{"id":21116,"date":"2022-06-02T19:15:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T19:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/messi-and-di-maria-inspire-argentina-to-dominant-finalissima-win"},"modified":"2022-06-02T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T19:34:08","slug":"messi-and-di-maria-inspire-argentina-to-dominant-finalissima-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/messi-and-di-maria-inspire-argentina-to-dominant-finalissima-win","title":{"rendered":"Messi and Di Maria inspire Argentina to dominant Finalissima win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>Argentina made an early statement of intent ahead of the World Cup with an impressively dominant 3-0 win over Italy to win the UEFA\/CONMEBOL Finalissima at Wembley.<\/p>\n

Although Italy failed to qualify for Qatar 2022, few would have expected the European champions to be so stunningly outclassed by the Copa America 2021 winners.<\/p>\n

Much of the pre-game focus was on Giorgio Chiellini, but the last game of his distinguished international career ended at half-time with Argentina deservedly 2-0 up thanks to goals from Lautaro Martinez and Angel Di Maria.<\/p>\n

Italy somehow prevented the inspired Lionel Messi and Di Maria from adding more gloss to the scoreline, but Paulo Dybala finally got their third with the last kick of the game.<\/p>\n

A brilliant intervention by Cristian Romero had earlier denied Andrea Belotti a simple finish in the 20th minute, with the striker then seeing a looping header saved by Emiliano Martinez a few moments later.<\/p>\n

But Argentina soon took charge.<\/p>\n

Messi wonderfully turned away from Giovanni Di Lorenzo and held him off before passing across the goal for Martinez to tap home.<\/p>\n

The Inter forward then turned provider on the stroke of half-time, spinning Leonardo Bonucci and feeding Di Maria, who lifted an audacious chip over the helpless Gianluigi Donnarumma.<\/p>\n

Roberto Mancini made three changes at the break but if anything Argentina only became more dominant \u2013 Donnarumma desperately scurried back to stop a Bonucci back-pass going in, before importantly denying the excellent Di Maria twice.<\/p>\n

Giovani Lo Celso then missed an open goal \u2013 albeit from a slightly tight angle \u2013 after great work by Messi, who subsequently tested Donnarumma twice.<\/p>\n

But Donnarumma has eventually beaten again\u202fat the end, substitute Dybala finding the bottom-right corner after a solo Messi run terrified the Italy defence.<\/p>\n

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