{"id":809215,"date":"2026-07-18T03:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809215\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T03:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:04:03","slug":"world-cup-2026-argentina-like-to-leave-mark-on-opponents-aymeric-laporte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809215\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Argentina like to leave mark on opponents – Aymeric Laporte"},"content":{"rendered":"

De La Fuente, who said teenage winger Lamine Yamal is fit after sitting out training<\/a>, preferred to talk up Sunday’s final instead of focus on Argentina’s tactics.<\/p>\n

“On Sunday we will watch a great show, two great national teams, very similar in some aspects in terms of attitudes and talent,” he added.<\/p>\n

“I think it is going to be an amazing final, each team will try and take the game to their own side. <\/p>\n

“I believe both Spain and Argentina will have a gameplan where talent and good football will rule over everything else.<\/p>\n

“The referee will be there to support us and that the football is at a level expected of a World Cup final.”<\/p>\n

Three-time world champions Argentina are looking to become the first team since Brazil in 1958 and 1962 to win back-to-back men’s World Cups.<\/p>\n

Argentina boss Lionel Scaloni was not asked about his side’s tactics during his news conference on Friday.<\/p>\n

However, he did talk about about his friendship with Spain boss De La Fuente, formed in 2017 when De la Fuente was an instructor as Scaloni studied for his professional coaching licence.<\/p>\n

“He knows me from a personal point of view,” said Scaloni.<\/p>\n

“We are friends but that doesn’t mean he knows what I am thinking about when it comes to football. <\/p>\n

“We haven’t really been talking about playing style. We do have similar patterns of play when it comes to trying to have possession of the ball. <\/p>\n

“I hope the game on Sunday will be a great show.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"De La Fuente, who said teenage winger Lamine Yamal is fit after sitting out training, preferred to talk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-809215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}