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00:00And Argentina hasn't scored yet in this first half, but I think those two sets are going to change tonight.
00:14Didn't play the last game, should be rested, legs should be fine. Messing Argentina in front of another sold-out crowd.
00:22His fans in Houston get ready for Arthur there, and you know he's going to play big tonight.
00:27Discomfort in his thighs, why he sat out the last game. He has scored at least one goal in every major tournament he has played in except for this Copa so far.
00:46A stutter tonight, or will Messi and Argentina continue their march towards yet another trophy?
00:52John Strong, Stu Holden with the call, next.
00:55And a terrific quarterfinal round to come over the next three days.
01:00Who will be the first team to punch their ticket to next week's semifinals here at the Copa America?
01:06We are underway!
01:10Mexico fans in Phoenix, they held on by the skin of their teeth in the dying moments.
01:15On the right, Gonzalez who's on the ball now is on the left.
01:18That's Juan Martinez, top scorer in the tournament, just left it behind him there.
01:25De Paul gets through, hands it off, it's hard, Martinez beaten at Copa America in their entire history.
01:30They've never won a knockout stage game at a World Cup.
01:32This is rarefied air for them to be here, let alone if they were able to actually.
01:36Let's see if Flick's it on, Caicedo running through.
01:38Moises Caicedo all by himself, and he got poked away from behind just before he was going to shoot it looked like.
01:44And Emiliano Martinez able to collect.
01:47We see him in that advanced role, playing off of Flick.
01:50He's got through Preciado at least for the first moment.
01:52Andrew Paez, a four year old, all time leading scorer for Ecuador.
01:57Is this going to be his final Copa America appearance potentially?
02:01Moises Caicedo down after that crunching challenge.
02:04Caicedo looking to cut it back, good tackle by McAllister, second touch as well, and Caicedo steps in.
02:15That's waved away, that's not going to be given as a foul.
02:18And behind Taliafico.
02:23By Sarmiento, Caicedo into the middle, this is Sarmiento cutting it back, Sarmiento kicks, save Emiliano Martinez.
02:31Caicedo first with a loose ball, and that one's blasted over the end by the teenager, Kendrew.
02:37It's going to find Valencia, forced wide off the first touch, he cuts it in the middle, it's looped onto the roof of the net.
02:46That was Preciado who came all the way forward.
02:48Save Emiliano Martinez, Caicedo first with a loose ball, and that one's blasted over the end by the teenager, Kendrew Paez.
02:57And Copier, waiting for the runners, and Copier's cross in, Valencia in the area.
03:02Nothing that Sarmiento could do, now can Argentina break out the other way?
03:07And that's going to be whistled as a foul, and the question is whether for Nico Gonzalez.
03:12Into the middle, Enzo Fernandez, further along.
03:15Alexis McAllister, that was closed down.
03:18And then Valencia stepping in, he gets fouled, he's down in pain.
03:23So probably also should have been a yellow, but I think because he didn't give the last one on Copier.
03:28He had three or four goals that the ball just bounces a different way.
03:32But they haven't really been able to.
03:33Molina out wide, and Copier forces it back inside for Messi.
03:37Couldn't answer.
03:38It's all the way wide, Molina from the end line, sends that cross into the middle, the header is looping wide.
03:44Enzo Fernandez, best look of the game for Argentina.
03:48This is a big mistake in the end from the 17-year-old, Kendrick Payas.
03:51Turns the ball over after they've defended.
03:53Very high quality midfielders, oh wow.
03:55Valencia laid up McAllister, and finally Andres Matute.
03:59Yeah, that's pretty cynical.
04:02I'm not sure where...
04:05Oh man, he's chirping right in, Alexis McAllister.
04:09Taliafico, trying to find Nico Gonzalez, back door.
04:12And that one peters all the way out for a goal kick.
04:15Fernandez from Messi running through, he's closed down, he holds it up.
04:18Enzo Fernandez, blocked in the end.
04:21William Pacho able to recover, get his body in front out for a corner.
04:24And Argentina for the first time.
04:27Messi, in swinger, takes a flick for a header.
04:30And did that go across the line?
04:32It sure looks like it did.
04:34The officials are conferring right now, as Lizandro Martinez celebrates.
04:40The referee is going to go to the assistant referee.
04:43They do not have goal line technology here at Copa America.
04:51And it is a goal.
04:56Oh, what a ball in.
