The Argentine team won again with a 6-0 victory against Bolivia and proved to be the only leader with 22 points in the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, while Bolivia fell in the qualifying round with 12.
With the hat of Lionel Messi (m.19, m.84 and m.86) and the rest from Lautaro Martínez (m.43), Julián Álvarez (m.45 + 3) and Thiago Almada (m.69), a The Albiceleste added their seventh win in ten games and maintained a three-point advantage over their biggest rivals, Colombia. Bolivia, meanwhile, suffered its first setback after three successive victories since the arrival of Óscar Villegas as coach during his visit to Buenos Aires.
With the first bad trio since the start of Argentina with Lionel Messi, Julián Álvarez and Lautaro Martinez, the coach Lionel Scaloni decided to create disappointment. Bolivia, on the other hand, put together an isolated group to go against Miguel Terceros and Carmelo Algarañaz, but they had few options to bring a threat to the goal protected by Gerónimo Rulli.
The game was dominated by possession and control of the ball by the local team, who in the 19th minute opened the scoring and was forced by Lautaro Martínez to take the lead. deep ball interesting interpretation from Lionel Messi, who beat Guillermo Viscarra.
Argentina didn’t let up their pressure and only had Robson Matheus’ header which Gerónimo Rulli headed in as the only threat of the match.
Two free kicks taken by Lionel Messi, first a shot from the crossbar and then a spectacular save by Viscarra, are the starting points for the last part of Argentina’s last goals. In the 43rd minute, Julián Álvarez’s deep connection to Lionel Messi left the captain. giving up the goal to Lautaro Martínez what they sent to the network. And, five minutes later, a perfect assist from Lionel Messi took the lead the arrival of Julián Álvarez in front of the goal playing before Viscarra left and scored the third for the local team.
In the second half, the Albiceleste continued to press and early on they had the chance to score the fourth goal with a precise header from Nicolás Otamendi, in a move that was ruled out for offside by Nicolás Tagliafico. Then, in one play, Alexis Mac Allister’s shot ended with another intervention by Guillermo Viscarra, then there was a ball left for Lionel Messi in the area and he took a shot that Luis Haquín only deflected and headed from the corner. Author Julian Álvarez went a long way.
And after another chance, the fourth came in the 69th minute with a long pass from Leandro Paredes to Nahuel Molina and between the arrival of Thiago Almada who was acceptedwhich it wrote. Then there was a bench change for both teams and Lionel Scaloni had the pleasure of making Nicolás Paz his debut in the albiceleste jersey.
But there was none Lionel Messi did a great job: first in the 84th minute he received a pass from Nahuel Molina and explained it well and two minutes later he did a slalom before shooting furiously. print success.
After this victory, Argentina will face the final day of FIFA in November against Paraguay in Asunción and Peru in Buenos Aires, while Bolivia will look for renewal against Ecuador in Quito and Paraguay in El Alto.
