Lionel Messi Out Injured As Argentina Seek To Seal FIFA World Cup Place

Lionel Messi will miss two World Cup qualifiers after he was on Monday omitted of the Argentina squad for video games towards Uruguay and Brazil as a result of he reportedly suffered an harm in a membership sport the day earlier than. After lacking three video games for his membership, Inter Miami, in the beginning of March with a pulled muscle, the 37-year-old Messi returned with a aim off the bench in a CONCACAF Champions Cup win. He performed a full 90 minutes and scored once more in an MLS win in Atlanta on Sunday however, Argentinian media reported, then felt muscle discomfort.  Argentina, the defending World Cup champions, can guarantee qualification for subsequent yr’s match of their two video games on the present worldwide group. 

They lead the 10-team South American qualifying group by 5 factors from Uruguay and go to Montevideo on Friday earlier than internet hosting Brazil in Buenos Aires on March 25. 

The high six groups qualify straight for the World Cup within the United States, Mexico and Canada. The seventh-placed group is at the moment Bolivia with 13 factors.

After 12 rounds, Messi is the highest scorer within the competitors with six targets.  

Argentina are additionally with out injured Roma striker Paulo Dybala and River Plate full-back Paulo Montiel.

Brazil, can be with out 33-year-old Neymar, who has suffered a thigh harm and has needed to postpone his return to the nationwide group, who’re fifth, seven factors behind Argentina.

Squad:

Goalkeepers: Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa, ENG), Geronimo Rulli (Marseille, FRA), Walter Benitez (PSV Eindhoven, NED). 

Defenders: Nahuel Molina (Atletico Madrid, ESP), Leonardo Balerdi (Marseille, FRA), Cristian Romero (Tottenham, ENG), Nicolas Otamendi (Benfica, POR), Nicolas Tagliafico (Lyon, FRA), Facundo Medina (Lens, FRA), Juan Foyth (Villarreal, ESP), German Pezzella (River Plate)

Midfielders: Leandro Paredes (Roma, ITA), Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool, ENG), Rodrigo De Paul (Atletico Madrid, ESP), Exequiel Palacios (Bayer Leverkusen, GER), Maximo Perrone (Como, ITA), Enzo Fernandez (Chelsea, ENG), Giuliano Simeone (Atletico Madrid, ESP), Benjamin Dominguez (Bologne, ITA), Thiago Almada (Lyon, FRA)

Forwards: Lautaro Martinez (Inter Milan, ITA), Julian Alvarez (Atletico Madrid, ESP), Angel Correa (Atletico Madrid, ESP), Nicolas Paz (Como, ITA), Santiago Castro (Bologna, ITA), Nicolas Gonzalez (Juventus, ITA).

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