The U23 National Team closed the FIFA date with a win against Colombia

The Argentine sub 23 team defeated Colombia 3 to 1 in a friendly match on the Argentinos Juniors field and left a good feeling against an opponent who, in addition to being the organizer of the Pre-Olympic Tournament that will give two places for the Tokyo 2020 Games, is just one of the main candidates to stay with one of them with Brazil and Uruguay.

Argentina came from a good presentation against a significantly lower rival like Bolivia, last Wednesday on the Banfield court, where those led by Fernando Batista won by 5 to 0.

And just today, on the day of Diego Armando Maradona's return to the activity as a coach in Argentina (he was presented to a crowd in Gymnastics and Fencing La Plata), the stadium that bears his name, that of Argentinos Juniors, witnessed (also There were many spectators who exchanged their tickets for non-perishable products) from another good presentation of the shirt that best represented it: the albiceleste.

However, the day did not start well for Argentina, which at 22 minutes of the first half lost both to the Colombian Felipe Reyes after a corner kick in which Cordoba goalkeeper Joaquín Blázquez did not go well and the ball was served to the rival to mark.

But after half an hour came the Argentine reaction, first by a header from Nicolás González (he received a plate of Argentinos Juniors for having played there, the same as the "Bocha" Batista) and then with a well-executed penalty shot by Matías Vargas at 37 to turn the result.

But what ended up unbalancing the balance and tilting it to the side of Argentina was that before the end of that first stage Reyes, the Colombian scorer, was expelled by Argentine referee Darío Herrera after applying a double yellow card.

Of course, in the second stage, as is usually the case in this kind of friendlies, the six variants that Batista practiced dazzled the actions of the Argentine team, which despite the numerical superiority only managed to increase when there were less than 10 minutes left for the epilogue through a good definition of Banfield forward Julián Carranza (in December he will go to Miami FC of the American Major League Soccer).

Argentina will continue to play friendly matches for the next two FIFA dates that remain this year, in the windows of October and November, to get ready in football at the pre-Olympic event of Colombia, from January 18 to next February 9, with rivals still not resolved.

Argentina: Joaquín Blázquez; Facundo Mura, Cristian Romer, Lisandro Martínez, Francisco Ortega; Santiago Ascacíbar, Niolás Capaldo; Nicolás González, Matías Vargas, Lucas Robertone; Ezequiel Ponce. DT: Fernando Batista

Colombia: Esteban Ruiz; Andrés Solano, Andrés Felipe Reyes, Willer Ditta, Kevin Balanta; Ever Valencia, Mateo Casierra, Jorge Carrascal, Juan Camilo Mesa; Gabriel Fuentes and Eduardo Atuesta. DT: Arturo Reyes.

The six changes of Argentina in the second half: 18m Fernando Valenzuela by Vargas (A) and Santiago olombatto by Capaldo (A), 31m. Fausto Vera for Ascacíbar (A) and Julián Carranza for Ponce (A) and 42m. Julián Álvarez for Robertone (A) and Marcelo Herrera for Mura (A).

Stadium: Argentinos Juniors (La Paternal, Buenos Aires)
Referee: Darío Herrera (Argentina)
TV: TyC Sports.

With information from Télam.