Argentina's home-based thrash Venezuela

Argentina’s national football team composed entirely of players from local league crushed Venezuela 4-1 during a friendly match in order to get prepared for the América Cup and to inaugurate the Bicentenario Stadium in San Juan province that will be used in the tournament.

Argentina's Cristian "Pochi" Chávez opened the score at 20' of the first half of the game, but 9' later, Venezuela's Daniel Arismendi managed to tie the result.

At 35', Pablo Mouche netted Argentina's second goal, and scored the third one only 8' after the beginning of the second half.

Luciano Aued, who entered at 10', scored the fourth goal of the Batista's team.

Line-ups:

Argentina: Javier García; Iván Pillud, Lisandro López, Jonatan Maidana and Fabián Monzón; Cristian Chávez, Claudio Yacob and Diego Valeri; Pablo Mouche, Matías Defederico and Maximiliano Moralez. Coach: Sergio Batista

Venezuela: Leonardo Morales; Giovanny Romero, Oswaldo Vizcarrondo, Gabriel Cichero and José Luis Granados; Francisco Flores, Edgar Jiménez, Luis Manuel Seijas and César González; Daniel Arismendi and Angel Chourio. Coach: César Farías.

Stadium: Bicentenario, San Juan.