What are you're opinions on this? Argentina waked over Spain yesterday in el monumental, buenos aires. Lio, Higuian, Tevez and Aguero scored for Argentina, for Spain, Llorente did.. Argentina had a few more dangerous plays than Spain, but to be fair Spain hit the post 3 times. Villa shot from way out when he had been getting closed for 15 minutes by the Argie defense, and hit the corner of the post. Then, it was another freekick by Villa, that hit the wall and then the left post. Lastly, in the closing minutes Cazorla shot a good but centered shot that Romero tapped and hit the upright .... Higuian missed a clear 1 on 1 ...
The result lies a bit, maybe 4-1 is over the top, Spain didn't play to their fullest, but still Argentina deserves lots of merits for defeating the World Champions 4-1, less than 2 month after they lifted the trophy. Argentina played with Cambiasso, Zanetti, Banega, and Mascherano, and pretty much covered up for their lack of midfield defense that they'd been showing in the world cup. Messi played much more uptop, and was deadly and showed 3-4 plays in which he would leave men in the way Barcelona style. Argentina was better than Spain yesterday.
http://www.footytube.com/video/argentin ... ep07-55501
Opinions?
I didn't like how periods of times Argentina abused the horizontal and safe passing. In spite of winning 4-1, they would pass the ball back, and side to side with no verticality. When attacking many times it would be Messi, Higuain and Tevez vs the whole Spanish midfield and defense. Also, I noticed Argentinians complicate themselves at times when they shouldn't. For example, Cambiasso has the ball, and Mascherano is unmarked 15 yards away. Instead of giving him a steady on the ground pass, Cambiasso would lob it to him in the air, making it harder to control, and risking the possesion... I prefer and think is more logical to play with a German, Spanish or English style, with good steady on the ground passes and unmarking yourself quickly. I don't know why if you have a perfect open man you have to risk loosing the ball and send him a long ball in the air from the wing, to the middle of the field.... I guess its after watching so much European football that I was like "wtf are you doing??, its so much easier to play it on the ground and unmark yourself quickly".... Anyway, Argentina played with theirstyle and won 4-1 so who am I to criticize?
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