On Brazil, Argentina it was local. The albiceleste sold out the tickets made available to the Conmebol and one of the funds of Maracana he looked more crowded than the other. The blue and white above the green and yellow. The fireworks at the start, the hymns with shouts of real fans and not that horrifying music that they put in the background in games without an audience, gave the meeting a more epic tinge. But I had to start the ball rolling and there they were Messi Y Thiago Silva, in the draw, two rivals choosing which side they were going to start on and who was going to move first in this historic final in Maracana.
Ostojich, referee of the match, he did not in any way want the game to get out of hand. First with a caveat about Scaloni and then with a yellow to Fred after a hard kick on Montiel. Meanwhile, the two teams studied each other, letting each other play on the defensive line, making the game slow.
Brazil, after a few minutes of slight Argentine dominance, kept the ball. Without depth, the direct play of Marquinhos to Richarlison It was a widely used option and in a play like this, Neymar almost finished off after the left of the player of the Everton. In the other side, Argentina He wanted to steal quickly and give it to Messi to invent, but Brazil was retreating very quickly. The game was a continuous war, no one gave away an inch of pitch.
But today an Argentine player had a pending rematch. Today an Argentine player had a pending account. Today an Argentine player had something to say in Maracana, something that could not say seven years ago in this same stadium. Say Maria defined above Ederson after a pass to the space of From Paul what I gave it could not cut. The Argentines of the Maracanã celebrated. Argentines from all over the world celebrated. Di Maria was celebrating.
Brazil was a constant protest. Casemiro with Thiago Silva, Tite asking his players for more. The locals could not break the 4-4-2 proposed by Scaloni Y Messi, the best player on the court, had not yet been able to appear. Argentina I was involved in the game, I made the Brazilian forwards run and Neymar was desperate, but in a counter, Messi's first came and his shot passed close to the post. Ederson. The replica of Brazil arrived quickly and Neymar, the most intelligent of the Canarinha, faced and Paredes lowered him on the edge of the area, earning the yellow.
Argentina made the game slow, let the minutes pass. Brazil could not and despaired. In a long ball of Walls to Say Maria, the 'Noodle'He gave a scare and would be lying outside the court after bending his ankle, but that was it, a scare, and he would go back to the court. The first half went away, Argentina gained confidence and the set piece was the most dangerous of the team of Tite. Every corner or every foul had the smell of a Brazilian goal. And the Argentine fans screamed for Diego to give a final breath to his players, who thus went to the locker room, amid cheers.
The second half started with a change. Fredadmonished, he left his place to Firmino. Another striker for Brazil I needed something different, as against Colombia in the group stage. On Argentina, the quick card for The Celso after a great play of Neymar to that Scaloni react quickly and call Guido Rodriguez. But two seconds before Richarlison he made the tie, or so he believed, that he celebrated it, but the line raised the flag and drowned out the shout of the local goal. Guido entered through Paredes, who had already been reprimanded in the first half.
And we entered ‘Draw Martínez time’. Richarlison, again, hit a right hand after a great pass from Neymar. The archer of the Aston town, with a miraculous left hand, saved those of Scaloni.
Neymar I played without any kind of filter. The entrance of Firmino it gave him a space that he did not have before. The one with PSG broke all the schemes of Scaloni I had to find some way to stop the Canarinha. That way was to give entrance to Tagliaphic to play with Acuna of 'double 3', while in Brazil the madridista entered Vincius for Everton.
The usual protagonist was missing, he was missing Messi, that weighed down by his defensive efforts, did not decide well after a robbery of Lautaro Martinez. The minutes passed, Brazil he despaired and the only one who clarified the game was, again, Neymar, which was brought down by From Paul, receiving a new yellow card.
The weather in the Maracana it was very tense. The Argentine fans bit their nails, they had almost no strength to scream. The Brazilians whistled. Tite walked from one place to another looking for solutions, and called Gabigol and Emerson to break zero on the scoreboard.
The game was stung, Gabigol he fought with all the Argentine defenders and Scaloni he was going crazy on the substitute bench as he gave entry to three players: Nicolas Gonzalez, Exequiel Palacios Y German Pezzella. Cuti rosemary He could not hold and left the field of play, Lautaro Martínez and Di María also left room for their teammates.
A whole country was pushing so that Brazil did not score the goal. The fans in the stadium now did listen to each other, they gave air to their players. Brazil, with five strikers on the court, he went with everything up. No game, but with a push, with a line-breaking Emerson and a Vinicius that overflowed. Argentina I couldn't have the ball for ten seconds.
TO Messi he was going to have one, one was going to stay. But this time, as against Ecuador, Lionel could not define. The '10' was skating in front of Ederson Y Argentina he could not define the match. The discount was missing. Five minutes to glory.
Ederson saved Brazil. Argentina he played with heart and soul. The eleven on the court and 45 million around the world. The penultimate effort always came from an albiceleste. 'From the hand of Lio messi we are all going to turn around 'the people shouted. Argentina was seconds away from being champion. Y Ostojich the game was over. Messi champion. Argentina champion. The olympic lap in Maracana. Maracanazo.
Changes
Roberto Firmino (45 ', Fred), Guido Rodriguez (53 ', Walls), Tagliaphic (62 ', Giovani Lo Celso), Vinicius Junior (62 ', Everton), Emerson (75 ', Renan Augusto), Gabriel Barbosa (75 ', Lucas Paquetá), Pezzella (78 ', Cristian Romero), Nicolas Gonzalez (78 ', Lautaro Martínez), Exequiel Palacios (78 ', Di Maria)
Goals
1-0, 21 ': Say Maria
Cards
Fred (2 ', Yellow) Walls (32 ', Yellow) Giovani lo celso (50 ', Yellow) From Paul (67 ', Yellow) Renan Augusto (69 ', Yellow) Lucas Paquetá (71 ', Yellow) Otamendi (80 ', Yellow) Marquinhos (81 ', Yellow) Montiel (88 ', Yellow