Argentina kept its hopes of qualifying for the final price of the Qatar World Cup in football, thanks to its captain and star Lionel Messi, who led it to beat Mexico 2-0 on Saturday at Lusail Stadium in the second round of Group C competitions.
Messi and his comrades started the eighteenth participation of the 1978 and 1986 champions in the worst possible way following a shocking fall at the hands of Saudi Arabia 1-2 in a meeting during which they advanced with the goal of the current French star Paris Saint-Germain and the former Spanish Barcelona.
Amid the danger of the campaign ending in the first round for the first time since the 2002 edition, Messi was on time once more on Saturday in Lusail by scoring the first goal in the 64th minute with a beautiful shot, then passing the ball to the second goal scored by substitute Enso Fernandez with a distinctive arc shot as well (87).
Messi gave his country the fourth victory in the finals over Mexico out of four confrontations, following the first edition in 1930 (6-3) and the final price of each of the 2006 edition (2-1) and 2010 (3-1).
Coach Lionel Scaloni’s team raised its score to three points, and its fate is in his hands, as it must win in the last round once morest Poland, which topped on Saturday with four points following its victory over Saudi Arabia 2-0.
And the task of Mexico was complicated in reaching the final price for the eighth time in a row and trying to equal or exceed the achievement it achieved in 1970 and 1986 on its soil when it reached the quarter-finals, as its balance remained a point before the last round that it gathered in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
