The Argentine National Team Sub 20 soccer plays against Nigeriain San Juan, for the round of 16 of the World Cup in the category, which will conclude on June 11 when the final will be played at the Único Diego Maradona stadium, in La Plata.
The San Juan del Bicentenario stadium will host the match that started at 18with the Swedish Glenn Nyberg as referee and transmission of the public television, T&C Sports and directv sports.
The emotions were proposed by the national team after a great play by Luka Romero, who in the 6th minute of the initial period shot a ball from outside the area to start proposing conditions on the field. Without a doubt, it was a first episode with national dominance, but it is also worth noting the good defensive work that the African team has had in these first moments of the game, which has prevented the scoring from opening.
Mascherano’s men have tried in the first period, but in this sense, the opportunities have not been clear in the final stretch of the field, since the Albiceleste have not found in the last sector of the pitch.
After a perfect group stage, Argentina looks for another World Cup success
The first objective was more than met as the team closed the group stage with a perfect score, something that only two achieved (USA, the other) of the 24 participants. After a debut with some doubts before uzbekistan (2-1), the kids let go and showed their potential in victories against Guatemala (3-0) year New Zealand (5-0).
The balance of the first phase is highly positive since there were ten goals in favor, just one against and the possibility of DT using 20 of the 21 players that make up the squad.
Despite the good level of the alternative team against the champion of Oceania, the little boss will return to the base of the team that played the first two dates and will have the returns of Valentin Gomez, Mateo Tanlongo, Valentine Carboni and of Alejo Veliz.
Nigeria, a strong and physical rival
Nigeria is presented as a rival to watch out for, although it qualified third in group D, it did so with the same points as Brazil and Italy in the most complicated area of the world Cup.
The African team, which was also runner-up in the 1989 edition and is participating in its 13th World Cup, presented itself with a configured victory over the rookie Dominican Republic (2-1), then surprised Italythat came from beating Braziland he beat him 2-0 and in the last presentation he lost without mitigation to the South American champion 2-0 in La Plata.
Formations Argentina vs Nigeria
Argentina: Federico Gomes Gerth; Agustín Giay, Tomás Avilés, Valentín Gómez, Valentín Barco; Mateo Tanlongo, Federico Redondo, Valentin Carboni; Luka Romero, Brian Aguirre and Alejo Veliz. DT: Javier Mascherano.
Nigeria: Chijioke Aniagboso; Daniel Bameyi, Benjamin Fredrick, Abel Ogwuche, and Solomon Agbalaka; Daniel Daga and Tochukwu Nadi; Ibrahim Muhammad, Samson Lawal, and Jude Sunday; Salim Lawal DT: ladan bosso.
