Buenos Aires, Argentina.- The Argentine National Team celebrates one more victory in this tie, while the Colombian National Team is on the verge of elimination in the Conmebol zone with a view to the Qatar 2022 World Cup after suffering its second defeat on this FIFA Date.
With the solitary goal by Lautaro Martínez (29′) Lionel Scaloni’s squad endangers the aspirations of the coffee team to repeat the passage to the World Cup for the third consecutive period. After this fall, he records seven straight duels without scoring in the South American qualifiers.
Mistakes could cost the future of the party. After 15 minutes, the defense handed the ball over to Ángel Di María. He scared the visitors after his shot on goal, which, this time, was saved by Camilo Vargas, current Liga MX champion with Atlas, instead of David Ospina.
Di María’s shot was a warning, because the Argentines kept order to constantly disturb the Colombian area. A dangerous cross reached Lautaro Martínez’s position, since William Tesillo, a Club León player, could not reject with his head and allowed “El Toro” to capitalize on the duel.
Those led by Reinaldo Rueda took the ball after this hit at the Monumental. They were nothing to match the cards, nothing more than the precision of goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez when facing heads-up denied the rivals 1-1.
During the second period Colombia protected the 1-0 as if they were winning. They ceded the initiative to Argentina and wanted to react at the end of the game, however the magic move was a myth and that caused them to start depending on other results to keep their hopes of playing in Qatar 2022 alive.
The albiceleste adds 35 points in the sub-leadership of Conmebol. Among his jewels tonight, Maximiliano Meza, a Rayados player, returned to play a match for his country after three years of not getting a call-up. He replaced Lucas Ocampos at 58′.
Colombia will have two games to play in the World Cup qualifiers. For now it will be in 7th place with 17 points, the only advantage is that it will close with two teams that are behind in the table, Bolivia (8th) and Venezuela (10th). Both commitments will be played at the end of March.
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