SAINT-ETIENNE, France — – Thiago Almada scored an excellent solo objective and Argentina superior to the quarterfinals of the Olympic males’s soccer match Tuesday with a 2-0 win over Ukraine.
Almada’s strike — two minutes into the second half in Lyon — set Argentina on the right track for the knockout part with back-to-back wins following its shock opening defeat to Morocco. Claudio Echeverri sealed the win within the 91st minute.
But it surely was Almada’s objective that lit up the match. Accumulating the ball simply previous the midway line, he charged upfield earlier than curling a shot previous Ukraine goalkeeper Kiril Fesiun from round 25 yards.
Echeverri pounced to transform on the rebound to make it 2-0 after Fesiun had made a late save.
Morocco additionally superior by beating Iraq 3-0 in Good.
Egypt advances
Ibrahim Adel scored a pair of targets and Egypt superior to the boys’s soccer quarterfinals of the Paris Olympics atop its group by beating Spain 2-1.
Spain had already reached the knockout spherical and was vying for a first-place end in Group C however was as an alternative leapfrogged by a decided Egypt in Bordeaux.
Within the different match of the group, the Dominican Republic performed to a 1-1 draw with Uzbekistan, which had already been eradicated. The attract Paris was not sufficient to get the Dominican Republic into the subsequent spherical.
The quarterfinal matchups will not be decided till Wednesday’s video games are full. The highest two groups in every of the 4 teams advance.
Adel’s first objective got here off a cross from Zizo late within the first half. His second got here within the 62nd minute, when he labored round Spanish goalkeeper Alejandro Iturbe, who had come ahead to cease him.
Samu Omorodion scored for Spain within the closing moments of regulation however the comeback fell brief.
Within the group’s different match, Rafael Nunez transformed on a penalty early within the second half to place the Dominican Republic in entrance, however Alisher Odilov tied it within the 58th.
