Argentina's national team began to speed their preparations for next 2018 World Cup tournaments. The La Albiceleste squad will take advantage of this international break to conduct a number of trials, where they will challenge the hosts, Russia on Saturday (11/11) tonight.
As already known, the Argentina national team almost failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. The series of less than optimal results make foster children Jorge Sampaoli almost bury their dream of playing in Russia in the summer. But thanks to the Lionel Messi Heroic action in the final qualifying match CONMEBOL zone, La Albiceleste finally make sure to fly to Russia in the summer.
Despite the escape, there is plenty of homework for Jorge Sampaoli in the finals later. The reason Lionel Messi et al is still far from their best performance during qualifying yesterday, so there are about seven months for the former coach of the Chilean IT team to prepare a team of Tango to play in the 2018 World Cup to come.
Sampaoli himself plans to steal the start this weekend. They will travel to Olimpiyskiy Stadium to challenge the host of the 2018 World Cup, Russia. This test match will be a distinct advantage for the Argentina national team because they can start mapping the field situation and weather in Russia for the final tournament later so they will take advantage of this test match as much as possible.
For the camp host, this Argentine contra test match will bring great benefits. Because the host, they do not participate in the qualification, so they are not as ready preparation as the other World Cup finalists.
Stanislav Scherchesov's troops have indeed held a number of test matches in the past two years including their participation in the 2017 Confederations Cup. But their performance is also still less convincing, where they only won 2 of their last 6 test matches. For that match against Argentina, this will be a benchmark how ready them to appear in the 2018 World Cup finals later.
Coming to this fight the camp host can be said to be in their best condition. As a result, Scherchesov can play the best team of his team to face the South American giant.
Scherchesov himself is likely to still play a 3-5-2 scheme by playing Aleksandr Kokorin and Fedor Smolov as their attackers in this fight. In the midfield of to Alan Dzagoev, Denis Glushakov and Aleksandr Golovin will be in charge of regulating the flow of their ball, while their goal will be guarded by Igor Akinfeev.
In the visitors' camp, coach Jorge Sampaoli is rumoured to have no significant injury problems in his team. It's just the name of Mauro Icardi who failed to get into the squad La Albiceleste due to injury.
Sampaoli itself is likely to still retain the 3 defender scheme in the composition of his team this time, where the trio of Nicolas Otamendi, Javier Mascherano and Emanuel Mammana will be Sergio Romero's bodyguard in the heart of Argentina's defence. For the post spearhead, Sampaoli is likely to return to try out Sergio Aguero combined with Angel Di Maria and Lionel Messi as tridentate their attack.
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