{"id":41539,"date":"2026-06-30T13:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/41539\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:05:16","slug":"argentina-coach-lionel-scaloni-on-inter-striker-lautaro-martinezs-chances-of-starting-against-australia-the-best-xi-will-be-on-the-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/41539\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina Coach Lionel Scaloni On Inter Striker Lautaro Martinez&#8217;s Chances Of Starting Against Australia: &#8220;The Best XI Will Be On The Pitch&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine national team head coach Lionel Scaloni isn\u2019t yet sure whether Inter striker Lautaro Martinez will get back his starting place in Saturday\u2019s round of sixteen clash with Austrlia.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a press conference, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcinternews.it\/focus\/lautaro-o-julian-alvarez-contro-l-australia-scaloni-in-campo-i-migliori-non-so-se-ci-saranno-cambiamenti-911321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FCInterNews<\/a>, the Albiceleste coach emphasized that he will play what he feels to be his strongest team for the occasion on Saturday, and that he\u2019s not yet sure which changes he\u2019ll make to the starting eleven if any.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was left out of Argentina\u2019s starting lineup for their do-or-die group stage match with Poland on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Albiceleste cruised to a 2-0 win to reach the knockouts, and now questions will be asked about whether the Nerazzurri striker will get another chance in the starting eleven.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez had been Argentina\u2019s first-choice centre-forward heading into the tournament, but his performances in their two opening group stage matches have raised doubts and left the door open for Manchester City striker Julian Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>For Scaloni\u2019s part, the coach feels that his mind is not yet made up on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know who will start, we still have today\u2019s training to see who\u2019s at their best, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll make any changes,\u201d the coach said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one thing I\u2019m sure of is that I will select the team that I believe to be the best,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argentine national team head coach Lionel Scaloni isn\u2019t yet sure whether Inter striker Lautaro Martinez will get back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,32964,32965,3014,30351,32966,32967,7536,32968,32969,32970,32971,17662,32972],"class_list":["post-41539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-calcio","tag-fcim","tag-football","tag-inter","tag-inter-milan","tag-italia","tag-italy","tag-lautaro-martinez","tag-lionel-scaloni","tag-milano","tag-nerazzurri","tag-serie-a","tag-suning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}