Martino confirms he just took Jimenez for a ride to Qatar and makes Argentina a favour

Gerardo Martino insisted on calling up Raul Jimenez for months despite the Wolverhampton striker's obvious injury. By calling him up and leaving out the likes of Santiago Gimenez, Raul was expected to at least make the starting lineup for the second game, or so the coach had predicted.

Now, it is confirmed before the game against Argentina that Gerardo Martino simply seems to be taking him for a ride as he does not plan to start him from the first minute against Lionel Scaloni's team and worst of all, he does not even plan to start a midfielder in the game.

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