This could be Lionel Messi’s last involvement in an international competition with Argentina if he fails to lift the trophy.<\/p>\n
He would come into this competition still heartbroken from the final loss to Germany at the last competition in Brazil alongside the two Copa America final losses to Chile also.<\/p>\n
They would kickstart their World Cup campaign against Iceland who are debutants at this stage. While the Argentines are favourites to go win this game, they know they have to be careful about this Iceland team as they showed in the last Euros that they can be a menace.<\/p>\n
Argentina’s only warm-up game was against Haiti and it ended in a 4-0 win for them.<\/p>\n
Lionel Messi scored a hattrick to take his goal for the Argentines to 64 goals in 124 games.<\/p>\n
Iceland shocked Europe with their performances at the last Euro which was their first international competition.<\/p>\n
They qualified for the World Cup ahead of Croatia and they would be looking to continue their fairytale run in this competition.<\/p>\n
They drew 2-2 with Ghana in their last warm up game, but their preparations have been far from ideal. They have lost three of their last four games and their defence which has been solid have conceded 11 goals in those matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This could be Lionel Messi’s last involvement in an international competition with Argentina if he fails to lift the trophy. He would come into this competition still heartbroken from the final loss to Germany at the last competition in Brazil alongside the two Copa America final losses to Chile also. They would kickstart their World Cup campaign against Iceland who are debutants at this stage. While the Argentines are favourites to go win this game, they know they have to be careful about this Iceland team as they showed in the last Euros that they can be a menace. Argentina’s only warm-up game was against Haiti and it ended in a 4-0 win for them. Lionel Messi scored a hattrick to take his goal for the Argentines to 64 goals in 124 games. Iceland shocked Europe with their performances at the last Euro which was their first international competition. They qualified for the World Cup ahead of Croatia and they would be looking to continue their fairytale run in this competition. They drew 2-2 with Ghana in their last warm up game, but their preparations have been far from ideal. They have lost three of their last four games and their defence which has been solid have conceded 11 goals in those matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-match-preview"],"yoast_head":"\n