Portugal crash knot in front of 42-year-old Argentina

   

   Portugal national football team won 1-0 on a late Argentine counterpart in a friendly match that took place between them at Old Trafford in the English city of Manchester on Tuesday evening.

The match was expected to reverse without a level, where free of dangerous opportunities and technical peeps beautiful, especially after the replacement of the two stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi early in the second half.

Condemns the Portuguese national team beholden to achieve this win to midfielder Rafael Guerrero, who scored the only goal in the first minute of stoppage time for a second run across the top of a neat strike from the follow-up cross pass from the right.

This is the second win achieved by Portugal to Argentina, as it first 42 years ago.

This is due another victory achieved on Portugal to Argentina in 1972 when they won 3-1 in a friendly at the legendary Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro.

The loss is the second of those that Argentina received under the leadership of coach Gerardo Martino (Tata), who took over as coach, replacing former coach Alejandro Sabella, who resigned after the team led the tango for the final match of the last World Cup which was held in Brazil.

Argentina was won under the leadership of the national team of Germany Sabella four goals to two in the month of September / September last, before losing 2-0 in front of (rivals) Brazil, then returned to tone triumphs again as they won 7-0 at Hong Kong last month , and then to Croatia 2-1 on Saturday, the day before it fell in front of Portugal.

Comes this win to give confidence to the Portuguese team, which occupies the second place in the ranking of ninth group of qualifying for the European Championship (Euro 2016) with six points from two wins and one loss, as is this second victory achieved by the team during the four days after winning 1-0 Armenia on the home team in European qualifying last Friday.