Argentina won the debut of Fernando Amorebieta with Venezuela. The new selection of Alejandro Sabella won by a solitary goal from the central Otamendi.
Argentina beat Venezuela by 1-0 today in a game thick but repeatedly played in the Indian city of Calcutta to mark the debut of Alejandro Sabella front of the albiceleste and Lionel Messi as captain.
The `was Sabella 'started well with good standing with a team that came with Messi, hailed from the outset by the public, but unless some shots diverted from Di Maria, just created the goalkeeper Romo real danger in the early stages.
The best Argentine game came to the half-hour meeting, when it happened several times the result of triangulation around ten of Barcelona.
Messi on 28 minutes came from the right, toured the area in front of one of his classic plays, but his weak shot Thus began an exchange of occasions, but soon gave way to a monologue from Argentina, there was much danger Messi and Higuain led after the entry into the field of playmaker Pastore.
He tried the Barcelona fault set with a shot on 62 minutes and two minutes later, "Pipit" Higuain launched a shot against the crossbar after a great pass from Messi in the bucket prettiest play of the game.
It was finally Otamendi was saved easily by goalkeeper Venezuela.
The 'burgundy', which until then had hardly made an appearance, awoke shortly before the break and got into trouble in a couple of Romero admitted to the right of Ricky Alvarez and Feltscher.
After the break, the Venezuelan group wanted to continue with this line up and came close to early lead by a shot of Cesar Romero Gonzalez interrupted.
The second half Venezuelan who broke the deadlock with a shot after perfect head chopped a corner of the "Flea".
From there, never stopped harassing albiceleste the goal of Venezuela, which hardly left the field, but was unable to increase the lead.
Argentina will now face the next day September 6th in Dhaka (Bangladesh) to the selection of Nigeria before playing the "Superclasico of the Americas" against Brazil on 14 and 28 of the same month.
These tests are intended to begin to lay the basis for renewed campus Argentina, which aims to overcome the failure of the last three cycles: the resignation of Alfio Basile, the short period of Maradona and Batista's ouster. want to forget the fiasco of the Copa America and a new phase of the World Cup in Brazil.
Venezuela also appeared on the artificial turf, in not very good, the Salt Lake stadium with several innovations, including the central Athletic Bilbao Fernando Amorebieta, who debuted with the band of "burgundy."
Cesar Farias box shock came at a good time after their historic fourth place in the Copa America.
However, Venezuela failed to break their losing streak in head to head against the Argentines, who had the support of a devoted audience that ultimately did not complete the second largest country in the world.
The kickoff was a will and no power of Argentine box with a very enclosed Venezuela back waiting for a backlash.
The albiceleste tried out playing the ball, especially downtown and looking for