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Argentina national football team: results and stats

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Latest Argentina national team football matches: every report comes with full stats, xG analysis and the Crime Index of the result.

36%
Average Crime Index
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Matches flagged as anomaly (60%+)

Current squad — Argentina national team

Goalkeepers

  • 1J. Musso
  • 12G. Rulli
  • 23E. Martínez

Defenders

  • 3N. Tagliafico
  • 4G. Montiel
  • 6Lisandro Martínez
  • 13C. Romero
  • 14E. Palacios
  • 19N. Otamendi
  • 25F. Medina
  • 26N. Molina

Midfielders

  • 2M. Senesi
  • 5L. Paredes
  • 7R. De Paul
  • 8V. Barco
  • 9J. Álvarez
  • 11G. Lo Celso
  • 15N. González
  • 16T. Almada
  • 17G. Simeone
  • 20A. Mac Allister
  • 24E. Fernández

Attackers

  • 10L. Messi
  • 18N. Paz
  • 21J. López
  • 22Lautaro Martínez

Recent Transfers

  • Fabio Rinaldi— left for Lucchese, Free (2016-07-14)
  • Giorgio Gagliardi— left for Savona, Free (2015-07-15)
  • D. Valeri— left for Portland Timbers, Loan (2013-01-04)

Argentina Squad: Latest Match

Spain — Argentina · 4-4-2
  • 23Emiliano MartínezG
  • 4Gonzalo MontielD
  • 13Cristian RomeroD
  • 6Lisandro MartínezD
  • 3Nicolás TagliaficoD
  • 7Rodrigo De PaulM
  • 24Enzo FernándezM
  • 20Alexis Mac AllisterM
  • 15Nicolás GonzálezM
  • 10Lionel MessiF
  • 9Julián AlvarezF
Coach: Lionel Scaloni
Index: 35%20 July 2026

Spain vs Argentina 1:0: How the World Cup Final Was Decided by a Player Who Wasn't in the Starting XI

The 2026 World Cup final at MetLife Stadium was settled by Torres's 106th-minute goal — scored by a substitute, not a starter.

Index: 72%18 July 2026

Argentina vs Algeria 3:0 — A Comfortable Win With Zero Algerian Shots on Target

Argentina beat Algeria 3-0, backing up their xG edge (1.47 to 0.3).

Index: 20%17 July 2026

Argentina vs Austria 2:0 — Control Without Needing a Rout

Argentina beat Austria 2-0 in the group stage, confirming favorite status without needing to run up the score.

Index: 18%15 July 2026

England vs Argentina 1:2: The Lead That Would Not Hold

At 55 minutes, Gordon gave England the sort of lead that invites an immediate overreaction: one goal, one clenched fist, and suddenly every earlier difficulty can be filed under “character.” It was a useful goal, not a transforming one.

Index: 30%12 July 2026

Argentina vs Switzerland 3:1 — The Margin Arrived In Extra Time

The final score was 3:1, the kind of result that can make a match sound straightforward before anybody asks how it became so.

Index: 33%7 July 2026

Argentina vs Egypt 3:2: Early Shock, Late Control

What did not happen was panic. Egypt scored first at 15 through Ibrahim, Messi missed a penalty at 21, and that sequence usually invites a distorted match.

Index: 27%4 July 2026

Argentina — Cape Verde Islands 3:2: Eighty-Two Minutes, Then Extra Time

For 82 minutes this sat in a simple state: the stronger side had control and only the score needed catching up. Then it became one of those knockout nights that leaves traces on every surface. Argentina won 3 : 2 after extra time, and the numbers do not ask for reinterpretation. They had 2.16 xG to 0.45, 22 shots to 16, and 15 efforts from inside the box to 6. The match was noisy late on. Its logic was established much earlier. Argentina’s advantage was built in plain view. They had 64% of the ball and completed 779 passes from 849 attempts.

Index: 49%29 June 2026

Jordan — Argentina 1:3: A Win With Zero Saves

Argentina''s goalkeeper made no saves and won 3:1 — the opposition simply never tested him twice. Jordan''s single shot on target went in; nothing else came close. At 49% on the Crime Index, this one explains itself.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is the head coach of the Argentina national team?

Per the most recently analyzed match (Spain — Argentina) — Lionel Scaloni.

How many players are in the Argentina national team's current squad?

26 players: goalkeepers — 3, defenders — 8, midfielders — 11, attackers — 4.

How often do Argentina's match results diverge from the xG-expected outcome?

Bravsen has analyzed 8 matches — average Crime Index 36, with 1 scoring 60+ (the threshold for an anomalous gap between the result and the xG model).

National team. This page covers 16 articles about Argentina — the largest article count for any team in the database — all from the 2026 World Cup.

Finishing well ahead of the model

Across the 8 matches with calculated xG, Argentina generated 15.05 expected goals and scored 19 — a gap of nearly 4 goals above the model, one of the most clinical finishing profiles among any national team covered on this site. A gap that size across eight matches isn't noise anymore — it's a durable pattern: the team consistently converts the chances it creates more efficiently than the quality of those chances alone would predict.

The Algeria rout isn't a surprise against that backdrop

The team's single most anomalous covered match is a 3-0 home win over Algeria, Crime Index 72%. Against an average Crime Index of 36% across all 8 matches, that result still stands out — but read against Argentina's clinical overall finishing, it looks less like a fluke and more like a natural extreme of an existing trend: a team that consistently outperforms its xG will occasionally produce exactly this kind of scoreline, and the rout that looks like statistical noise is, in part, explained by the quality of the finishing itself across the tournament.