On 28 March, the Argentine national team defeated Mauritania 2-1 in an international friendly match. Despite the victory, Argentina only gained 0.63 FIFA points in this game, failing to consolidate its ranking. Originally ranked second in the world, they were overtaken by France behind them and fell to third in the world.
The French national team chose to warm up with Brazil, which was originally ranked 5th in the world, in this international friendly match, and defeated its opponent 2-1, which enabled them, who were originally ranked 3rd in the world, to increase by 3.96 points, thus surpassing Argentina in the real-time FIFA ranking and temporarily ranking second in the world.
In the first half of the game, Enzo scored with a push shot after receiving a pass from Molina, opening the scoring for Argentina; then, Nico Paz took a free kick and scored directly, extending the score. In the final stage of the game, Mauritania scored a goal by Lefort in the melee, and Argentina finally won 2-1.
The opponents of the Argentine national team in the recent three friendly matches are not strong, they respectively warmed up with Puerto Rico (+0.37), Angola (+0.89) and Mauritania (+0.63). Although they won all three games, the total increase in points was only 1.89 points.