BUENOS AIRES/Xinhua
The Argentine soccer crew beat Chile 1-0 final night time in “a really robust match” for the Copa América in the USA, the South American nation’s press summarized at this time.
With this victory, because of an agonizing aim from striker Lautaro Martínez (88m), the defending champion and world champion in Qatar 2022 certified for the quarterfinals of the event.
“With Lautaro as a hero, Argentina gained a really robust match in opposition to Chile and went to the quarterfinals,” the newspaper Clarín mentioned on its web site.
La Nación summed up: “In! With a last-minute aim from Lautaro Martínez, Argentina beat Chile 1-0 and is now within the quarterfinals.”
The sports activities newspaper Olé reported “Lautaro’s aim, Argentina is relentless and within the quarterfinals,” in its second look in Group A, since in its debut it had crushed Canada 2-0.
After the match, performed at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, the scorer warned that the upcoming matches “are all going to be sophisticated.”
«I need to play once more from the beginning, I had an excellent season. “You must give 100% for the shirt, I’ll at all times give every part,” mentioned Lautaro Martínez.
One other of the figures of the night time, goalkeeper Emiliano “Dibu” Martínez highlighted that they’ve “two of the 5 greatest forwards on the planet on the crew, who’re Julián (Alvarez) and Lautaro (Martínez).”
“We deserved to win,” he mentioned, including that star Lionel Messi, “touched or not” by his bodily issues, “at all times makes a distinction.”
Subsequent Saturday, Argentina (6 factors) will conclude its participation within the zone in opposition to Peru (1), which this Tuesday misplaced 0-1 with Canada (3), whose rival within the closing shall be Chile (1).
The albiceleste crew, with Lionel Scaloni as coach, is the highest winner of the Copa América together with Uruguay, with 15 titles, adopted by Brazil (9), Paraguay, Chile and Peru (2), Colombia and Bolivia (1).
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