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There is no impossible for Lionel Messi and this was demonstrated by the star of Inter Miami when at minute 77 he rubbed the lamp with a magical free kick that helped Argentina defeat a complicated Ecuadorian team 1-0 at the Monumental Stadium in Buenos Aires. In this way, the world champions added their first three points at the start of the South American qualifiers and Messi caught up with Luis Suárez with 29 goals as top scorers in the South American Eliminatoria.
But The path of the Argentines in the game against Ecuador was not easy at allthe albicelestes found resistance in the eleven tricolor, especially in the first half where those from the middle of the world came out equally.
Enner Valencia played a great match for the Ecuadorians and at times it bothered the Argentines who, however, had the clearest chance in the boots of Lautaro Martínez who crashed a ball into the crossbar and who was about to open the scoring for those led by Lionel Scaloni at the start of a new adventure world cup.
Scaloni made several changes in the Albiceleste and went until the 78th minute that the captain would rub the lamp and complete the routine of the extraordinary with a free kick near the area that he would transform into a goal with a shot lying on the goalkeeper’s post and that it passed perfectly over the barrier, as if placed by hand. The goalkeeper Galíndez only had a chance to observe how the ball nestled in the net.
This way Messi reaches the continental record of 104 goals with the Argentina National Team, he has also scored 23 goals in the last 15 games disputed with the national team of his country. At 36, he seems to have no ceiling and continues adding for both Argentina and Inter Miami.
Lionel Messi’s goal became the second of the South American qualifying round after the goal scored by the Colombian Santos Borré in the coffee-maker victory by the minimum against Venezuela. Argentina’s next match will be against Bolivia in La Paz next Tuesday, September 12.
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