{"id":465585,"date":"2023-10-13T04:13:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T08:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465585"},"modified":"2023-10-13T04:13:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T08:13:35","slug":"messi-comes-off-bench-in-argentinas-victory","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-comes-off-bench-in-argentinas-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi comes off bench in Argentina\u2019s victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Messi came off the bench in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> minutes of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half of Argentina\u2019s 1-0 victory against Paraguay in World Cup qualifying in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s manager Lionel Scaloni, left Lionel, who had a leg injury until recently, out of the starting 11 for its 3<sup>rd<\/sup> CONMEBOL qualifier thus far; as for his attack, the head coach chose Nico Gonzalez from Porto, Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez from Man. City and Lautaro Mart\u00ednez from Inter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Argentina stay perfect in World Cup qualifying thanks to this ridiculous Otamendi volley \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TV_Publica?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TV_Publica<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rdwNsZRIKY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rdwNsZRIKY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1712636191345082874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Otamendi scored the 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the match early in the match to give his nation the lead after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 45 minutes. Messi looked great during his 40 minutes on the pitch as he had a perfect chance to score, but he hit the post after a free kick in the final minutes of the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy to be on the pitch again &#8230; It is always difficult when you come from the bench in such a tight match,&#8221; Messi claimed after the win. The Argentinian superstar added that he\u2019s just satisfied that Argentina triumphed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Messi came off the bench in the 1st minutes of the 2nd half of Argentina\u2019s 1-0 victory against Paraguay in World Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":465589,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17143,21420,16724],"news_category":[14236,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[17906,21421,21743],"acf":{"announce":"His national remains with a perfect record.","video":["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\/465585"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465591,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465585\/revisions\/465591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465585"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465585"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}