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Hours before facing Argentina, Peru's manager warns Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi is ready to face Peru.

By William Estrella

Lionel Messi is ready to face Peru.
Lionel Messi is ready to face Peru.

The time has come, there are only a couple of hours left for Argetina and Lionel Messi to face Peru, in gameweek number four of the qualifiers to qualify for the 2026 World Cup. Now, as usual, the game began to heat up a few hours before starting.

What did Lionel Scaloni say about Peru? "Historically, the Peruvian player is a good handler of the ball. They bring together good players with attacking characteristics, an elaborate game. They are not going through a good moment, it is evident, but they have already gotten out of these situations. They have experienced players, who They know each other. Under no circumstances should we think that the match has been won, far from it. We prepared it in the same way as we did many years ago when we went there, traveling today. We think that they are a good opponent who is going to put things up for us. difficult".

Now, the manager of Peru warned Lionel Messi: “Messi makes a difference and he does it practically exclusively in certain areas of the field. There you know that he can stab you in the filtered pass or in a fixed tactic. Messi not only in Argentina, but in the team he is in, he is the differential,” said the Peruvian technical director. These words from Reynoso about Leo did not go down well at all, taking into account that Peru is obliged to add three points to climb places in the Qualifiers table.

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William Estrella

William Estrella

I'm a Mexican sports journalist with more than 8 years of experience, especially in digital media. I cover breaking news and investigative articles on current soccer events worldwide. I currently write for El Futbolero USA. Previously, I worked as a radio announcer in my country, covering Mexican soccer.

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