(PLO) – From a championship candidate, Messi junior lost his hand against Mali in the third place match of the U-17 World Cup.
Messi’s junior, U-17 Argentina’s fate at this U-17 World Cup is cruel, the opening day lost 1-2 to African representative Senegal, the day of leaving Indonesia marked a 0-3 loss to African representative Mali.
Messi juniors are a very good team with many excellent individuals, a promising young team, a future World Cup force when Messi retires.
The U-17 World Cup third place match just ended at Surakarno Stadium, Indonesia, Mali defeated Argentina 3-0. If only Mali and Argentina played the last match, that is, the final match, it would be so beautiful, those are two young teams playing with fire, innocence, many excellent individuals, with little calculation but showing everything they have. , but…unfortunately the final match is France and Germany, and the third place match is Mali and Argentina.
Unfortunately for Mali, a little inexperienced in the semi-finals lost a player in the 54th minute and then a minute later lost the only goal to France, and Argentina lost 2-4 to Germany in the penalty shootout after drawing 3-3 at 90 minutes. officially in the semi-finals.
A third-place match of very high professional quality. Argentina in turn launched super strikers Agustin Ruberto and Claudio Echeverri, two strikers considered “Messi’s heirs”, the authors of two hat tricks in the quarterfinals and semi-finals but were “frozen” by their very clever playing style. study of Mali, an African representative who grows more and more mature. Mali is innocent, but has a very solid team structure, the team is very strong, and physically overwhelms Argentina. Mali knew how to exploit this strength to “suppress” Argentina and they dominated for almost all 90 minutes.
During the match, goalkeeper Bourama Kone could almost “hook a hammock” in his own goal, the two super strikers Echeverri and Ruberto had almost no chance to approach Kone’s goal with personal techniques. Mali’s defense pushed up the formation and covered extremely well, blocking Argentina’s sieges from outside the restricted area.
Meanwhile, Mali put enormous pressure on Argentina’s half of the field and the ball seemed to roll mainly in Argentina’s half of the field.
Mali’s three goals were all masterpieces. The opening goal of 1-0 in the 9th minute was captain Ibrahaim Diarra’s chest grab and then turning around to shoot the ball dangerously.
The remaining two goals were scored by Mamadou Doumbia (45th minute) and Makalou at the beginning of the second half to help Mali defeat Argentina and win 3rd place at the U-17 World Cup.
A Mali, an African representative who creates miracles, this team will have a bright future.
DUY DUC
