{"id":296721,"date":"2023-11-17T08:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T08:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=296721"},"modified":"2023-11-17T08:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T08:23:53","slug":"argentina-chokes-and-lionel-messi-chokes-someone-in-2-0-uruguay-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/argentina-chokes-and-lionel-messi-chokes-someone-in-2-0-uruguay-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina chokes and Lionel Messi chokes someone in 2-0 Uruguay loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Argentina choke and Lionel Messi chokes someone as the reigning World Cup champions fall 2-0 to Uruguay&#8230; while the captain of La Albiceleste puts his hands on the throat of a rival<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Messi wrapped his hands on the neck of defender Mathias Olivera Thursday\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Argentina lost their first game in 2026 World Cup qualifying by a 2-0 scoreline<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lionel Messi could not help Argentina extend its unbeaten streak since its World Cup title and in a fit of rage, was seen putting his hands around the throat of an opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Uruguay beat Argentina 2-0 at La Bombonera Stadium in Buenos Aires on Thursday in a World Cup qualifying match, its biggest victory so far under new coach Marcelo Bielsa.<\/p>\n<p>At one point in the contest, Lionel Messi was seen putting his hands on the throat of Uruguay defender Mathias Olivera.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina hadn&#8217;t lost a competitive match since its group-stage opener against Saudi Arabia during last year&#8217;s World Cup in Qatar. It hadn&#8217;t lost at home since falling 1-0 to Paraguay in 2016, also during World Cup qualifying. It hadn&#8217;t lost at La Bombonera since a 3-1 loss to Germany in a friendly in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina still leads the 10-team South American qualifying group with 12 points from five matches.\u00a0Uruguay is second with 10 points. Colombia has nine and Venezuela eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/17\/05\/77916053-12760747-image-m-59_1700198244806.jpg\" height=\"506\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi put his hands around the throat of Uruguay&#8217;s Mathias Olivera in a match<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/17\/05\/77916395-12760747-image-a-60_1700198265547.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Argentina lost 2-0 to their rivals &#8211; their first loss at La Bombonera since a 1977 friendly<\/p>\n<p>Brazil will host the World Cup champions at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro in fifth position, with seven points.<\/p>\n<p>Ecuador, Paraguay and Chile have five points each. Bolivia has three and Peru one.<\/p>\n<p>Uruguay was aggressive from the start against the World Cup champions. Darwin N\u00fanez nearly opened the scoring with a crossed shot in the 10th minute after a mistake by defender Nicol\u00e1s Otamendi.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since Argentina&#8217;s World Cup title, coach Lionel Scaloni looked jittery as his midfielders struggled to block Uruguay&#8217;s wingers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His players didn&#8217;t heed the call and their punishment came in the 42nd minute, when Matias Vi\u00f1a easily stole the ball from Nahuel Molina and gently made a low cross into the penalty box. Ronald Ara\u00fajo smashed it into the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina came close to leveling the scoring on a free kick by Messi and a close-range shot by Otamendi, which forced goalkeeper Sergio Rochet to make a key save near the end of the first half.<\/p>\n<p>After the break, Uruguay kept the pressure on Argentina, which once again counted on Messi and substitute Angel di Maria to find its best chances. Messi hit the bar with a free kick in the 57th minute.<\/p>\n<p>N\u00fanez scored in the 87th minute on a counter after the Uruguayan defense stopped Messi at the edge of its box.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We never felt comfortable in this match,&#8217; Messi said. &#8216;Uruguay is a physical team, they have good teamwork. It is always like that against them.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/17\/05\/77916393-12760747-image-a-63_1700198392626.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ronald Araujo scored first and it was Darwin Nunez (above) who got the crucial second goal <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/17\/05\/77916399-12760747-image-a-62_1700198305482.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a crucial win for Marcelo Bielsa and Uruguay as they sit second in the qualifying table<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/17\/05\/77916397-12760747-image-a-61_1700198283700.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni said that Bielsa&#8217;s men were better on the night<\/p>\n<p>Scaloni said Uruguay played better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We cannot think that because we are world champions we will never lose again,&#8217; Scaloni said. &#8216;We are not unbeatable, I said it before and I will continue to say it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Messi&#8217;s close friend Luis Su\u00e1rez, who just returned to the Uruguayan national team, did not play.<\/p>\n<p>In the previous round of World Cup qualifying, Uruguay beat Brazil by the same score in Montevideo. Its next match will be against Bolivia.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12760747\/Argentina-chokes-Lionel-Messi-chokes-reigning-World-Cup-champions-fall-2-0-Uruguay-captain-La-Albiceleste-puts-hands-throat-rival.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina choke and Lionel Messi chokes someone as the reigning World Cup champions fall 2-0 to Uruguay&#8230; while the captain of La Albiceleste puts his hands on the throat of a rival Messi wrapped his hands on the neck of defender Mathias Olivera Thursday\u00a0 Argentina lost their first game in 2026 World Cup qualifying by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Argentina chokes and Lionel Messi chokes someone in 2-0 Uruguay loss - Sports Life Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/argentina-chokes-and-lionel-messi-chokes-someone-in-2-0-uruguay-loss\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Argentina chokes and Lionel Messi chokes someone in 2-0 Uruguay loss - Sports Life Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Argentina choke and Lionel Messi chokes someone as the reigning World Cup champions fall 2-0 to Uruguay&#8230; 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