Flooded pitch causes chaos in Argentina’s draw with Venezuela as Lionel Messi rants about ‘ugly’ match

LIONEL MESSI ranted astir the waterlogged transportation aft Argentina drew with Venezuela.

Nicolas Otamendi's aboriginal opener was cancelled retired by a extremity from erstwhile Everton and West Brom striker Salomon Rondon.

After the lucifer Messi complained his broadside had to ditch their gameplan due to the fact that of the transportation conditions.

Rain near the crushed soaked and inhibited the ball's question during the match.

A clip of Messi warming up showed the shot stopping dormant aft helium deed a changeable against the bar, with h2o preventing it from bouncing astatine all.

Messi believes the conditions made for an "ugly" lucifer arsenic it prevented passes from being made with players having to "battle" instead.

He said: "It was precise difficult, it makes for precise disfigured matches.

"We could not implicit 2 passes successful a row. In the 2nd fractional we did it connected the close a small more, but it is hard to play similar that. Very small is played.

"We tied due to the fact that the transportation didn't assistance america bash what we wanted, we had to play a antithetic crippled than the 1 we prepared for.

"But we were prepared due to the fact that we fought, won the battles, played with the mistake of the rival. We couldn't hazard overmuch by playing with passes to the back.

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"In the archetypal fractional we made a mates passes to the backmost and the h2o would halt it, and complicate it. We did the crippled we could with the water."

Kick-off was delayed by 30 minutes owed to the transportation conditions earlier the referee judged it good to play.