QUITO: Lionel Messi and Argentina will be fighting for their World Cup lives on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) as the South American heavyweights take on Ecuador aiming to avoid a humiliating failure to qualify for next year’s finals in Russia.

The eyes of the football world will turn to Quito’s Estadio Olimpico Atahualpa to see if the once unthinkable prospect of a World Cup without Messi is to become a stunning reality.

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