World Cup qualifiers are played all over the world, Asian national football matches always worry domestic fans, and the World Qualifiers in the Americas are also in full swing, Messi's Argentina team is currently ranked first, and they meet Venezuela in the latest round. In the 9th round of the Americas World Preliminary Tournament, Argentina challenged Venezuela away from home, and the opponent was not strong, while Argentina's previous record was 6 wins and 2 losses, both in strength and results are far ahead of Venezuela.
However, Argentina did not achieve a good result in this game, because the conditions of the playing field were relatively poor, and the ground transmission advantage of the Argentina team was not obvious. In the first half, the stadium was seriously waterlogged, and the transmission of both sides was not smooth, and the impact on Argentina was greater, Messi took a free kick in the 12th minute of the game, the opposing goalkeeper did not save the ball, and Otamendi opened the scoring for Argentina in the chaos, and then a Venezuela attack almost succeeded, only to be cleared by Otamendi goal line. In the 65th minute of the second half, Long Dong equalized with a header, and soon Messi got a great chance, De Paul went straight to Messi to get a single knife, but the single shot was saved, and finally the two teams fought to a 1-1 draw.
Argentina have suffered two games without a win, but still have a huge advantage ahead of other opponents, Argentina 19 points ahead of second-placed Colombia, with 6.5 places, there is no suspense in securing a direct place in the World Cup. In this game, Messi played decently, his free kick footwork was still online, instigating the goal and the threat attack behind, but the single goal did not score also shows that his state is also declining in some aspects, and it is really unforgiving.
In other matches of the Americas World Preliminary Tournament, Colombia lost 0-1 to Bolivia, but still ranked second. Brazil defeated Chile 2-1 away, because of the previous poor results, Brazil was even ranked in the play-off zone before the game, that is, outside the top 6, this game faced Chile with a declining level, Brazil also played more difficult, but fortunately won and returned to the direct promotion zone, there is one game left in the 9th round, Uruguay away to Peru, after this game the standings may change somewhat.