Argentina vs Uruguay – 2019 friendly preview, predicted line-ups

Argentina will play Uruguay on Monday in an international friendly as both teams look for a win. La Albiceleste go into this game as the favourites.

Kick-off : 9:15 PM (Local)

Venue : Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv

Argentina will be in a positive frame of mind after registering victory in Superclasico de las Americas. Beating Brazil is a no easy task and Messi led Argentina won 1-0.

Now the focus must shift to a different rivalry i.e against Uruguay. Uruguay the two time World Cup winners are in themselves a difficult side to play against in international football.

Lionel Scaloni will have had an exceptional international break if they defeat Uruguay as well apart from the Brazil win.

Argentina need to play their brand of football like they did against Tite’s side and hope for a better result. Good luck to them.

On the other hand, Uruguay too will be confident coming into this game having won their friendly in this ongoing international break.

Uruguay overcame Hungary 2-1 in Hungary which is a great job in itself. But Argentina game will be a different one altogether. The match will be played in Israel.

Oscar Tabarez and his men will have to be clinical against their old rivals. They need to neutralise the threat of Lionel Messi. They have talent up front and hence no problems in terms of getting the goals.

Argentina are ahead in terms of the head to head against Uruguay and they will be boasted by the fact.

Team news and possible line-ups

Diego Godin will captain Uruguay against Argentina.

As for La Albiceleste, Sergio Aguero is available and might get a place in the starting XI.

Uruguay XI : Muslera, Gonzalez, Godin, Coates, Vina, Rodriguez, Bentancur, Valverde, Lozano, Cavani, Suarez.

Argentina XI : Andrada, Saravia, Pezzella, Otamendi, Tagliafico, De Paul, Paredes, Acuna, Messi, Agüero, Martinez.

Prediction

I think this game will end a 1-1 draw.