04:57Just watch Lizandro Martinez sneak around the back here.
05:00And the header at the near post, and it is clearly across the line.
05:04Absolutely a goal.
05:06Ecuador losing their marks, and it's a well-worked set piece from Argentina.
05:14Felix Torres had to scramble all the way back.
05:17Dominguez just gets away with it.
05:20And now, terrific player for them, breaking his leg in practice.
05:25He hands it off for De Paul.
05:27It's going to, off the bounce, be fired across the face of goal by Enzo Fernandez.
05:31Did he mean that, or was it a mishit shot?
05:34It's out either way.
05:35A mishit shot in the end.
05:36That 17-year-old Paez.
05:39And then De Paul is decked by Valencia, who's already...
05:43...Caicedo, and that was really well closed down.
05:45Alexis McAllister's caught the worst of it.
05:47Now, they don't have to stop the play.
05:49Andres Patente does elect to stop the play.
05:51And looking to shoot one-on-one, swept away from behind by Christian Romero.
05:56Ecuador had their opportunities.
05:58Yeah.
06:02And Enzo Fernandez is taken down.
06:06Down, but couldn't control it cleanly.
06:08Grazo, hard work.
06:10Valencia is in the area.
06:11It's cleared away.
06:12Grazo holds it at least at first.
06:14Still, there's men down on the field.
06:16And another big collision there.
06:1910 v. 10 right now.
06:21As it goes along the tar, Martinez brought it down.
06:23Turns and fires there over his shoulder.
06:26Puts it wide.
06:27Natural position.
06:29Caicedo.
06:30And Emiliano Martinez took actually a bump there right there.
06:33And Emiliano Martinez took actually a bump there right as he was going to catch.
06:36Valencia dumps it to the turf.
06:38Caicedo from in copier loops it forward.
06:40Sarmiento trying to get it.
06:42Caicedo hooked in.
06:43Again, trying to get that flick again.
06:45The shot is given.
06:46Penalty for Ecuador.
06:49The same look as just a few moments ago.
06:52This time, it's given on the field.
06:54And a check.
06:57Off the post.
06:59Back in.
07:00Did Martinez get a touch?
07:02He did.
07:03It's out for a corner.
07:04But Martinez went the wrong way completely.
07:06But Valencia couldn't get it in.
07:11And they're just checking this, by the way, to make sure that he was on his line.
07:15It looked like he was creeping up.
07:17It looked.
07:18But you hear Carly referencing the stuff that he does off the ball defensively.
07:22The work rate.
07:23Putting pressure on the back line.
07:25DePaul.
07:26Julian Alvarez waiting for it.
07:28Oh, it's going to find him.
07:29Julian Alvarez.
07:30That was right at Dominguez.
07:38Everyone else has ever played the game.
07:40A little flick around the outside.
07:41And Coppea.
07:42And a better tackle there by Molina.
07:44Coppea's down hurt.
07:46Going to be a rematch of the opening match at Copa America between Argentina
07:50and Canada.
07:51DePaul draws the foul.
07:55Messi finds that 1A.
07:57DePaul comes to close him down.
07:59And Coppea crossing him deep to the back post.
08:01Preciado.
08:03Franco trying to return.
08:04Preciado was blocked off by Taliafico.
08:06And he goes down in the heaps.
08:07And he caught by a wayward.
08:09Space in there against Argentina.
08:10That's going to be.
08:12Oh, boy.
08:13Late there.
08:15Preciado got caught.
08:18One.
08:19Messi, the highest player up now.
08:20Valencia trying to knock it down.
08:22Crash a play on.
08:25Cutting it inside.
08:26Crossing it.
08:27Takes the flick.
08:28It's in.
08:29Ecuador scored.
08:30It's stoppage time.
08:31Kevin Rodriguez got ahead to it.
08:34Incredibly, the game is tied.
08:37That tells the story.
08:56Argentina.
08:57With his club team last year.
09:04Henneke is off the top of the bar.
09:06Into the roof of the net.
09:08Messi missed.
09:13Oh, my goodness.
09:17Saved.
09:23Taking in the second round.
09:25Makes it.
09:31Saved again.
09:37And scores.
09:40That's a great penalty.
09:41Switch to Ecuador this year.
09:43And he delivers.
09:44And, boy, did they need him to.
09:46A victory.
09:48Yes.
09:52And a kick.
09:56Yes.
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