Lionel Scaloni He spoke about everything in the last contact of the Argentine National Team with the media before traveling to Colombia, where on Tuesday they will face Néstor Lorenzo’s team in Barranquilla, in the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup in North America.
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The champion of the continent and the world arrives as leader of the qualifiers, with 18 points, while its rival is the only undefeated team, but has 13 points. It will be the first time they meet since the Copa America final.
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Scaloni gave some details about the starting line-up that he could use at the Roberto Meléndez stadium: “The team is fine, recovering from the game the other day. With the typical ailments of this type of competition. Nico González trained separately and Alexis (Mac Allister) with the group. We will see how they develop, although we did not have a very demanding training session. In general terms we are fine,” he commented.
One of the coach’s main concerns is to determine how Nicolás González (hit on the heel) and Mac Allister (adductor discomfort) are progressing, who ended up injured in the 3-0 thrashing of Chile at the Monumental on Thursday.
Alexis MacAllister
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The coach anticipated that there could be changes in the lineup: “The team is still very early. Not only because of the inconvenience with Nico and Alexis, we are still evaluating how we are going to play and we may possibly make some changes. But I couldn’t say how many. There is still a long way to go, we will wait, but it is possible that there will be changes.”
The new complaint about the time of the match against Colombia
When analyzing Colombia, the coach made it clear that it will not be an easy match at all: “It is true that the time does not help the spectacle. It is the same for everyone. I say this for the comfort of the footballer. The context of the match will be normal, everyone wants their team to win on the field.” He added: “We are not going to change our way of defending, it is a weapon that they have and we have to be careful.”
Given the difficulty that each match represents for the Argentine National Team, Scaloni also spoke about how complex the qualifiers are: “You have to look at the context of how you win games. When you get overconfident, at the best moment, Saudi Arabia got to us and beat us. Anything can happen. The important thing is to recover. The level is even. We saw a Peru-Colombia game and the Peruvians could have won and are last in the standings. We have scored good points and I think we are doing well, but we must not be complacent.”
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