The Argentine national team won the new cup called Finalissima this Wednesday against Italy, after beating them by a 0-3 win in the match played at Wembley Stadium, England, and which resulted in goals from Lautaro Martínez, Ángel Di María and Paulo Dybala on time.
Lionel Scaloni’s men deserved the title and a bigger win against an Italy still depressed by not qualifying for the World Cup. The opportunity to make amends, to ward off the embarrassment of missing another World Cup, was wasted by Roberto Mancini’s team, who never took the commitment at Wembley seriously.
Much more concentrated was Argentina, which is committed to showing that it can win and compete against European teams. He went over it, in fact. He stole possession and stitched him up at times, especially in the second half, when the gaps awakened the creativity of Leo Messi, the great protégé of the Albiceleste fans.
Cheering every time he touched the ball and grateful to his audience, whom he came to say hello to before the match, Messi’s head came out the first goal. The Rosario genius, with his back to the goal in the front, turned on a tile, leaving Di Lorenzo behind, got into the area and enabled Lautaro without a goalkeeper.
He only unraveled the match, Lautaro gave the stitch. This time the Inter Milan player dressed as a periscope, put a filtered ball to Di María when the referee was already looking at the break. The ball passed between the two center-backs and Di María, who is still without a team, but who will not be short of girlfriends this summer, went over Donnaruma.
The former PSG player sought the double and brushed it with two attempts deactivated by his former teammate. Donnaruma, crowned European champion in this field, was the one who avoided an Italian humiliation. He stopped everything that could stop Messi and Di María and his gloves kept Italy not in the game, but in the competition.
The 0-2 had kept them away from a title made for the albiceleste, due to the tribute to Diego Armando Maradona prior to the match and due to the desire that the fans gave him to travel en masse to Wembley.
To crown the Azzurra defeat, Paulo Dybala appeared, replaced by Gio Lo Celso, and who played in injury time to take advantage of a rebound from Messi on the edge of the box and accommodate it next to the post.
Argentina wanted it more and Argentina had it. He conquered the Finalissima and recalled his last adventure in the Artemio Franchi, the prehistory of this tournament that saw Maradona champion in 1993 in Mar de Plata.