{"id":632758,"date":"2026-10-01T03:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632758\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T03:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:26:13","slug":"argentinas-first-game-without-messi-works-4-0-against-bolivia-lautaro-martinez-and-nico-paz-on-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632758\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina\u2019s first game without Messi works: 4-0 against Bolivia, Lautaro Martinez and Nico Paz on target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the opening minutes, it&#8217;s one-way traffic. La Verde, who came close to qualifying for the World Cup before losing the decisive play-off against Iraq, set up in a 5-4-1, leaving the talented Miguelito isolated up front and never finding a way through the defence led by Cuti Romero, picked as the new captain after the departures of Messi and Otamendi. Lautaro scores the opener with a precise right-footed strike from the edge of the box from a McAllister pass, while Nico Paz adds the second with a delicate finish as Viscarra comes off his line (after a lovely vertical ball from Palacios). Argentina then get the chance to make it three through Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez, but the Atletico Madrid striker gets his timing wrong and the Bolivian No 1 keeps him out.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the opening minutes, it&#8217;s one-way traffic. La Verde, who came close to qualifying for the World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9877,286012,23816,11476,85,46,75814,194431,105],"class_list":["post-632758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-argentina","tag-argentina-vs-bolivia","tag-bolivia","tag-friendlies","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-l-martinez","tag-n-paz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}