FNX Magokiler Posted October 12, 2023 Posted October 12, 2023 The Argentine National Team wants to continue at a firm pace in the Qualifiers towards the 2026 World Cup: it receives Paraguay, for the third date of the competition, in a match in which Lionel Scaloni's team will seek to extend a tremendous streak at the Monumental. The last time the Argentine National Team fell at the Monumental In the River stadium, the Albiceleste has not fallen for eight years. The last time the national team lost a match in Núñez was against Ecuador, which won 2-0 against the team then coached by Gerardo Martino, on October 8, 2015, on the first date of the Qualifiers for the World Cup. of Russia 2018. At that time, a 22-year streak without defeats in Núñez was ended. Since then, the Argentine National Team played eight games at the Monumental: they won six (against Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Peru, Panama - friendly - and Ecuador) and tied two (against Brazil in 2015 and Venezuela in 2017). Of all those games, the last five (all wins) were played with the renovated grass (hybrid system), something that favored the national team, as Scaloni himself warned a few years ago. "It is one of the best fields in Argentine football," he stated after the victory against Bolivia in 2021, the night that the Scaloneta celebrated the coronation in the Copa América with its people. "It gives pleasure and pleasure to play on a field like this. Logically, it will be difficult for rivals to come and play here," he expressed at a press conference that day. Match by match: the streak of the Argentine National Team at the Monumental 11/13/2015: Argentina 1-1 Brazil 3/22/2017: Argentina 1-0 Chile 5/9/2017: Argentina 1-1 Venezuela 9/9/2021: Argentina 3-0 Bolivia 10/10/2021: Argentina 3-0 Uruguay 10/14/2021: Argentina 1-0 Peru 3/23/2023: Argentina 2-0 Panama (friendly) 9/7/2023: Argentina 1-Ecuador Argentina's tremendous undefeated record at home The Argentine National Team is undefeated in 20 home games: they won 15 and tied five. The last time the Albiceleste fell in the country was precisely against Paraguay, 1-0, on October 11, 2016 at the Mario Alberto Kempes stadium. Edgardo "el Patón" Bauza was the coach of the national team. https://www.tycsports.com/seleccion-argentina/fortaleza-monumental-la-racha-de-la-seleccion-argentina-en-river-id540761.html
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