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VIDEO: Sergio Aguero puts Argentina ahead after suicidal backpass from Paraguay's Miguel Samudio

Mariana Bozo / Reuters

Disclaimer: do not try this at home, kids.

After keeping the attacking machine that is Argentina off the scoreboard for nearly half an hour, Paraguay finally succumbed to its southern neighbor in the 29th minute, self-destructing in horrific fashion.

Unable to cope with the pressure that Lionel Messi was applying, left-back Miguel Samudio panicked. Samudio delivered a nightmare-inducing backpass to 'keeper Antony Silva that Sergio Aguero had no trouble intercepting.

This, of course, was the result:

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Remember that it was Aguero who opened up Argentina's campaign at the last edition of the Copa America ...

... and his international goal tally now stands at 27.

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