguez), Rodrigo De Paul, Lionel Messi; Julián Álvarez (m.50, Enzo Fernandez), Ángel Di María (m.46, Nahuel Molina).
voter: Lionel Scaloni.
0. United Arab Emirates: Khalid Eisa; Khaled Ebraheim Al Dhanhani (m.76, Abdulaziz Haikal), Al Hussain Saleh (m.64, Ahmed Jamil), Khalifa Mubarak, Shahin Abdulrahman; Abdulla Hamad (m.64, Majid Rashid), Ali Salmeen Al Balushi (m.46, Yahia Nader), Harib Abdalla Suhail (m.77, Ali Saleh), Abdalla Ramadan, Caio Canedo; and Ali Mabkhout Al Hajeri (m.46, Fabio Lima).
voter: Rodolfo Arruabarrena.
Goals: 0-1, m.16: Julián Álvarez. 0-2, m.25: Angel Di Maria. 0-3, m.35: Angel Di Maria. 0-4, m.43: Lionel Messi. 0-5, m.59: Joaquin Correa.
Referee: Egyptian Ibrahim Nour El Din. He warned Lisandro Martínez and Majid Rashid.
incidents: friendly match played at Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dabum in front of some 30,000 spectators.
Source: El heraldo
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