New Delhi: Lionel Messi inspired a 3-0 home win over Colombia scoring one goal and laying on the other two to put Argentina’s World Cup qualifying campaign back on track.


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After two successive defeats, Argentina needed a superb peformance from their talismanic striker and he did not disappoint.


Argentina took a ninth-minute lead when Messi curled his free kick over the wall and into the top left corner of David Ospina`s net off the underside of the bar for his 57th Argentina goal.


Watch his goal here:



 



The win lifted Messi`s team, recovering from two successive defeats, into fifth place in the South American group with 19 points, one behind Ecuador and Chile, who beat Uruguay 3-1 with an Alexis Sanchez brace.