Lionel Messi scored from the penalty spot to rescue a 1-1 draw for Argentina against Paraguay in the Copa America on Wednesday as his side rode their karma to stick on to any desire for achieving the quarter-finals.
Richard Sanchez put Paraguay ahead in the 37th moment, terminating into the base corner after a lung-blasting keep running from Miguel Almiron down the left wing.
Argentina commander Messi leveled in the 57th moment after a handball by Paraguay's Ivan Peris which nobody on the pitch requested for however, was spotted by a VAR survey.
Paraguay was granted a spot-kick of their own a couple of minutes after the fact, however, Derlis Gonzalez's shot was spared by Argentina manager Franco Armani, who was fortunate to maintain a strategic distance from a red card when he fouled Gonzalez outside his territory toward the finish of the primary half.
Argentina is as yet base of Group B with one point from two recreations yet they could advance to the last eight with a success over third-set Qatar in their last gathering game on Sunday.
The outcome guaranteed Colombia secured top spot in the gathering on six after they beat Qatar 1-0 prior on. Paraguay is second on two.
Argentina's overseer mentor Lionel Scaloni rolled out four improvements to the group that was beaten 2-0 by Colombia, which included dropping Sergio Aguero. While they were progressively strong, they needed inventiveness all through.
Their best move came when substitute Aguero chested down a check and laid it off to Lautaro Martinez who hit the crossbar on the volley. The ball tumbled to Messi, however, the chief's shot was tipped away by Paraguay attendant Roberto Fernandez.
Messi was planning to take the subsequent corner when the ref went to counsel the screen and after that decided that Martinez's shot had struck the outstretched hand of Peris.
The Barcelona forward, who is scanning for his first trophy with Argentina subsequent to losing four noteworthy finals, impacted in from the spot however his objective took steps to be offset when Nicolas Otamendi fouled Gonzalez with a terribly coordinated handle.
However, Argentina delighted in the third cut of favorable luck as Armani acted the hero by punching Gonzalez's spot-kick away, and the River Plate goalkeeper additionally spared a later free kick from Matias Rojas.
"I think we improved the poor picture we left after the main game," Argentina striker Martinez told journalists.
"We have an extremely troublesome game in front of us to qualify, however, we'll give it our everything to achieve the following round."
