Chile had a couple of options to open the scoring, but ‘Dibu’ Martínez made two saves to keep the goal scoreless.

The Bull appeared and did so at the right moment… With an agonizing goal from Lautaro Martínez, Argentina defeated Chile 1-0 in New Jersey and established itself as the leader of Group A of the Copa América 2024.

After 70 minutes of much study and a game that was more rough than well played, football arrived and did so to give us two approaches that could have given the advantage to Ricardo Gareca’s team, but which showed that the forcefulness was from Lionel’s team Scaloni.

It was in the 87th minute when Leo Messi took a corner kick at the first post and after a series of rebounds, Lichnovsky wanted to clear the ball, but he only left it full for Lautaro to shoot Claudio Bravo and make a packed stadium explode and that At times it looked like a Buenos Aires branch.

And in the last 20 minutes the game took off. First it was Argentina that came close to opening the scoring when Messi put a great ball to Nico González, who did not think twice and took a left-footed shot to burst Chile’s crossbar for the second time in the match, although the replay He uncovered a great save from Claudio Bravo.

After that warning from the Albiceleste, Chile responded with a couple of good actions that caused two saves from ‘Dibu’ Martínez, although the second was more important than the first when the ball was free on the edge of the area, Echeverría caught it in a spectacular way and The Aston Villa goalkeeper dived to save the world champion.

Also at the end of the match, two controversies arose, the first due to a foul on Di María on the edge of the area and the other due to an alleged push on Marcelino Núñez that the referee let go.

Now Argentina will seek perfection in the group stage and secure the top spot against a Peru that will need victory to stay alive, while Chile will play everything against Canada, which will have a draw as its ally.