Goiania: Lionel Messi scored one goal and created two other people as Argentina beat Ecuador 3-0 at Goiania on Saturday to reach the Copa America semi-finals.
In the last four matches on Tuesday, the 14-time winner would play Colombia, who beat Uruguay at the penalty the previous day.
Messi ted up a goal for Rodrigo de Paul and Lautaro Martinez before firing a free kick of injury to close the performance of an amazing individual.
The scorer was hard on Ecuador, which ended the match with 10 men after the dismissal of Pedro Hicapie but was competitive throughout.
“The truth is a very difficult match.
We know the difficulties of playing Ecuador, who work hard with players who are fast, physically, young,” Messi said.
“It’s battle until we manage the purpose (second).” Argentina made a bright start and Martinez almost opened the scoring with a moment of brilliance.
He covered the ball past the goalkeeper Hernan Galindez and then a volley, only for Robert Arboldea to block the ball on the phone.
A few moments later Martinez had a shot deflected wide and from the resulting angle, the German Pezella volley into the side net.
Carlos Gruezo was almost talented by Argentina’s goal when his IPAS sent Messi to clean up with only Galindez to beat, but six times the Ballon d’Or the candidate saw his shot back from the post.
At the other end, goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez had to be alert to fend off the amazing 20 yard volley by Sebastian Mendez.
Argentina made them apart from seven minutes from half times when the invisions of the esteem crossed from the left and enner headers flicked Valencia narrowly avoided sliding Alan Franco behind.
Two minutes later Argentina was in front, with Messi Architects.
First of all he played at Nicolas Gonzalez on goal but when he was handled by Galindez, Messi reacted the fastest and redeemed De Paul to score.
There was still time before the break for Galindez to make an extraordinary double rescue of Gonzalez, before Valencia somehow wide-headed from six meters.
After the break, Valencia remained back the Ecuador route back to the match and Livewire Forward approached the post shot hit Martinez’s feet before being behind.
Cross the evil esteem then almost turned into its own net by Gonzalez.
Messi approached killing the tie but the efforts were curved sailing through the position, while goalkeeper Aston Villa Martinez denied the replacement for Gonzalo Plata with a close block.
Inter Milan forward Martinez finally ended Ecuador’s resistance six minutes from the time from Pass Messi after Hincapie was trapped by Angel Di Maria.
And Hincapie finished a few sad few minutes when he was dismissed when injury time after dragging the replacement back in Maria when cleaning, with Messi uniting a free kick.
Goalkeeper David Ospina is a hero like Colombia beat Uruguay at a penalty in Brasilia.
Ospina saved two spots on the photo shoot on the day he got the 112 Colombian hat, moving clearly from the previous national record which he shared with Iconic Carlos Valderrama.
He dedicated victory to his torn civilian country which would be one of the twins next to Argentina before the South American Football Government agency moved the tournament to Brazil for the concern for the Coronavirus Pandemic and Social Riot in Colombia.
“We just want to give joy to our country, a country we want full of peace, full of people sharing and enjoy, because we have a beautiful country,” said Ospina, 32.
There was little to report in 0 -0 interesting regulations 90 minutes before the quarter-final tie went straight to the penalty.
Ospina saved from Jose Gimenez and Matias Vina while Colombia scored their four sentences.
It was a big disappointment for Pair Forward Star Uruguay Edinson Cavani and Luis Suarez, which both changed their shots but almost certainly had played in their last Copa.
On Friday, Brazil beat Chile 1-0 to reach Monday’s semi-final against Peru, which defeated Paraguay 4-3 at a penalty after the important 3-3 draw that saw both parties finished with 10 men.
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