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Lisandro Martinez scored his first ever objective for Argentina as they squeaked previous a resolute Ecuador to make the semi-finals of Copa America.
An excellent recreation completed 1-1 and the World Champions finally made it via 4-2 on penalties.
The Argentines had eight photographs to Ecuador’s 9 with each groups solely having two photographs on the right track every in a good affair.
Martinez’s facet additionally narrowly edged possession with 51% in by far their hardest take a look at of the competitors to this point.
United’s defensive rock has had fairly the event however this recreation will definitely be seen as his most memorable in a blue and white shirt up so far.
Within the thirty fifth minute of play a nook was swung in and flicked on on the close to publish and United’s quantity six ghosted in unmarked to firmly plant a header into the empty objective.
The ball was cleared by the Ecuadorian defence however properly behind the road, and El Carnicero grabbed his first ever objective for the nationwide facet in a very powerful of circumstances.
The 26 yr outdated was additionally stable in defence as he was subbed off after 76 minutes with Argentina maintaining a clear sheet the time he was on the pitch. Nevertheless, a late header within the 91st minute from Kevin Rodriguez despatched the match into further time.
Martinez was given a extremely spectacular rating of seven.8 by Sofascore as he has received higher and higher because the event has worn on.
He made two clearances on the night time and accomplished two tackles. He additionally made one interception as he helped limit Ecuador to just one shot on the right track in the course of the time he was on the pitch.
He additionally received two out of his three floor duels and one out of his two aerial battles because the Ecuadorian entrance line received little change out of the United man.
One key trait of Martinez’s play on this event has been his cautious use of the ball and final night time was no exception as he had 59 touches and an unimaginable 100% passing accuracy, finishing all 45 of his passes.
In a really productive night time offensively, he accomplished all 4 of his tried lengthy balls as he confirmed off his spectacular array of passing.
He additionally had one shot off beam and one shot blocked to go alongside his all-important strike.
Talking after the sport he claimed he was “very pleased with the objective” and complimented his facet by saying that “this workforce may be very hungry.”
United followers will likely be delighted that after a troublesome season the place he struggled to play a lot attributable to harm, their fan favorite is getting common time on the pitch but additionally massively contributing to his facet’s success. It will hopefully give him numerous confidence going into subsequent season as a match and assured Martinez is important to United’s ambitions.
Regardless of enjoying within the final recreation of the group, fellow United man Alejandro Garnacho as soon as once more didn’t get off the bench for his facet.
La Albiceleste will now anxiously wait to see who they’ll play in Tuesday night time’s (Wednesday morning UK time) semi-final conflict, as they’ll face both Venezuela or Canada for a spot within the showpiece last.
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