Argentina.. Compensation or early farewell

• Di Maria and his teammates hope to compensate against Mexico.

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Argentina realizes the importance of beating Mexico at Lusail Stadium today if it wants to keep its hope of reaching the second round, knowing that it entered the tournament as one of the most prominent teams to win its third title after 1978 and 1986.

She also fought the World Cup armed with a long, unbeaten streak that lasted from July 2, 2019, when she fell 2-0 to Brazil in the Copa America semi-finals, until the loss against Saudi Arabia.

However, its coach, Lionel Scaloni, considered that the loss was not the end of the world and that his team could compensate against Mexico and then Poland in the last round.

And Argentina had already overcome its loss in the first match and reached the final in 1990 when it fell in the opening match against Cameroon 0-1, but it reached the final, overcoming Brazil in the second round and then host Italy in the semi-finals, before losing the summit match against Germany.

There is no doubt that Scaloni will make several changes in the midfield that may likely affect Alejandro Gomez and perhaps Rodrigo de Paul, similar to the defense line that seemed shaky.

On the other hand, and despite dominating the course of its match against Poland, Mexico lacked a top scorer in its ranks.

This is because Raul Jimenez is no longer the same after he suffered a fracture in his head during one of the matches of his English team, Wolverhampton, and was absent from the stadiums for a long time.

On the other hand, it is counting on its veteran goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa (37 years), who is participating in his fifth World Cup, as did his compatriot, goalkeeper Antonio Carvajal, in the fifties and sixties of the last century.

Ochoa starred against Poland and succeeded in saving Robert Lewandowski's penalty kick to give his team a point that might benefit him at the end of the first round.

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