The Argentina national team coaching staff have been impressed with José Manuel López.

Left out of the team for the Argentina national team’s 3-0 win against Venezuela, José Manuel López has impressed in training. According to Gastón Edul, Lionel Scaloni’s coaching staff were very impressed and very satisfied with the striker’s training sessions.

José Manuel López has six goals in 18 league matches with Palmeiras and the 24 year old was called up for Argentina. With Lionel Messi not travelling to Ecuador with the team, Argentina national team coach Lionel Scalani will have to make one change in the attack.

Argentina will play Ecuador on Tuesday in their last World Cup qualifying match.

Cristian Romero is suspended for Argentina’s World Cup qualifying match against Ecuador.

Romero will not play with the Argentina national team against Ecuador on Tuesday. The Argentine was yellow carded during Argentina’s 3-0 win against Venezuela and is suspended for the match.

Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni will have to make two changes to the starting eleven for the match against Ecuador as Romero is suspended and Lionel Messi will not be travelling with the team.

Lionel Messi spoke about if he will be playing at the World Cup with the Argentina national team.

Messi scored twice for Argentina in their 3-0 win against Venezuela in his final World Cup qualifying match in Argentina. With that goal, Messi has now scored for 20 consecutive years with the Argentina national team, with five matches remaining in the year.

The Argentine confirmed that he will not play against Ecuador in Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier. Speaking to the media in the mixed zone after the match, Messi was asked about if he would play in the next World Cup qualifiers. Here is what he had to say:

“It’s a natural question. Due to my age, my time is running out. There’s still a long way to go before the next qualifiers. I can confirm that I won’t be there. Now I’m taking each day as it comes. I hope to have a good preseason.

“I never said whether or not I would make it to the World Cup, I simply said that I was going to take each day as it came. I always said that, given my age, the most logical or natural thing was that I wouldn’t make it.”