The best player of the world no only is key piece in his club, the FC Barcelona, but it also is indispensable in his selection. And it is that when Leo Messi is not, Argentina cries. By a lot that others write and although when he is in the field and the things do not go well load rivers of ink in his against, without the ten the albiceleste does not know how win.

This is what shows the statistics of the combined Argentinian in the last meetings without his star, increased with the tie in front of Venezuela in Caracas. There the albiceleste contested his first meeting without Lio from November of 2015 and finish being shipwrecked with a tie to two, with the golazo of Juampi between averages. 

This tie joins to the others two that had also place in the phase of classification for the World-wide of Russia 2018 in October and November, in front of Paraguay in Asunción (0-0) and in front of Brazil home (1-1). Everything took place after the hard injury in the knee of Lionel that also it deprived him of the defeat in front of Ecuador (0-2) and the only victory of all the meetings, in front of Colombia (0-1). 

And it is that if difficult is for the selection have not been able to heave with the trophy of champions in the last three finals contested of consecutive form between World-wide and Glasses Américas, would have been almost impossible to arrive to these without the genius rosarino. The presence of the best does that his team mutate in a very dangerous square. The numbers like this show it and those rare time mention.