Episode 219: two wins get Argentina's World Cup hopes on track, Messi's brilliance and more - a podcast by Sam Kelly

The two hundred and nineteenth episode of Hand Of Pod sees Sam joined by Andrés and Fran to look back on Argentina's two recent World Cup qualifying victories, away to Chile and at home to Bolivia. The character shown by the team, the attacking play in both first halves and of course the six points were some of the positives (as was Lionel Messi's brilliance in both matches), but the displays weren't perfect by any means, and we run the rule over what could have been better. Listeners' questions range from new Argentina goalscoring hero Gabriel Mercado to Daniel Osvaldo's fitness and whether it's acceptable for a foreigner to support Arsenal de Sarandí (the answer to that last one is 'no').

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