After that match in Maturín against Venezuela which at times seemed to be fought in a swimming pool and which started half an hour later due to the deluge, everything Argentina he complained. AND Lionel Messi He led that protest… On the 10th he did it just after the 1-1 draw with Venezuela, on the same playing field. Leo said: “You couldn’t play, you couldn’t make two passes in a row. The game became very tight, very difficult. It’s difficult to play like that. You play very little.”
Messi added: “I was there to fight, to win the second ball, to play with the opponent’s error and not risk too much. We played that game, the one we had to play because of how the field was.”
Afterwards, Leo changed the subject: “I am happy to return to the National Team, to continue having continuity here. I miss playing in Argentina again. Now we have a long trip back from Buenos Aires, a couple of days to rest and on Tuesday we will try to beat Uruguay.”
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Later, at a press conference, Lionel Scaloni followed the same discursive path as Messi. The coach noted: “I went to talk to the referee and he promised me that if the ball didn’t run he would stop the game. And the ball didn’t run… It was obvious. I don’t know the criteria, but it could have been played the next day. It would have been It was a nicer game to watch, different. It wasn’t good for the show.”