Argentina crushes a Burkina Faso team weakened by its very late arrival in Buenos Aires.
Argentina thrashed Burkina Faso with (7-0) wining in a friendly match in Buenos Aires on Saturday, whose exhausted players had only arrived five hours ago before the match kick-off after being held up in Morocco.
Argentina made short work of Burkina Faso with ( 7-0 ) wining in a friendly match on Saturday in Buenos Aires, where the difference in level was accentuated by the fatigue of the Burkinabe players who arrived just five hours before the match kick-off after being held up in Morocco.
The runners-up of the last World Cup competition gave their opponents teams no time to recover: they scored the five goals in the first half through Lautaro Martinez in (4 minute), Moumouni Diallo in (8 minute, own goal), Gianluca Prestianni in (12 minute), Nicolas Paz in (34 minute), and Julian Alvarez in (36 minute). Franco Mastantuono in (56 minute) and Giuliano Simeone scored in (90+2 minutes) added to the tally in the second half. Argentina’s coach, Lionel Scaloni, took the opportunity to assess his squad: he fielded 22 players, three of whom—Santiago Castro, Tomas Palacios, and Matias Soulé—made their international debuts.
The Casablanca-Buenos Aires flight was cancelled without notice.
The match almost didn’t happen, as the Burkina Faso team was stranded on Friday night in Casablanca, Morocco, due to a lack of transportation. The Stallions remained in the kingdom’s economic capital after their 1-0 wining against the Central African Republic on the Monday in 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers competition. They were then scheduled to travel to Buenos Aires, but “the national team’s trip was disrupted following the cancellation of the flight without prior notice by the charter company,” the Burkina Faso Football Federation group (FBF) stated in a press release. They eventually boarded a specially chartered flight.
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