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Argentina beat Chile 2-1 and ranked third in the 2019 Copa América
Both teams finished with ten men in a match that was hotly contested from start to finish.
Argentina, suffered the expulsion of Lionel Messi, managed to defeat Chile 2-1 at the Arena Corinthians and finished in the place of the Copa América 2019.
Below are the lineups for both teams.
Argentina: Franco Armani; Juan Foyth, Germán Pezzella, Nicolás Otamendi, Nicolás Tagliafico; Giovani Lo Celso, Rodrigo de Paul, Leandro Paredes; Lionel Messi, Paulo Dybala and Sergio Aguero. Coach: Lionel Scaloni.
Chile: Gabriel Arias; Mauricio Isla, Marcelo Diaz, Gary Medel, Gonzalo Jara, Jean Beausejour; Arturo Vidal, Erick Pulgar, Charles Aránguiz; Jose Fuenzalida, Eduardo Vargas and Alexis Sanchez. Coach: Reinaldo Rueda.
Referee: Paraguayan Mario Díaz de Vivar, assisted by his compatriots Eduardo Cardozo and Darío Gaona.
Stadium: Arena Corinthians, in the city of São Paulo.
It was a very close game during the 90 minutes, Sergio Agüero scored a great goal in the 12th minute, after taking advantage of a quick kick from a Messi foul. The victory was outlined more accurately when Paulo Dybala made his debut as a scorer in a Copa América, ten minutes later, and Argentina headed more safely to victory, but the expulsion of Messi and Medel, for an exchange of shoves after a cleared ball to the band by the Chilean, in the 37th minute, left both teams with ten men.
After the double expulsion, the game continued with various goal expectations after halftime. Chile managed to reduce the score with a penalty goal by Arturo Vidal in the 59th minute, but did not have many more chances to reach extra time.
With this result, Argentina achieved a lower prize, although its captain will have to face at least two sanction dates.
It should be noted that this is the second time that Lionel Messi has been sent off in his professional career, out of a total of 687 games with Barcelona and 136 with Argentina. Both expulsions were when he was wearing the albiceleste shirt.
