Another test of the Selection: with River!

This Friday there will be a very special situation. The National Team will face River, in an informal test for those who do not add minutes or play little against Panama against the formation defined by Martín Demichelis, who will travel to Salta a while later for a friendly against the University of Chile.

Argentina is celebrating and 83,000 privileged people will enjoy live, this Thursday at the Monumental, the first game after eternal glory in the World Cup. There, as Lionel Scaloni has already announced, the idea is that “those from the World Cup play”. In other words, DT’s idea is to start with a formation very similar to the one that came out to play the final against France in Qatar.

Thus, it is most likely that Dibu Martinez; Molina, Rosemary, Otamendi, Tagliafico; De Paul, Enzo Fernandez, Mac Allister; Messi, Julian Alvarez and Di Maria be the headlines against Panama.

Thus, to play against River, two options emerge among those mentioned by the coach for the celebratory matches against Panama and Curaçao. Scaloni is going to define it after this Thursday’s game, since he wants all his players to keep up with the competition beyond the festive climate.

One such option is with Armani or Rulli; Montiel, Pezzella, Lysandro Martinez, Coin; Palaces, Walls, Lo Celso; Dybala, Lautaro Martinez and Angel Correa or Thiago Almada.

and the other, with Rulli; Foyth, Nehuen Perez, Smoothing or Pezzella, White; Buendía, Palacios, Lo Celso or Angel Correa; Thiago Almada, Gio Simeone and Nico Gonzalez. And surely he will give many minutes to the kids Buonanotte, Perrone and Valentín Carboni, whom the coaching staff wants to see in action.

At the same time, it will be necessary to see which team Demichelis uses, since this Saturday, River is scheduled to play a friendly against U. de Chile at the Padre Martearena stadium in Salta. In practice this Wednesday, DT used 12 youth players along with the professionals, so there could be a majority of starters in the test against La Scaloneta and substitutes and youngsters against the Chileans.