Making a strong impression on coach Lionel Scaloni, Alejandro Garnacho is facing the opportunity to take Di Maria’s place in the Argentina national team starting at Copa America 2024.
Garnacho is impressing coach Lionel ScaloniIn this year’s Copa America, Argentina fell into Group A, along with Chile, Peru and Canada. Coach Lionel Scaloni and his team will start with a match against Canada in the first match in Group A. Also added, compared to the preliminary summon list, coach Scaloni decided to eliminate 3 names from the list of 26 players. Argentine players participate in Copa America 2024.
More specifically, La Albiceleste has parted ways with Leonardo Balerdi (Marseille), Valentin Barco (Brighton) and Angel Correa (Atletico Madrid). On the one hand, he crossed out the names of the three players mentioned above, on the other hand, Scaloni decided to keep Alejandro Garnacho . This is what makes many people feel surprised when the young MU star was considered unlikely to have a chance to survive after not appearing in both recent friendly matches of the world champion team.
After finalizing the list of 26 Argentine players participating in Copa America 2024, Scaloni and his team urgently practiced to prepare for the match against Canada in the opening match of Copa America 2024. According to information from journalist Leo Paradizo, coach Scaloni was very surprised with the level that Alejandro Garnacho showed in recent training sessions. So much so that Scaloni is considering allowing Garnacho to start as a starter in place of Angel Di Maria on La Albiceleste’s left wing. Along with that, Nicolas Gonzalez will also play from the bench.It is also important to see that the left wing was a big concern for Scaloni 48 hours before his debut against Canada. With Angel Di Maria, this winger’s playing experience is unquestionable. However, Di Maria’s speed and stamina have also been significantly eroded by the burden of age. In that context, Garnacho, MU’s winger, won the opportunity after suԀԀenly making a strong impression on coach Scaloni in recent training sessions with the Argentina national team. I have to sаy it again and again, last season Garnacho played quite impressively in the MU shirt and the reward of playing Copa America 2024 is well deserved.
Di Maria has slowed down a lot due to age
Statistics show that the 19-year-old player has made his mark in 15 goals, scoring 10 goals and having 5 assists in 50 appearances in all competitions for MU last season. Alejandro Garnacho’s speedy playing style, youthfulness and enthusiasm promise to help the young MU star become more explosive when he plays for the Argentina national team at Copa America 2024.
If he plays in the opening match of Copa America 2024, Alejandro Garnacho will have his 6th match in the Argentina national team. Previously, Garnacho had only played 5 matches for the 2022 World Cup champions.