The defending champions of Argentina celebrated the qualification for the FIFA World Cup 2026 with a 4-1 victory against the rivals of Brazil in Buenos Aires on Tuesday. The men of Lionel Scaloni ended up surpassing the five -time world champions despite the absence of the Lionel Messi superstar.
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The defending champions of Argentina celebrated their qualification for the FIFA 2026 World Cup with a 4-1 battery of the Rivals of Brazil in Buenos Aires on Tuesday. “ The Albiceleste ” was by far the out -of -competition team in the leg leg of the FIFA World Cup eliminators 2026, winning 10 of the 14 games they have played so far with a draw and three defeats and a solid difference in goals (GD) of 18.
Argentina currently benefits from an important advance at the top of the South American classification with 31 points, eight points ahead of the equator and 10 more than Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay – which collected 21 points each.
The triple world champion had already been assured of a place in the final of the FIFA World Cup after Bolivia held Uruguay at a draw without a safe blow on Tuesday. The Argentines would then celebrate even harder after Julian Alvarez (4 ‘), Enzo Fernandez (12’), Alexis Mac Allister (37 ‘) and Giuliano Simeone (71’) violated the Brazilian defense during their dominant victory.
🚨📉 Brazil had no victory in its last 5 games against Argentina, with a single goal scored and 7 conceded.
Brazil also conceded 4 goals last night for the first time in their history in qualifying in the World Cup. 🇧🇷 pic.twitter.com/yjsy3qof0e
– Fabrizio Romano (@fabrizioromano) March 26, 2025
The evening would have been even more forgettable for ‘Selecao canarinho’ if it had not been that Mattheus Cunha capitalized on Cristian Romero’s error to score the only goal of Brazil in the 26th minute and half of their deficit.
A notable absence in Tuesday’s match at Estadio Monumental was the star striker Lionel Messi, who had played a major role in the end of Argentina’s wait in 36 years for a third party world title in Qatar in 2022.
Why did Lionel Messi not appeared in the 4-1 victory of Argentina on Brazil
Inter Miami star Messi remained outside the successful World Cup qualification match due to an injury. The 37-year-old man had been excluded from the Argentine team due to an injury to the low-content adductor he had won in Miami’s 2-1 victory on Atlanta United in their match by Major League Soccer (MLS) on Monday, March 17.
Messi was on the field for the duration of the match, in which he marked the equalization of the Herons in the 20th minute – nine minutes after Atlanta took the lead. Haitian winger Fafà Picault later assured that Miami collected full points on the match with a winner of the 89th minute.
The absence of Messi, however, was hardly felt by the Argentines while the men of Lionel Scaloni won a dominant victory over the five -time world champions.
