{"id":485100,"date":"2024-07-10T02:25:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T06:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485100"},"modified":"2024-07-10T02:25:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T06:25:07","slug":"messi-return-in-form-to-push-argentina-past-canada-2-0","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-return-in-form-to-push-argentina-past-canada-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi return in form to push Argentina past Canada 2-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champions Argentina secured their place in the Copa America final with a 2-0 victory over Canada in the semi-final held in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Goals from Julian Alvarez and Lionel Messi propelled Argentina to the final, where they will face either Uruguay or Colombia in Florida on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Canada started strong and created early chances, with Jacob Shaffelburg missing two promising opportunities. However, Argentina capitalized on their first real chance when Rodrigo De Paul played a through ball to Alvarez, who scored with a composed finish in the 22nd minute.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">Messi has now led Argentina to \ud835\udfd6 \ud835\udc05\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc12 in his career \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Copa Am\u00e9rica 2007<br \/>\n\u2705 Olympics 2008<br \/>\n\u2705 World Cup 2014<br \/>\n\u2705 Copa Am\u00e9rica 2015<br \/>\n\u2705 Copa Am\u00e9rica 2016<br \/>\n\u2705 Copa Am\u00e9rica 2021<br \/>\n\u2705 World Cup 2022<br \/>\n\u2705 Copa Am\u00e9rica 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4B3Bw8Ycws\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4B3Bw8Ycws<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 433 (@433) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/433\/status\/1810861181738840403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 2022 World Cup winners and top-ranked team in FIFA&#8217;s standings, Argentina gradually took control of the game. Messi, showing no signs of the muscle injury that had troubled him earlier in the tournament, almost doubled the lead before halftime with a skilful move, but his shot went wide. Canada nearly equalized just before the break when Jonathan David&#8217;s close-range effort was saved by Emiliano Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Messi sealed the victory for Argentina in the 51st minute by deflecting Enzo Fernandez&#8217;s shot past Canadian goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau. The goal showcased Messi&#8217;s opportunistic brilliance and provided a comfortable cushion for Argentina for the remainder of the match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ro\">2021 Copa Am\u00e9rica \ud83c\udfc6<br \/>\n2022 World Cup \ud83c\udfc6<br \/>\n2024 Copa Am\u00e9rica \u23f3<\/p>\n<p>Argentina reach their \ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc21\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1d straight final at a major tournament \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EpBUoEuHkC\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EpBUoEuHkC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1810856916400156798?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This upcoming final could represent the last opportunity for several senior Argentine players, including Messi, Angel Di Maria, and Nicolas Otamendi, to add another major trophy to their illustrious careers. Argentina will be aiming to secure their 16th Copa America title, which would extend their record of victories in the competition.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fe9JuG3gqxc?si=vkppwZHYgQ63u2J3\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champions Argentina secured their place in the Copa America final with a 2-0 victory over Canada in the semi-final held in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485101,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17143,16943,23037,17909],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17906,19551,23038,17910],"acf":{"announce":"The defending champions will face Colombia or Uruguay in the final","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\/485100"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485103,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485100\/revisions\/485103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485100"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485100"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}