Comments and predictions for Chile vs Argentina: Messi brings sadness to the home team

Latest Chile vs Argentina team information

Chile will be without centre-back Paulo Diaz and midfielder Luciano Cabral for two games this week, after both withdrew from the squad through injury.

Veteran striker Eduardo Vargas was also left out, but captain Alexis Sanchez was included despite barely playing for Udinese all season – he started just a handful of games for the Serie A side.

Lionel Messi – Sanchez’s former Barcelona team-mate – has returned to the Argentina squad after missing the March training camp through injury. The greatest player in the country’s history will make his 192nd appearance.

Several key names such as Alexis Mac Allister, Paulo Dybala and Lisandro Martinez were unable to participate due to injury, but Lautaro Martinez was still included despite having fitness problems at the end of the season with Inter Milan.

Notably, four players who have never played for the national team have been called up, including Enzo Barrenechea – who is playing impressively on loan at Valencia. In addition, 17-year-old talent Franco Mastantuono has also attracted attention and is expected to be the "new gem" of Argentine football.

Latest expected lineup Chile vs Argentina

Chile:
Cortes; Loyola, Maripan, Sierralta, Suazo; Vidal, Echeverria, Pizarro; Osorio, Sanchez, Valdes

Argentina:
E. Martinez; Molina, Romero, Otamendi, Tagliafico; De Paul, Enzo, Paredes; Messi, La. Martinez, Alvarez

Latest football commentary Chile vs Argentina

This qualifying campaign has been a distant memory for Chile, who are now a shadow of their former selves – once considered one of the strongest teams in the world a decade ago, having qualified for back-to-back World Cups and won the Copa America.

Under coach Ricardo Gareca, Chile have improved somewhat after their disastrous home defeat to Bolivia late last year, losing just one of their last four matches. However, they still need a “miracle” to keep alive their hopes of reaching the finals.

With just two wins from 14 qualifying matches, Chile are bottom of the group and five points behind Venezuela – who currently hold a play-off spot. While that gap is not unbridgeable, the fixture list makes things very difficult.

The teams competing for seventh place are also in poor form, but Chile will face Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and travel to El Alto – famous for its extreme altitude – when they meet Bolivia again.

Chile’s biggest problem lies in their ineffective attack. They have not scored more than nine goals in 14 matches and have failed to score nine times – an alarming number.

Meeting Argentina at this time makes the home fans even more worried. Since winning the Copa America 2016 final, Chile has not won in the last 8 matches and has only scored 4 goals in that series.

On the other side of the front line, Argentina will likely enter this match in a more relaxed mood after officially qualifying for the World Cup thanks to an impressive 4-1 victory over Brazil in March.

Coach Scaloni's team is currently the strongest team in South America, firmly at the top of the table with an 8-point gap over the second-placed team after three consecutive victories.

Despite the tough away games in the South American qualifiers, Argentina have been extremely consistent, picking up 13 points from seven away trips – an impressive tally under the current format.

One of the notable victories was the 1-0 victory right on Uruguay's field in March, clearly showing the difference in class between Argentina and the rest of the continent. They will have many more opportunities to show their strength in the final rounds, facing Colombia at home and Ecuador away.

Latest Chile vs Argentina score prediction

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Chile vs Argentinaas follows:

• Sportsmole:Chile 1-2 Argentina

• WhoScore:Chile 0-2 Argentina
• Our newspaper predicts:Chile 0-2 Argentina

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