Di Maria scored a comfortable victory for Argentina
Angel Di Maria's only goal helped Argentina beat Ecuador 1-0 in a friendly match. The world champions played this match to prepare for the Copa America. Di Maria scored the goal in the 40th minute of the first half in Chicago, USA. This experienced footballer entered the box after taking Christian Romero's through pass and made a perfect finish.
Argentina could not increase the margin in the second half.
In this match, Lionel Messi's game is in doubt, but coach Lionel Scaloni said before the match that Messi will play for some time. The Argentine legend entered the field as a replacement for Di Maria in the 56th minute. But he did not score.
Di Maria is going to hang up the Argentina jersey after the Copa America. After winning the team, he said, 'We deserved this victory. As always we continue to work and stick together. Ecuador is one of the opponents I have played against in the Copa.
I knew the match would be tough. Today's match was good and we showed we can.'
Argentina will play another friendly match on Friday. The opponent is Guatemala. After that, Lionel Messi will start the Copa America journey with a match against Canada on June 20.
Five days later Chile and on June 29 Argentina's opponent Peru.
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