“Messi is going to travel. Today he trained differently but he is in a position to travel. There are still two days left before the game and we will make the decision tomorrow or on Tuesday as to whether he will play,” the coach said at a press conference.
The coach of the Argentina National Team, Lionel Scaloniconfirmed that the captain Lionel Messi will travel to Bolivia for the second date of the South American qualifiers heading to the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canadaalthough he did not ensure if he will be part of the game given that this Sunday the Rosario trained differently.
“Messi is going to travel. Today he trained differently but is fit to travel. There are still two days left until the game and we will make the decision tomorrow or on Tuesday as to whether he will play,” said the coach when asked about the Argentine star’s situation.
Furthermore, the world champion coach pointed out: “The squad is good in principle. There is no problem and we are ready to face the game in the best conditions.”
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Regarding the beginning of the South American Qualifiers, The Argentine coach indicated that “the level is very even, it is a very difficult Qualifier and many teams will fight. Since there are more possibilities, everyone is excited about being able to go and that is fair. The beginning is more difficult because they see themselves with possibilities, “The advantages are minimal. Uruguay won easily but it did not reflect how even the match was. That speaks of how complex this Qualifier is.”
The analysis of Bolivia
Regarding his next rival, Bolivia, the coach acknowledged that “at first they are a good team. The coach is doing something interesting which is always playing with a base. Several can repeat but we know that it is not the same to play in Brazil as in the “We know they are a good team and we have to be alert.”
And he added: “It depends a lot on how the game develops. It depends a lot on whether it is a very direct game. In the end, what this team has is that it adapts to what it finds. We can be protagonists or suffer, the energy expenditure and the “Drowning is different. We have no problem changing.”
About the complication of playing at altitude, Scaloni He concluded that “being here you can’t work on that. A lot of things have been tried and we know that all the teams that go there, the difficulty they encounter. I don’t want to talk much about this topic, it is something that is not going to change and It will always be played there. It has an added difficulty but under no circumstances am I going to complain. Everyone has to travel there. It is something that cannot be prepared on the plain, we would have to travel a few days before. Other aspects are being worked on, explain “To the player who didn’t pass, what will he find?”
Source: Ambito
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