Gonzalo Higuain and Lionel Messi will hope to continue to fire on all cylinders when Argentina meet Venezuela in Puerto La Cruz on Tuesday.
Argentina, with all of their attacking firepower and led by Lionel Messi, visit Venezuela in Puerto La Cruz for the second round of the World Cup qualifiers for Brazil 2014.
After thrashing Chile 4-1 in the inaugural phase of the qualifiers in Buenos Aires on Friday, courtesy of a Gonzalo Higuain hat-trick and another goal from Lionel Messi, Argentina will try to continue with their good run against Venezuela, who come from a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Ecuador in Quito.
Incidentally, before Argentina's win over Chile last week the last time that Messi had scored an official goal for his country was in a World Cup qualifier against Venezuela in March of 2009, with Argentina winning the game 2-0 in Maracaibo.
Argentina boss Alejandro Sabella, who debuted with a victory for Los Albicelestes last September against Venezuela in Calcutta, can now count with Martin Demichelis and Javier Mascherano, who were injured and suspended, respectively, for Friday's game.
Manchester City ace, Sergio Aguero, was ruled out for both matches after failing to recover from a groin injury. While, his polemic Manchester City team-mate, Carlos Tevez, wasn't even selected in the squad by Sabella.
Meanwhile, Venezuela coach Cesar Farias has already turned the page after the defeat to Ecuador and is solely concentrating on the important clash with Argentina. Unlike for the match with Ecuador, he will select his strongest possible side, and this means a mixture of players who play their club soccer in Europe and Latin America.
Not only will Borussia Monchengladbach midfielder Juan Arango return to the squad, but Farias will be able to count with four players who earn their wages in Spain, these being Fernando Amorebieta, Julio Alvarez, Salomon Rondon and Nicolas Fedor, better known as 'Miku'. Other important players are Ronaldo Vargas of Anderlecht and Cesar Gonzalez of River Plate.
Argentina and Venezuela have clashed ten times for the World Cup qualifiers, with Los Albicelestes winning all ten matches, scoring 34 goals and only conceding six from the Venezuelans.
After thrashing Chile 4-1 in the inaugural phase of the qualifiers in Buenos Aires on Friday, courtesy of a Gonzalo Higuain hat-trick and another goal from Lionel Messi, Argentina will try to continue with their good run against Venezuela, who come from a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Ecuador in Quito.
Incidentally, before Argentina's win over Chile last week the last time that Messi had scored an official goal for his country was in a World Cup qualifier against Venezuela in March of 2009, with Argentina winning the game 2-0 in Maracaibo.
Argentina boss Alejandro Sabella, who debuted with a victory for Los Albicelestes last September against Venezuela in Calcutta, can now count with Martin Demichelis and Javier Mascherano, who were injured and suspended, respectively, for Friday's game.
Manchester City ace, Sergio Aguero, was ruled out for both matches after failing to recover from a groin injury. While, his polemic Manchester City team-mate, Carlos Tevez, wasn't even selected in the squad by Sabella.
Meanwhile, Venezuela coach Cesar Farias has already turned the page after the defeat to Ecuador and is solely concentrating on the important clash with Argentina. Unlike for the match with Ecuador, he will select his strongest possible side, and this means a mixture of players who play their club soccer in Europe and Latin America.
Not only will Borussia Monchengladbach midfielder Juan Arango return to the squad, but Farias will be able to count with four players who earn their wages in Spain, these being Fernando Amorebieta, Julio Alvarez, Salomon Rondon and Nicolas Fedor, better known as 'Miku'. Other important players are Ronaldo Vargas of Anderlecht and Cesar Gonzalez of River Plate.
Argentina and Venezuela have clashed ten times for the World Cup qualifiers, with Los Albicelestes winning all ten matches, scoring 34 goals and only conceding six from the Venezuelans.
