The American champion is marching steadily towards the first World Cup in the Middle East, whose ticket he can secure a year earlier as long as he receives the nod of other results on the fourteenth date of the South American Qualifiers.
Brazil, the first team on the continent to ensure its presence in Qatar, leads the competition undefeated with 34 points and Argentina ranks as an escort with 28, above Ecuador (third with 20), Chile (fourth), Colombia (fifth), Uruguay (sixth), all three with 16, and Peru (seventh with 14).
To stamp your passport on the next day, Lionel Scaloni’s team will be able to expand its points difference with two of the teams that add up to 16 units: Chile, Colombia or Uruguay.
So that, In case of winning the superclassic, Argentina will have to hope that two of those three rivals do not do it or, if the game in San Juan ends tied, hope that they lose a couple of the same opponents and also that Peru does not triumph.
Thus, the “Albiceleste” would be unattainable for the team that ends the date located in the repechage zone and therefore it would get passage to the World Cup with four handicap games that shows 7 of its 10 participants in a tough dispute for the last two places direct and repechage.
The South American superclassic will be played at the Bicentennial Stadium from 8:30 pm with arbitration by Uruguayan Andrés Cunha; Uruguay will be visiting Bolivia in La Paz (17:00), Peru will play with Venezuela in Caracas (18:00); Colombia will host Paraguay (20:00) and Chile will close the program against Ecuador in Santiago (21:15).
If the classification does not materialize this Tuesday, Argentina will have four new opportunities to do so until the end of the Qualifiers against Chile (V), Colombia (L), Venezuela or Ecuador (V).
All this without considering that The resolution of the FIFA part of the match with Brazil is still pending (0-0), suspended last September at 5 minutes when delegates from the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) entered the playing field of the Corinthians Arena in São Paulo to prevent the participation of four Argentine footballers reported to have violated immigration regulations in a pandemic.
In the Argentine Football Association (AFA) they hope that the ruling of the Disciplinary Court will be favorable, so those eventual points could be decisive for the objective of the classification if it is not achieved before on the field of play.
The Argentine squad completed its first training session this Saturday after the victory at the Campeón del Siglo stadium in Montevideo, where the team extended the unbeaten streak built since the Copa América Brazil 2019 to 26 games.
The greatest expectation for Tuesday, regarding the formation for the superclassic, surrounds the Argentine captain Lionel Messi, who last night entered at 30 minutes of the second half in replacement of Giovani Lo Celso.
Scaloni will have to resolve in three practice if he returns ownership to the PSG striker instead of the Cordovan Paulo Dybala or if he keeps him on the substitute bench so as not to risk his physique.
Messi, 34, came to this call without action since October 29 when he was replaced at halftime of the match with Lille. Since then, he has missed matches against Red Bull Leipzig of Germany and Girondins of Bordeaux and traveled to Madrid to be treated for his hamstring and left knee pain.
Once incorporated into the Argentine squad, the 10th worked progressively and gave good signs of his recovery, but Scaloni decided to preserve it in the classic River Plate in what was speculated as a gesture of goodwill towards the PSG board, upset by the departure of the Argentine in the current physical conditions.
A probable starting eleven to host Brazil is the following: Emiliano Martínez; Nahuel Molina, Cristian Romero, Nicolás Otamendi and Marcos Acuña; Rodrigo De Paul, Guido Rodríguez, Giovani Lo Celso; Messi, Lautaro Martínez and Ángel Di María.
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