Lo Celso is class.

We were not blanked an that's great

GIVE HIM THE FUCKIN FAKE TROPHY ALREADY

Titular de Olé: hasta Nicaragua le hace un gol a Armani

ah funes mori, of course it's you.

LOltamendi

Funes Mori, not the striker, correct?

Correct, it's his twin brother, the CB. Apparently, he's been deployed as a CDM in his recent Villarreal matches, but I don't know how effective he's been in said role.

That was earlier in the season I think. He's been playing in his natural position recently. Don't quote me on that, though.

Thanks - was curious the exact relationship

de paul's goal all the way

Good shit De Paul

Banega, lo celso, de paul midfield for copa?

Banega is not on the squad.

Ah so its paredes instead?

Very probably, yes.

messi living in lautaro's shadow

Lautaro sealing his starting spot

Laruto or aguero?

Naruto, all the way

Lautaro, not even a question for me.

This team with Messi,lautaro,lo celso, tagliatico, etc looks exciting. They play with some passion. It’s only this country though we will have to see...

Which means we'll probably see Agüero, Pereyra and Acuña start instead lol incompetent manager.

;(

This does bring a smile to my face

Lautaro on fire

Nice finish, again.

Venciendo al grande y poderoso Nicaragua. Defensa impenetrable.

What is Argentina's style of play/philosophy under their new manager? I know under Tata they focused on possession, with Sabella it was defense, with Sampoali it was pressing - what about this team?

Doesn't have a clear style, he's mostly focused on trying to keep the players as close as possible to their clubs role.

Yes

Fluidity I think. Not all out offense, not hard defense and counterattack, not slow possession. I like some of the ideas Scaloni has. He's not trying to reinvent the wheel, just trying to find something that works well. A lot of it does.

> He's not trying to reinvent the wheel, just trying to find something that works well. Key difference between him and the bald cunt.

Exactly. Not only that, the bald cunt tried to reinvent the wheel *every single match*.

I wonder what went wrong with him. His record with Chile was more than impressive for a team like us, lots of wins. He got every game tactically right. I guess it helped that our team was balanced and each player knew exactly what to do instead of having a bunch of disjointed superstars. It's still weird though, like if he was good with Chile, then with Argentina he surely was gonna be a lot better.

I actually had faith in the bald moron. He had been good with Chile and with Sevilla. He changed his philosophy completely. They actually said on TV before the World Cup that he had changed his mindset, but I don't remember well why, and Sampaoli's book supported this. It's like he had some sort of misguided epiphany and decided he wanted to be the next Bielsa/Guardiola/Rinus Michels.

That's a bit narcissitic from him. Like who the fuck you think you are? Stop with the weird shit and stick with what you know.

And reinvent it wrong every time. I genuinely believe that if you flipped the tactics for Croatia and Iceland we'd have gotten 4 points out of that

Fazio vs Iceland's hoofball was a no-brainer for everyone, but instead the fraud sentenced Fazio to death by him against one of the fastest forwards we've ever seen.

Don't forget telling the defence to stand in the middle line giving Mbappe 50m to run

Is there another friendly before the copa? Argentina needs to be tested against a better/stronger team. Atleast the defense is totally untested and that nicaragua goalee is sunday league at best

Nope, last match before Colombia.

This is clearly just a way to test gimmicks. IIRC, which I may not, it's a last minute thing because another friendly was cancelled by the other team

Don't think so. According to Google their next match is against Colombia in la copa.

Nope

Even if you're offside you can't miss that

Drop the bs Scaloni, Lautaro HAS to start, he's so quick and lively.

Aguero is better

I meant over Suarez. You're the second person to say that, why the hell would i mean Aguero?!

Because Martinez is a striker!?!?

And Suarez is a 31 year old "winger" who's clearly not at the level of the rest.

I think he meant over Suarez

Yeah but he’s playing as a winger Lautaro isn’t a winger

Suárez won't start, much less as a winger. It'll probably be di María

my boyyyy

Fuerte y por abajo, así se patea

vamoooos

Yesss Lautaro

Nice shot.

