Angel Di Maria's aim on Friday positioned Argentina at the verge of qualifying for subsequent year's World Cup in Qatar as Lionel Messi turned into at the bench for the 1-zero win away to Uruguay.
Messi turned into most effective known as upon through educate Lionel Scaloni to play the very last region of an hour as he made his comeback from knee and hamstring problems that noticed him leave out Paris Saint-Germain's ultimate matches.
Di Maria's elegant early end on the Campeon del Siglo stadium in Montevideo turned into the distinction among the edges in a in shape ruled through Uruguay.
The end result way Argentina -- who're unbeaten in 26 matches -- will qualify for the World Cup finals in the event that they beat Brazil on
Tuesday and someone of Colombia, Chile or Uruguay fail to win.
The defeat left Uruguay in a World Cup play-off spot, in the back of Colombia and Chile withinside the very last automated qualification function on aim distinction.
Nahitan Nandez need to have given Uruguay a 5th minute lead after Argentina did not cope with a protracted throw into the field.
A ricochet noticed the ball land at Nandez's toes seven yards from aim and whilst goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez did nicely to pop out fast and unfold himself, Nandez's end turned into terrible and instantly on the Aston Villa stopper.
Uruguay had been made to pay mins later as Paulo Dybala robbed a dawdling Joaquin Piquerez simply outdoor the field and handed internal for Di Maria to stroke an excellent shot into the pinnacle corner.
It turned into Argentina's most effective shot at aim withinside the first 1/2 of.
Luis Suarez furnished Uruguay's primary threat, as he has completed so generally earlier than, and fired a free-kick narrowly over.
On the 1/2 of hour he hit an instinctive volley towards the publish earlier than snatching on the rebound together along with his left foot and setting it wide.
Uruguay had been piling at the strain and Matias Vecino had a risk to repair parity on the give up of the primary 1/2 of however shot too near Martinez.
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After the smash, Argentina persisted to govern ownership with out developing possibilities, whilst Uruguay had been extra dangerous, however with out trying out Martinez.
Substitute Papu Gomez subsequently were given off Argentina's 2nd shot, simply earlier than the hour mark, however it flashed wide, whilst Martinez needed to backtrack to tip over a wayward Facundo Torres pass that regarded love it turned into dipping in in the back of the goalkeeper's head.
With Uruguay pushing to salvage some thing from the game, Joaquin Correa had a couple of possibilities at the smash for Argentina however couldn't take advantage.
Finally with 1 / 4 of an hour to play, Scaloni summoned Messi from the bench however he had little effect at the game.
Uruguay replacement Agustin Alvarez had a gilt edged risk to grab a draw six mins from time however his header from 5 yards landed on pinnacle of the net.
Moments later, Martinez allow Alvarez's shot squirm among his legs earlier than fast spinning round to seize the ball in the back of him earlier than it crossed the line.
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