With his goal at 81 minutes Thiago Almada He rescued the goal of Luis Díaz, the goal of Barça to reinforce the lead, to Argentina, who played with ten for expulsion from Enzo Fernández at 70 and that height already without Leo Messi. It was a match corresponding to the South American Qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.
In the Monumental Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina accumulated its fifth consecutive game without losing and reached 35 points, while Colombia is still sixth with 22 and has six games without winning.
The coffee selection, who played against Albiceleste one of its best games, went ahead on the scoreboard when Díaz, striker of Liverpool, showed his hierarchy and class at 24 minutes with a great goal in which he dribly driblized four defenses in the area and in which nothing could do Emiliano 'Draw' Martínez.
The Colombian attacker leads the gunners of the South American Qualifiers with 7 targets, ahead of Messi and the Bolivian Miguel Terceros, both with 6 goals.
The first minutes showed a messi on that at minute 3 made a combination with Almada but the Argentine captain's shot was barely diverted.
Colombia responded two minutes later with a thorough arrival of Deiver Machado who found an advance from Luis Díaz and in the next play Díaz himself took a shot that 'the Dabr' Martínez sent to the corner.
In the 13th minute a great career of Díaz, who beat Rodrigo de Paul in speed, and after a great dribble on this he took a shot that demanded Martínez again.
At 20 Messi accelerated before a shit that prevented the Argentine from taking out the shot and threw the ball into the corner. The next minute Julián Álvarez rehearsed a medium distance shot that demanded goalkeeper Kevin Mier again in a great stop.
And in the 24th the goal of Díaz arrived. He received the ball on the left after an error from De Paul, hooked towards the center and left Cristian Romero, Nahuel Molina, Nicolás Otamendi and Leandro Paredes, until he defined with quality before 'The Draft' Martínez. A goal that silenced the monumental.
At 29 to the albiceleste they invalidated a goal by advance position of Messi.
The decisive play
In the 70th minute a decisive play for the game arrived because Enzo Fernández was expelled after impacting the plugs of his booty against Kevin Castaño's head, who was replaced with a great mark on his forehead by John Arias.
Scaloni took Messi out of the game at 77, but with 10 players and three minutes later the tie arrived when Almada got rid of Richard Ríos and defined crossed before two rivals to beat Mier.
At 86, Colombia was able to have the advantage with a header from Richard Ríos, after Díaz's pass, which was barely diverted.
In the last two days in September, Argentina will close the qualifiers against Venezuela as a local and with Ecuador in Guayaquil, while Colombia will be measured with Bolivia in Barranquilla and then visit Vinotinto.
Data Sheet:
Argentina: Emiliano Martínez; Nahuel Molina (m.46, Nicolás González), Cristian Romero, Nicolás Otamendi, Facundo Medina (m.78, Juan Foyth); Rodrigo de Paul (m.46, Giuliano Simeone), Leandro Paredes, Enzo Fernández; Lionel Messi (M.68, Exequiel Palacios), Julián Álvarez and Thiago Almada (m.89, Leonardo Balerdi).
Colombia: Kevin Mier; Daniel Muñoz, Jhon Lucumí, Dávinson Sánchez, Deiver Machado; Jefferson Lerma, Kevin Castaño (m.73, Jorge Carrascal); Richard Ríos, James Rodríguez (m.73, Jhon Arias), Jaminton Campaz (m.57, Andrés Román); and Luis Díaz.
