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Argentina and Lisandro Martinez defeated a spirited Colombia 1-0 in further time to retain their Copa America title.
La Albiceleste at the moment are probably the most profitable staff within the event’s historical past, having received 16 titles.
A stunning defence-splitting transfer within the 112th minute allowed Lautaro Martinez to dash by way of and produce an aesthetic one-on-one end to offer Argentina the title.
The Inter Milan striker was the hero of the event as he completed high scorer on 5 objectives. Argentina can depend themselves just a little fortunate although as Colombia had 19 pictures to the champions’ 11 and solely 44% of the ball.
The World Cup winners’ success has been based mostly upon their defence as they’ve extremely solely conceded one objective in six matches.
United’s Lisandro Martinez was on the coronary heart of this and his nationwide staff didn’t concede in the entire event when the defender was on the pitch.
Martinez performed in 5 video games and was a defensive rock in all of them and has firmly cemented himself as his nation’s first selection centre again.
The United quantity six performed all 120 minutes and he was given a rating of seven.2 on Sofascore.
As a consequence of Colombia’s strain he had a busy night time defending his nation’s objective and made six clearances and two blocked pictures.
He additionally made three interceptions and received one out of his 4 floor duels.
The stocky defender was additionally robust to beat within the air as he received two out of his three aerial battles.
Regardless of having much less of the ball than he has been used to this event, he nonetheless took nice care together with his passing.
Martinez had 43 touches and made 27 out of his 31 passes for a hit fee of 87%.
Argentina can now rejoice their third main trophy on the bounce and it is going to be significantly important for United’s defensive lynchpin as he endured an injury-ravaged marketing campaign.
Nonetheless, an FA Cup winners medal alongside Copa America is a fairly candy approach to end an advanced season for the defender.
What’s extra, whereas Martinez was a part of the World Cup successful staff, he was extra of a squad participant. This win will certainly imply loads because it was his first for his nation as bona fide first selection choice.
One United man who performed a lot much less of a component is Alejandro Garnacho, who began sport three of the group stage however didn’t play another half within the event.
At solely 19 years outdated, it is going to be an ideal studying curve to be part of the group and take in the expertise of serial winners and he’ll hope to have a larger affect on the World Cup in two years.
Each Argentines will play a vital function in United’s season subsequent 12 months however earlier than they’ve to fret about that they’ll take a well-earned vacation and revel within the reality they’re American champions as soon as extra.
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