MONTEVIDEO: Argentina’s stumbling 2018 World Cup qualification campaign faces another awkward hurdle on Thursday (Friday in Manila) as the misfiring South American giants take on in-form Peru in Buenos Aires.

The 2014 World Cup finalists have lurched from one disappointment to the next since South America’s qualifiers kicked off two years ago, with the two-time champions invariably failing to add up to the sum of their talented parts.

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