Other groups that will also be active this Saturday at the 2018 World Cup, is Argentina’s national team that, at the Otkrytiye Arena in Moscow, is waiting for a modest but tough opponent, such as the Iceland national team.
Argentina:
Russia 2018 can be said to be the last chance that Leo Messi will have to win the coveted title of a World Cup and be next to Pele and Maradona as the main stars of the “Planet Soccer”, already in the last World Cup Brazil 2014 was close to get it when the final, but unfortunately the bad marksmanship of Higuain and the excellent definition of Mario Gotze in the extra time, left him with honey on the lips.
To reach the 2018 World Cup Russia, the road has not been easy for an albiceleste that during the elimination stage in South America had up to three different trainer and defeats against Ecuador, Paraguay and Bolivia, in addition to ties at home to Venezuela and Peru, I take them to define their luck in their last game in the heights of Ecuador and to the happiness of all Argentina, Messi appeared in all its splendor to mark the three goals with which Argentina won by 1-3, and this worries that if Lio does not also appears the albiceleste and see the results in their friendlies where he lost in a scandalous way to Spain 6-1 and Nigeria 2-4 where was not the star of Barcelona in Spain, but it is expected that everything is different before Iceland and to be able to add a victory to arrive calm to its second game before a selection of greater level as it is Croatia.
Iceland:
The smallest nation is preparing to enjoy its first appearance in a World Cup, so at this time Iceland is a party, although it must be said that this party began with the participation of the Icelandic national team for the first time in a European Championship. the France 2016 where he reached the quarterfinals, being defeated by the host 5-2, after an undefeated in his previous four games and eye that faced teams like Portugal tying a goal and England who won in the second round 1-2, and now those led by Heimir Hallgrimsson and Lars Lagerback hope to repeat it at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
What has worried its fans is that the tough defensive block that led them to make history in the European Championship and European Qualifiers is not working well, and we say it because Iceland come to lose against Mexico, Peru, Norway where they received three goals in each of those games, and for a change he closed his participation with a draw with two goals against Ghana, and this concern is even higher, when he makes his debut against a team that has the best player in the world as Leonel Messi.
Add to this that the technical team has a headache to build the stellar team for the debut, Kolbein Sighthorsson is completely ruled out by a knee injury, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Aron Gunnarsson and Alfred Finbogasson are doubts about not being at one hundred percent, after the many injuries suffered in recent times.
Possible alignments:
Argentina: Caballero; Fazio, Otamendi, Mercado, Tagliafico; Biglia, Mascherano, Salvio, Messi, Di Maria; Omen.
Iceland: Halldorsson; Ragnar Sigurdsson, Arnason, Magnusson, Saevarsson; Hallfredsson, Gunnarsson, Bjarnason, Gudmundsson, Gylfi Sigurdsson; Bodvarsson.
PREDICTION: Over 2.5 goals @ 2.00
