Nationwide Soccer
Guatemala vs Argentina: How have the final confrontations between each groups been?
After including victories in its begin within the Concacaf qualifiers, Guatemala is already getting ready for its subsequent goal: world champion Argentina.
Lo Celso celebrates within the match in opposition to Guatemala in Los Angeles. (Free Press Photograph: Newspaper Library PL)
The Guatemala Nationwide Crew accomplished its official exercise within the Concacaf qualifiers heading to the 2026 World Cup.
The nationwide staff celebrated twice by beating Dominica 6-0 and the British Virgin Islands 0-3 and with that they’re positioned within the first place in Group E with one yr remaining to play the remaining matches in opposition to the Dominican Republic and Jamaica.
Now the subsequent step for the Guatemalan Nationwide Crew will probably be to play a pleasant recreation in opposition to the Argentine Nationwide Crew led by Lionel Messi, which is getting ready to hunt to revalidate its Copa América title.
The duel in opposition to the world champion in Qatar 2022 will occur on Friday, June 14 at 6 p.m. at FedExField positioned in Landover, Maryland, United States.
For its half, Lionel Scaloni’s staff defeated Ecuador and can play its final match in opposition to Guatemala earlier than its debut in opposition to Canada on June 20 within the Copa América.
This pleasant match between Guatemala and Argentina is just not a part of an official Fifa date, subsequently it’s attainable that some bicolor gamers is not going to be obtainable for Luis Fernando Tena. Such is the case of Nathaniel Méndez-Laing who has already introduced that he is not going to be within the duel.
Guatemala and Argentina have confronted one another on some events all through historical past. Of their most up-to-date duels, all pleasant, the steadiness completely favors the albiceleste.
In three video games Argentina registers 12 targets for and 0 in opposition to.
Newest clashes between Guatemala and Argentina
- Argentina 3-0 Guatemala: This duel was performed on the Los Angeles stadium, the Memorial Coliseum in 2018. The scorers had been Gonzalo Martínez, Giovani Lo Celso and Giovanni Simeone.
- Guatemala 0-4 Argentina: The one time Messi confronted the bicolor. In that 2013 pleasant, the Argentine star scored three targets and Augusto Fernández was the writer of the opposite.
- Argentina 5-0 Guatemala: In 2008 the albiceleste beat the bicolor with targets from Ezequiel Lavezzi, Jonathan Maidana, Marco Rubén and two from Gonzalo Higuain.
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