Comments on: Argentina v Germany: tactical preview

By: Futre

Futre — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:45:22 +0000

Simply put, Argentina has been playing with a huge gap in the central midfield for the whole tournament, and the first really serious team they’ve come up against has exposed them woefully.

By: bradluen

bradluen — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:50:24 +0000

“they’re not going to score four against Argentina”

I won’t let the door hit me on the way out.

By: Arshad Isakjee

Arshad Isakjee — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:19:46 +0000

Ah – chopped off my first few lines acccidentally. Argentina need a another central midfielder to do the jobs that the forwards are coming deep to do. It’s painful to watch. They should have made a change in the first ten minutes when ti was obvious Germany had too much in central midfield.

It’s the test of the Argentinian management/manager now. Pastore is desperately needed – more mobile and versatile than Veron for me, so a bit safer.If there are no changes at half time there’s something very wrong with the management.

Argentina are far from a perfect side – another key weakness which they don’t have the resources to tackle is the poor quality of the wing-backs – they are not great going forward and can’t provide added width. They’re also slow to track Podolski and Muller coming inside which gives Mascherano too much to do, giving a bit of space to Ozil.

One thing I haven’t really been able to focus on is the contribution of Maxi Rodruiguez – is he doing enough defensively or going forward? Is there an alternative who isn’t watching it on the telly in Milan?

By: Arshad Isakjee

Arshad Isakjee — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:17:06 +0000

By: orgullo criollo

orgullo criollo — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:45:50 +0000

I live in Argentina , and during the qualifiers he became extremely unpopular as a coach … now he is seen as a genius …
those are the facts ..

peace ,

and vamos argentina!!!!!