{"id":128368,"date":"2019-06-20T09:11:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T08:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=128368"},"modified":"2019-06-20T09:12:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T08:12:05","slug":"copa-america-2019-messi-speaks-on-crazy-early-exit-for-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=128368","title":{"rendered":"Copa America 2019: Messi speaks on “crazy” early exit for Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Argentina captain, Lionel Messi, has said \u201cit could be crazy\u201d if they don\u2019t advance from the Copa America group stage, following their 1-1 draw against Paraguay on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Messi scored from the penalty spot to salvage the draw for Argentina at the Minerao stadium in Belo Horizonte, cancelling out a first-half strike from Paraguay\u2019s Richard Sanchez.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrankly, it\u2019s a little frustrating not being able to get the win we need to take the next step.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew this would be difficult, we\u2019re still looking for the best group, for the best performance, to keep growing,\u201d Messi said after the match.<\/p>\n

Argentina are still bottom of Group B with one point from two games, but they could progress to the last eight with a win over third-placed Qatar in their final group game on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The squad] is hurt by the situation because we can\u2019t manage to win a game, and we know today was key for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know we have to win the next game to advance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know we\u2019ll be playing for our lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be crazy if we can\u2019t advance from the group stage, when basically three [teams] advance from each group. I have no doubt we\u2019ll do it,\u201d Messi added.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Argentina captain, Lionel Messi, has said \u201cit could be crazy\u201d if they don\u2019t advance from the Copa America group stage, following their 1-1 draw against Paraguay on Wednesday night. Messi scored from the penalty spot to salvage the draw for Argentina at the Minerao stadium in Belo Horizonte, cancelling out a first-half strike from Paraguay\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}