Winning without a fight, Argentina was awarded the 7th ticket to the World Cup

Argentinian football team, playing 4 hours later than the match between Bolivia and Uruguay (3 hours, 26-3), has great confidence in winning the first ticket of South America to attend the 2026 World Cup regardless of the result of the big match with Brazil. The necessary and sufficient condition for this miracle is that Bolivia, the team currently ranked 7th in CONMEBOL, cannot defeat Uruguay in the early match.

Argentina becomes the 7th team to attend the 2026 World Cup

The South American World Cup qualifiers were awarded 6.5 places to the 2026 World Cup, including 6 teams that directly qualified for the finals and the 7th team that will compete in a play-off with a representative from another region. Before the match at Estadio Municipal El Alto, Bolivia had 13 points in hand, 15 points behind the leader Argentina after 12 matches.

Unable to perform a miracle against the visiting team Uruguay, who are fourth in the rankings, with a 0-0 draw, Bolivia reached 14 points, 14 points behind Argentina while they only have four remaining matches.

Lionel Messi has the chance to defend the World Cup title with his teammates

Even if the current eighth-placed Venezuela (12 points) beat Peru to reach 15 points, they would still be 13 points behind Argentina with four games remaining. This means that in the event of Argentina losing the big match against Brazil as well as all remaining matches, coach Lionel Scaloni's team would still comfortably qualify for the 2026 World Cup.

Thus, unless Lionel Messi withdraws for non-professional reasons, this superstar will participate in his 6th World Cup at the age of 38, another shining milestone in his massive football career.

Argentina is determined to be the 7th team on the planet to "book a place" at the 2026 World Cup, after the three co-host teams (USA, Canada, Mexico), there are three teams from Asia (Japan, Iran) and Oceania (New Zealand) that have won the right to go to North America next summer.

Japan won the first ticket from the qualifying round

New Zealand, in the match for the only official ticket of the Oceania region on March 24, defeated New Caledonia with a score of 3-0, becoming the 5th team to attend the World Cup. Meanwhile, Iran, in the Asian qualifying match on the evening of March 25, held Uzbekistan to a 2-2 draw, becoming the second representative of Asia, the 6th in the world to win a ticket to the World Cup.

Argentina creates opportunities for young players to practice

Now, Argentina only continues to fight in the South American qualifying round to accumulate points, keep the top spot in the group for the honor and prestige of the South American and world champions, or at least see the remaining matches as an opportunity to hone the young players.

This will be the 18th World Cup for Argentina, a team that has not missed a finals tournament since the 1970 Mexico World Cup. The team also missed the 1938, 1950 and 1954 World Cups.

There are still 41 tickets left for teams in six regions to compete.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/bat-chien-tu-nhien-thanh-argentina-duoc-trao-ve-thu-7-du-world-cup-196250326070143937.htm