Hello and welcome into the latest edition of ESPNFC, K Murray Ali Moreno and Stevie Nicol here in the studio and we will kick things off with World Cup qualifying the game between Uruguay and Argentina, which finished 1-0 to Argentina thanks to a stunning goal from Tiago Almoda In the 68 minute, we also saw a late red card for Nico Gonzalez for a high boot challenge

on Nandes.

He'll be suspended for the Brazil clash, but Argentina get it done without Leonel Messi and

Lautaro Martinez, who withdrew from the squad in the build-off.

In fact fact Leonos

Scaloni is not worried about those absences because this is what he said. The

national team is a team. When one is missing and other steps off. We had some

very important absentees but we have great players to go out on the field. The

team is always more than just the names.

Frank watched it for us.

Frank is joining us right now as well.

But, Ale, I mean, let's go to that quote from Scaloni because you could see that even without the names,

Argentina got the job done against Uruguay in Montevideo.

They're looking well to defend that World Cup for you.

Right.

So I understand the message that Leonel Scaloni is sharing with his team,

with everybody that wants to be part of this national team, and with everybody who's paying attention,

that we are more than the names. But let me just focus on the other names.

Not Messing, not Lautaro Martinez, but you look at the starting 11 from Argentina,

and they're better than most teams around the world, even without Lionel Messi, even without

Laudato Martinez.

So the first thing I would say is that there is depth in Argentina so that you can withstand

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