2023-11-30 01:45:29
If there are Champions League matches, there is guaranteed action from Argentine footballers. And this Wednesday was no exception. The qualifiers for the round of 16 of the continental competition begin to be defined and, among the matches of the day, Real Madrid-Napoli y Sevilla-PSV They took much of the attention.
In the legendary Santiago Bernabeu stadium, Giovanni Simeone got on the scoreboard. The forward trained in River Plate, with a great presence in Napoli, opened the account but was unable to avoid his team’s defeat, 4-2 once morest Real Madrid. Who sealed Merengue’s victory? Another Argentine: Nicolas Paz.
In this way, the Italian team, with seven points in group C, has not yet managed to secure its place in the next stage of the tournament. However, they are very close to it: they will define head-to-head at home once morest Sporting Clube de Braga, who tied 1-1 with Unión Berlin. A draw or even losing by one goal is enough.
Meanwhile, Nico Paz’s goal, the first of his entire professional career, made him the third youngest player to convert for the White House in Champions at 18 years, 3 months and 21 days. They only surpass it Rodrygo (18 years 9 months and 28 days in 2019) and Raúl (19 years, 2 months and 21 days in 1995).
Furthermore, it remained as the second youngest Argentine to score a goal in the Champions League following Lionel Messi, to take dimension of what its conquest meant. He surpassed in that position Alejandro Garnacho, which on the same day became 3-3 for Manchester United and Galatasaray.
Paz had made his debut in the top continental competition last date, playing just 13 minutes once morest Braga, and now he played 20 more minutes. Total, 33′ were enough for him to score his first goal. However, it is not a record. Simeone, who also screamed on the night in Madrid, scored for the first time in the competition just three minutes following his debut once morest Liverpool last season.
He is the son of Pablo Paz, a World Cup player with the Argentine National Team in France 1998, and, although he was born in Spain, he has Argentine nationality and I would choose to represent the Albiceleste. Anyway, not yet armored.
He wore the light blue and white shirt for the first time in Javier Mascherano’s Sub 20 for the 2022 Maurice Revello Tournament and his good performances earned him a call-up to the South American 2023 and the World Cup of the category, but in the latter he might not participate because he did not He was loaned by Madrid.
He is also on the radar of Scaloni, who called him up for the double qualifying date in March 2022 once morest Ecuador and Venezuela. But he did not add minutes and still has the possibility of representing Spain.
Meanwhile, at his club, Carlo Ancelotti considers him as an alternative to come off the substitute bench and gives him more and more minutes. Together with Garnacho, the europibes They demonstrate their conditions and ask for more minutes.
Ocampos and a night to forget
Another of the groups that is beginning to be defined is B and there Sevilla becomes very complicated, which suffered the expulsion of the former River Lucas Ocampos. The Spanish team needed to win to reach the round of 16 and started well once morest PSV, winning 2-0, but lost 3-2 in an incredible finale.
They took the lead in the 81st minute, but two late goals by the Netherlands team left them out of the next round. The last hope is to reach the Europa League. To do this, they will have to beat Lens in France on the last date.
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