Argentina semakin bermain agresif setelah berhasil mencetak gol pembuka di laga tersebut. Namun hingga babak pertama berakhir, tidak ada gol yang dapat kembali tercipta. Argentina pun berhasil unggul 1-0 atas Australia hingga turun minum.
Susunan Pemain
Argentina (4-3-3): Emiliano Martinez; Marcos Acuna, Nicolas Otamendi, Cristian Romero, Nahuel Molina; Alexis Mac Allister, Enzo Fernandez, Rodrigo De Paul; Julian Alvarez, Lionel Messi, Papu Gomez.
Cadangan: Franco Armani, Juan Foyth, Nicolas Tagliafico, Gonzalo Montiel, Leandro Paredes, German Pezzella, Angel di Maria, Geronimo Rulli, Exequiel Alejandro Palacios, Angel Correa, Thiago Almada, Guido Rodriguez, Paulo Dybala, Lautaro Martinez, Lisandro Martinez.
Pelatih: Lionel Scaloni.
Australia (4-4-2): Mathew Ryan; Milos Degenek, Kye Rowles, Aziz Behich, Harry Souttar; Mathew Leckie, Aaron Mooy, Jackson Irvine, Keanu Baccus; Riyel McGree, Mitch Duke.
Cadangan: Nathaniel Atkinson, Fran Karacic, Marco Tilio, Bailey Wright, Jamie Maclaren, Ajdin Hrustic, Awer Mabil, Andrew Redmayne, Cameron Devlin, Danny Vukovic, Thomas Deng, Garang Kuol, Craig Goodwin, Joel King, Jason Cummings.
Pelatih: Graham Arnold.
(Rivan Nasri Rachman)