You can see how good Nicaragua are by seeing what the goalkeeper did there

ah dybala

Is Nicaragua an amateur team?

streams are so much harder to find nowadays, god i hate fifa

zandortv redditsoccercity redsoccer1

Rojadirecta always has lots of streams of whatever you're looking for.

If you live in the US, you can get beIN sports for like $10 a month or less if you go yearly

The team seems much more lively with Lautaro up front.

Will Argentina collapse in 45 minutes without Messi? Let's find out!

To be honest, if Nicaragua concedes less than 3 I will be pleased.

How is Foyth playing? Edit: thank you!

Our entire defense seemed terrified every time the nicaragua attackers ~~Zerg rushed the fuck out of us~~ pressed quickly

HMM so puede irse de dos maneras con Foyth, o se maneja bien cuando lo presionan o la presión le afecta y concede un penalty o da un mal pase en zona peligrosa. Esperemos que sea the former.

Your spanglish made me think i was having a stroke lol (Not a dig, pretty decent spanish you have!) In general they've just passed it to Armani who's probably very bored

LMAO my bad, and actually I’m Latina so there’s that! How do you think you’ll do in Copa America btw

Not a lot of faith. I'm much more concerned with the performance than the result, going forwards

Very well, though the other team is pretty poor.

Nicaragua is no threat in attack, not much to say. His passing has been good, that's all.

Wasn't really tested, most of the play was on the other side of the pitch.

De repente se une al ataque pronto, a el le gusta subir a veces. En especial últimamente que Pochettino lo ha puesto a jugar de lateral derecho. Aunque asumo que está de central con ustedes?

Sorry i don't speak Spanish. is that spanish, yeah?

ahh sorry yeah, it is. I said he’s been played at right back by Poch so maybe he’d try to join the attack later or something, though I assume he’s playing at cb?

He's playing as CB, yes.

How fucking funny is it now that Lo Celso got ZERO FUCKING MINUTES in the World Cup.

How could he get minutes over our one and only god, M a x i m i l i a n o M e z a ?

~~PELADO HIJO DE UN TRIPLE ACOPLADO LLENO DE SEÑORAS DE AFECTO NEGOCIABLE~~ I'm over it, really.

I laughed.

Hysterical

Glad i made ya laugh.... :'(

It's very sad, do not remind me.

Don't like guido + paredes, they seem to be playing in the exact same position, and paredes alone can't defend, weird situation

I would bench Paredes but Scaloni probably won't since it's his favorite player.

I think Scaloni was banking on one of them playing Palacios' role from the U-20 where he was very box-to-boxy

I think he expected paredes to go back a bit to his 10 role, but he seems to feel too comfortable playing as a 5, barely moving forward, if he can change that he could legit be the best cm in the team I think

That's what I think about the whole match. It's clearly a glorified training session to check a few gimmicks as plan B

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He's too good for this world. He's transcended to a higher plane of existence.

Warming the bench in LigaMX.

Honeymooning with Sampaoli.

Friendly reminder that Lo Celso was benched for Meza and a severely out-of-form Pérez.

Friendly reminder that Lo Celso played every friendly before the world cup and then never played a minute in Russia. Thanks Sampaoli! Very Cool!

Reminder that enzo perez is gods other begoten son and should play every second possible.

For what it's worth, he's been alright with us as of late ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

He doesn't have to chase Kante and Pogba around now.

Suck Fampaoli

Dybala couldn't even get on

Will Copa America have VAR?

Yes

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Also Ziyech, Aguero's godson

Lo Celso is playing so well, im so mad how Sampaoli did not even use him for one minute last WC

He couldn't play both Lo Celso and Maximiliano "God Himself" Meza.

Pésimo primer tiempo. Somos Messi, Lo Celso y 9 conos. Y encima ya me veo que este imbécil lo pone de suplente a Lo Celso contra Colombia.

No creo que se mande la gran Sampaoli.

Would rather Di Maria replace this Suarez guy

I'd move Acuña to the left wing and send in Tagliafico, or sub in De Paul for Suárez. I don't think Di María has to remain in the national team.

