{"id":459008,"date":"2023-09-13T12:08:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T08:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=459008"},"modified":"2023-09-13T12:08:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T08:08:27","slug":"argentina-breeze-past-bolivia-3-0-without-messi","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/argentina-breeze-past-bolivia-3-0-without-messi\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina breeze past Bolivia 3-0 without Messi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina comfortably defeated Bolivia 3-0 in a World Cup qualifying match on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Leo Scaloni made the bold to rest his star player Lionel Messi, but that didn&#8217;t seem to affect the matter as the Argentinians swooped past an inferior side in the face of Bolivia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Argentina still showing why they were more than deserving to win the world cup by hitting 3 goals past Bolivia \ud83c\udf1f\ud83c\udf1f\ud83c\udf1f<\/p>\n<p>Russia Scolani Putin Maradona 2Baba Kumasi Pedri <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/peVLgqT1v0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/peVLgqT1v0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bills\ud83c\udf1f (@kwekubills) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kwekubills\/status\/1701865204403814811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leo was not ready to play,&#8221;\u00a0 Scaloni said after the game. &#8220;He tried to recover, but he did not feel comfortable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was Angel di Maria, who captained the side in Messi&#8217;s absence and he was in the heart of the opening goal as he provided the cross for Enzo Fernandez, who slotted the ball for a first-half lead.<\/p>\n<p>Bolivia were reduced to 10 men as Roberto Fernandez was sent off for a high challenge on Christian Romero and the Argentinians took full advantage, doubling their lead through Nicolas Tagliafico just before the interval.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez rounded off the final scoreline of 3-0 in the closing stages with a fine left-footed.<\/p>\n<p>The World Champions now have 2 wins out of 2 games and are looking pretty for a comfortable World Cup qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina comfortably defeated Bolivia 3-0 in a World Cup qualifying match on Tuesday. Leo Scaloni made the bold to rest his star player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":459009,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17143,16946,17909],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17906,21372,21373,17910],"acf":{"announce":"La Albiceleste were perfect without their star man","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459010,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459008\/revisions\/459010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459008"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=459008"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=459008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}