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#4 Injury-ravaged
As mentioned earlier, as it is, Argentina lack creativity in midfield. They had Manuel Lanzini who could have been an important player but he is now out of the World Cup due to an ACL injury.
Meanwhile, they had already lost their first-choice goalkeeper Sergio Romero earlier and will now have to turn towards Willy Caballero to guard the sticks for the Albiceleste.
The goalkeeper is 36 and doesn’t have the reflexes that he once had during his days in Malaga. He is also out of match practice as he has played in only 13 games last season.
More than Romero, however, it will be the injury of Lanzini that goes on to hurt them more as his directness and vision from the center could have eased a lot of playmaking burden off Lionel Messi.
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