The Argentine team faces Australia on Saturday in search of the quarterfinals in Qatar 2022, the eighth time in which both teams meet on a pitch throughout history.
Lionel Scaloni’s team faces the duel against the oceanic team with the natural condition as a favorite against an opponent with hardly any repercussions in a World Championship. It is the sixth appearance of the Australian team in a final phase, the fifth in a row, and only in Germany 1988 did they exceed the group stage. That time he reached the eighth. It was eliminated by Italy.
On this occasion, Graham Arnold’s team, coach since 2022, was second behind France and by ahead of Denmark and Tunisia.
Now they come up against Argentina, whom they beat in the the first time they met. It was in 1988. Australia thrashed (4-1) a team that had the status of world champion obtained two years earlier.
The rest of the matches, except for one that ended in a draw, there have been victories for the albiceleste.
Argentina qualified for the round of 16 of the World Cup in Qatar 2022 despite the defeat suffered against Saudi Arabia and with the victory against Poland there were several coincidences with the World Cup in 1988, the last who raised the albiceleste with Diego Maradona in the lead.
The first piece of information that excites the Argentines is that the last time Poland qualified for the round of 16 was in the World Cup in Mexico 1986, tournament where Diego Armando Maradona lifted the trophy as champion with Argentina.
Another coincidence is that the last time Argentina and Poland had met in the group stage of the World Cup in and the victory also well it was 2-0. In that World Cup, the Argentine team was champion against the Netherlands with goals from Mario Kempes.
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