This was a match that seems like a revenge from the last cup (La Copa América) we played along and they won by penalties.
How’s the revenge of the penalty of our GOAT Enner Valencia who, in that match, fooled Dibu Martínez in that penalty, but skipped the net by a few centimeters.
Every Ecuador-Argentina game is a war and fight, both are physical, angry, hungry for victory…
And Argentina was generally the winner, but this time was different, this time Ecuador had confidence, international background, and Argentina didn’t have its captain, Messi.
The match was played in Guayaquil, impact because we wanted to face them at the same level, without the excuse of height, maybe because, rather than Quito, most of the players are playing in London and Brazil right now…
The match was as expected, two red cards and a penalty in a game that was more like a rugby match than anything…
The first minutes of the match were a dream, with Nixon eating them alive on that left side, with Niño Moi ruling the midfield, and with the best defense of the continent that didn’t even have to work…
But the best part of the game was the polemic and the thing that fired all the alarms in what became this match: a contemporary classic. The player number 12 singing olé at the last minute of the game… Maybe the only chance a public is going to have to sing it to the world champion, everybody almost drunk with the glory of beating the team that we admired from the very first second we were born.
I’m sorry champs but, you don’t have that chance too often.
I remember coming to this same stadium to see Messi… without him the level of admiration has slightly decreased.
Clearly.. this match is becoming the classic in Conmebol.
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