The Argentina national team overwhelmed this Thursday 6-1 to Spain in the penultimate commitment before the Paris 2024 in a match played in Valencia and where the Olympic and world runner-up showed his candidacy to repeat the metal at the Olympic Games this summer.
The Spanish group of Carlos Garcia Cuenca They began to press very high to prevent Argentina from dominating the match from the start and it went well in the early stages of the match, but the first Argentine penalty corner helped the South Americans score, from a rebound, the first match goal (m .5), act of Julieta Jankunas.
The Spanish team was undaunted, they launched the attack and three minutes later took advantage of the only penalty corner they had in the match to tie the match with a fine goal from the Valencian. Grandma Riera. Due to the tie, they even had a chance on a counterattack, but the Argentine goalkeeper saved a ball going into the top corner.
After the first moment of anxiety after conceding the goal, Argentina began to control the match and control the ball, going up the wing when necessary, but also moving the ball a lot and causing many penalty corners. In one of them, María José Granatto ‘Majo’ He took a whip at the exit of that penalty corner to make it 2-1 (m.11), a lead that was further stretched at the start of the second quarter Zoe Diaz with a ‘skewer’ after a new penalty corner.
The ‘Lionesses’, clear candidates to win a medal at Paris 2024, did not stop stepping on the accelerator and before the break Jankunas scored the fourth (m.29) after the loss of the Spanish defense, which was too much shocked at the beginning of the match in the second quarter and unable to return the attacks of the Argentine team, which showed itself with very clear ideas, with the aim of dominating from possession of the ball.
It was not easy for the Spanish team to get through the third quarter and the goalkeeper Maria Ruiz He emerged as the main star of the match, making excellent saves in the second half, and preventing Argentina from increasing the score further.
However, in the first of the last two friendlies as a training session ahead of Paris 2024, ‘nice’ scored the fifth (m.36) by raising the ball to María Ruiz in a shot where the Spanish goalkeeper was helpless, before a new rebound Zoe Diaz scored the sixth and final goal (m.40) with just twenty seconds remaining, appointing Argentina as one of the favorites in the Olympic event that begins next week.
Source: La Verdad
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