A rematch of this summer season’s Copa America remaining headlines CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying motion on Tuesday, when Argentina journey to Colombia with the hopes of extending their near-perfect begin to qualification.

Argentina will shut out this month’s matches atop South America’s 10 group desk even with a loss however face stiff competitors from third place Colombia, who may leapfrog Uruguay into second place in the event that they overcome the one level hole between them on Tuesday. A closely-contested recreation would supply similarities to the Copa America remaining in July, when Argentina wanted a aim in further time to win the title for a report sixteenth time.

This is what you should know earlier than tuning in.

Easy methods to watch and odds

• Date: Tuesday, Sept. 10 | Time: 4:30 p.m. ET
• Location: Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Melendez — Barranquilla, Colombia
• Dwell stream: Fanatiz USA
• Odds: Colombia +175; Draw +185; Argentina +185

Storylines

Colombia: Their 28-match unbeaten run might have come to an finish in July, however Colombia impressed all through their run to the Copa America remaining and are harmful sufficient to provide Argentina a run for his or her cash whereas internet hosting them. That mentioned, Los Cafeteros didn’t resume their World Cup qualifying marketing campaign in notably sturdy trend on Friday, once they tied 1-1 with Peru. That they had 70 p.c of the ball and outshot Peru 16 to 9 however put simply 5 photographs on course on an inconsistent ending day, requiring Luis Diaz to attain an 82nd equalizer to rescue some extent. Effectivity in assault will likely be essential in opposition to Argentina, which makes Diaz and James Rodriguez gamers to look at on Tuesday.

Argentina: The guests will as soon as once more be with out Lionel Messi, who missed this month’s qualifiers with an ankle damage however may make his comeback this weekend for Inter Miami. Argentina have used Messi’s absence to show as soon as once more that they aren’t a one-man group — they closed out the Copa America remaining with out him after he picked up the aforementioned ankle concern and beat Chile 3-0 on Thursday. Supervisor Lionel Scaloni has been in a position to depend on the depth he has in assault throughout these two video games, with every of Lautaro Martinez, Alexis Mac Allister, Julian Alvarez and Paulo Dybala since Messi’s damage. An attack-minded efficiency is predicted out of them once more on Tuesday, no matter Scaloni’s group choice.

Prediction

One other hard-fought battle feels prefer it’s within the playing cards for these two sides, however expectations are rightly excessive for Argentina and have sufficient high quality to tug out an enormous consequence and bolster their lead atop the desk. Depend on them them to do exactly that, even when Colombia give them a run for his or her cash. Decide: Colombia 1, Argentina 2