Messi, Di Maria rating as Argentina rout UAE in World Cup warmup
Argentina warmed up for the World Cup with a 5-zero hammering of the United Arab Emirates
in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, as a brace from Angel Di Maria and
dreams from Julian Alvarez, Lionel Messi and Joaquin
Correa prolonged their unbeaten run to 36 games.
Roared on with the aid of using the Mohammad Bin Zayed Stadium crowd,
Argentina took the lead while Messi gathered a byskip from
Di Maria and determined himself with the goalkeeper to beat,
however unselfishly installation Alvarez for his 0.33 worldwide
intention withinside the seventeenth minute.
Di Maria doubled Argentina's lead 8 mins later with a exceptional
volley, after Marcos Acuna crossed into the region from the left,
because the two times World Cup winners determined their groove in advance
because the two times World Cup winners determined their groove in advance
The forward, who overcame a hamstring harm remaining month to be
named in supervisor Lionel Scaloni's World Cup squad, struck withinside