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The Argentines, who swallowed gold in Colombia in 2016, faced another powerful South American team in the Kaunas arena on Wednesday: five out of eight championships, the best team was Brazil.
The confrontation was started with more success by the Argentine team, who managed to score two goals in two minutes and obtain a more serious advantage: 11 minutes. by C. Vaporakis and Borruto doubled the score in the 13th minute.
The Brazilians rushed to close the gap and did it at the end of the half, 17 minutes. the difference was mitigated by the most productive preferred player Ferrao. He already had 8 goals on his account.
In the second half, the Brazilians did their best to equalize the result: 26 minutes. the referee had no doubts and gave a penalty in favor of Ferrao.
So the Brazilians will be left without the gold and fighting again for the bronze after the clash on Wednesday. Portugal and Kazakhstan will face another opportunity to compete in the final on Thursday.
It is the Argentines in our country who seek to defend the title of champion. And for that to happen, they will also manage to overcome the last barrier.
The path of the Brazilian team to the semifinals of the group tournament was fairly straightforward. At first Vietnam was crushed 9: 1, then – 4: 0 Czech Republic, later – 5: 1 and Panama.
After scoring 18 goals, the Brazilians became the most productive team in the group tournament.
Argentina also finished the group tournament victorious. It is true that the path of this team, unlike the Brazilian, was not so easy. Without a doubt, except for the debut game with the United States team, which was crushed 11: 0.
Brandi has made four appearances in this duel, and thus far remains the contender for the title of the most productive footballer.
On the group’s next trip, the Argentines fought both the Serbs (4: 2) and Iran (2: 1).
In the final eighth stage, Argentina crossed Paraguay 6: 1 after the second quarter of the hurricane, and the Brazilians had a lot of work to do against the Japanese, who only won 4: 2.
Even more difficult for the Brazilians was the quarter-final stage, in which only one goal was scored. He scored midway through the first half when Rodrigo successfully launched a free kick.
Subsequently, the Moroccans made enormous efforts to equalize the result, but those efforts were unsuccessful.
It was the first match of the Brazilian championship in which they could not follow the principle of “score as much as you can and we will score as much as we want.”
Argentina also failed to score as many as they wanted in the quarterfinals. Overall, not a single goal was scored in the first half of that match.
Subsequently, the soccer union teams of Argentina and Russia exchanged goals and finally went on to a series of penalties.
The first and only in this championship. The hero of that series of penalties were the Argentine goalkeepers, who were able to withstand up to three attempts from the opponents.