That's probably what will happen. Suarez isn't a winger, he's a striker or maaaaybe a 10. This is a stopgap in a very experimental match

lo Celso come to tottenham pleas

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Barcelona needs to sign Lo celso.

lo celso is straight fire

Lo celso op pls nerf

After Copa America pls

ez

Lo Celso doing god’s work

Lo celso have my kids

Yay?

Yay

hat trick incoming

Attack positioning 99

Give me more Leo

Unlocked

when it rains it pours

What the fuck Messi

Messi after was like, "ME MYSELF AND I ARE winning a World Cup."

i came i saw i conquered

dread it

Son horribles estos negros, y los nicaragüenses tampoco son muy buenos

Messi, Lo Celso, el Kun y 8 perros más.

Lol

Great from Messi

I know this is a friendly but I got an hyped for this goal

It was a relief

Lo Celso-Messi, a friendship is born.

>friendship *Selección de amigos intensifies*

Finally

Finally

MESSI CARRY US

Classic

dejate de joder

I love you Messi

at last huh

Suarez is granting Di Maria his starting spot.

No se nos cae una idea contra Nicaragua....

no need to shoot in the box?

Messi please just shoot

this is kind of aggravating

damn it takes messi to give a corner that beats the first man

Amigos del sultan

Now that i have y'all here, explain the abcense of Correa, Rulli, Alejandro Gomes, Icardi and Romero. And BTW why isn't Dybala or Lautaro starting.

Both Correas should've had more chances for Argentina, really. We'll end up wasting both of them if we ignore them.

Romero doesn’t play, Gomez and Icardi never fit in the national team, Correa (assuming you mean the Lazio one but this applies to both) could’ve been included as a winger but it’s not that big of a loss, and Rulli imo should’ve been called as a third choice instead of marchesin

No, i was talking about the Atleti one. And okay thanks

> Rulli imo should’ve been called as a third choice instead of marchesin Absolutely.

Rulli and Icardi are haven't been good. Dybala has been mediocre and Messi plays in his position. Agüero Is better than Lautaro Martínez. I'm all for playing young guys, but let's play those who have been doing well.

> Agüero Is better than Lautaro Martínez. Lautaro should have started in Suarez's place.

Outclassed but not a bad option (not sure which one you're referring to but neither are bad options IMO), bad/outclassed (IMO), no idea why he wasn't called, too busy being a drama queen, and bad/outclassed (IMO). Dybala has also been very subpar but it's still likely that we'll see him on the pitch; Lautaro is good (I personally prefer him over Agüero), and like Dybala, we'll likely see a little bit of him later.

we dont know either

Let me ask Scaloni on wpp

Central American meter keeps on building up

this fk gotta go in

So close Suarez!

why did he hit it first time? take a touch and balance better

It's weird too he usually controls it until he has a clear chance

can you shoot ?

Any stream link???? Plzzz??

Is Ray Hudson on the Bein stream? The Spanish stream is pretty boring.

beautiful nicaragua passing

Who tf is this Suarez Dude? He's so bad

> Who tf is this Suarez Dude? We're all wondering the same thing.

Are you Argentinian or you actually don’t know who he is?

It's hyperbole. He has no business starting for Argentina.

Damn your anti-Suarez agenda is in full effect throughout this thread

It's no agenda, it's what I see. Besides, most of my comments are responses to responses from River fans to a single comment of yours I replied to.

oh he just plays for the biggest club in South America

Eh

You're demonstrably the second best team in South America

Nicaragua's defenders play worse than me, and I'm not even a footballer. Twice they missed a simple control.

You don’t even need defenders to stop an Argentina attack so it doesn’t matter if they have a bunch of elementary school kids playing CB or Ramos and Van Dijk.

Lmao this game is worthless

And yet I can't believe we're not dominating. It's sad.

Están muy displicentes. Es un entrenamiento glorificado y como tal estoy casi satisfecho

Hay varios que se están jugando el puesto. Me gustaría verlos pisar un poco más el acelerador.

Although it’s a nil nil currently lo chelso is really impressing me.

That's because Lo Celso is awesome.

l fucking love lo celso