Argentina went out to play without Messi from the start, thinking about the game against Brazil.
Uruguay did not have seven key players who were left out of the game.
“Reyes de América” stadium of the glorious Peñarol.
The locals started pressing and putting in the last meters of the field. “High” pressure, as they say.
After four minutes Nahitan Nández did not take advantage and Argentina was saved.
Argentina managed to come out of drowning with the handling of Di María, the transfer of Dybala and the handling of De Paul.
In the best moment of Uruguay, Scaloni’s team (whom I led and I know for his intelligence and perseverance) took out the badge of the American champion and silenced the entire stadium: Di María defined with the security of a champion and the National Team did not hesitate in demonstrating who was the boss of the “roundup of others.”
Uruguay was hard running and putting in the whole field. When he tried to play, he showed that he has little to move the ball or pretend to arrive with associated play.
The Uruguayans had two gaps to tie and did not take advantage of them. Argentina league and league. Like in the Copa América.
Only by a threaded shoe from Di María and by his goalkeeper (he saved two goals scored), Argentina was winning in the first half.
Half time for each one; but in situations, the heavenly four and those here only one clear, which was enough to win.
The end result will not matter. The mediocre impotence of Uruguay plus the, at times, colorless game of Argentina show the mediocre of Rio de la Plata football.
Absent the talents and the “claws” and the emotions of before, they will no longer be seen. In addition, and above all, the stories and comments, of those who neither know nor saw nor imagine what these classics were back in time, want to give you an emotion that the game does not have; Really.
This game is only statistics. If Uruguay does not qualify, it would not be bad. And since the heart of the greatest is no longer beating, the better that the Argentine National Team continue to link and link; because if the “link” is cut, those who believe, start praying now. If Dante Panzeri lived, it would be a feast of criticism.
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