translated from Spanish: Argentina beats Ecuador 3-0 in Goiania

After the victory with Bolivia, Argentina returns to the ring in the Copa America with the initial formation of Lionel Scaloni in which several modifications were presented, among them, the return of Leandro Paredes as a central midfielder, complemented by Giovani Lo Celso and Rodrigo De Paul.En his way to get the classification, the only great loss is that of Cristian Romero , which was even left out of the substitutes’ bench. The Atalanta defender did not recover from the ailment in his knee and in his place will enter Germán Pezzella with Nicolas Otamendi, who is asserted in the back.
In this way, Argentina takes to the field with Emiliano Martínez; Nahuel Molina Lucero, Germán Pezzella, Nicolás Otamendi, Marcos Acuña; Rodrigo De Paul, Leandro Paredes, Giovani Lo Celso; Lionel Messi, Lautaro Martínez and Nicolás González.On the other hand, Ecuador will look to hit the ground and go out on the field of play with Hernán Galíndez; Angelo Preciado, Robert Arboleda, Piero Hincapié, Pervis Estupiñán; Alan Franco, Jhegson Méndez, Carlos Gruezo, Ángel Mena, Diego Palacios; and Enner Valencia. 
Argentina began the match with the dominance of the ball, but as little precision to reach the Ecuadorian area. However, the clearest were on the albiceleste side with an attack from Lautaro Martinez, who failed to define, and then Lionel Messi crashed his shot into the post. However, at the end of the first half the Argentine goal was going to arrive when Lautaro Martínez fought it and the rebound was left to Nico González who won the split against Galíndez. On that rebound, Messi assisted De Paul, who without a goalkeeper, made it 1-0 to close out the first 45 minutes. The second half of Scaloni’s team showed the face he had against Chile and Colombia in the Playoffs. He relinquished control of the ball and failed to establish the cons to sentence the game. Only at 84 came the definition of the duel when Di Maria pressed and Messi left hand to hand to Lautaro who did not fail. In full time, Argentina took advantage of the spaces and with time, De Paul, author of the first, put Di Maria to run hand in hand, but Hincapié lowered him on the edge of the area. The red for the Talleres man was enough for Leo to have his free kick and he hung it from an angle to sentence the ticket to the semifinals.

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