Subs: Marcos Acuña, Franco Armani, Germán Pezzella, Lucas Martínez Quarta, Giovani Lo Celso, Guido Rodríguez, Juan Musso, Lucas Ocampos, Gonzalo Montiel, Alejandro Garnacho.
Paraguay
Carlos Coronel, Gustavo Gómez, Júnior Alonso (Héctor Villalba), Fabián Balbuena, Richard Sánchez, Álvaro Campuzano (Braian Ojeda), Matías Espinoza, Iván Ramírez (Robert Rojas), Adam Bareiro (Antonio Sanabria), Ramón Sosa, Miguel Almirón (Gabriel Ávalos).
Subs: Kaku , Matías Rojas, Omar Alderete, Gastón Giménez, Santiago Rojas, Juan Espínola, Matías Galarza.
MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN
7' Enzo Fernández (Argentina) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
21' Júnior Alonso (Paraguay) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
45' Substitution, Paraguay. Robert Rojas replaces Iván Ramírez.
50' Adam Bareiro (Paraguay) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
One of the sharpest games every. I think in terms of pure efficiency, this game was probably the highest since Scaloni era. Virtually nobody made a single mistake, not even a small one.
Messi was a bit off, understandable considering he really hasn’t played consistently since the last international break. Finishing was off from Argentina, but really like the Lautaro-Julian partnership. Nico González was predictable on the ball but helped with the defense significantly, I can understand why Scaloni hesitated to take him off.
I literally don’t want the matches to end. Usually I would be screaming for the ref to end the match to secure the 3 points. Shows how good this squad is. I love this team so much.