Following the disappointment over the loss to Brazil, Gerardo Martino has had no time to dwell on the defeat and instead Argentina are back on the training pitch ahead of Tuesday’s meeting with Hong Kong. With fatigue and the lesser opposition taken into account, Martino is expected to make wholesale changes to the starting eleven. If the side that was used in a training match earlier is anything to go by, there will be chances for some new faces and a full debut for Sunderland’s Santiago Vergini.

The lineup used against local opposition in training was in a 4-2-3-1 formation and was as follows:

Nahuel Guzmán; Facundo Roncaglia, Santiago Vergini, Nicolás Otamendi, Leonel Vangioni; Fernando Gago, Enzo Pérez; Nicolás Gaitán, Ever Banega, Javier Pastore; Gonzalo Higuaín