A minute of enchantment from Lionel Messi helped Argentina to a winning begin in their World Cup fight as they beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-1 at the Maracana on Sunday.
Sead Kolasinac's disastrous own objective in simply the third moment sent the South Americans on their route before Messi scored with a fine second-half exertion.
Substitute Vedad Ibisevic gave Bosnia trust with a 85th-minute objective, yet they were not able to discover an equalizer.
Messi, in the same way as his group, had been to a great extent poor until the 65th-minute objective as Argentina, one of the competition top picks, works away manfully in the Group F crash.
Alejandro Sabella would have been stressed over the opening hour, yet his group completed adequately after Messi's second World Cup objective and first since 2006.
Beginning with a 5-3-2 was maybe the greatest amazement to Sabella's Argentina line-up.
Napoli forward Gonzalo Higuain was left on the seat, apparently still yet to recoup completely from a lower leg damage.
In their first ever World Cup amusement, Bosnia-Herzegovina had few stuns in their beginning XI with Edin Dzeko heading the line in a 4-2-3-1.
In any case Safet Susic's men made the most exceedingly awful conceivable begin to be behind following two minutes and eight seconds.
Messi's set-piece from the left was headed by Marcos Rojo, hit a stranded Kolasinac and crawled past goalkeeper Asmir Begovic for the quickest own objective in World Cup history.
Izet Hajrovic practically had Bosnia level in the thirteenth moment, yet goalkeeper Sergio Romero mixed away after the midfielder's substantial first touch.
Notwithstanding the alarming begin, Susic's side looked agreeable in safeguard and were simply failing to offer some shine in the striking third.
Maxi Rodriguez bursted well over from 30 yards simply after the half-hour mark for Argentina, while Javier Mascherano's exertion from reach constrained Begovic into a spare minutes after the fact.
A wobbly Dzeko attempted his fortunes from outside the range in the 33rd moment, yet he twisted his left-footed shot over the bar.
A generally dull first half was brought to life four prior minutes half-time.
Senad Lulic practically had Bosnia's equalizer from a Miralem Pjanic corner, just for Romero to push the header around his post in the last risk of the half.
Miserable with his side's first half, Sabella rolled out two improvements at the break as Higuain and Fernando Gago supplanted Rodriguez and Hugo Campagnaro, with the framework moving to an adaptable 4-3-3.
However Bosnia stayed on the front foot after the interim as Hajrovic struck a free kick straight at Romero from 25 yards in the 50th moment and afterward shot at him from reach.
Sergio Aguero's strike from an edge fail to offer the force and course to genuinely inconvenience Begovic after he was teed up by Messi.
Messi had wasted a decent free kick risk before he multiplied Argentina's lead in the 65th moment in genuinely decided style.
The Barcelona star traded passes with Higuain, skipped past a test and put his left-footed shot in off the post from the edge of the region.
Ibisevic pulled an objective again for Susic's side - their first ever in the World Cup - as he jabbed through Romero's legs after a fine through ball by Lulic, however Argentina hung on.
Sead Kolasinac's disastrous own objective in simply the third moment sent the South Americans on their route before Messi scored with a fine second-half exertion.
Substitute Vedad Ibisevic gave Bosnia trust with a 85th-minute objective, yet they were not able to discover an equalizer.
Alejandro Sabella would have been stressed over the opening hour, yet his group completed adequately after Messi's second World Cup objective and first since 2006.
Beginning with a 5-3-2 was maybe the greatest amazement to Sabella's Argentina line-up.
Napoli forward Gonzalo Higuain was left on the seat, apparently still yet to recoup completely from a lower leg damage.
In their first ever World Cup amusement, Bosnia-Herzegovina had few stuns in their beginning XI with Edin Dzeko heading the line in a 4-2-3-1.
In any case Safet Susic's men made the most exceedingly awful conceivable begin to be behind following two minutes and eight seconds.
Messi's set-piece from the left was headed by Marcos Rojo, hit a stranded Kolasinac and crawled past goalkeeper Asmir Begovic for the quickest own objective in World Cup history.
Izet Hajrovic practically had Bosnia level in the thirteenth moment, yet goalkeeper Sergio Romero mixed away after the midfielder's substantial first touch.
Notwithstanding the alarming begin, Susic's side looked agreeable in safeguard and were simply failing to offer some shine in the striking third.
Maxi Rodriguez bursted well over from 30 yards simply after the half-hour mark for Argentina, while Javier Mascherano's exertion from reach constrained Begovic into a spare minutes after the fact.
A wobbly Dzeko attempted his fortunes from outside the range in the 33rd moment, yet he twisted his left-footed shot over the bar.
A generally dull first half was brought to life four prior minutes half-time.
Senad Lulic practically had Bosnia's equalizer from a Miralem Pjanic corner, just for Romero to push the header around his post in the last risk of the half.
Miserable with his side's first half, Sabella rolled out two improvements at the break as Higuain and Fernando Gago supplanted Rodriguez and Hugo Campagnaro, with the framework moving to an adaptable 4-3-3.
However Bosnia stayed on the front foot after the interim as Hajrovic struck a free kick straight at Romero from 25 yards in the 50th moment and afterward shot at him from reach.
Sergio Aguero's strike from an edge fail to offer the force and course to genuinely inconvenience Begovic after he was teed up by Messi.
Messi had wasted a decent free kick risk before he multiplied Argentina's lead in the 65th moment in genuinely decided style.
The Barcelona star traded passes with Higuain, skipped past a test and put his left-footed shot in off the post from the edge of the region.
Ibisevic pulled an objective again for Susic's side - their first ever in the World Cup - as he jabbed through Romero's legs after a fine through ball by Lulic, however Argentina hung on.
Argentina 2-1 Bosnia-Herzegovina: Messi magic lights up Maracana