The star of the party, when not, is Lionel Messi, but luckily Argentina, the albiceleste team has other resources to keep believing and dreaming. In McAllister, 10 is not left alone. Even less if he also has someone ahead of him Julian Alvarez. This time Leo reached the world with a generation of young players who were his childhood idols. They grew up watching Messi won titles in Barcelona, but it also hurts them to see how they cried in the 2014 final against Germany or in the Copa América finals where they fell.
So the young people came uncomplicated to the absolute and with a single purpose, to see Messi in Doha laughed and danced as he did at the Maracana last year when he was proclaimed America’s champion after defeating Brazil. He has another World Cup to crown and these guys want to give it to him. Most of all Julian Alvarez (22 years old) and Alexis MacAlister (23). The two footballers were key and they appeared again against Australia, as they did against Poland, this time to prove a pass to the quarterfinals.
Against the Poles, they saw Leo limp after missing a penalty in the first half and appeared after the break to make amends. First McAllister to make it 1-0 and Julián later scored the second to see Messi smile again and keep his dream alive.
Against the Australians, both returned as stars. McAllister, Brighton pivot, has more and more weight in the midfield and knows how to compensate when he has a bad moment for De Paul. Against the Oceanics, Alexis led the action of the first goal, the work of his idol (and of all Argentines). The Santa Rosa midfielder filtered a sensational pass into the box that slipped through a forest of ‘aussie’ legs. He couldn’t control Otamendi well, outside his zone, but attended reluctantly. Leo took the ball and put it on the long post. Grateful, the 10th celebrated with his companions and taught McAllister.
Another special celebration is their two Julian Alvarez. How can a striker like that escape from Barça? The City striker resisted everything and smelled the blood inside the place. So in one of them, the football player from Calchín took advantage of the wonderful pressure from Rodrigo de Paul to steal the ball from the goalkeeper and score practically at will. Leo happily hugged his children again. And this is what they want to win the third, they want to make him world champion.
Source: La Verdad
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