(Reuters) – Argentina's football selection ended 1-1 as they hosted Venezuela in the South American qualifying games for the 2026 Copa del Mundo.

When I hosted Jordan in the Novena, Argentina was on the position table with 19 points, three points ahead of Colombia, which had lost more time when I visited Bolivia.

The intense night lasted just a few minutes before taking part in the monumental stadium of the city of Maturín, in the north-oriental region of Venezuela, where the beginning was demorara for half an hour.

“You can't drink with water, you will leave the party so much and put in a lot of effort, and you won't be able to take two more steps. “It's difficult, it was difficult for me,” Lionel Messi said on television.

“Empatamos porque la cancha no ayudó a lo que queríamos hacer, tuvimos que luchar, jugar con el error del rival and no arriesgar mucho atrás,” he added.

In return, the campsite was not particularly good and the large amount of accumulated water had the opportunity to distract the teams from their usual game and misplace the balloons in the air over the areas.

Argentina scored 13 minutes before Nicolás Otamendi's interlude on the pitch, followed by a free play near by Lionel Messi and a second goal by the carrier Rafael Romo.

Due to the difficulty of coming from a distance, Venezuela responded with several long-distance setbacks.

The mayor's event ended about 39 minutes with a friend of Salomón Rondón joining the Arquero Gerónimo Rulli and taking Otamendi over the meta line.

At the beginning of the second stage, led on site by the Argentinean Fernando Batista, with a guide from Yangel Herrera, set out on the journey to reach Rulli, from a school year from the city.

The happiness for Venezuela lasted 64 minutes after returning from the Rondón booth after Yeferson Soteldo entered the sector.

The “Albiceleste” lasted about 72 minutes as Messi opened up to the doorman through a pass filtered by Rodrigo De Paul before the Arquero Romo hit the Argentine captain.

The next morning, as Argentina received the march to Bolivia at the Monumental Stadium in Buenos Aires, Venezuela visited Paraguay at the Defensores del Chaco Stadium in the city of Asunción.