Every time a commitment by the Argentine national team approaches, attention increases on the health of the footballers called up by Lionel Scaloni. Due to this, the premature departure of Alexis Mac Allister in the match that Liverpool beat Crystal Palace 1-0 as a visitor This Saturday, the seventh round of the English Premier League, a warning signal went off.
The former Argentinos Juniors, Boca and Brighton & Hove Albion player was a starter for the team that leads the English league. However, He did not come out to play the second half of the match that was played at Selhurst Park in London: Dutch coach Arne Slot arranged for him to be replaced by Hungarian Dominik Szoboszlai.
Mac Allister had had a modest performance during the 45 minutes in which he remained on the pitch and had received a yellow card from referee Simon Hopper two minutes from the end of the first period for an infringement on Eberechi Eze. At no time did he show any discomfort. However, it was replaced.
Before the start of the second period, the Argentine midfielder could be seen on the television broadcast sitting on the substitute bench with a grimace that denoted discomfort. Reports from some media whose journalists were in the stadium reported that The player had placed an ice bag on his left thigh.
After the end of the match and the 1-0 victory with a goal from the Portuguese Diogo Jota, which guarantees the team led by Slot to retain the lead in the Premier League regardless of what their pursuers do on this date, the Liverpool medical team does not gave information about the health of Mac Allister, who in the next few hours must travel to Miami to join the Argentine national team.
The national team, leader of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) classification for the Canada-Mexico-United States 2026 World Cup, He will visit Venezuela next Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Monumental Stadium in Maturín and on Tuesday, October 15 at 9 p.m. he will receive Bolivia at the Monumental.
On the last double date of the World Cup qualification, in September, Mac Allister joined the team’s squad in Ezeiza despite suffering from muscle overload. He did different jobs during the first training sessions, was a starter in the 3-0 victory over Chile at the Monumental and even scored a goal, but he suffered discomfort in one of his adductors and was replaced by Paulo Dybala 12 minutes from time.
In the second match of that double date, against Colombia at the Roberto Meléndez Metropolitan Stadium in Barranquilla, Scaloni chose not to use it from the start. He just had him enter for Leandro Paredes at 18 minutes into the second half of the duel that Albiceleste lost 2 to 1.